Saratoga, Calif. ? A 32-year-old man jumped at least 20 feet to his death onto the stage of a Northern California concert in front of hundreds of horrified music fans, the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office said Friday.

The Swell Season was playing an outdoor show at the Mountain Winery in Saratoga in front of a crowd of about 1,900 when Michael Edward Pickels of San Jose jumped Thursday night.

Authorities are treating Pickels’ death as a suicide, sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. Rick Sung said.

Witnesses say he jumped off the roof and landed on stage near the band’s lead singer, Glen Hansard.

Hansard and singer-songwriter Marketa Irglova are known in part for the band’s role in the 2006 movie “Once.”