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Winter Music Festival

Florence, OR · Music

When

January 28–30, 2027

Where

Florence Events Center · Florence · OR

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule

A three-day festival of bluegrass, Americana and roots music held at the Florence Events Center on the Oregon Coast. It includes seven bands, workshops, jams, kids concerts and an open mic hootenanny. Florence Arts, Culture and Entertainment, a volunteer nonprofit created in 1994, produces it.

The history within reach

• Oregon blows up a whale1.5 mi

  A dead sperm whale washed up and the highway division, which had jurisdiction over beaches, decided to remove it with half a ton of dynamite on the theory that scavengers would take the pieces.

• Sea Lion Caves10 mi

  The largest sea cave in America, about two acres of floor under a dome twelve storeys high, and the only year-round mainland rookery Steller sea lions have.

• Heceta Head11 mi

  A light on a headland 200 feet above the water, with a first-order Fresnel lens visible 21 miles out, the strongest on the Oregon coast.

• The Oregon Dunes18 mi

  Forty miles of sand rising up to 500 feet, the largest coastal dunes in North America.

• Yaquina Head49 mi

  The tallest lighthouse in Oregon at 93 feet, on a basalt headland that runs a mile out into the ocean.