Kids are an important part of Pickathon because we are firm believers in including the whole family at a music festival. This is why kids 12 and under get in for free! Throughout Pickathon, you’ll see kids busking along the trails, drawing portraits of musicians, and babies wearing music earmuffs. We also have a kids […]

Protomartyr frontman Joe Casey had lost his father from a heart attack and his mother from Alzheimer’s yet he still decided to start a band with no musical background with his friends the University of Detroit Jesuit High School and Academy. The band has produced three post punk albums in three years. Casey’s foggy vocals […]

Last Friday, Mount Moriah debuted their third album How to Dance off of Merge Records.  Many of the tracks hint to vocalist/guitarist, Heather McEntire, coming out of her depression. However, there are other notes of being an outcast and misunderstood.  There are also influences of mythology and metaphysics since the band spent some time going to […]

In the latest Logging Road Session, Ty Segall and Cory Hanson of Wand collaborate for an acoustic performance on the trails of Pickathon. We are so excited to have Ty back this year for his third Pickathon!

  “I started playing, when I was very young, with a band called Lambchop…That just shifted my whole attitude about music..It was like bootcamp in a cerebral indie rock band.” – William Tyler Read more about the last Lucky Barn episode of the season at The Bluegrass Situation.