Dean Johnson has fond memories of Portland. It was here, during Pickathon in 2024, that the rising Seattle folk troubadour played two of his most memorable sets. First at the woods stage, and then the main stage with a backdrop of Mount Hood and a sunset to make for the kind of majestic Western scene that would inspire Albert Bierstadt. At each of these sets, the enraptured audience swooning over Johnson’s dreamy folk seemed to signal that his moment had, finally, arrived.

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