That’s right, Bumbershoot is back! The legendary Seattle Arts and Music Festival, with non-profit Third Stone, announced its return after the pandemic and high ticket prices kept it from happening.

Bumbershoot has been a long-time Labor Day institution in Seattle, WA, and since its 2015 edition, with AEG Live as lead promoter. Its future is now uncertain, though; as Crosscut reports, AEG has ...

The post Bumbershoot Returns in 2023 with Local Heroes Sleater-Kinney and Sunny Day Real Estate Topping Lineup appeared first on Consequence. After a three-year hiatus, Bumbershoot is returning to ...

In April of 2021, an exploratory committee was formed to determine the future of the Labor Day event, with One Reel — the company that had managed the festival for over two decades — stepping back ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Rob Salkowitz is an Eisner-nominated comics journalist and author. The 2023 edition of Bumbershoot features the Northwest’s own ...

Ready your FREE HUGS signs, Bumbershoot is returning to the Seattle Center Labor Day Weekend, September 2-3. This will be the first Bumbershoot under new production partner New Rising Sun and the 50th ...

In Seattle, complaining about Bumbershoot — which starts Saturday, Sept. 5 — is a spectator sport. The lineup, the ticket prices, the fine-arts programming — nothing is ever quite right, especially ...

FOR MOST WHO go to the nation’s largest urban arts festival, Bumbershoot begins this year on Saturday, Aug. 31. Seattle Center will open that morning to ticket holders who will rush in hoping to ...

Bumbershoot has evolved over the years, and no one knows that better than Norm Langill, president and CEO of One Reel, the not-for-profit company that produces the event. He’s been involved with ...

The future of Seattle’s Bumbershoot music festival was looking bleak last fall. The festival’s attendance was in a freefall and the event’s producer, AEG, declined to renew their contract with the ...

Bumbershoot kicks off this weekend, and for $130 per day, you get a dizzying array of artists – from Lil Wayne on Friday to Fleet Foxes on Sunday. But this annual festival, so focused now on music, ...

Seattle’s Bumbershoot Arts & Music Festival announced Friday that it will not be taking place for the second year in a row, and will be forming an exploratory committee to determine the future of the ...