Pickathon is the original Indie-Roots Music festival. More than 35 bands on 5 stages and thousands of neighborly festival goers. Camping, hiking and a sustainability ethic situated among Oregon's doug firs on an 80 acre wonderland just 20 minutes from Portland, OR.
Another week of winter and also one week closer to the biggest Pickathon announcement to date...
Tuesdays at The Pickathon Pumphouse, The Wilders - L.A.
We've long been fans of The Wilders and this Pickathon Pumphouse Session sums up everything that is great about this band. Ike, Betse, Nate, and Phil are on fire in the little 10x10 out in the woods, and we're lucky everyone made it out of there alive.
From what we have heard, this also could have been the last time any of us at Pickathon could have had the opportunity to see the band live... So soak this session up!
In case you missed it and wanted to begin planning your summer...
Here are the official 2012 Pickathon Dates and Location:
August 3-5, 2012 | Pendarvis Farm
Currently we here at the Pickathon HQ are busy with lineup confirmations and other details in preparation of our first big announcement. Until that time comes we STRONGLY encourage anyone and everyone that is interested in this news to make sure they have joined us on Twitter, Facebook, and the Newsletter (E-List). These will be the first places that any of this news will be broadcast.
Did someone just say a surprise batch of (early purchase discount) Weekend Tickets will be released ...
A digital only release of 37 tracks taken from the various stage recordings of Pickathon 2010.
Songs from Bonnie Prince Billy & The Cairo Gang, Heartless Bastards, Punch Brothers, Fruit Bats, Hayes Carll, Martha Scanlan, The Cave Singers, Typhoon, Megafaun, Roadside Graves, Richmond Fontaine, Casey MacGill's Blue 4 Trio, Sam Quinn + Japan Ten, The Dust Busters, Little Wings, Elliott BROOD, Michael Hurley, Breathe Owl Breathe, Chatham County Line, Langhorne Slim, Jill Andrews, Town Mountain, Sean Hayes, Weinland, ...
If you still have a thirst for more sessions that needs quenching, don't hesitate to visit Live & Breathing. While you're there, visit the 2010 Pickathon Pumphouse Sessions and say hello for us.
The first session posted and the last session recorded..
Damien Jurado and his new band of fresh faces take us through Static To Be Sold, recorded by Live & Breathing in the Pickathon Pumphouse.
On February 21 Secretly Canadian will be releasing the upcoming Damien Jurado LP, Maraqopa. Another collaboration with musician/producer and Cottage Grove resident, Richard Swift.
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We're thrilled to have this news and sneak-peek of The 2011 Pickathon Pumphouse Sessions from our good-good friends at Live & Breathing. Recorded deep in the woods at Pendarvis Farm with some of our absolute favorite artists, there are hours upon hours of sessions with more than two thirds of the 2011 Pickathon lineup (so you know it's good!).
Check out the 1:19 trailer and see how many of the 33 artists recorded you can identify to help get your imagination going.
Select 2011 Pickathon Pumphouse Sessions will begin to be released starting January 3, 2012.
In other news... We're looking forward to kicking off our biggest year yet and cannot wait to begin ...
We've heard your feedback loud and clear and can assure that our focus for 2012 is locked in tight. It's a big time of year at the Pickathon HQ, one that sets the tone for the next 10 or so months. Site planning, performer selection and booking...major decisions around every corner.
The post-2011 feedback has given us a great deal to consider and the first item we want to discuss is a big one for us.
What path we should proceed to become financially sustainable as an organization over the long term?
In reading your comments, talking to numerous people, and working through endless brainstorming sessions there seems to be two clear options on how we can move forward:
The good news...
With an approximate 20% increase in attendance, the 2011 Pickathon ended up producing about the same total volume of waste (garbage, recycling and compost) as the 2010 Pickathon. What is even better is that 60% of that waste was not sent to the landfill in 2011 versus only 50% in 2010.
Even better news...
These numbers don't even come close to what types of waste reductions were found when looking at a per person basis.
Here is how the numbers broke down for this year:
* There was a 17% reduction in volume of total waste (recyclables, compost, and garbage) generated per person over 2010 and 38% reduction compared to 2009! I attribute these numbers primarily to the introduction of the durable cups in 2010 followed by ...
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