Watershed 2024 @ The Gorge – 8/4/2024
Photos by Kirk Stauffer
Day three of the Watershed Festival concluded on Sunday with the “Shedders” having their fill of country music and beautiful scenery.
KOE WETZEL
KASSI ASHTON
THE CADILLAC THREE
GRAHAM BARHAM
PECOS & THE ROOFTOPS
MEGHAN PATRICK
JADE EAGLESON
JOSH ROSS
ZANDI HOLUP
Watershed 2024 – Photos by Kirk Stauffer
How cute! Bumbershoot‘s 2024 poster features a music-loving octopus! By artist Dan Stiles, the poster’s proceeds will help Conscious Alliance get food to those in need. Get it here.
Tinariwen @ the Showbox – 8/9/24
Photos & Words by Mike Mitchell
Nomadic Toureg legends Tinerawin took a sold out Showbox audience on a trip to the Sahara last Friday night. The African sextet wove a tapestry of intricate guitar interplay, call and response vocals, and percussion that was at once trance-like and propulsive.
My western ears detected flourishes of Delta blues and psychedelic rock mixed in with the band’s more obvious African influences, but the show was not so much an academic exercise as an invitation to dance and communicate with no shared tongue required (beyond the universal languages of melody and rhythm).
Tinariwen’s Showbox set was, for me, the rare performance that prompts one to ponder whether we all might get along a little better if we were able to gather as one and share such a unifying and life affirming experience.
Watershed 2024 @ The Gorge – 8/3/2024
Photos by Kirk Stauffer
Day two of the Watershed Music Festival brought a new group of 10 country performers, a larger audience, and temperatures (finally) below 100F.
LUKE BRYAN
COLE SWINDELL
ANNIE BOSKO
GREYLAN JAMES
DYLAN SCOTT
MADELINE MERLO
BRIAN KELLEY
ASHLAND CRAFT
AIDAN CANFIELD
SADIE BASS
Watershed 2024 – Photos by Kirk Stauffer
Watershed 2024 @ The Gorge – 8/2/2024
Photos by Kirk Stauffer
The Watershed Music Festival was held at The Gorge for the 15th time. For three days, country music artists performed on the Main and Next From Nashville stages from the early afternoon until nearly midnight. The outdoor venue seats over 27,000 and is consistently rated one of the most beautiful in the country. Here are the performers on day one.
OLD DOMINION
RILEY GREEN
TERRI CLARK
JAKE WORTHINGTON
MADDIE & TAE
ZACH TOP
MEG MCREE
AUSTIN WILLIAMS
MATT SCHUSTER
Watershed 2024 – Photos by Kirk Stauffer