Bumbershoot to reassess future of festival following 2021 cancellation
Bumbershoot in 2017. (MyNorthwest photo)
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 Labor Day event.
The festival cited the pandemic as the primary reason behind its second cancellation in as many years. That said, One Reel, the company responsible for managing the festival for over two decades, will also stepping back permanently, instead assuming a smaller role on the committee “to inform and advise the Seattle Center Director about Bumbershoot’s future.”