MusicfestNW is a multi-venue music festival that takes place every fall in Portland, Oregon. MusicfestNW was founded by Mark Zusman and Richard Meeker in 1995 as a joint venture between Willamette Week, Meeker and Zusman's Portland Pulitzer Prize-winning alternative weekly,[1] and South by Southwest, the Austin, Texas music festival. It was called North by Northwest until 2001, when Willamette Week took over the festival and renamed it MFNW. MFNW has become the third largest indoor music festival in the United States with more than 150 bands across 18 of Portland's most popular music venues. read more