Frank Ocean Is the First Announced Headliner of Sasquatch 2017

One of the reclusive R&B's singer's first shows in two years will take place a few hours outside Portland over Memorial Day weekend.

By Matthew Singer

Finally, Frank Ocean is coming back to the Gorge.

The notoriously reclusive R&B singer announced a series of festival dates this morning—his first live appearances since the release of his critically praised, perpetually delayed second formal album, Blonde—and one of them will bring him to Sasquatch in middle-of-nowhere Washington next Memorial Day Weekend.

Ocean was supposed to play Sasquatch once before. In 2014, he was set to headline a second weekend of the festival scheduled for Independence Day—alongside Soundgarden, Kraftwerk and New Order—that ended up getting cancelled.

Sasquatch has yet to announce any other performers. Last year, attendance for the 14-year-old festival dropped by over half. Ocean is a much bigger contemporary name than they typically draw, so the presumed hope is that confirming him early will get ticket sales moving prior to the full lineup announcement in early 2017.

Sasquatch is scheduled for May 26-28—one less day than last year. Get tickets here.

Frank Ocean – ‘Nikes’ from DoBeDo Productions on Vimeo.

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