Sasquatch! Music Festival

Sasquatch! Music Festival er en musikkfestival som avholdes årlig i Gorge Amphitheatre i George, Washington. Festivalen er presentert av House of Blues. Fokusen ligger på indierock og låtskrivere, men det spilles også alternativ rock og hip hop. Festivalen består av tre scener (Sasquatch! Hovedscene, Wookiescenen og Yetiscenen). Kjente band fra tidligere festivaler inkluderer Beastie Boys, Beck, Björk, Kings of Leon, Jane's Addiction, Coldplay, Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals, Nine Inch Nails, Pixies, The Postal Service, M.I.A., Death Cab for Cutie, Modest Mouse, R.E.M. og String Cheese Incident.

Historie

Sasquatch! Music Festival ble grunnlagt i 2002 av konsertpromotøren Adam Zacks. Før festivalen ble startet styrte Zack konserter og show på Roseland Theater i Portland, Oregon. Etter at han flyttet til Seattle, Washington for å komme seg nærmere familie og venner, begynte han å vurdere å starte opp en ny festival. I et intervju med Seattle Weekly i september 2007, beskrev Zacks oppstarten av festivalen:Pecknold, Aja (26. september 2007). Adam Zacks: Mother of Sasquatch! (engelsk). Seattle Weekly. Besøkt 13. mars 2010.</ref>

	Sasquatch was an idea born on a hunch that there was untapped demand for a certain kind of festival that catered to the eclectic tastes of music enthusiasts. It started in 2002, which was shortly after a number of the touring festivals (Lollapalooza, Lilith, Horde) had petered out and the beginning of the wave of regional festivals that started with Coachella and now is a dominant force on the music landscape, with Bonnaroo, Austin City Limits, etc.

2010

Den komplette oppstillingen for Sasquatch! Music Festival 2010 ble annonsert den 15. februar 2010. De største bandene inkluderer My Morning Jacket, Massive Attack, og Ween. Festivalen finner sted mellom 29. og 31. mai 2010.

Band

Lørdag, 29. mai

My Morning Jacket Vampire Weekend The National Broken Social Scene OK Go Wale Minus the Bear Brother Ali Shabazz Palaces Public Enemy

The Hold Steady Miike Snow Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros Portugal. The Man Mumford & Sons Laura Marling Why? The Lonely Forest Patrick Watson

The Middle East Nurses Fool's Gold Morning Teleportation Garfunkle & Oates DJ Z-Trip Dam-Funk The Very Best Deadmau5 The Posies

Søndag, 30. mai

Massive Attack Pavement LCD Soundsystem Tegan and Sara Kid Cudi The Long Winters Midlake Caribou Nada Surf

Dirty Projectors Girls The xx City and Colour Cymbals Eat Guitars The Tallest Man on Earth Local Natives Fruit Bats Vetiver

Freelance Whales Avi Buffalo tUnE-yArDs Jets Overhead Simian Mobile Disco A-Trak YACHT Booka Shade

Mandag, 31. mai

Ween MGMT Band of Horses She & Him Passion Pit Drive By Truckers The Temper Trap Mayer Hawthorne & The County Jaguar Love

The New Pornographers Camera Obscura The Mountain Goats Dr. Dog Quasi The Low Anthem Yes Giantess No Age

Japandroids Telekinesis Fresh Espresso Phantogram Past Lives Boys Noize Neon Indian Hudson Mohawke

Komikerene som skal fremføre inkluderer Rob Riggle, Luke Burbank, Mike Birbiglia og Craig Robinson.

2009

Oppstillingen for Sasquatch! Music Festival 2009 ble annonsert den 17. februar 2009. Kjente band inkluderte Jane's Addiction, Kings of Leon, and Ben Harper & Relentless7. Festivalen ble avholdt mellom 23. og 25. mai 2009.

Band

Lørdag, 23. mai

Kings of Leon Yeah Yeah Yeahs The Decemberists Animal Collective Bon Iver Devotchka M. Ward Doves Sun Kil Moon

The Gaslight Anthem King Khan and the Shrines Ra Ra Riot Shearwater Passion Pit Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band Vince Mira Blind Pilot

Owl City Arthur & Yu Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele Death Vessel Hockey Crystal Castles Mos Def Champagne Champagne

Søndag, 24. mai

Jane's Addiction Nine Inch Nails TV On The Radio of Montreal The Avett Brothers M83 The Airborne Toxic Event Calexico The Walkmen

The Wrens St. Vincent John Vanderslice The Submarines Viva Voce The Dodos The Builders & The Butchers AA Bondy Fences

Point Juncture, WA The Murder City Devils Natalie Portman's Shaved Head Deadmau5 Mike Watt and The Missingmen The Henry Clay People Street Sweeper Social Club Mad Rad

Mandag, 25. mai

Ben Harper & Relentless7 Chromeo (DJ) Erykah Badu Silversun Pickups Fleet Foxes Gogol Bordello Santigold Grizzly Bear Explosions In The Sky Girl Talk

Blitzen Trapper The Knux Monotonix Bishop Allen Black Moth Super Rainbow Beach House Deerhoof The Dutchess & The Duke School of Seven Bells

Horse Feathers The Pica Beats Loch Lomond Tobacco BLK JKS Heartless Bastards Other Lives Amanda Blank

Komikerene som fremførte inkluderer Zach Galifianakis, Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, Todd Barry, H. Jon Benjamin, God's Pottery, People's Republic of Komedy, Aziz Ansari, The Whitest Kids U Know, The Red Wine Boys, og Maria Bamford.

2008

Bandene som spilte under Sasquatch! Music Festival 2008 ble annonsert den 25. februar 2008. Kjente band som fremførte inkluderte R.E.M., The Cure, og The Flaming Lips. Festivalen fant sted fra 24. til 26. mai 2008.

Band

Lørdag, 24. mai

David Bazan Beirut The Breeders Crudo (med Mike Patton & Dan the Automator) Dead Confederate Dengue Fever Destroyer Kathleen Edwards

Newton Faulkner Fleet Foxes Grand Archives Grand Hallway M.I.A. Vince Mira with the Roy Kay Trio Modest Mouse Capibara

Okkervil River Ozomatli The National The New Pornographers R.E.M. The Shaky Hands Throw Me the Statue The Whigs Neko Case (spilte på Wookiescenen samtidig som Fleet Foxes spilte på hovedscenen, og var uannonsert)

Søndag, 25. mai

65daysofstatic Awesome The Blakes Blue Scholars Cancer Rising Sera Cahoone Cold War Kids The Cops

The Cure Death Cab for Cutie Michael Franti & Spearhead The Heavenly States The Kooks Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks The Maldives Mates of State

The Morning Benders The Presidents of the United States of America Rogue Wave Tegan and Sara J. Tillman Truckasaurus What Made Milwaukee Famous White Rabbits

Mandag, 26. mai

Battles Built to Spill The Cave Singers The Choir Practice Matt Costa Delta Spirit Dyme Def The Flaming Lips U.F.O. Show

Flight of the Conchords Ghostland Observatory The Hives Kay Kay & His Weathered Underground Kinski Jamie Lidell The Little Ones The Mars Volta

The Moondoggies Pela Rodrigo y Gabriela Say Hi Siberian Thao with the Get Down Stay Down Whalebones Yeasayer

Komikere

Festivalen i 2008 var første gang komikere hadde et eget telt.

Lørdag

Matt Besser Sean Conroy Rich Fulcher

Tim Meadows Jerry Minor Horatio Sanz

Upright Citizens Brigade Matt Walsh

Søndag

Aziza Diaz Andy Haynes Kevin Hyder

Morgan Murphy Andy Peters Brian Posehn

Derek Sheen Reggie Watts

Mandag

Michael Ian Black Liza Keckler Marc Maron

Mike Min Eugene Mirman Korby Sears

Seattle School Michael Showalter

Christmas on Mars

The Flaming Lips sin film, Christmas on Mars hadde premiere på søndag den 25. mai på festivalen.

2007

Vert for Sasquatch! Music Festival 2007 var Sarah Silverman, Michael Showalter, og Aziz Ansari.

Band

Lørdag, 26. mai

Aqueduct Arcade Fire Björk Blitzen Trapper The Blow Neko Case Manu Chao Radio Bemba Sound System Citizen Cope

Electrelane Ghostland Observatory Grizzly Bear The Hold Steady Loney, Dear The Long Winters Mirah Mix Master Mike

Ozomatli Saturday Knights The Slip Gabriel Teodros Two Gallants Visqueen Viva Voce

Søndag, 27. mai

Bad Brains Beastie Boys The Black Angels Blackalicious The Blakes Common Market Dandy Warhols Earl Greyhound

Michael Franti & Spearhead The Helio Sequence Interpol Minus the Bear Mix Master Mike Money Mark The Polyphonic Spree St. Vincent

Smoosh Spoon Stars of Track and Field Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter Tokyo Police Club Total Experience Gospel Choir Patrick Wolf

M.I.A. skulle spille, men konserten ble kansellert grunnet visaproblemer.

2006

Sasquatch! Music Festival 2006 var første året festivalen varte i tre dager. Festivalen begynte på fredag den 26. mai, og varte til søndag den 28. mai. Den andre dagen ble markert av en haglstorm om kvelden, som førte til at Neko Case og hennes band måte forlate scenen, samt at hele festivalen var i risiko for å avsluttes. Heldigvis gikk stormen over, og festivalen kunne fortsette.

Band

Fredag, 26. mai

…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Bauhaus Deadboy and the Elephantmen

Nine Inch Nails TV on the Radio HIM

The Trucks Wolfmother

Lørdag, 27. mai

Architecture in Helsinki Band of Horses Bedouin Soundclash Neko Case Common Market The Constantines Matt Costa Brett Dennen

The Flaming Lips David Ford Gomez Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals Iron & Wine Korby Lenker Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks Elvis Perkins

Sam Roberts Band Rogue Wave Tim Seely The Shins Slender Means Sufjan Stevens The Tragically Hip

Søndag, 28. mai

Arctic Monkeys Beck Big City Rock Blue Scholars Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Death Cab for Cutie The Decemberists Headphones

Heavenly States Damien Jurado Ben Lee Big Japan Jamie Lidell Matisyahu Mercir Nada Surf

Pretty Girls Make Graves Queens of the Stone Age Chad VanGaalen Laura Veirs Rocky Votolato Village Green We Are Scientists

2005

Sasquatch! Music Festival 2005 ble avholdt lørdag den 28. mai.

Band

Lørdag, 28. mai

Arcade Fire Aqueduct The Be Good Tanyas Benevento/Russo Duo Bobby Bare, Jr. Bloc Party Blue Scholars Crystal Skulls The Dears

The Frames Jem Ray LaMontagne Math and Physics Club Matisyahu Menomena Modest Mouse A.C. Newman Joanna Newsom

Parks & Recreation Pixies She Wants Revenge Smoosh United State of Electronica Visqueen Kanye West Wilco

2004

Sasquatch! Music Festival 2004 ble avholdt på lørdag den 29. mai. Verten var David Cross.

Band

Lørdag, 29. mai

Apollo Sunshine Aveo The Black Keys Built to Spill Cat Power Harvey Danger

The Decemberists Donavon Frankenreiter Fruit Bats Gary Jules The Long Winters The New Pornographers

The Postal Service The Roots The Shins Sleater-Kinney Thievery Corporation Visqueen

2003

Band

Lørdag, 24. mai

Joseph Arthur Calexico Brandi Carlile Neko Case Circus Contraption Coldplay Death Cab for Cutie Eisley

The Flaming Lips Jurassic 5 Maktub Minus the Bear Modest Mouse Jason Mraz The Music My Morning Jacket

The Pale Pacific Pedro the Lion Liz Phair Reclinerland Sam Roberts Ron Sexsmith

2002

Band

Lørdag, 25. mai

Blackalicious Galactic Ben Harper

Jack Johnson Maktub Soulive

String Cheese Incident

Band og musikere som har fremført mer enn en gang

• Seks ganger
  • Neko Case – 2003, 2004 (med New Pornographers), 2006, 2007, 2008 (solo og med New Pornographers)
• Fire ganger
  • Ben Gibbard – 2003, 2006, 2008 (med Death Cab for Cutie), 2004 (med The Postal Service)
• Tre ganger
  • Blue Scholars – 2005, 2006, 2008
  • Death Cab for Cutie – 2003, 2006, 2008
  • The Flaming Lips – 2003, 2006, 2008
  • Modest Mouse – 2003, 2005, 2008
  • Visqueen – 2004, 2005, 2007
  • The Decemberists – 2004, 2006, 2009
  • Ben Harper – 2002, 2006, 2009
  • Fleet Foxes- Twice in 2008, 2009
• To ganger
  • Aqueduct – 2005, 2007
  • Arcade Fire – 2005, 2007
  • Blackalicious – 2002, 2007
  • Common Market – 2006, 2007
  • Ghostland Observatory – 2007, 2008
  • Grizzly Bear – 2007, 2009
  • Michael Franti & Spearhead – 2007, 2008
  • The Long Winters – 2004, 2007
  • Maktub – 2002, 2003
  • Matisyahu – 2005, 2006
  • Minus the Bear – 2003, 2007
  • Nine Inch Nails – 2006, 2009
  • Sam Roberts – 2003, 2006
  • Shara Worden – 2009 (med The Decemberists og Bon Iver)
  • The Shins – 2004, 2006
  • Smoosh – 2005, 2007
  • Kim Deal – 2005 (med The Pixies), 2008 (med The Breeders)

Eksterne lenker

• Official website
• House of Blues Official Website
• Sasquatch! 2006 official website

Presse

• Anmeldelse av festivalen i 2003 på Seattle PI
• Anmeldelse av festivalen i 2004 på Left Off The Dial
• Anmeldelse av festivalen i 2008 på TinyMixTapes
• Intervju med grunnleggeren av Sasquatch, Adam Zacks, på Synthesis.net
• Bilder og anmeldelser fra Sasquatch