From Thursday night, November 14th through Sunday night, November 17th, 2019, Ballard, Washington hosted the 7th annual Freakout Festival featuring all variations of psychedelic and neo-60’s rock. The festival offered seven venues scattered around downtown Ballard with the bulk located on Ballard Avenue. There were 76 live bands performing along with seven DJ’s spinning tracts between the live bands. The venues were diverse and included a coffee shop, a clothing store, a ballroom, a waterfront dive bar and a restaurant. The primary venues with shows going until 1:30 am were the Tractor Tavern, Salmon Bay, the Sunset Tavern, and Conor Bryne. The other three venues hosted early shows until 9…
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POW x Huichica Walla Walla
On September 13th and 14th, POW attented the first Huichica Walla Walla festival. Huichica has annually taken place in both Sonoma and Hudson Valley CA (and still does), but this year was their first time branching out into the Pacific Northwest. “Since 2010, Huichica Music Festival (pronounced wah-CHEE-ka) has provided a refreshing take on the music festival experience. A pioneer in a new breed of micro-festival, Huichica is built on the concept that wine, food, and music are best shared in beautiful, intimate settings with a warm and friendly attitude. Each year Huichica presents a highly curated line up of artists worth knowing about and pairs them with artisan regional…
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POW MAGAZINE GOES TO THE WATERFRONT BLUES FESTIVAL
On this Fourth of July weekend, POW MAGAZINE attended Portland, Oregon’s Waterfront Blues Festival for the very first time. The Blues is not POW’s regular music focus. However, in this instance POW MAGAZINE was invited to the Waterfront Blues Festival to provide media coverage of the Vintage Trouble Band. Vintage Trouble was scheduled to perform two shows, one on the main Beaverton Blues Stage and then in the Marriot Hotel Ballroom after hours venue. They also appeared at a meet and greet session at the Music Millennium tent where their devoted fans could meet them in person and purchase CD’s and LP’s and have them autographed. POW was able to…
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POW’s Upcoming Summer Road Trip: Nuggets Night
POW staff members Dennis Gonzales and Sheena Salazar will be heading to the Pacific Northwest next month to attend Portland’s Nuggets Night 2017. The annual event, now in it’s 10th year, features musical performances from a bevy of bands, all paying tribute to the legendary Nuggets compilation albums. Proceeds from the event are given to a different music-related charity organization each year. The festival, which began as a one-night event in 2007, has grown larger each year and 2017 is no exception- after selling out both nights of the event in 2016, Nuggets Night has been moved to a larger venue. Nuggets Night 2017 will be held at Portland’s Star…