Bumbershoot Festival Announces Initial 2012 Lineup

Most (but not all) of Seattle’s awesome Bumbershoot Music and Arts Festival music lineup has been announced, listed below. According to folks at the festival “In the coming weeks, we’ll announce Comedy, Dance, Words & Ideas, Visual Arts, Theatre, Performing Arts and Film. Plus, even more Music. Yes, there’s more.”

You can go to their web site for tickets and to see the artists separated by type, such as blues, rock, jazz, hiphop, global, soul, pop, etc etc etc at:
http://bumbershoot.org/lineup/

— KeyArena: This is the second year in a row in which Bumbershoot is using KeyArena as its mainstage, as opposed to Memorial Stadium.

— Seattle’s Sub Pop Records is co-curating the Fountain Lawn stage, which will include acts on the label — The Vaselines, Blitzen Trapper, Low, The Helio Sequence, etc. — and some that are not.

— Bumbershoot After Dark — the festival’s late-night electronic party — is once again “powered by Decibel Festival.” But this year, attendees need not buy a separate ticket. Admission is included in the price of the regular festival pass.

— There will also be a stage called The Promenade, which will be located outside of McCaw Hall. The stage will feature a combination of up-and-coming rock bands and singer/songwriters. It will also host several Canadian bands on the first day of the festival with the help fo the M for Montreal music festival which is curating the stage that day.

— Bumbershoot is offering programming by day for some genres. So if you want some Americana you’ll want to come around Saturday because the Americana Music Association helped curate a stage that will feature Heartless Bastards, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, and The Jayhawks . Sunday includes a blues lineup curated in partnership with the Highway 99 Blues Club and Monday will host a global music lineup.

— The metal lineup for this year’s festival will be co-curated by El Corazon. The hard and heavy aspect of Bumbershoot’s bill has yet to be announced.

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Bumbershoot 2012 artists and acts, so far:

Saturday, 9/1

Jane’s Addiction
AWOLNATION
M. Ward
The Jayhawks
The Helio Sequence
City and Colour
The Heavy
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
King Khan & The Shrines
Heartless Bastards
Oberhofer
Thee Satisfaction
Damien Jurado
JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound
Sera Cahoone
The Soul Rebels
Don’t Talk to the Cops!
Skerik’s Bandalabra
Alela Diane
The Barr Brothers
Tacocat
Unnatural Helpers
Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra
Polecat
Nude

Sunday, 9/2

Tony Bennett
Mac Miller
Big Sean
Keane
Blitzen Trapper
The Promise Ring
Yelawolf
Mudhoney
Wanda Jackson & The Dusty 45’s
The Greenhornes with Very Special Guest Eric Burdon
Ian Hunter and the Rant Band
Civil Twilight
Fruit Bats
The Jezabels
Why?
Barcelona
Lee Fields & The Expressions
Harmonica House Party with Lee Oskar & Magic Dick
Katie Herzig
Niki and the Dove
AM & Shawn Lee
thenewno2
Gold Leaves
Karen Lovely
Deep Sea Diver
Theoretics
Eldridge Gravy & The Court Supreme
Ty Curtis Band
The Young Evils
Knowmads
Katie Kate
Eighteen Individual Eyes

Monday, 9/3

Skrillex
M83
Passion Pit
Low
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
The Vaselines
Fujiya & Miyagi
Fishbone
Lights
Rebirth Brass Band
LP
Ty Segall
Hey Marseilles
The Wombats
Ana Tijoux
Foxy Shazam
Bombino
Omar Souleyman
Tyrone Wells
El Vez
Debo Band
Star Anna
Seapony
Bryan John Appleby
Reignwolf
Noah Gundersen
Super Geek League
The Pharmacy
Ghosts I’ve Met
Posse
Cascadia ’10

Bumbershoot 2012 web site

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