Bumbershoot announces music lineup for its 50th anniversary festival
Bumbershoot has announced its music lineup for the 50th anniversary of the arts and music festival on Labor Day weekend.
Tickets for shows on Sept. 2 and 3 at the Seattle Center are available now.
The headliners are Sleater-Kinney, The Revivalists, Zhu, Jawbreaker, AFI, Brittany Howard, Fatboy Slim, Sunny Day Real Estate and Phantogram.
Also performing will be:
Band of Horses
Descendents
Matt and Kim
Bomba Estéro
Durand Jones
Uncle Waffles
A-Trak
Ride
Valerie June
Benny the Butcher
Jacob Banks
Major League DJZ
Domi & JD Beck
The Dip
Rebirth Brass Band
Temples
Puddles Pity Party
Destroy Boys
Dandy Warhols
Thunderpussy
Algernon Cadwallader
Hunx and his Punx
Sol
Anabel Englund
Screaming Females
Gustaf
Trinix
Reignwolf
Debby Friday
True Loves
Morgan and the Organ Donors
Sweet Water
Chong the Nomad
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Slift
Girl Trouble
The Black Tones
Dave B
King Youngblood
Chimurenga Renaissance
Massy Ferguson
Cassandra Lewis
Radioactivity
Wimps
Them
Simone BG
Breaks and Swells
Long Dark Moon
Pressha
Fouad Masoud
Spirit Award
Black Ends
Pink Boa
Beverly Crusher
Scarves
In addition to dozens of bands, there will be lots of things to see and do.
Free-range artists will roam the festival, there will be a cat circus, film, vintage clothing, photography, food, robots and augmented reality.
The festival will also have SOS Professional Wrestling and Roll Around Seatown performances, along with pole dancing classes, and a witch temple with tarot, past-life, astrology, and palm reading.
To see the full list of activities, go to the Bumbershoot website.