In the 1960s, protest events and concerts during the Vietnam Era drew massive crowds united by the messages of musicians such as Joan Baez, Bob Dylan and John Lennon. The Woodstock Music Festival in 1969 drew 400,000 young people, billed as three days of peace and music. Anti-war music inspired protestors and Jimi Hendrix’ rendition […]
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Setting Trends and Influencing People
Pickathon 2015 will continue to impress
“We curate music by soliciting a large group of friends, experts, and bloggers who create their favorite lists of bands,” explains Zale Schoenborn, founder and executive producer for Pickathon, the three-day event that, over the past decade, has emerged as the alpha-summer concert in Oregon—in part because of the music selection, and in another part […]
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Shakey Graves “Dearly Departed” Video
Did you catch Shakey Graves and Esmรฉ Patterson at this year’s Sisters Folk Festival? Check out the totally awesome and totally morbid video for their duet, “Dearly Departed,” off Shakey Grave’s October release And the War Came, a record that we expect to end up on ALL of the top albums of 2014 lists. It’s a breakup ghost […]
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The Source Suggests 7/23-7/31
TV Mike and the Scarecrows Chugging along to the beat of its own folksy drummer somewhere between Wilco and a Californian dog day afternoon, TV Mike and the Scarecrows aren’t searching for a lost brain, they’re masterminding a Laurelhurst Canyon resurgence. Local favorites Wilderness open. Sat., July 26. 9 pm. Volcanic Theatre Pub, 70 SW […]
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Pickathon is On…and on and on and on
The Oregon summer music festival for the NPR crowd, Picakathon, has secured 10 more years at its current location outside of Portland on the beautiful and wooded Pendarvis Farm. Pickathon.com 2014’s lineup continues a tradition of combining incredible folk acts with a variety of big and small name bands from LA punks rockers X to […]
