Summer festival season is right around the corner. It’ll be sooner than you think! And of course, that means festival announcements. So let’s get to it!
The 50th edition of Bumbershoot: Seattle’s Arts & Music Festival will take place at the Seattle Center September 2, 2023 – September 3, 2023. Yesterday, festival organizers announced the daily lineups for this year’s edition, as well as a collection of new musical acts.
Saturday will feature Olympia’s indie legends Sleater-Kinney, an electronic set from globally renowned producer Zhu, Grammy Award-nominee Brittany Howard, Seattle-based indie outfit Sunny Day Real Estate, Durand Jones, Matt and Kim, shoegazer legends RIDE, Jacob Banks, AFI, and more. Sunday will feature the likes of The Revivalists, post-hardcore band Jawbreaker, Fatboy Slim, Phantogram, Seattle’s Band of Horses, Bomba Estereo, Uncle Waffles, A-Trak and more.
Festival organizers also announced some new additions to a stacked lineup that include renowned, feminist art rockers Pussy Riot, Maya Jane Coles, Shannon and The Clams and TV Star.
Full daily line-up listed below.
Full Daily Lineup
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2
Sleater-Kinney
Zhu
AFI
Brittany Howard
Sunny Day Real Estate
Durand Jones
Matt and Kim
Maya Jane Coles
Ride
Jacob Banks
Major League Djz
DOMi & JD Beck
The Dip
Puddles Pity Party
Anabel Englund
Destroy Boys
Hunx and his Punx
Thunderpussy
Reignwolf
Screaming Females
Morgan and the Organ Donors
Sweet Water
Chong the Nomad
Slift
Girl Trouble
Radioactivity
Dave B.
Chimurenga Renaissance
Spirit Award
Pressha
Long Dark Moon
Breaks and Swells
Wimps
Scarves
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 3
The Revivalists
Jawbreaker
Fatboy Slim
Phantogram
Band of Horses
Descendents
Bomba Estereo
Uncle Waffles
A-Trak
Valerie June
Pussy Riot
Benny the Butcher
The Rebirth Brass Band
Shannon and the Clams
Temples
Dandy Warhols
Algernon Cadwallader
Sol
Gustaf
Trinix
Debby Friday
True Loves
Modernlove.
The Black Tones
King Youngblood
Massy Ferguson
Cassandra Lewis
Them
Simone BG
Fouad Masoud
Black Ends
TV Star
Pink Boa
Beverly Crusher
The reimagined Bumbershoot Music & Arts Festival is a partnership between two organizers — non-profit Third Stone and festival producer New Rising Sun. Earlier this year, Third Stone launched the tuition free Bumbershoot Workforce Development Program in partnership with The UC Theatre’s Concert Career Pathways Program (CCP-X). The tuition-free, hands-on training program removes the barriers of entry into the live music business for young people 17-25 years-old from historically marginalized communities, supporting the next generation of music industry professionals while laying the groundwork for a more equitable and inclusive music industry. The six month program focuses on teaching the behind-the-scenes aspects of concert promotion and production, combined with job-shadowing and paid internships, which culminates with jobs at the festival during Labor Day Weekend.
The inaugural Bumbershoot Workforce Development Program’s 16 participants began a series of workshops, speaker series and shadow shifts in partnership with music industry professionals and organizations like Seattle’s The Crocodile and The Triple Door, as well as TeenTix. The program’s participants learn highly marketable skills such as event production, sound engineering, marketing, talent buying, event budgeting, and more. Using a “festival as classroom” philosophy, Third Stone’s vision for success is that in ten years, the festival will be managed by alumni of the program.
Single day tickets and weekend tickets are available for purchase here. In celebration of Bumbershoot’s 50th anniversary, Bumbershoot and Amazon are offering prices that are 50% lower than the last edition back in 2019. The idea is to create an opportunity for more folks from the Pacific Northwest community to attend and enjoy the festival. Third Stone with Amazon are also supporting the distribution of 5,000 free tickets that will go directly to nonprofits and underserved communities. And importantly, a portion of ticket proceeds will go towards supporting the Bumbershoot Workforce Development program.