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Congratulations to Beehive, Ashleigh Flynn and Kate Tucker & The Sons of Sweden, who all were selected by OurStage fans to perform this Labor Day weekend at Bumbershoot! For more information about these OurStage artists performing at Bumbershoot, check out: ourstage.com/go/bumbershoot

Bumbershoot: Seattle's Music & Arts Festival is now in its 38th year. 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. North America's largest urban arts festival, Bumbershoot takes place in the heart of the city at the 74-acre Seattle Center. Over 150,000 visitors from near and far spend the weekend reveling in the world of Bumbershoot, experiencing everything from regional favorites to international superstars across all arts disciplines.

This years lineup:
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 / Kid Sister / 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 Caring 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 / Adele / 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 Burress / The Physics / Joshua Morrison / The Tripwires / Samantha Hunt / Tig Notaro / Sage / PWRFL Power / Grieves / Matt Jorgensen +451 / Kevin Sessums / Chester French / 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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Win Your Way into Bumbershoot

But the contests are becoming a bigger part of my job now. My good friend Mike (from the Sponsorship and Marketing InternViews) asked me to make a video as a “How To” – effectively offering an example for the Green Your Music Habit Contest. It’s a cringe-worthy public service announcement to give you all a good* idea of what we here at the Bumbershoot office are doing to green our daily lives as we prep for the Festival (incredibly inaccurate statement). Pay close attention to this one by the way, because in addition to Bumbershoot Gold passes, you can win a bike (and bikes rule because they don’t use gas and you can take them off jumps, which is more than I can s...

 
 

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  • Posted by bumbershoot on Jul 3 at 12:10 PM EDT
    Every great TV show has one. Baseball’s 7th inning has one. Pro wrestlers each have one. Heck, even my bologna has one! All great things require a truly great theme song… and now Bumbershoot wants in on the action. Write, perform and video an original theme song for Bumbershoot, and be our favorite rock star! The winning song will collect a pair of coveted Gold Passes to this year’s Festival, entrance into Bumbershoot’s top-secret Music Lounge and our endless affection. That’s some sweet, sweet lovin’. For entry details visit: http://www.bumbershoot.org/bumbertheme-contest.htm
  • Posted by alabaster on Jun 11 at 7:44 PM EDT
    We loved playing at Bumbershoot last year and are hoping to get to do it again this year!! Thanks OurStage!!
  • Posted by Pairadeux on Apr 23 at 5:23 PM EDT
    Some friends played Bumbershoot a few years ago, they had a blast!!!
    Thanks for supporting independent music and musicians by picking some acts from OURSTAGE!!!
    Miss E of Pairadeux
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