Powder River Music Revue opens June 28 in Geiser-Pollman Park
Free Sunday music returns to Geiser-Pollman Park June 28, opening with Inland Northwest Musicians, Baker City Community Choir and patriotic fare.
Baker City’s summer soundtrack returns to Geiser-Pollman Park with a free Sunday concert series built for an easy evening downtown. The Powder River Music Revue opens June 28 at 4 p.m. with Inland Northwest Musicians, joined by the Baker City Community Choir for a patriotic program tied to America’s 250th-anniversary celebrations.
The season is set up as a low-cost ritual as much as an arts series. Concerts run Sundays from mid-June through early September, usually from 4 to 6 p.m., and the park setting invites audiences to settle into the shade, use the fixed seating or bring chairs and blankets. Attendance is free, but donations help keep the music coming back each summer.
That financial support matters because Powder River Music Revue operates as a Baker City-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit volunteer group. The organization says it relies on local businesses, community members and grants, and it offers several ways to help: annual memberships are $35, members get one complimentary raffle ticket at each Sunday concert they attend, and merchandise and event discounts include at least 10 percent off items and events with cover charges. Raffle tickets are sold at concerts for $5 apiece or five for $20, and the group also sells a $30 mug, or a membership-and-mug bundle for $60.
The June 28 opener gives the series a distinctly local and regional reach. Inland Northwest Musicians was founded in 1999 and says it serves seven counties in northeastern Oregon and two counties in southeastern Washington. The volunteer-based group says it has performed upward of 600 shows since its founding, and its Baker City appearance keeps the focus on a public concert that blends homegrown voices with visiting players.
Geiser-Pollman Park is a fitting stage for that role. The park sits near downtown along Campbell, Grove and Madison streets, connects to the Leo Adler Memorial Parkway by a footbridge near the library and hosts many of Baker City’s biggest gatherings, including Miners Jubilee, the Memory Cruise Car Show, weddings, reunions and picnics. A Baker County Library history traces the city’s first public park to 1908 and links the site’s roots back to the 1860s, while city park plans note concerns about heavy use of Geiser-Pollman Park. With more than 100 trees, a gazebo, a covered picnic area, horseshoe pits and restrooms, the park keeps drawing crowds because it works for them.
The series extends beyond Sundays, too. Powder River Music Revue also hosts a Wednesday acoustic jam session from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Veterans Memorial Club, reinforcing a music calendar that reaches across Baker City long after school lets out.
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