Bumbershoot Announces 2023 Lineup With Sleater-Kinney & More  – Billboard

Seattle’s famed Bumbershoot music competition returns this fall with Washington natives Sleater-Kinney as headliners.

On Thursday (March 23), the music and humanities competition introduced their lineup with The Revivalists, Zhu, Jawbreaker, AFI, Brittany Howard, Fatboy Slim, Sunny Day Real Estate and Phantogram, amongst many others.

Band of Horses, Descendents, Matt and Kim, Bomba Estéreo, Durand Jones, Uncle Waffles, A-Trak, Valerie June, Ride, Benny the Butcher, Jacob Banks and extra will even make appearances on the competition being held from Sept. 2-3 at Seattle Center. The Dip, Temples, Dandy Warhols, Hunx and His Punx, Thunderpussy, Reignwolf, Rebirth Brass Band, Screaming Females, The Black Tones and extra will even make appearances on the competition that returns after a three-year hiatus. More artists are anticipated to be introduced within the coming weeks.

Performers will grace a number of phases for his or her competition appearances. Bumbershoot will make the most of areas all through the Seattle Center advanced together with Fisher Pavilion for Out of Sight and The Art Not Terminal for the Bumbershoot fiftieth Anniversary Retrospective for artwork installations.

This yr’s competition will even mark the fiftieth anniversary of Bumbershoot and producers New Rising Sun, alongside associate/non-profit arts and training group Third Stone, have launched the tuition-free Bumbershoot Workforce Development Program, designed to create a pipeline to assist the following era of music business professionals and lay the groundwork for a extra equitable and inclusive music scene. As a part of Bumbershoot’s Workforce Development Program, Climate Pledge Arena will host college students on a manufacturing tour of the sector giving future manufacturing and tour managers a stay take a look at one of many busiest music venues on this planet.

Third Stone, the non-profit arm of Bumbershoot, will launch the Workforce Development Program to supply younger adults aged 17-25 the chance to be taught crucial enterprise expertise inside the competition and stay music setting. In partnership with The UC Theatre’s Concert Career Pathways (CCP) program, this six-month tuition-free, hands-on training expertise and paid internship begins in April 2023 and can culminate within the alternative to work on the grounds on the competition.

Weekend passes and single day tickets can be found for buy at bumbershoot.com. In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary, Bumbershoot and Amazon are providing costs 50% decrease than when the occasion was final held in 2019 to create a possibility for extra of the Pacific Northwest group to benefit from the competition. Together with Third Stone, Amazon can be supporting the distribution of 5,000 free tickets on to nonprofits and communities which were underserved.

Check out the complete lineup beneath.