Portland Concerts

27 years ago today, ZZ Top played the second of two sold-out nights at the Civic Center in Portland. They were here on the Recycler tour and the song My Head’s in Mississippi was rockin’ the airwaves of WBLM!

Happy 69th Birthday to the guy best known as the lead vocalist of Journey, Steve Perry!

We've got a Kiss Birthday and the anniversary of a Portland show to celebrate this weekend!

If he were still with us, Ronald Wayne Van Zant the legendary lead singer and songwriter for Lynyrd Skynyrd would’ve turned 70 today.

34 years ago today, Ozzy Osbourne kicked off his Bark at The Moon tour right here at the Cumberland County Civic Center with Motley Crue!

He was a singer, a songwriter, a record producer, an arranger, an actor and a painter born David Jones in Brixton, London, England on January 8, 1947. Was there anything this guy couldn't do?

Leave it to “pah-tee hah-dee” Maine rockers to brave the elements for a night of live Aerosmith.

28 years ago today, the Dr. Feelgood World Tour made a stop in Portland, Maine. On December 14, 1989, it was a sold-out show at the Civic Center.

38 years ago today, WBLM welcomed a sold-out night of southern-fried rock to the Civic Center in Portland.

When Aerosmith came to Portland on December 6, 1979, Steven Tyler passed out onstage which brought the show to a halt. It was a Thursday night in front of a sold-out crowd at the Cumberland County Civic Center.

32 years ago today, Rush brought their Power Windows Tour to the Civic Center in Portland.

40 years ago, Jethro Tull played their first show at the newly opened Civic Center. This was on the Songs from the Wood tour, blending folk rock and hard rock for a sold-out Portland crowd.

This weekend, we remember one of the last shows of the Seventies with the original line-up of Aerosmith and a show without Brad Whitford and Joe Perry. Both were on a November 19th at the Civic Center. Sadly, heavy drug use and bad vibes seemed to dominate this period.

Today we celebrate the legendary guitar powerhouse who brought together rock, blues, and jazz to create an unmistakable signature sound. The late great Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble made their first and only appearance at the Civic Center, 32 years ago.

27 years ago, ‘The Thundah from Down Undah’ came back to Portland for their 6th sold-out night since their first concert at the CCCC in 1985.

37 years ago, the Audio-Visions tour came to Portland, Maine. This second appearance by Kansas at the Civic Center was also their second sold-out show there.