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:

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

Komikerne 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

Komikerne 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)

Referanser

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

Musikkfestivaler i USA
Kultur i Washington