Tyler Childers Streaming Concert from Pickathon Scheduled
The Pickathon Festival near Portland, OR has been helping to make the quarantine a bit more bearable over the last few months by tapping into its vast archive of high quality concert footage and streaming full sets from past years every day at 3 p.m. Central, 1 p.m. Pacific. Not just for entertainment purposes, the streams have generated tons of donations for the MusiCares COVID-19 Relief Fund which goes to the artists suffering worst from the pause in live music, with Spotify stepping up to match donations.
These aren’t your average live streams. The camera footage from multiple angles mixed with superb-quality audio puts you right in the crowd, and this will be the case on Friday, July 10th when the 2019 set from Tyler Childers on Pickathon’s Mt. Hood stage is streamed in its entirety, and for free. Saving Country Music has partnered with Pickathon to help promote selected streaming events, with Zephaniah OHora, The Quebe Sisters, Charley Crockett, and The Cactus Blossoms being some of the streams featured previously.
This Tyler Childers set came on the same weekend that he released his latest album Country Squire, which ended up going #1 on the Billboard Country Albums chart. He was in rare form over the weekend, with his set on Pickathon’s famed Woods Stage broadcasting the first week of the festival’s streaming events in early April.
Other Pickathon streaming concerts this week include John Craigie (who just released a new album) on Tuesday, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band on Wednesday, Breathe Owl Breathe on Thursday, Ibibio Sound Machine on Saturday, and Susto on Sunday.
The Tyler Childers Friday, July 10th set can be watched at 3 p.m. Central, 1 p.m. Pacific via the embedded player below, or on the Saving Country Music’s Facebook page, or on Pickathon’s YouTube channel. The stream is free, but donations are always welcome.
In other Tyler Childers news, he released a new animated video for his song “Country Squire.” You can see it here.
thegentile
July 7, 2020 @ 9:19 am
isn’t this the same set they streamed in april? it looks like they removed that one (other concert a day’s are still up).
Trigger
July 7, 2020 @ 9:23 am
No. Each artist who plays Pickathon plays at least two sets. The previous set they streamed was from the Woods Stage. This is from the Mt. Hood stage, which is sort of the main stage of the festival.
Not sure what Pickathon’s policy is for removing the videos after they play. I believe some have been left up for a while, but maybe they’ve left some up indefinitely.
jjazznola
July 7, 2020 @ 6:16 pm
That was a great set. I saw him a few months before that and he was not quite as good. I think having a piano player, which he did not have at the show I was in New Orleans, really rounds out his sound. Looking forward to this one!
Uncle Versie Ledbetter
July 7, 2020 @ 3:33 pm
Trig!
The Boomswagglers!!!!
You’re doing the readers of this site and the band a disservice by not at the very least announcing the new album!
Trigger
July 7, 2020 @ 4:49 pm
Again, I won’t be talking about The Boomswagglers here because it’s a conflict of interest. I appreciate the enthusiasm, but instead of accusing me of doing a disservice, perhaps ask why no other outlet has written about The Boomswagglers either.
Di Harris
July 7, 2020 @ 5:25 pm
Jealousy
Blackh4t
July 7, 2020 @ 7:13 pm
Hey Trig, can you put an option to directly buy the FLAC album on the Boomswagglers website? I don’t buy music from major coorporations.
Trigger
July 10, 2020 @ 10:32 am
You can download FLAC directly through BandCamp:
https://boomswagglers.bandcamp.com/album/heartbreaking-places-in-my-mind
thegentile
July 8, 2020 @ 6:35 am
whats the conflict here? i’m unfamiliar.
Trainwreck92
July 8, 2020 @ 3:36 pm
Trig plays drums for the Boomswagglers.
Marcel Ledbetter
July 8, 2020 @ 1:08 pm
Hey Trig, any plans to make physical copies of the new album? What about live shows?
Henry Stephens
July 8, 2020 @ 6:56 pm
Is there any way I can purchase the set from April? I haven’t been able to find a version of “Don’t Touch Me” or “Take My Hounds To Heaven” that comes close to the quality in that stream.
Stringbuzz
July 13, 2020 @ 7:24 am
That Country Squire video is cool.