Bumbershoot!

Since 1971, Bumbershoot has drawn artists representing the best in music, film, comedy, spoken word, dance, theatre, performance, and visual arts to the Seattle Center over Labor Day weekend. In 2008 we have an amazing lineup including Beck / Stone Temple Pilots / Death Cab For Cutie / T.I. / The Offspring / Keyshia Cole / Lucinda Williams / Paramore / Neko Case / Band of Horses / The Black Keys / Superchunk / Janeane Garofalo / Nada Surf / Ingrid Michaelson / Del Tha Funky Homosapien / Greg Behrendt / Jakob Dylan / !!! / Joe Goode Performance Group / Mike Doughty / Old 97’s / William Gibson / Xavier Rudd / Anti-Flag / Australia’s Strange Fruit / Minus The Bear / M. Ward / “Human Giant” & Friends / Lee “Scratch” Perry / Man Man / Aziz Ansari / Joe Bonamassa / Wau Wau Sisters / Julie Atlas Muz / Dirty Martini / Tigger! / Mat Fraser / Saul Williams / Brother Ali / “The Sound of Young America” Live! / Battles / Aiden / Sherman Alexie / The Walkmen / Estelle / Dan Clowes / Unearth / Tapes ‘n Tapes / Doug Benson / The Weakerthans / Project X / Sons And Daughters / Asylum Street Spankers / Henry Art Gallery Featuring Grand Openings / Dan Deacon / Two Gallants / Blitzen Trapper / Seattle School / Sondre Lerche / Bedouin Soundclash / Scary Kids Scaring Kids / Edmund White / Tim Finn / Pacific Northwest Ballet / Cheb I Sabbah & 1002 Nights Featuring Riffat Sultana / Dale Watson / The Whigs / 1 Reel Film Festival Curated by SIFF/ John Vanderslice / Flobots / Owen Burke / Thao with the Get Down Stay Down / Final Fantasy / Chad Carter / Post-It Note Reading Series / The Fall Of Troy / Orgone / Theater Puget Sound / Rob Huebel / Langhorne Slim & The War Eagles / Forro In The Dark / Kathleen Edwards / These Arms Are Snakes / Benham Art Gallery / Seth Morris / The Blakes / Sweet Water / On The Boards Live / Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby / Pacifika / Paul Scheer / Arthur & Yu / Joshua Ferris / Darondo & Nino Moschella / Karen Kilgariff / Vicci Martinez / Ian Moore / Marc Maron / Mark Pickerel & His Praying Hands / Nick Thune / Barcelona / Kinski / Joan Silber / Throw Me The Statue / J-Boogie’s Dubtronic Science / The Seattle-Tehran Poster Show / Gage Academy Of Arts / Tyrone Wells / Howlin Rain / Monotonix / Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum / Black Eyes and Neckties / One Pot In Residence / The Shackeltons / West Indian Girl / Star Anna / Tiptons Sax Quartet / Ivan Brunetti / Mono In VCF / Jessi Klein / Ravens & Chimes / Hadley Caliman Quintet Featuring Thomas Marriot / Grynch / Adrian Tomine / T.J. Miller / Thee Emergency / Vince Mira / Manooghi Hi / Feral Children / Chip Kidd / Speaker Speaker / The Hands / Hannibal Buress / The Physics / Joshua Morrison / The Tripwires / Samantha Hunt / Tig Notaro / Sage / PWRFL Power / Grieves / Matt Jorgensen +451 / Kevin Sessums / Choklate / Fracesca Lia Block / Das Vibenbass / Velella Velella / Michelle Buteau / The Valley / The Maldives / Town Hall And ACT’s Short Stories Live / Shim / Shane Tutmarc & The Traveling Mercies / Mariee Sioux / The Lonely H / F**k Off And Die: Tales In Teen Angst Poetry / The Girls / Rep. Richard (Dick) Martin / The Round / Jonathan Evison / Nick Vigarino / The Staxx Brothers / People’s Republic Of Komedy / Lushy / New Faces / Nathan Mcall / School Of Rock: Northwest All-Stars / Jazz Northwest / Beehive / Ashleigh Flynn / Kate Tucker & The Sons of Sweden / Comedy Underground / Joshua Furst / It’s Good To Know People / Ellen Hopkins / Blood Squad / Jeff Parker / Ned Vizzini / Tonya Hurley / Adora Svitak / Tiny Gray-Garcia / LAUNCH dance theater / Cheap Wine and Poetry / Bottle House / NW Professional Dance Project / David Schmader / Kidnapping Water / Deb Caletti / acornDance / Canary Sing / Flatchestedmama / Carlotta / Cultivation Utility Vehicle / Christa Bell / Paul Rucker / Pat Graney’s Prison Project / Eileen Gunn / Flatstock 18 / Tom Rhodes / Karen Finneyfrock / Lesli Wood / John Osebold / Rockstar Energy Drink Vert Ramp / Little Roy

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Bumbershoot By Sean Pecknold