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Only one music festival turns off the loudness button for a weekend. Stephanie Leet and I split coverage of the QMF, she attended on Friday and I went on Saturday. It was Steph’s first time and reading through her notes on the evening, it was an imaginative experience for me — she was in The Jungle Book […]
Portland’s best kept secret this Friday and Saturday night is probably Quiet Music Festival. It boasts some heavyweight music headliners for two nights in a supremely intimate venue, at a price on the cheap. It even gets good press, but maybe only 50 people will be in the room at a given time, and a […]
The fourth annual Quiet Music Festival hosted by Disjecta, curated by Chris Johanson, softened hearts and ears last Friday and Saturday (June 27-28). Surrounding a stage only two feet above the concrete floor are layers of pads, blankets and pillows, accommodating an audience of roughly one hundred, which may have swelled up to almost two […]