Banana Pitch is a curated variety show, interview series, artist showcase & more. Always more.

Next live show:

March 18 2024, Portland OR

Banana Pitch is a place of immense talent that encourages boundary pushing and curiosity and crying and laughing and clapping and singing and stomping and dancing and shouting and storytelling and nonsensicality. Art, above all. That’s what it is.

Remove the part about the fear of doing it and you’ve got Banana Pitch.

It started with the idea for a show…

The Banana Pitch Podcast

Banana Pitch talks to people who are excited about what they’re doing. It's a curiosity show, interview series, artist showcase & more. Always more.

Listen to the latest episode of The Banana Pitch Podcast. Support the show and give us a follow.

Pitch on the Streets

Banana Pitch talks to people who are excited about what they’re doing.

Check out some of the ridiculous interviews.

The Banana Pitch Variety show is hosted and produced by music and arts journalist Michelle Kicherer. The vision is big and constantly growing.

This specially curated variety show and interview series features writers, musicians, comedians and "other acts." We’ve interviewed a puppy and had an "eat a cookie together" segment. We’ve had physical comedians and tear-jerking storytellers. Emerging musicians next to rising stars. You never know what'll happen.

Our goal is to put different genres and mediums onto one stage and for folks to sit down for a night of performances you might not normally see, but that you might fall in love with. Guaranteed fun or your money back, questions asked.

Recent or upcoming live performances by Haley Johnsen, Glitterfox, Johnny Franco, Shrista, Anna Diem, Isabeau Waia’u Walker, Marcus Lattimore, Nathan Earle, Alison Self, Tim Lane, Emme Lund, Cecily Wong, Dan Cable, Erin Potter and more, more, more.

Banana Pitch in the News

An interview with Banana Pitch host Michelle Kicherer on the Portland Radio Project, alongside on of the best podcasters in Portland: Dan Cable, of Dan Cable Presents.

“The interview component (the “Mini Ini”) is probably where things get most kooky and memorable. We get to hear stories and insights from these artists they haven’t shared elsewhere and usually it’s super entertaining. We have a running joke that goes, “Guaranteed fun or your money back, questions asked.”

- Michelle Kicherer with Willamette Week

Guess what!

Banana Pitch will have its own radio show on the Portland Radio Project, every Second Sunday at Seven!

First show is April 14

Live on 99.1 fm Portland,

streaming on PRP.fm