New music festival + solid local and national line-up + excuse to take a road-trip with friends = hello, favorite new thing. (And thank you Reverb for introducing us.)

The first annual Treefort Fest is happening March 22nd to 25th in downtown Boise and a number of great local bands will be making the drive East with us. Pickwick, Lemolo and Champagne Champagne are all coming from Seattle, Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside, Typhoon, Talkdemonic and Blitzen Trapper are coming from Portland and Boise’s own Built to Spill will enjoy sleeping in their own beds during the innaguraul festival. And all this great Cascadian talent will be joined by national acts like Of Montreal and Why? and more announcements in the coming months. Created and curated by Eric Gilbert of Boise band Finn Riggins, Treefort Fest’s line-up is solid whether it’s your 15th fest and definitely your first.

Beyond the road trip and the bands we already know and love, we’re especially excited to get a curated glimpse into the best of Boise, a Pacific Northwest music community we’re hearing great things from (like the aforementioned Finn Riggins & Built to Spill and Daily Choice darling Youth Lagoon) but we aren’t familiar with too much else yet. Stay tuned for more announcements from Treefort Fest and we’ll see you heading east on I-90 come March.