Ruins Tuesday: The Builders & The Butchers w/ Nice Boat at The Ruins

Name: Ruins Tuesday: The Builders & The Butchers w/ Nice Boat at The Ruins
Start: 2025-08-26T18:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-08-26T21:30:00-07:00
Location: The Ruins Events

Schedule

Tue Aug 26 2025 at 06:00 pm to 09:30 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

The Ruins Events | Hood River, OR

All Ruins Tuesdays shows are a $5 cover if you arrive before 7pm, and $10 cover if you arrive after that. Tickets for these shows are only available at the door.
Doors open at 5:30pm. No early entry! We aren’t ready for you until 5:30pm….
The shows are all-ages until 7pm and then 21+ after.
Featured Non-Profit: TBA
Food Vendor: TBA
Portland-based folk rock band, The Builders and the Butchers, are 20 year veterans of the Portland Music Scene.
Their latest album “Hell and High Water” was hailed by Consequence of Sound, who said, “The Builders and the Butchers make records the way the bards used to pass on stories. They’re poetic and captivating, and do to songwriting what Clint Eastwood does to movies,” and this new record follows the same, narrative-driven path.
With glowing album and show reviews coming from Pitchfork and The Wall Street Journal, among others, their brand of folk-rock is best served live. Audiences can look forward to lively performances, where fourth wall is broken and the audience is able to participate in call and response sing-a-longs. Sometimes the band will hand out instruments for fans to play, and they’ll even get down off stage to perform right on the floor.
The Builders and The Butchers formed in 2005. Ryan Sollee fronts the band, sings and plays guitar, joined by Ray Rude (drums and keyboards), Paul Seely (guitar and vocals), Willy Kunkle (bass, guitar, vocals, percussion), Justin Baier (drums, backup vocals, percussion) and Harvey Tumbleson (mandolin, banjo, guitar, vocals, percussion). The Portland-based band gained a strong following after years of playing anywhere and everywhere across the city. They quickly grew to become one of the most exciting live bands in Portland and throughout the Pacific Northwest.

Things to note:
There is no re-entry once you have arrived. There is a smoking area within the venue.
2. There is limited seating available, so if having a seat/table is important to you, we suggest arriving when the doors open at 5:30pm.
3. We still don’t allow dogs! Dogs are great, but it would be dog madness around here if we let them attend shows. We’d also really prefer if you didn’t leave them unattended in your vehicle either.
4. Outside alcohol is NOT ALLOWED! Violators will be 86’d and The Ruins will hire a stern nun to follow you around and chant “Shame!” at you and it will be really embarrassing trying to explain this at the grocery store or at work.
5. The parking lot does NOT belong to The Ruins. Yes, the actual owners of the parking lot (Mt Hood Railroad) expect you to pay to park. It’s usually about $4. It’s not our deal. We highly encourage people to walk, ride their bikes, or carpool. We have ample bike-rack space here as well.
6. Tail-gating is not allowed in the Mt Hood Railroad parking lot. They are implementing a “no open containers” policy for their entire lot. Please respect their wishes and help us to maintain a positive relationship with our community and neighbors.
7. We do rent out the Grotto Bar and/or the Indoor Bar during concerts, for birthdays, business receptions, etc. Email [email protected] for more information.
8. Ruins Tuesdays are May through August. For other non-Tuesday concerts, please see our website at www.theruins.org/music-calendar
9. Each Tuesday show all summer we’ve invited a “Featured Non-Profit” to be at the event, to fundraise and provide info.
10. All concerts (weather permitting) are in our outdoor venue, May through the end of September. All concerts are indoors October through April. In the event of rain in the summer season, we will move the show to the indoor venue.
11. This year our alternating food truck line-up will include: Col. Gorge Crepes, Apple Valley BBQ, Empanadas by Maria Elba, and Frosty Peak Ice Cream.
12. We are not hosting “Ruins Thursdays” this year, but WILL have a handful of Thursday concerts this summer.