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Upcoming Shows
Roadside Graves
w/Bart Budwig
FRIDAY, Aug. 6, 9PM
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Stereopathic on Hypem
Mar
10
The Birds on a Wire Festival is part of Stereopathic Music’s ongoing labor of love to bring great bands to the Palouse. As it happens, a lot of the artists that’ve come through in the past—arstists like Horse Feathers, Laura Gibson, Sera Cahoone (among many others)—happen to hail from the Pacific Northwest. As we’ve worked at this, we’ve come to a deeper appreciation for the truly great indie folk scene thriving in Portland and Seattle and thereabouts. We’re humbly pleased to be a part of that, not least because that kind of music—that slightly off-kilter, adventurous take on folk and country and other roots music—really resonates with us. This music is part of what pleases us to call the Northwest home.
Another festival worth your attention and ticket-buying dollars is Portland, Oregon’s Pickathon Indie Roots Music Festival. It’s coming up August 6th-8th at the Pendarvis Farm just outside the Rose City, and this’ll be the 12th year they throw this party. In addition to a beautiful setting on 80 first- and second-growth timbered acres, plenty of camping and hiking, and a family-friendly vibe, they’ve got a killer lineup of bands. Seriously, this is almost a laundry list of the artists we want to bring up here—Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Deep Dark Woods, Roadside Graves, Megafaun—and if you go for the Birds on a Wire lineup, you’ll find plenty to dig at Pickathon.
The music is just part of it for the Pickathon organizers. They’ve got some bigger things in mind, too. These are fellas who love where they live, who love settings like the Pendarvis Farm, who care about how the land is treated, and who want to keep the music and the experience accessible to families. In other words, you won’t be finding any Ticketmaster/LiveNation/whatever links when you click to buy tickets. It’s not just that we love the same kind of music—we’ve got a similar vision. Pickathon is devoted to keeping the festival independent and accessible. We gotta say, we’re digging that.
So, if you’re free August 6th-8th, consider a few days of camping and music with our friends down at Pickathon.
And we hope we see you at The Birds on a Wire Festival March 26th and 27th!
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