Pickathon has announced the full lineup for its upcoming festival at Pendarvis Farm in Happy Valley, Ore., just outside of Portland. The festival is known for its thoughtful lineup that aims to reflect new movements in music and will run from Aug. 4 through 7.
The lineup will welcome British new-age jazz artists Sons of Kemet, Nubya Garcia and American jazz idol Nate Smith; rising indie artists including Goth Babe, Faye Webster, Sampa the Great and Quantic; returning artists Valerie June, Built to Spill, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Cedric Burnside and more.
After a two-year hiatus, Pickathon plans to reboot the design of the festival grounds, using topography and Pendarvis Farm's natural setting to build small neighborhoods that nestle deeper into the fairgrounds. Festival-goers will also enjoy forest shaded stages set under evergreen trees when the sun is high over the Pacific Northwest, and as the sun sets they'll be able to move to meadows with views of Mt. Hood and performances on stages that come alive at night.
“It’s amazing to feel the energy of the community coming together,” said 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.”
Tickets for Pickathon 2022 are on sale now. Find tickets here.
Pickathon Lineup
Valerie June
Goth Babe
Sons of Kemet
Faye Webster
Built to Spill
Nate Smith + KINFOLK
Hurray for the Riff Raff
Sampa The Great
Nubya Garcia
Chapo Trap House
Quantic
Armand Hammer
Lomelda
Cedric Burnside
Mike and the Moonpies
Inner Wave
L'Rain
Pearl Charles
Cassandra Jenkins
Yasmin Williams
TV Priest
Thee Sacred Souls
Feufollet
Emma-Jean Thackray
Guerilla Toss
FEELS
S.G. Goodman
Frankie and the Witch Fingers
Margo Cilker
billy woods
ELUCID
Deeper
Hannah Cohen
Jake Xerxes Fussell
The Archive Project
Zephaniah OHora
Sweeping Promises
Frank Fairfield & Meredith Axelrod
Riley Downing
Garcia Peoples
Automatic
Michael Rault
Gabe Lee
Bella White
Rosali
Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno
David Nance
Tempers
Operator Music Band
Rachel Baiman
Off Book
Tobacco City
Kassi Valazza
The Onlies
