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Sasquatch! Music Festival 2016 Photo Recap

Views from the Memorial Day weekend action at the Gorge.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff and Seth Sommerfeld May 31, 2016

Nothing like some friendly narwhals to great Sasquatch! attendees.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

Lion Babe got things underway by dancing all around the Yeti stage.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

Seattle soul took the Sasquatch stage in the form of Grace Love and the Ture Loves.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

Telekinesis keeps the beat during its Friday evening set.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

Air Staples.

Photography by Seth Sommerfeld

Getting down (literally) with LANY.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

Vince Staples delivered Friday's most energetic set at the Bigfoot stage.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

Hibou gets in a groove while opening the Bigfoot stage on Saturday.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

Moshe Kasher (pictured) and Natasha Leggero made a stop at the scenic Gorge as part of their honeymoon comedy tour.

Photography by Seth Sommerfeld

Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats getting its day sweats on.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

Yeasayer and a haze.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

Noah Gundersen brought melancholy tunes to counter the sun.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

Ty Segall looks for vocal support in unlikely places.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

There's a chance La Luz was created by a team of scientists just to play during sunny days at music festivals.

Photography by Seth Sommerfeld

While a wildfire burned 600 acres near the Gorge over the weekend, there was also a small fire at one of the food vendors. It was quickly contained.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

The grass crew take in the Digable Planets vibes.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

A refined style (and colorful nail polish) from Ty Segall and the Muggers.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

The top of shoulders view is a good one if you can get it.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

Fans of pretty lights might enjoy seeing M83 live.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

Major Lazer always brings a party.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

EMP Soundoff! winners Cosmos brought some youthful energy to open the Yeti stage on Sunday.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

Mosh pits aren't commonplace at Sasquatch!, but bands like Ty Segall and the Muggers bring 'em out.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

A Honda sponsored stage near the middle of the festival grounds offered up short sets by top artists for smaller crowds. Here's Speedy Ortiz "playing for cars."

Photography by Seth Sommerfeld

Autolux gets an elevated viewpoint during its Bigfoot set.

Photography by Seth Sommerfeld

Wimps brought is rapid punk energy (and dudes in hot dog costumes) to the fest.

Photography by Seth Sommerfeld

Hop Along's Frances Quinlan put on an emotional vocal clinic during the band's excellent set at the Yeti stage.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

Protomartyr bellows.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

Summer Cannibals rock and destroy cat callers with the equal ferocity.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

Can't stop the Beat (Connection).

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

Shannon and the Calms brought garage rock pep to Saturday evening's proceedings.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

Conor Youngblood shows off a little hockey style during his Sunday performance.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

Behind force of nature frontwoman Jehnny Beth, Savages played the most buzzed about set of the weekend.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

Seattle's Ruler getting in some Sunday strums.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

Deep Sea Diver battled the wind and won.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

Holding hands can be fun.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

Fauna Shade on a stage without any shade.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

Outside of the wind, Sasquatch!'s biggest issue was getting the floating letters in its pond to cooperate.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

Purity Ring's Megan James takes a moment to compose herself during the group's soaring synthpop set.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

Everyone needs a little grass lounging time.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

The Cure sounded as good as ever during its surprisingly short (at least in Cure terms) headlining set.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

Everybody sing along with Iska Dhaaf.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

When not watching music, one can always scope out some fest fashion.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

Son Little offering up a little blues rock at Bigfoot.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

Fans of Sir the Baptist gather with paraphernalia in hand.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

The Twilight Sad expressing an emotion other than sadness.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

Swiping left in the wild with Childbirth.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

Lauren Lapkus and Todd Barry teamed up to tape an episode of the 'With Special Guest Lauren Lapkus' podcast.

Photography by Seth Sommerfeld

The crowd did not even kind of get Scharpling and Wurster's shtick, which made for a rather amazing viewing experience.

Photography by Seth Sommerfeld

Pretty in pink.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

The main stage hill fills.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

Surfin' to King Gizzard in the Lizard Wizard.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

Caribou closed out the festival with an electronic dance party in El Chupacabra.

Photography by Seth Sommerfeld

It hard to not be blown away by the vocal power of Florence and the Machine.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

When whether put a kibosh on his Sasquatch stage performance, Leon Bridges headed to the hill for an acoustic set.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

When the Sasquatch stage finally opened on Sunday night, people rushed down to see Alabama Shakes.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

After getting bumped from the main stage due to the wind, Tacocat headed to the dance tent for a packed little fiesta.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

This may be going out on a limb, but we think Mac DeMarco enjoys playing music.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

Speedy Ortiz's Sadie Dupuis shreds in the evening breeze.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

Big Grams played a fun (and very inebriated) set to close out Sunday's action.

Photography by Seth Sommerfeld

Wind forced Allen Stone to move his performance to El Chupacabra, but his loyal fan base followed in droves.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

Thunderpussy's always energetic live show opened Monday's main stage in style.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

Bully's Alicia Bognanno screams over her bands distorted and delightfully grungy rock sound.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

Iska Dhaaf's Nathan Quiroga gets up close and personal with Seattle Met's arts editor.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

Dave B spiting some Seattle hip-hop on the Bigfoot stage.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

Sir the Baptist preaching.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

Grimes dance parties forever, please.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

Thao and the Get Down Stay Down sounded superb while playing songs from 'A Man Alive' and covering Missy Elliott.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

Sufjan Stevens eschewed the sad folk for the most part to get 'Age of Adz' weird.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

No really, Sufjan got weird.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

Someone needs to tell King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard that bodies aren't supposed to go that way.

Photography by Amber Zbitnoff

It's always hard to summarize four days of a music festival into a succinct recap. So much happened at the 2016 Sasquatch! Music Festival: wind derailed the Sunday main stage, Savages blew everyone away in a different manner of speaking, the Cure sounded fresh as ever, Florence Welch sang like an angel, Sufjan Stevens sprouted wings... Rather than go into every little detail, enjoy this chronological photographic look at what went down last weekend at the Gorge.

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