Cathedral Park Jazz Festival
As if you need an excuse to hang outside on a summer’s day in one of Portland’s most beautiful parks—but here it is, the annual Cathedral Park Jazz Festival, three days of free, local jazz smack-dab in the middle of summertime. The solid lineup includes the best on the local scene, plus there’s a beer garden, a food court, and the stunning St. Johns Bridge overhead. NED LANNAMANN
Fri 5 pm; Sat-Sun 1 pm; Cathedral Park, free

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PDX Pop Now!
With other Portland-area summer music festivals taking some time off, PDX Pop Now! is more important than ever. The city’s beloved free, all-ages music festival is celebrating its 15th year with a full-weekend of live music spread across two stages under the Hawthorne Bridge. With a diverse range of rising local talent sharing the spotlight with longtime Portland favorites, and food carts, vendors, and a beer garden to keep you occupied between sets, the latest installment of the annual summer tradition is as unmissable as ever. CHIPP TERWILLIGER
Sat-Sun noon, AudioCinema, click here for a full list of performers and showtimes, free, all ages

Sit, Stay, Slay: A Drag Show... with Dogs!
The AMAZING title says it all, doesn’t it? So bring lots of tip and raffle money to this free event, which benefits Portland’s Family Dogs New Life no-kill shelter, and marvel at performances from this stellar lineup of drag queens and their dogs: Delta Flyer and her pup Stormy Spaniels; Mars and Theodore Rooseveltina; Clare Apparently and Clare Abeagley; Valerie DeVille and Veruca DeVille; Violet Hex and Xanadu; Daizelle and Fina; Marla Darling and Anastasia Pupper-hausen; and last but not least, Ida Summer Garden and Hannibal LickedHair. Yes, queen, a thousand times, yes.
Sun 6 pm, White Owl Social Club, free

Division/Clinton Street Fair & Parade: The Cry, Jenny Dont & the Spurs, Common Starling
One of Southeast Portland's favorite haunts is the Division/Clinton neighborhood, who really know how to party! For proof, check out the Division/Clinton Street Fair, which not only boasts a parade, yummy chow, vendors, and a beer garden, but also awesome music!
Sat 10 am, SE 25th & Clinton, free, all ages

Hosannas, Korgy & Bass
A pair of local duos head up the latest installment of Sunday Sessions with a mix of avant pop and jazzy hip-hop beatmaking.
Sun 9 pm, Rontoms, free

PDX Latinx Pride Festival 2018
For 2018 PDX Latinx Pride is celebrating the queer heroes in their community—but everyone is welcome to join in the fun, so long as you believe in equality and you believe in celebrating LGBTQ and Latinx culture, with food carts, drinks, entertainment, vendors, and a drag show, followed by a dance party!
Sat 4 pm, District East, $5

Mira Death, Anothernight, Tsar Anise
Over the past couple of years, Portland musician Mira Death dropped two vampire-centric releases with her glam-punk band Sweeping Exits—the 2016 EP The Projectionist and the 2017 LP Glitter and Blood—and played some of the most exciting shows in town, with lots of fake blood and dry ice. Death recently debuted some excellent new solo songs on Soundcloud, including the pummeling “Ivory (Now My Teeth Are in My Hands)” and “Holly,” an eerie storm of cascading piano and electronic beats. CIARA DOLAN
Fri 9 pm, No Fun, $5

Melt, Plastic Cactus, Baywitch, Swamp Meat
Melt serve up garage-pop swirling in the fuzzy headspace occupying the mind of frontman Jeff Boyardee.
Fri 8 pm, Turn! Turn! Turn!, $8

Gaytheist, Rubella Graves, Minoton
If the music of Gaytheist were a vehicle, it would be a semi, late on its delivery, blazing down I-5, the speed limit only a laughable suggestion as the trucker begins to have Tron-like hallucinations from 38 hours of no sleep and caffeine-pill cocktails. With only three members, Gaytheist leaves you wondering how they create such a heavy, intricate layering of sound. CAMERON CROWELL
Fri 9 pm, Tonic Lounge, $10

Vice Device, Martin Bisi, Vibrissae
Martin Bisi's one of those important figures whose name you should know, but probably don't—unless you scrutinize the credits of records by cult musicians like Swans, John Zorn, Boredoms, and Material. (He's also worked with bigger acts like Sonic Youth, Dresden Dolls, and Helmet, and recorded Herbie Hancock's paradigm-shifting hit "Rockit.") The man's a production wizard and a canny musician himself. DAVE SEGAL
Sat 9 pm, Mississippi Studios, $10

Don't forget to check out our Things To Do calendar for even more things to do!