Podfort at Treefort Music Fest is focused on our love for all things podcasts! Bringing together voices from Boise and beyond, Podfort celebrates new perspectives, niche topics, passionate storytelling and much more.
You can find Podfort programming at the Boise Centre and The Egyptian Theatre with events taking place Thursday, 3/21 – Sunday, 3/24 during the festival. A lot of Podfort is totally free and open to the public. Some events (like you’ll see below) require tickets to attend (included for all wristband holders). All of Podfort is held within venues that are all ages (parental discretion advised).
We are excited to welcome two headliners for Podfort 2024, Beautiful/Anonymous and All Fantasy Everything, plus a special crossover with Comedyfort to bring The Girl God Experience to Podfort.
The full Podfort 2024 lineup includes:
ALL FANTASY EVERYTHING + BEAUTIFUL/ANONYMOUS + THE GIRL GOD EXPERIENCE + XRAY.FM: WILDFLOWERS & WEEDS X HELLO CRUEL WORLD + BEHIND GRAY WALLS + SORRY MY ANXIETY IS TALKING + THE WIND + THE PREVENTION PERSPECTIVE + GET A (STUDENT) LIFE + IF IT SCARES YOU + CHEW BUBBLEGUM AND KICK ASS + GET IN THE PIT + THAT BASEBALL SHOW + EVERYONE IS WRONG
ALL FANTASY EVERYTHING
(Los Angeles, California // Portland, Oregon // Denver, Colorado)
All Fantasy Everything is a show where funny people and experts come together to fantasy draft pop culture: from music to movies to sandwiches, everything is in play. It is hosted by Ian Karmel, Sean Jordan, and David Gborie.
All Fantasy Everything will do a live podcast on Thursday, March 21st at The Egyptian Theatre. The show is included with a Treefort Pass. Tickets are available for non-passholders and passholders who want to secure priority access.
BEAUTIFUL/ANONYMOUS
(West Orange, New Jersey)
Beautiful/Anonymous is a podcast where the host, comedian Chris Gethard, takes one phone call from a random anonymous stranger. Sometimes it’s very funny. Sometimes it’s motivational. Sometimes it’s the darkest thing anyone has ever heard. We just deal with what real people in the world throw at us.
Beautiful/Anonymous will do a live podcast on Saturday, March 23rd at The Egyptian Theatre. The show is included with a Treefort Pass. Tickets are available for non-pass holders and pass holders who want to secure priority access.
Very Delta
(Los Angeles, California)
Legendary Emmy Award-winning drag queen Delta Work (RuPaul’s Drag Race) hosts this Luxury Public Access Podcast and YouTube Talk Show where she looks gorgeous, welcomes very special guests, and goes off on important issues that are Very Delta, from good fast-food drive-through manners to the perfect “sexretary” shoe. Do you want to hear her go off? I think you want to hear her go off.
Sloppy Seconds
(Los Angeles, California)
Hosted by drag star and motivational speaker Meatball, alongside rapper/comedian and gay bear Big Dipper, Sloppy Seconds features chaotic interviews with queer celebrities and an unapologetic look at sex, culture, and food. Get sloppy with these two messes who aren’t afraid to speak their minds. Produced by the Forever Dog Podcast Network and Moguls of Media.
Copper & Heat
(Portland, Oregon)
Copper & Heat is a podcast exploring the unspoken rules and traditions of restaurant kitchens through the stories of people that work in them.
THE GIRL GOD EXPERIENCE
(Los Angeles, California)
Finally, a podcast willing to ask the tough questions! Grace Freud and April Clark (together known as Girl God) are challenging modern orthodoxies on everything from gender and sexuality to politics and religion, and they don’t care whose feelings they hurt. On The Girl God Experience, they’ll interview today’s most fascinating thinkers on how to put this woke world back to sleep…and they just might blow your mind in the process.
XRAY.FM: WILDFLOWERS & WEEDS + HELLO CRUEL WORLD
(Portland, Oregon)
Wildflowers & Weeds and Hello Cruel World are two back-to-back weekly radio shows on Portland’s infamous XRAY.FM. Wildflowers & Weeds, hosted by lazybones, is a mix of cosmic country, folk, Americana, western, outlaw, bluegrass, roots, rock and roll & even desert psych and stadium hits (when acceptable). Showcasing women currently creating in the field and exploring the careers of those that came before them.
Hosted by JBJ, Hello Cruel World has 3 primary goals: 1) to highlight the work of singer/songwriters/solo artists and their musical evolutions from album to album, 2) to champion a stripped-down acoustic sound and 3) to present conversations and in-studio performances with the people who make the music. Favorite genres include indie-folk, forest rock, and Americana.
Catch this collaboration during Podfort at Treefort Music Fest for live interviews, stripped down sets, and more!
UNITED STATELESS
(Brooklyn, New York)
Over the past decade, millions of people have immigrated to the US from Mexico. But a large number of those immigrants have returned. And for kids who grew up largely in the US, returning to Mexico isn’t easy. On the United Stateless Podcast, binational returnees share their stories of life, love, Spanglish, culture shock, missing bagels and figuring out where home really is.
BEHIND GRAY WALLS
(Boise, Idaho)
Behind Gray Walls is a podcast featuring stories from the men and women who lived and worked at the Old Idaho State Penitentiary. Each week, Anthony, Samuel, and Skye explore prisoners whose crimes led them to serve time at the “Old Pen.” Their history is explored in depth and compared to corrections topics faced in communities today.
THE WIND
(Reno, Nevada)
After a tour in 2023 which included performances in Boise, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Glasgow and a sold out show in New York City, The Wind returns to Treefort with a sound-driven podcast performance.
THE PREVENTION PERSPECTIVE
(Boise, Idaho)
The Prevention Perspective is a podcast focused on sharing information, ideas and resources about violence prevention work. Hosted by the prevention staff of the WCA, a non-profit in Boise, ID serving those impacted by domestic and sexual violence. If you or someone you care about have experienced domestic, dating or sexual violence please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 or one of the WCA’s 24-hour hotlines at 208-343-7025 or 208-345-7273.
Check out all the podcasts coming to Podfort here.
