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Saturday, July 5

* Bikers and car lovers can get a true family portrait taken -- meaning with their Hog or hot rod -- during a daylong benefit for Camp Prime Time in downtown Naches.

From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., there will be a show and shine, street fair, poker walk and live music from lively Celtic bands Skweez The Weezle and Town Crier. Plus, photographer Gary A. Delp will be shooting portraits of you with your bike or car. Admission to the street bash is free. Portraits cost $25.

Presented by the Naches Business Association, all proceeds from the bash benefit Camp Prime Time, which provides a wilderness camp experience to children with severe illnesses or disabilities, as well as their families.

For more information, call the 1885 Bar and Grill at 653-2257, or Bangers Gourmet Hot Dogs & Sausages at 930-3583.

* The thrill certainly won't be gone just because the Fourth of July fireworks are.

Not when blues legend B.B. King lights things up at the Maryhill Winery Amphitheatre, adjacent to the Maryhill Winery on Washington Scenic Route 14, west of Highway 97.

The show begins at 8 p.m. with Portland blues/funk outfit the Jimi Lund Band opening.

Tickets cost $35 for general admission and $65 for reserved seats and are available through Ticketmaster, 453-7139, www.ticketmaster.com. Rail seating and box seats are available by calling the winery at 877-627-9445.

Thursday, July 10

* With temps expected to be in the upper 90s, there's sure to be plenty of little white tank tops in the crowd at next week's Dierks Bentley concert. (Just Bentley himself is h-o-t enough.)

The free and easy country singer plays Thursday at the Yakama Nation Legends Casino outdoor arena, 580 Fort Road in Toppenish. The show starts at 7 p.m.

Tickets cost $25 and $50 (VIP seating is sold out) and are available through the Legends Casino gift shop, 877-726-6311, ext. 5271, or Ticketmaster, 453-7139, www.ticketmaster.com.

Friday, July 11-Sunday, July 13

* From teenage blues-rockers to an alt-country songstress, fast fiddlin' Celtic rock and everyone's favorite tropical-pop band, the 26th annual Yakima Folklife Festival is shaping up nicely.

The free, volunteer-driven extravaganza draws thousands each year and features several stages of music and dancing in Franklin Park and the Yakima Valley Museum, children's activities, craft and food booths, a mini-medieval fair and, of course, the giant slip and slide.

Entertainment runs July 12-13 outside and inside the museum as well as in the evenings of July 11-12 in various venues around town.

Among this year's diverse lineup of performers are the Tavria Dancers, Alex Wilson & the Anorexic Puppies, Ockham's Razor, Brendon Wires, Chad Bault, Tuck Foster and the Second Chance Band, Colin Spring and the Naugahyde Nights, Bye Bye Chinook, the Wapato Indian Club, Crescent & Shamrock, the Blue Tropics, Bouncing Love Monkeys, Star Anna and the Laughing Dogs, Westerly, Rävinwolf and Dick Weissman.

For more information or a schedule, call the museum at 248-0747, or visit www.yakimavalleymuseum.org/folklife/index.html.

You can also find more Folklife fun at on.yakimablogs.com.