Vortex 2020

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Vortex 2020
DateAugust 22โ€“23, 2020 (2020-08-22 โ€“ 2020-08-23)
LocationMilo McIver State Park, Oregon, U.S.

Vortex 2020, or Vortex2020, was a planned music festival scheduled to be held in the U.S. state of Oregon in 2020, fifty years after Vortex I. The event was to be held on August 22โ€“23 at Milo McIver State Park, near Estacada.[1]

Slated performers included Blind Pilot, Storm Large, Pink Martini, The Dandy Warhols, and Gus Van Sant.[2]

The original festival was a collaboration between local peace activists and Oregon's Republican governor, concerned about the chaos that could arise around a planned Nixon visit to the state.[3]

The 2020 event was postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic in Oregon.[4]

References

  1. ^ Ramakrishnan, Jayati (December 31, 2019). "Vortex 2020 is on: State-sponsored music festival will return, 50 years after the first one". The Oregonian. Retrieved January 3, 2020.
  2. ^ Singer, Matthew (January 21, 2020). "A Sequel to Vortex, the Only State-Sponsored Music Festival in American History, Is Coming to the Portland Area This Summer". Willamette Week. Retrieved January 21, 2020.
  3. ^ Vance, Bryan M.; Camhi, Tiffany (August 29, 2020). "How Oregon's GOP governor teamed up with hippies to throw a festival and prevent clashes in the streets". OPB. Retrieved April 10, 2022.
  4. ^ Lindstrand, Emily (March 31, 2020). "Vortex event postponed in wake of coronavirus". Estacada News. Archived from the original on September 3, 2020. Retrieved April 10, 2022.