Gorge Speakeasy Presents: An Evening with Buddy Wakefield: World Champion Spoken Word Artist
Sat, Apr 04
|Hood River
Buddy’s been featured on HBO's Def Poetry Jam and the BBC, signed to both Sage Francis' Strange Famous Records and Ani DiFranco's Righteous Babe Records, and has performed in over 2,000 venues across the globe — from the Great Lawn of Central Park to San Quentin State Penitentiary.
Time & Location
Apr 04, 2026, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Hood River, 13 Railroad Street, Hood River, OR 97031, USA
Event Info
Sat. 4/4/26, Indoor Venue, 18+
Tix: $20 in advance (click here) or $25 at the door. Kaylan Krebsbach opens the show.
In 2001, Buddy left his desk job in Gig Harbor, WA, sold everything he owned, moved into a Honda Civic, and set out to “live for a living,” touring poetry venues for two years. He never stopped.
Buddy isn’t concerned with what poetry is or is not. So, this performance is raw, funny, disarming, and unlike anything you've seen in the Gorge.
Buddy Wakefield is a three-time Individual World Poetry Slam champion, an actor, writer, and the most toured performance poet in history.
He’s been a busker in Amsterdam, a street vendor in Spain, a team leader in Singapore, a re-delivery boy, a candy maker, a street sweeper, a bartender, a maid, a construction worker, a bull rider, a notably slow triathlete, and more.