Pickathon, back after two-year hiatus, releases festival lineup

Published 12:00 am Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Pickathon, the cool indie music festival at Pendarvis Farm in Happy Valley, returns in 2022 after a two-year hiatus because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

It’ll be Aug. 4-7, and tickets are on sale at http://www.pickathon.com/tickets.

And, the lineup for the 2022 Pickathon was released Tuesday morning. Here’s a summary from the Pickathon folks:

As a deep curation festival, Pickathon’s lineup reflects new movements in music, including cutting-edge jazz from British artists Sons of Kemet, Nubya Garcia and American jazz icon Nate Smith, fast-rising indie artists like Goth Babe, Faye Webster, Sampa the Great, Quantic and popular podcasts like Chapo Trap House and The Archive Project.

With an unparalleled level of love from musicians who’ve played Pickathon, returning greats include Valerie June, Built to Spill, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Cedric Watson (recent Grammy Awards winner) and more.

Specializing in breaking new artists early, Pickathon is looking forward to presenting up-and-comers like Canadian country singer Bella White, San Diego soul band Thee Sacred Souls, indie songwriters Lomelda and Inner Wave, Eastern Oregon cowboy singer Margo Cilker, experimentalists L’Rain and Emma-Jean Thackray and hip-hop fast-movers Armand Hammer, among many others.

Also from Pickathon:

Returning to Pendarvis Farm, Pickathon has plans to reboot the design of the festival in 2022, aiming to create a new Pickathon for a new world. Always a pioneer in environmental sustainability, Pickathon will use the topography and natural setting of the site to design and build a series of neighborhoods that nestle deeper into the grounds of Pendarvis Farm.

When the sun is high in the sky, festival-goers will discover new forested music stages, set under the natural shade of the evergreen trees of the Pacific Northwest. As the sun sets, they’ll move to meadows with sweeping vistas of Mount Hood to enjoy open air programming on stages that come alive at night. Favorite stages like The Woods will return, but other stages will be new or different, giving a fresh perspective on the beloved festival grounds.

“It’s amazing to feel the energy of the community coming together,” says Zale Schoenborn, Pickathon founder and director. “This is going to be the best Pickathon ever, between the new design, the lineup, and everything we’ve got planned. We’ve always dreamed about bringing together a decentralized, deep-cut, genre-agnostic lineup like this. It took us a while to build all these connections to these different worlds, but it’s paying off now. The two years off because of COVID gave us the space to dream up the Pickathon we always imagined, and the outpouring of support from the community was the energy we needed to make it possible.”

For more: http://www.pickathon.com.