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Thursday, December 22, 2011

Video Whet Your Appetite for the Pickathon Pumphouse Sessions

Posted by Ned Lannamann on Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 4:01 PM

If Pickathon is the Northwest music scene's well-kept secret (although it seems that the secret is out, and happily so), then the Pumphouse Sessions are Pickathon's well-kept secret. Over the course of the weekend-long festival in August, many of the performing bands get shepherded out to the tiny, 10'x10' pumphouse on Pendarvis Farm, tucked away deep in the woods. There, they perform stripped-down sets—often acoustic—while cameras and recorders rolled. The result is a peerless collection of one-of-a-kind, intimate performances, captured away from the crowds of Pickathon.

The videos from 2011's Pickathon are going up on Live and Breathing, beginning January 3. Until then, enjoy this taster—and it's pretty hard not to get excited for more. That's AgesandAges' own Pumphouse performance playing on the soundtrack, and it sounds terrific to my years. (AgesandAges are playing tomorrow night at the Doug Fir as well, if you can't wait until 2012.)

 

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