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Articles on Some of the Big Names at This Year's Festival

Every year, a humongous hurricane of music, comedy, visual art, theater, and film is unleashed upon Seattle in the form of Bumbershoot, the Northwest’s preeminent music and arts festival, hitting Seattle Center August 30 through September 1. And every year, The Stranger helps you find your way through the dense thicket of delights, with exhaustive schedules, artist profiles, and mercilessly discerning listings—all designed to help you make the countless decisions a festival as big as this one requires. Whether your Bumbershoot dreams include cracking up at comedy, jumping around to indie rock, or pointing and laughing at reanimated ’90s hit makers, The Stranger vs. Bumbershoot will help make your dreams come true.


Monsters of Alt

Monsters of Alt

Monsters of Alt


TV Pilots vs. 
Baboon Attacks

TV Pilots vs. Baboon Attacks

Nick Thune Q&A


Rock, Chunk, or Rule

Rock, Chunk, or Rule

Superchunk vs. Radio Comedy, Tour Fare, and Memorial Stadium


Pay No Mind

Pay No Mind

Scientology vs. Beck vs. Barb's Bars


T.I. vs. The Blakes

You Can't Do it All


Utopian Dream Boy

Utopian Dream Boy

Interview with Owen Pallett of Final Fantasy


A Groove Supreme

A Groove Supreme

Darondo vs. Orgone: Funk-Soul Brothers from Different Mothers


Throw Me the Statue vs. New Faces

You Can't Do it All


Talking Turkey

Talking Turkey

Dan Deacon vs. the Bad Sandwich


Superchunk vs. Battles

You Can't Do it All


Anarchist 
Dreams Deferred

Anarchist Dreams Deferred

The Weakerthans' Songs of Youthful Idealism vs. Time


Reanimator

Reanimator

Del the Funky Homosapien vs. Hiphop


Garage Rock Arsonists

Garage Rock Arsonists

Monotonix vs. the Inflammable World


Bobos and Blood Sport

Bobos and Blood Sport

A Mini Fringe Festival at Bumbershoot


The Electronic Ether

The Electronic Ether

The Stranger and Its Friends vs. All That Is Right and Good, William Gibson and Cyberpunk


Ego and Literature 
and Hall & Oates

Ego and Literature and Hall & Oates

The Stranger vs. Common Decency


Edmund White vs. Betty White

You Can't Do it All


One Pot vs. Smoking Pot

You Can't Do it All


The Diplomat on the Ground

The Diplomat on the Ground

What Daniel Smith Brought Back from Tehran


Film Review Revue

Film Review Revue

A Roundup of the Festival's Shorts



 

HOURS: 11 am–11 pm


TICKETS:

  • One-day pass: $40
  • Three-day pass: $100
  • Gold Pass: $195
  • Platinum Pass: $395
  • Kids age 6-10/Seniors (65+)/Patrons with disabilities: $15 (at the gate only)
  • Kids 5 and under: free

Tickets are available at bumbershoot.org, Ticketmaster, select Starbucks locations, or at the Bumbershoot gates.


MAINSTAGE SHOWS: Entrance to the final Mainstage shows of each evening requires a free pass, which you can pick up at any of four outdoor Bumbershoot information booths on the day of the show. Mainstage passes are issued one-per-customer on a first-come, first-served basis. (Afternoon Mainstage performances do not require a pass.) Note: Bags may be subject to search before entering any Mainstage show.


More info at bumbershoot.org.
 
 
 
 

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