Pickathon Festival assemble axis of awesome for 2015 lineup

Pickathon Festival assemble axis of awesome for 2015 lineup

Now an Oregon mainstay, the Pickathon Festival folk are continuing their well-proven formula with a fest that focuses on sustainability, good food, and great (mostly) folk music. TMT has been a fan of the festival for quite some time, and the 2015 lineup is as good as we’ve come to expect.

This year, the fest takes some of the hottest acoustic guitar slingers at the moment, like Jessica Pratt, Ryler Walker, Kevin Morby, and Hiss Golden Messenger, and puts them alongside kickass indies like tUnE-yArDs, DIIV, Viet Cong, Ty Segall, King Tuff, and Ex Hex, as well as unusual (in a good way) choices like Shabazz Palaces, Thundercat, and the octagenarian folk legend Alice Gerrard thrown in for good measure. The full lineup might be the subject of the next Serial podcast, because (Dad-joke warning) it’s killer!

I can hear you saying to yourself, “A weekend of awesome bands on a farm in the Pacific Northwest is my kind of thing, but there are just too many great bands — how will I see them all??” Well, the Pickathon organizers have that covered too, because each band will be performing twice over the weekend. So actually, you’re getting two festivals for the price of one. Bargain.

The whole thing goes down between July 31 and August 2. Tickets are on sale here, and the full lineup is below.

A Giant Dog / Alice Gerrard / Billy Strings & Don Julin / Broncho / Cloud Nothings / DIIV / Dom Flemons / Edna Vazquez / Ernest Ranglin / Ex Hex / Freakwater / Grandparents / Giant Sand / Heartless Bastards / Hiss Golden Messenger / Happyness / Isreal Nash / Joan Shelley / JD McPherson / Jessica Pratt / Joseph / Kevin Morby / King Tuff / Langhorne Slim / Nathan Bowles / Leon Bridges / Little Freddie King / Mandolin Orange / Meatbodies / Rodrigo Amarante / Riley Walker / Sam Amidon / Sam Cohen / Shabazz Palaces / Sonny & The Sunsets / Sinkane / Summer Cannibals / The Brothers Comatose / The Quebe Sisters Band / The Weather Station / Thundercat / Tinariwen / Total Babes / tUnE-yArDs / Turnpike Troubadours / Ty Segall / Vetiver / Viet Cong / Wand / Whitey Morgan / William Tyler / Wolf People

• Pickathon: http://pickathon.com

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