Welcome to AVA’s monthly calendar of events. Take a peek and plan your stay-cation or your next visit to our region. The city’s most notable annual events include historic home tours, outdoor summer concerts and movies under the stars, and the Northwest Art and Air Festival.
*Note for event organizers: If you’d like to have your event listed on the AVA calendar, head over to our contact page and submit your event to us.
Sep
21
Thu
Blackberry Junction is a wonderful indoor show that features UNIQUE items for both your home & garden.
2023 SHOW INFORMATION
SEPT. 21st-23rd
Linn County Fairgrounds Albany, OR. (Santiam Bldg.)
Admission: Tickets sold at door ( Kids 12 & under free).
Presale night Thursday (3-7pm) $10.00 Friday (10-6) $5.00 Saturday (10-5) $5.00
Contact: Blackberryjunction521@gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/blackberryjunction/
blackberryjunctionshows.com
Join the LinnBenton NAACP in Bryant Park for the End-of-Summer Gathering!
There will be both meat and vegan brats on the grill! Celebrate with food, games, and community- this event is for all ages and everyone is welcome!
Grab your boots and join the party! How the West was Fun is a fundraising event for the Cumberland Community Events Center building restoration. Tickets are $85 each or $480 for a table of 6. Purchase tickets here at the Albany Visitors Association. Please bring cash or check.
Bar opens at 6pm. Dinner at 6:30pm. Park and Ride the trolley from the IGA parking lot in North Albany. It leaves at 5:45pm and 6pm. There will also be a dessert dash, so bring some extra cash.
*Western dress is suggested.
Taproom Trivia Night from 6:30-8:30 pm.
Teams of six or less players will be quizzed on their knowledge of craft beer, spirits, the history of Deluxe, Sinister and much more. There is no cost to participate and winning teams have the chance to take home gift cards redeemable in the taproom or at the Deluxe Food Cart.
Sep
22
Fri
This quaint little seasonal Country Barn is getting ready for their Harvest Time Open House. Inside the shop will be filled with rustic and vintage finds, handmade home and garden items, pumpkins and cornstalks, fresh baked goods and more!
They will be open Friday & Saturday, September 15-23, 10am to 5pm each day.
They accept all major credit cards. Parking is available on Scenic Drive and if needed, customers may be dropped off at the front of the shop, continue through the circular driveways back up to park on Scenic drive after dropping off.
Carson Albany Chevron is hosting a customer appreciation event Friday, September 22 from 11am – 2pm.
Free Lunch, Door Prizes, Raffles, Fuel Discounts, and More!
Cruise-in with your hopped-up classic cars beginning at 5 pm, followed by Music Bingo from 7-9 pm. Free for participants, this event is an interactive night of competition against the crowd featuring music from the last decade. As Albany’s home for Music Bingo, Deluxe Brewing hosts the perfect marriage of classic bingo and name-that-tune with a night filled with music and chances to win fun prizes.
Ronni Kay comes to Tallman with Live Music
Friday, September 22, 2023
5:00 PM 8:00 PM
Tallman Brewing
2055 Primrose StreetLebanon, OR
Music creates such a unique ecosystem for so many people regardless what walk of life they’re from or rather where they plan on going. Fans become friends and friends who truly follow the music become like family.
The Savannah Sipping Society by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten
Directed by: Scott Harvey
Performances: Sep. 15, 16, 17(matinee), 22, 23, 24(matinee), 28, 29, 30, 2023
In this delightful, laugh-a-minute comedy, four unique Southern women, all needing to escape the sameness of their day-to-day routines, are drawn together by Fate—and an impromptu happy hour—and decide it’s high time to reclaim the enthusiasm for life they’ve lost through the years.
Box office opens 45 minutes before performances