Ethiopian Jazz Luminary. African Funk Pioneer. Classical Accordion Genius. D.C. Cab Driver With New Music For The First Time In Nearly 30 Years. We are pleased to welcome Hailu Mergia & trio to Pickathon, joining us August 3-5 as part of our special 20th annual festival. Lala Belu is Hailu Mergia’s newest release, out today on the […]

The Drive-By Truckers, friends! This band needs no introduction, and even if they did, we might not be able to do them (or their performances) justice. In this episode from the Mt. Hood Series, they perform “Marry Me,” a long-standing highlight from their 2003 album, ‘Decoration Day.’ The Mt. Hood Series is made possible with […]

Making their Pickathon debut this Summer, we are pleased to host The Blind Boys Of Alabama for two nights during our 20th annual festival weekend – joining us on both Saturday August 4 & Sunday August 5. This will be a pair of very special performances, in fact, once-in-a-lifetime for many of us lucky enough to […]

Making their Pickathon debut in 2018, Broken Social Scene have answered the call and will be headlining our 20th annual gathering on both Saturday August 4 & Sunday August 5. This will be two massive shows on the two biggest days of the weekend. Expect to see the band around Pendarvis Farm a lot, coming […]

It may have taken us twenty years to make it happen, but we made it happen! Today we’re pleased to say that Pickathon will get a full weekend with one of Idaho’s greatest treasures, Built To Spill. Headlining the 20th Annual Pickathon on both Friday 8/3 & Saturday 8/4. Now let me tell you, I was […]