SEATTLE The annual Bumbershoot Arts and Music Festival is set to return in 2022, but it might look a little different.
On Friday, One Reel and Seattle Center announced the formation of a Bumbershoot Exploratory Committee to offer advice on the festival s future. This comes after a one-year hiatus for Bumbershoot in 2020, which continues this year due to restrictions associated with COVID-19.
Seattle music festival Bumbershoot postponed for another year
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Young fans dance to SOB X RBE at the MainStage on the first day of Bumbershoot at Seattle Center, Friday, Aug. 30, 2019. (Lindsey Wasson, seattlepi.com)LINDSEY WASSON/SEATTLEPI.COM
Fans of the Labor Day weekend arts and music festival Bumbershoot will have to wait yet another year, Seattle city officials said in a news release Friday.
Canceled in 2020 and 2021 because of COVID-19 restrictions, Bumbershoot will look different when it returns in 2022, the release said. The Seattle Center and nonprofit One Reel, which have grown the festival from its humble city-led beginnings in the early 1970s, said they d be forming an exploratory committee to figure out the best way to bring the festival back.
by Jasmyne Keimig • Apr 23, 2021 at 2:35 pm
I m craving a live music experience right now. Lester BlackIt feels like eons ago that I stumbled from venue to venue in Ballard during a brisk November weekend, watching psych and garage rock bands play inside in a molten light show. But that hazy dream will soon become a reality again. Sponsored $20 lunch and $35 / $50 dinner options. Venues offer takeout, delivery, indoor and outdoor dining.
Today, Ballard s Freakout Festival, run by Freakout Records, announced they will return in-person for this year s festival, which will run from November 11-14. All the familiar haunts Tractor Tavern, Sunset Tavern, Conor Byrne, Salmon Bay Eagles will host the sprawling fest once again, in addition to free stages at C.C. Filson and Cafe Umbria. The fest is also looking to add a couple of all-ages stages so everyone can participate.
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.”