Pickathon Music Festival Announces 2013 Lineup
The 2013 Pickathon Festival in Happy Valley, Oregon just outside of Portland has announced their 2013 lineup, and it is a doozy. The roots festival that specializes in breaking down barriers between styles, tastes, and scenes, as well as being one of the most environmentally-friendly festivals in the entire world, outdoes themselves for their 15th season by releasing their most stellar lineup yet.
“We started as something of a picnic party,” Pickathon founder Zale Schoenborn tells Spin. “That was 1999 and we had maybe 90 people out, just a little nugget of a thing that has grown slowly over the years to become the semi-behemoth that we are now.”
Pickathon transpires August 2-4 on the beautiful Pendarvis Farm. For more info and tickets, visit www.pickathon.com.
2013 Pickathon Lineup:
- Andrew Bird
- Divine Fits
- The Devil Makes Three
- Wayne Hancock
- Kurt Vile & The Violators
- Dale Watson
- Sharon Van Etten
- JD McPherson
- Shabazz Palaces
- Sturgill Simpson
- Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside
- Caleb Klauder Country Band
- Feist
- Vieux Farka Touré
- Howe Gelb
- Lady
- The Felice Brothers
- Tift Merritt
- The Lone Bellow
- Foxygen
- Marco Benevento
- Ginny Hawker
- Parquet Courts
- Breathe Owl Breathe
- Lake Street Dive
- Dirk Powell
- Lightning Dust
- Cedric Watson & Bijou Creole
- King Tuff
- White Fence
- Shinyribs
- Yellowbirds
- Foghorn Stringband
- Shakey Graves
- Brad Folk & The Bluegrass Playboys
- I Draw Slow
- Leo Randeau
- Malcolm Holcombe
- Pure Bathing Culture
- Old Light
- The Cactus Blossoms
- Pharis & Jason Romeo
- Pickathon Squaredance with Caller Caroline Oakley
- Diane Ferlatte
- Cat Doorman
- Circus Cascadia
- Trackers Earth
- Caroline Oakley Family Dance Band
Kevin
February 20, 2013 @ 12:33 pm
Shakey Graves is from Austin!! I’ve seen him a couple times and he’s pretty good. Wish I could make it all the way up there for all the other bands.
Lunchbox
February 20, 2013 @ 1:11 pm
how does Shabazz Palaces fit into Pickathon?
Trigger
February 20, 2013 @ 2:00 pm
The great thing about Pickathon is that everything fits into Pickathon.
Lunchbox
February 20, 2013 @ 8:22 pm
Butterfly has a grammy. because he’s cool like dat…
Joe
February 20, 2013 @ 9:54 pm
Billboard made this new rule 2/20/13
Billboard is now incorporating all official videos on YouTube captured by Nielsen’s streaming measurement, including Vevo on YouTube, and user-generated clips that utilize authorized audio into the Hot 100 and the Hot 100 formula-based genre charts ”“ Hot Country Songs, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, R&B Songs, Rap Songs, Hot Latin Songs, Hot Rock Songs and Dance/Electronic Songs ”“ to further reflect the divergent platforms for music consumption in today’s world.
http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1549399/hot-100-news-billboard-and-nielsen-add-youtube-video-streaming-to-platforms
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I would love to see this discussed on here…
Also would that mean the underground artists can get #1 songs by replaying their songs 1000 times a day?
Trigger
February 20, 2013 @ 10:03 pm
Interesting. I remember when the new sweeping Billboard rules took effect, Billboard editor Bill Werde said they were looking into using YouTube views in their charts, but that they needed to figure out how to get “clean data” from the format. It appears they’ve now figured out how to do that.
And no, I’m not sure that means you can play songs over and over and get them to chart. Similar concerns were made about Spotify and other streaming services, and I think there are ways to take that into consideration. Every web metric has hits, and unique hits. Hits are how many times anybody listen to a song. Unique is how many unique users listen to it. Like with this website and others, the metric most things are judged on is the unique hits.
I’ll have to think about this more, and what impacts it might have. Thanks for the heads up.
Joe
February 20, 2013 @ 10:16 pm
What I meant was, listen to the song and then repeat it over and over again.
I was going to email this, and not take over a post. But I couldn’t get it to send.
The #1 song is the “Harlem Shake” because of 30 second parody videos..
If this was implemented last year Gagman style would of been #1 for months cause of the 1 billion views it got.
Trigger
February 20, 2013 @ 11:05 pm
I’m working on an article about this. Yes, the contact form is apparently on the fritz. We’re working on it.
Joe
February 20, 2013 @ 10:18 pm
Bill werde even replied to someone asking if anyone can make a song, and get on the hot 100.
He said yea if you get 20 million views…
Sounds like if any artist is on youtube they can rechart.
How crazy would it be to get Hank Williams a top hit in this day and age.
Rich
February 21, 2013 @ 5:51 pm
We’ve been going for nearly the entire run of Pickathon (skipped it for our wedding ~10 years ago). I’m continually amazed at the lineup. It’s a great venue that really puts you close to the artists. Unfortunately, I think the price is going to start chasing people off.
Another OR event to watch is the Wildwood Music fest http://www.wildwoodmusicfest.com/ . Very similar to Pickathon in the early years, with a good lineup this year.
Muller
February 22, 2013 @ 12:25 am
The price is too much for me. I am going to look into volunteering at the fest because it does look like a dandy and I have been sad to miss it these last few years. But if that doesn’t work out then no go.
Trigger
February 22, 2013 @ 12:17 pm
Volunteering is a great way to go. I have a lot of friends that volunteer over the weekend and it”™s a great experience. You still get plenty of time to watch bands and hang out. It”™s really inspiring to see the volunteering culture around Pickathon, and I am blown away at the lack of a volunteering spirit when it comes to other festivals. Even with an expensive festival like Pickathon, this is all going to the artists and throwing the festival, so if you can pay, then volunteer, because this is the only way these non-corporate festivals can continue to exist.
Muller
February 23, 2013 @ 8:58 am
Wasn’t trying to say that they are gouging people for tickets. It is a terrific lineup and by all accounts a great experience all around so I believe that it’s a fair price. Just can’t justify that much money out of my pocket. Hopefully volunteering will work out