OurStage

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.

Bumbershoot '09 lineup with more to come soon!

Music

The Black Eyed Peas / Sheryl Crow / Modest Mouse / Jason Mraz / The All-American Rejects / Katy Perry / Michael Franti & Spearhead / Franz Ferdinand / De La Soul / Metric / Raphael Saadiq / Brett Dennen / Os Mutantes / Soulsavers featuring Mark Lanegan / The Long Winters / Sly & Robbie & the Taxi Gang / World Party / Keller Williams / Roy Ayers / MSTRKRFT / The Helio Sequence / Common Market / UH HUH HER / Dave Alvin and The Guilty Women / Eric Hutchinson / No Age / Matt & Kim / Dead Confederate / Janelle Monae / The Cave Singers / Audrye Sessions / The Knux / Akron/Family / Swollen Members / Vieux Farka TourÈ / Lenka / Gang Gang Dance / Vivian Girls / Todd Snider / The Devil Makes Three / Holy F**k / Elvis Perkins in Dearland / Iglu & Hartly / Maximo Park / †Wale w/ UCB / OTEP / DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid / Low vs Diamond / Sera Cahoone / Eleni Mandell / Mirah / Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears / 3 Inches of Blood / Kay Kay & His Weathered Underground / U.S.E / Carrie Rodriguez / The Honey Brothers / Natalie Portman's Shaved Head / Say Hi / Extra Golden / Mayer Hawthorne & The County / The Minus 5 / Forgive Durden performing Razia's Shadow / Cordero / Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band / Telekinesis / Hey Marseilles / Everest / The New Mastersounds / Oren Lavie / Dyme Def / Delhi 2 Dublin / The Dusty 45s / Visqueen / Truckasauras / Head Like a Kite / Akimbo / Adrian Xavier / Paul Oscher "Alone with the Blues" / Parenthetical Girls / Massy Ferguson / The Lonely Forest / Sleepy Eyes of Death / Past Lives / Macklemore / Michael Shrieve's Spellbinder / Wallpaper / The Whore Moans Present: The Black Atom! / Point Juncture, WA / Kim Field & The Mighty Titans of Tone / D.Black / Spaceman / Handful of Luvin' / Champagne Champagne / Romance / Kristen Ward / Dept. of Energy / The Kindness Kind / Mark Taylor Quartet / Hotels / Black Whales / Kore Ionz / Grand Hallway / Anomie Belle / Steve Griggs Quintet / We Are Golden / Olympic Sound Collective / Dyno Jamz /†Central Services' Board of Education / The Not-Its! / Recess Monkey and more still to be announced.

Comedy

Eugene Mirman / Todd Barry / Reggie Watts / Matt Braunger / Doug Benson's The Benson Interruption / Tommy Johnagin / Charlyne Yi / Jon Glaser & more to be announced!

Literary Arts

David Cross / S.E. Hinton / Melvin Van Peebles / Writers of LOST: Carlton Cuse, Eddy Kitsis and Adam Horowitz / McSweeney's New Fiction / Christian Lander's Stuff White People Like / The Enablers Have Spoken and You're Fine with Spencer Moody / Zak Smith / Tom Douglas / Manic D / Youth Speaks Seattle w/ Staceyann Chin & Prometheus Brown (Geo of Blue Scholars) / Jessica Anthony / Bill Cotter / Ross Simonini / Starlee Kine / iLL-Literacy / Jess Walter / Kathleen Flinn / Daniel Wilson / Kevin Emerson / Writers In The Schools / Jon Longhi / Amber Tamblyn / Tara Hardy / Jack McCarthy / Danny Sherrard / Kevin Sampsell / Kerry Cohen / Lyall Bush w/ Devin Sullivan

Performing & Visual Arts

Wise Fool New Mexico / Pacific Northwest Ballet / Gage Drawing Jam / Jason Webley / The Seattle-Moscow Poster Show / PS 122 / COBU / Justin Kredible / The Goldberg Variations (featuring Mark Haim) / Dada Economics / Kerfuffle (or The Uneasy Relationship Between Humanity and the Environment) / Julie Lindell / DASSdance / All-Terrain / Woolly Mammoth Comes To Dinner / Amy Steel's Snack Bar / Hand-made midway games from Chris McMullen and Steve Withycombe / a flea circus and much more!

*We regret to inform that Kasabian, The Ting Tings and Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan have cancelled their appearances at Bumbershoot. But please note, Mark Lanegan WILL appear with Soulsavers.