The FIRST Episode of our new Pickathon Podcast is up now, check it out! Pickathon Founder Zale Schoenborn is heading these up, inviting in Pickathon 2023 Artists and Special Guests to chat about the festival and their own music and to go behind the scenes at Pickathon HQ in Portland.

One of the biggest music sites, Consequence of Sound, just profiled Pickathon and interviewed Pickathon Founder Zale Schoenborn on how to build an environmentally sustainable festival! Since Pickathon’s been a pioneer for years in greening music festivals, some of the brand-new ideas we developed in 2022 are getting national attention now. Folks are starting to […]

Pickathon and NPR Music are good buddies and have very sympatico tastes in music! Take a tour of our Pickathon 2023 lineup through NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Concerts! Lee Fields NPR Tiny Desk – this legend of soul ran through three songs from his most recent album “Sentimental Fool” plus an older one from a […]

Pickathon is famous for curating breakout bands across all genres! It’s an engine of discovery that introduces us to bands before they win Grammys, headline national festivals, or earn a place in your best artist list. Pickathon is unlike any other festival you’ve been to and no matter what anyone tries to tell you, you […]

Introducing Our 2023 Festival Mascot