Beyond Wonderland at the Gorge Amphitheatre. Photograph courtesy Ivan Meneses / Insomniac Press.
For the initiated, the Gorge Amphitheatre holds a mythic, almost spiritual significance. In the 2019 documentary Enormous: The Gorge Story, filmmakers captured the singular tenderness and dazzled wonderment with which seasoned acts—Dave Matthews, Pearl Jam—and music lovers alike regard this luminous hollow nestled against the Columbia River.
Much of the venue’s gravitas lies in its remoteness; it’s almost equidistant from Seattle and Spokane, a halfway point between two sides of a state cleaved by a mountain range and cultural sensibilities. There’s nothing nearby of note, aside from sloping fields speckled with cows and expansive, pale blue
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