What the Festival Announces 2017 Lineup

Cut Copy, Gramatik and Zhu headline the annual sleepaway electronic-music summer art-camp in the woods just east of Portland.

The scene at What the Festival 2016.

Once again, it's going down in Dufur.

What the Festival, the annual sleepaway electronic-music summer art-camp in the woods two hours east of Portland, has announced its 2017 lineup. The big names include Cut Copy, Gramatik and Zhu, with a host of others filling out the undercard. Like its folk-flavored spiritual cousin, Pickathon, though, the true draw of WTF is less the lineup than the unique experience. C'mon, the centerpiece of the whole thing is a giant soaking pool. Does it really matter who's dropping the beats when you've got that?

Related: "The Past, Present and Future of What the Festival."

What the Festival is June 16-19 at Wolf Run Ranch. Get tickets here, check out the lineup announcement video and full poster below.

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Matthew Singer

A native Southern Californian, former Arts & Culture Editor Matthew Singer ruined Portland by coming here in 2008. He is an advocate for the canonization of the Fishbone and Oingo Boingo discographies, believes pro-wrestling is a serious art form and roots for the Lakers. Fortunately, he left Portland for Tucson, Arizona, in 2021.

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