Bend, OR

Bend WinterFest

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Bend WinterFest is an all-ages, multi-genre festival held in Bend, Oregon, around the middle of February. The open genre policy gives many kinds of acts a possible lane, but the booking route, capacity, stage configuration, and production support are not confirmed. Artists should first establish the correct submission channel, then send a compact pitch covering sound, live experience, routing, and February availability. Before announcing anything, confirm the performance date, set length, load-in, changeover, compensation, hospitality, and whether a PA, engineer, or backline is supplied. Winter festival logistics have enough moving parts without a band discovering the missing cable at soundcheck, so technical requirements and weather-related arrangements deserve direct agreement well before travel begins.

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Age policy
All Ages
Genres
All Genres
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Address
97703, United States
Venue phone
(541) 323-0964
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