Bumbershoot

Music & Arts

Festival Lineup

If this weren’t too far, I would consider going.

The 38th annual Bumbershoot: Seattle’s Music & Arts Festival, Presented by Samsung Mobile announces the full 2008 lineup!

Make this summer a memorable one and take a trek to Seattle over Labor Day weekend for an unforgettable getaway and the largest urban music and arts festivals in North America. Bumbershoot takes place over the 3-day holiday weekend (August 30 – September 1) at the 74-acre Seattle Center, located in downtown Seattle beneath the city’s iconic Space Needle. The Festival’s 20 indoor and outdoor venues provide a massive array of arts including live music, comedy, theatre, dance, film, spectacle, urban crafts, literary arts and visual arts.

The 2008 Bumbershoot music lineup includes 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, Nada Surf, Ingrid Michaelson, Del Tha Funky Homosapien, Jakob Dylan, !!!, Mike Doughty, Old 97’s, Xavier Rudd, Anti-Flag, Minus the Bear, M. Ward, Lee “Scratch” Perry, Man Man, Joe Bonamassa, Saul Willliams, Brother Ali, Battles, Aiden, The Walkmen, Kid Sister, Estelle, Unearth, Tapes ‘n Tapes, The Weakerthans, Sons and Daughters, Asylum Street Spankers, Dan Deacon, Two Gallants, Blitzen Trapper, Sondre Lerche, Bedouin Soundclash, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, Tim Finn, Cheb I Sabbah & 1002 Nights featuring Riffat Sultana, Dale Watson, The Whigs, John Vanderslice, Flobots, Thao with the Get Down Stay Down, Final Fantasy, Adele, The Fall of Troy, Orgone, Langhorne Slim & The War Eagles, Forro in the Dark, These Arms Are Snakes, The Blakes, Sweet Water, Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby, Pacifika, Arthur & Yu, Darondo & Nino Moschella, Vicci Martinez, Ian Moore, Mark Pickerel & His Praying Hands, Barcelona, Kinski, Throw Me The Statue, J-Boogie’s Dubtronic Science, Tyrone Wells, Howlin Rain, Monotonix, Black Eye & Neckties, The Shackeltons, West Indian Girl and many more.

But Bumbershoot is much more than music… the Festival also features three stages of comedy such as Zach Galifianakis, Janeane Garofalo, Greg Behrendt, Doug Benson, PRI’s “The Sound of Young America” Live with host Jesse Thorn, and MTV’s “Human Giant” stars (Aziz Ansari, Paul Scheer and Rob Huebel) will bring the popular show to the stage with a little help from their friends, just to name a few.

Beyond music and comedy, the Festival offers up a world of arts to make every fan’s schedule full (SO full, in fact, that you might wanna put to use Bumbershoot’s handy interactive schedule to create and save your own personalized plans and share them with friends!)

The complete lineup includes everything from sci-fi legend William Gibson to Australia’s Strange Fruit, The Seattle-Tehran Poster Show to The Post-It Note Reading Series, the 1 Reel Film Festival to Pacific Northwest Ballet, and much, much more.

For the complete Festival lineup and to start creating your personalized daily schedule, visit bumbershoot.org.

TICKETS

Three-day Festival passes and single day-specific tickets are available NOW at bumbershoot.org, Ticketmaster outlets, Ticketmaster.com or by calling 206.628.0888. Three-day passes are $80 through August 15, and $100 thereafter. Single day-specific tickets are $35 through August 15, and $40 thereafter. For more ticket information, visit bumbershoot.org/tickets.htm.