BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sunvalley Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Sunvalley Events X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Boise BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Boise BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:193972@sunvalley DTSTAMP:20260613T132933Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Boise:20260906T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Boise:20260906T220000 SUMMARY:Portugal. The Man DESCRIPTION:The Sun Valley Resort & RJK Entertainment Present Portugal. The Man\, Sunday September 6 at Sun Valley Pavilion. Supported by TBD.\\n\\nTh e Non-Profit Beneficiaries of this event are: Stella's Shelter Fund and Fra nces Changed My Life\\n\\nGet ready for an unforgettable night under the st ars as Portugal. The Man takes the stage at the iconic Sun Valley Pavilion this Labor Day Weekend. Whether you're a longtime fan or discovering them f or the first time\, this is the perfect way to celebrate the holiday weeken d with friends\, family\, and incredible music. Don’t miss your chance to make a summer memory that lasts a lifetime.\\n\\nJohn Gourley never went h unting with his father. Raised in and outside of assorted small towns on th e fringe of the Alaskan wilderness\, Gourley certainly knew how to handle h is gun\, even as a kid—a way of life and survival\, an inheritance from t wo parents who had moved to the state to belong to its woods. Childhood fri ends certainly had hunting stories\, and Gourley had been mushing with his parents\, John and Jennifer\, until he almost lost his ears from frostbite. But hunting? No.\\n\\nWhen Gourley was 10\, though\, a massive moose shuff led through the snow in their yard as father and son ate lunch. “Hey\, Jo hnny\, do you want to go hunting today?” his dad asked\, the young John r esponding with the enthusiastic assent of overdue expectation. They suited up for the winter and tracked the moose through the snow\, watching it a lo ng time as it slowly chewed some bark. A cycle began: His father would rais e his rifle\, say “Johnny\, are you sure?”\, and then lower the gun\, d espite his son’s assurance that he was indeed old enough to watch this mi ghty animal fall. They never took a shot that day. Instead\, older John Gou rley taught little John Gourley a lesson—they had food in the refrigerato r and money to buy more if needed. This moose should live\, so that others may someday survive. Take what you need\, and get on with your life.\\n\\nT hat is the spirit that suffuses SHISH\, the 10th album from Gourley’s ban d\, Portugal. The Man\, and the first he’s made not only since leaving At lantic Records to start a label of his own\, KNIK\, but also since completi ng his handicap-accessible home studio in Oregon. The first Portugal. The M an album since completing the bulk of 2023’s Chris Black Changed My Life four years ago\, SHISH represents a period of intense reappraisals for Gour ley\, both in music and in life. Where Chris Black featured a sprawling cas t of bandmates and special guests\, SHISH was built with a minimal cast at home. And it combines Gourley’s most revealing writing yet\, not only abo ut the lessons he learned being raised in Alaska\, but also some of the les sons he’s already learned raising his daughter\, Frances\, who was diagno sed with one of the world’s rarest genetic disorders four years ago. On S HISH\, Portugal. The Man’s world gets smaller. Gourley’s musical vision \, however\, has perhaps never been grander.\\n\\nWhen Gourley was consider ing his major-label exit sometime last year\, he started asking around abou t potential producers. Portugal. The Man had worked with some absolute tita ns\, like Danger Mouse\, Jeff Bhasker\, and even Mike D. But when an old fr iend suggested he check out this kid named Kane Ritchotte\, a Los Angeles n ative whose résumé had quickly grown to include work with Blake Mills and Miley Cyrus\, Gourley could only laugh. More than a decade earlier\, when Ritchotte was still a teenager\, he slipped briefly into Portugal. The Man s touring lineup\, a fill-in drummer in an emergency situation. He hadn t really known the songs\, but Gourley had always admired his enthusiasm a nd commitment. He called Ritchotte and invited him to Oregon\, where they h ad no musical agenda other than following Gourley’s self-proclaimed ADHD into whatever musical direction it may lead. The pair made SHISH—played a lmost entirely by Gourley and Ritchotte\, some help on horns and background vocals and even a little rapping from Zoe Manville notwithstanding—large ly that way.\\n\\nIn January\, when they were still very locked into shapin g the sound of SHISH\, Gourley and Ritchotte flew to Alaska to play two ben efits for the restoration of a Sitka clan house\, named one of the country s most endangered historic places\, and just one of many projects which P ortugal. The Man’s foundation\, Pass The Mic\, supports. The band launche d the organization in 2019 and have raised and donated over a million dolla rs to communities of Indigenous Peoples in the years since\, while partneri ng with local Tribes to raise awareness at every PTM show. Seeing his home through the eyes of someone who had never been\, Gourley came back to Orego n and wrote songs that reflected the lessons of his upbringing\, songs that advocated for ways of life that most Americans might know at best from rea lity TV. His father’s list of what he would take into the woods on a six- foot toboggan—some grape jelly\, a tarp\, a hatchet—became the core of “Angoon\,” an excoriation of an American political system that now want s to pretend borders matter after grabbing the land\, lives\, and ways of s o many others. There was the image of his mother\, up early in the blinding snow to fix a generator so her kids could watch cartoons\, at the center o f “Tyonek\,” a testament to resilience so engrained it lasts a lifetime . And there is\, of course\, opener and first single “Denali\,” where t he state’s great sign of encroaching fall—the beautiful fireweed—sign als instead the stirring of a revolution. “Oh no kings\, or master over m e\, marching towards a guillotine\,” Gourley cheerily sings\, a big beat bouncing beneath him.\\n\\nThese personal tales and philosophies mirror a b roader sense of musical freedom than Portugal. The Man has ever before embr aced\, in spite of how wide-ranging their music has always been. “Pittman Ralliers” bursts open as a bona fide piece of thrash metal\, belligerent and urgent and technical\, while finale “Father Gun” squeezes Naked Ci ty\, Queen\, Pink Floyd\, and maybe a little glam metal into a five-minute prog opus.\\n\\nBut Portugal. The Man’s long-standing center—inclusive and expansive pop\, rooted in soul and psychedelia and sincerity—holds he re\, too. “Tanana” is a shape-shifting beauty about pushing off the wei ght of the world\, about making love and sharing laughs even as bad news mo unts outside. Portugal. The Man has rarely sounded so sweet and dreamy as a t the start of “Knik\,” but its life-affirming coda will inevitably arr ive as a complete surprise\, a heroic guitar solo wedged between a chorus a bout the pox of industrial society. And “Mush” is a breathless tale of life on the edge of the wilderness\, the song moving with the same speed an d wonder and unpredictability as guiding a team of dogs through the woods. End to end\, SHISH embodies the energy of exploration\, of the possibilitie s of a new frontier being opened to imagination.\\n\\nPortugal. The Man’s career has been a long series of surprises. They are\, after all\, the rar e Alaskan rock band who became a mainland American institution. They are a hard-touring cult favorite who always seemed to make unapologetically idios yncratic records\, even on a major label. More than a decade deep into thei r discography\, they had a massive pop hit with “Feel It Still\,” a suc cess they channeled not into making more music that sounded just like it bu t instead to make their two most diverse records ever\, including this one. With SHISH\, Gourley uses Portugal. The Man to sing about the more righteo us world he has witnessed at home and that he now envisions for the rest of us—taking only what we need\, advocating for others at every turn\, and sharing the best of what we’ve learned to give everyone a chance to be be tter still. URL:https://visitsunvalley.com/events/portugal-the-man/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR