Vortex 2020

Vortex 2020
DateAugust 22–23, 2020 (2020-08-22 – 2020-08-23)
Location

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 22–23 at Milo McIver State Park, near Estacada.

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

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.

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

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.