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GuildWorks Releases Information About Workers Killed During Pickathon Breakdown Last Week

Brad Swet, 35, and Brandon Blackmore, 27, died Aug. 8 after a boom lift—a piece of equipment that is similar to a cherry picker—tipped over as they were helping remove the fabric tents that shade the festival’s main stage. GuildWorks has provided Pickathon with the tenting for several years.

Two People Killed This Afternoon While Taking Down the Pickathon Stage

The workers were in a boom lift, removing ropes fastened in the trees.

Our Favorite Moments from This Year’s Pickathon

For a festival headlined by Phil Lesh and Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats—and where seemingly half the audience brings toddlers and would rather sit in REI camping chairs than mosh—this year’s Pickathon was strangely dominated by post-punk. The dissonance between the idyllic setting and the rowdy sets. That doesn’t mean any set with a fiddle was a wash, though, or that this year’s festival was all doom and gloom. Held during a blistering hot weekend, there were just as many moments of respite as their were eardrum-busting performances. Here are some of the best sets we saw.

What Has Been Your Favorite Summer Moment?

Our favorite looks from Pickathon 2019.

The Picks of Pickathon

A star-studded tribute to a late Portland producer, in-your-face punk and eight other can’t-miss sets at Pickathon.

Here is the Lineup for PDX Pop Now 2019

Amid the decline of music festivals, PDX Pop increasingly feels like the one thing we can count on. The free, all ages and all local festival just announced this year’s lineup, and as usual, it’s truly eclectic.

Grateful Dead’s Phil Lesh Has Been Added To This Year’s Pickathon Lineup

Pickathon, Portland’s biggest little music festival, has a tendency to add big-names acts weeks after the initial lineup announcement. Well, it’s happened again—and perhaps with the biggest name the festival has ever booked in its 21-year history.

Here’s the Lineup for Pickathon 2019

Now that winter has a fully arrived and Portland is cold and rainy all the time, it’s a nice reminder that in August, you’ll be able to hangout and see music in a forest for four days.

Chanti Darling’s Debut Album Is a Dance-Fueled Vision of the Future

At Chanti Darling shows, dancing is essentially an act of communion. “I want to give people the opportunity to engage with the music on a more intimate level,” says Trü from behind a pair of impossibly dark shades in a Belmont bar on an impossibly hot day. “I set the intention [of dancing] very clearly. You’re on a date with them basically—you’re trying to woo them into fully engaging with you. I guess it is an act of charming.”

Eight Sets You Shouldn’t Miss at the 20th Year of Pickathon

From the beginning, Pickathon has been a festival where the crowds are attentive, the undercard is just as carefully booked as the headliners, and drunken bros haven’t pissed all over the portable toilets by the first day.

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