Bumbershoot Pre-CoverageBumbershoot Pre-Coverage
Next weekend I'll be attending one of the biggest music festivals in the States: Bumbershoot. Seriously folks, this is a huge event with artists of all stripes from all over the world. Fortunately for you, our Podbop Festival coverage of Bumbershoot 2006 starts today.
Here's a list of who's performing:
3 Inches Of Blood, A Tribe Called Quest, AFI, Alejandro Escovedo, As I Lay Dying, Atmosphere, Badly Drawn Boy, Bettye LaVette, Bitter:sweet, Blondie, Blue Scholars, Breakestra, Brett Dennen, Cancer Rising, Cloud Cult, CocoRosie, Common Market, Copeland, Crystal Skulls, Daylight Basement, Decibel Showcase featuring Deadbeat, Lusine and SynthClub, Deerhoof, Dengue Fever, Derby, Dub Championz, Electric Shades of Blue, Erase Errata, Feist, Go Like Hell, Gokh-Bi System, Great Big Sea, Hawthorne Heights, Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk, Izabelle, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, Jacqui Naylor, Jamie Lidell, Jeremy Enigk, Johanna Kunin, Jose Gonzalez, Kane Hodder, Kanye West, Korby Lenker, Lady Sovereign, Laura Veirs, Luther “Guitar Jr” Johnson, Mark Pickerel & His Praying Hands, Mates of State, Matt Costa, Metric, mewithoutYou, Mon Frere, Mountain Con, New Fangs, Nomo, Nouvelle Vague, Of Montreal, Olympic Sound Collective, p:ano, Particle, Pk & What Army?, Po’okela Street Band, Randy Oxford Band, Rik Wright, Rishi Rich Project, Rocky Votolato, Rogue Wave, Romance, Seattle Hip Hop Showcase featuring Macklemore, The Saturday Knights and Abyssinian Creole, Seattle Jazz Showcase featuring Jim Knapp Orchestra, Kelley Johnson Quartet, Floyd Standifer, and John Bishop Group, Sera Cahoone, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Shooter Jennings, Sirens Sister, Slender Means, Sonya Kitchell, Sparta, Speaker Speaker, Spoon, Steve Miller Band, The Bellrays, The Blood Brothers, The Briefs, The Can’t See, The English Beat, The Epoxies, The Fall of Troy, The Gossip, The Hollowpoints, The Invisible Eyes, The Like, The Living Jarboe, The Lonely Forest, The Lonely H, The New Pornographers, The Purrs, The Subdudes, The Swains, The Thermals, The Transmissionary Six, The Veronicas, The Village Green, Thee Emergency, Tor Dietrichson with Mambo Cadillac, Vashti Bunyan, Velella Velella, West Valley Highway, Yellowcard, Yerba Buena, Zero 7
Pretty impressive, no? Check out the full schedule and lineup.
Aside from all the great music, Bumbershoot plays host to some of the world's top comedians, artists, poets and more. If that weren't enough, Bumbershoot's organizers, One Reel, are a great patron of arts and a non-profit group doing great things for the community here in Seattle.
It's going to be a great time. Look for lots of artist preivews this week, leading up to the event, and some great coverage throughout.
