Bumbershoot Music & Arts Festival has been held at Seattle Center every Labor Day weekend since 1971, according to the fesitval's website.
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It has helped land her slots playing at Stagecoach festival, in front of country music fans, and Bumbershoot, in front of indie fans.
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Some festivals, even small independent ones like Basilica, encourage children to participate, while others have programming specifically for them: Austin Kiddie Limits at Austin City Limits; Kidzapalooza at Lollapalooza; and Youngershoot at Bumbershoot.
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Other festivals taking place on Labor Day weekend, however, include the Louisiana Seafood Festival (September 218-222), the Prince Edward Island Fall Flavours Festival (September 43-24), and Seattle's Bumbershoot annual arts and music festival (September 211-22016).
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We caught your set at Bumbershoot in 2016 and when you played "I Love You, Honeybear," you were supposed to play an A7 with a Suspended Four on the bridge except that you TOTALLY FORGOT the Suspended Four, you fucking dummy!
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August 31, 2009. SPIN included them in their "Best of Bumbershoot Festival 2009" and called their performance "absurdly successful"Toombs, Mikel (September 8, 2009). The Best of Seattle's Bumbershoot Festival. SPIN magazine.
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"Bumbershoot" is a rare and fanciful Americanism from the late 19th century.
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Catalyst has appeared as a spoken word performer at events including the Bumbershoot festival,Bumbershoot Literary Arts Festival (September 2002) Outfest,Catalyst, Clint (2002). Eight/Ate: Homos, Homonyms, & Speaking Italics. Outfest the Dark Arts Festival,Staff report (2001). 2001 Headliners.
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In 2014, the Schoolyard Heroes reunited for a single show at the annual Bumbershoot music festival.
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Bumbershoot hopes new partnership will bring big headliners As the region's largest single showcase for regional talent, Bumbershoot became a cultural tastemaker. The festival—which has become Seattle's longest-lived music and arts festival—paved the way for other Seattle-area outdoor events, festivals, and happenings. Many of these, such as the Northwest Folklife Festival that premiered at Seattle Center on Memorial Day weekend nine months after the first Bumbershoot, have become established traditions in their own right.
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The band concluded their North American tour with a performance at Seattle's Bumbershoot festival on September 5, 2010.
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Anita's book At the Helm of Twilight was the winner of the Washington Governor's Writers Award and the 1992 Bumbershoot/Weyerhaeuser Publication Award.
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Eric Grandy, Bumbershoot Saturday: Wheedle's Groove Dish Out Your Mayorally-Approved Funk , The Stranger LineOut blog, 2010-09-05. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
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Today this alliance includes over five hundred local, regional, and nationally acclaimed artisans. Conceived in 1980, and incorporated in 1981, Red Sky Poetry Theatre (RSPT) influenced the literary and performance scene in Seattle and the entire West Coast for 25 years. RSPT help organize the Bumbershoot literary arts for many years. It would hold competitions to determine what local talent would perform at Bumbershoot.
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He has published work in magazines, including 5_Trope, The Clackamas Review, The Seattle Review and Zyzzyva, and has performed at Bumbershoot and What the Heck Fest.
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Bumbershoot is an annual international music and arts festival held in Seattle, Washington. One of North America's largest such festivals,Mayor Greg Nickels' statement, Bumbershoot 2007 program, p. 4. claims "North America's largest urban arts festival". it takes place every Labor Day weekend (leading up to and including the first Monday of September) at the 74-acre (299,000 m2) Seattle Center, which was built for the 1962 World's Fair.
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Allen, Kimball. "Other Desert Cities". Edge Seattle. June 10, 2013 An Evening with Brian McKnight, Jewel’s Greatest Hits Tour, and Bumbershoot.Allen, Kimball. "Bumbershoot 2013". Edge Seattle. September 5, 2013.
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Donations collected at the event raised money to help cover his medical bills. The band continued to perform and played at Bumbershoot 2007 that September."Q&A; \- The Lashes." Aversion.com.
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He also performed at Bumbershoot 2017, a Seattle music festival. He released his Floating Harmonies album through Record Records, an Icelandic label. The art on the cover is his own work.
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Since 2004, Theatre Puget Sound has run a stage at Seattle's annual Bumbershoot festival, highlighting local companies and providing an outlet for them to showcase their productions before an audience of thousands.
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This is a list of Colombian musicians. Juanes performing at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in 2005. Shakira performing during the Oral Fixation Tour in 2006. Andrea Echeverri performing at Bumbershoot in 2010.
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John Ramberg and the Tripwires at Bumbershoot Jim Sangster performing with the Christy McWilson Band at the Ballard Seafood Fest Johnny Sangster and The Tripwires play at Bumbershoot Mark Pickerel drumming with The Tripwires during Reverb Fest 2007 Dan Peters on drums The Tripwires are a Seattle, Washington–based rock supergroup made up of well known local musicians Dan Peters, John Ramberg, and brothers Jim and Johnny Sangster, all of whom have been members of bands that include The Minus 5, Screaming Trees, and The Young Fresh Fellows.
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In 1997, Robbins won the Bumbershoot Golden Umbrella Award for Lifetime Achievement in the arts that is presented annually by the Bumbershoot arts festival in Seattle. In 2000, Robbins was named one of the 100 Best Writers of the 20th Century by Writer's Digest magazine, while the legendary Italian critic Fernanda Pivano called Robbins "the most dangerous writer in the world". In October 2012, Robbins received the 2012 Literary Lifetime Achievement Award from the Library of Virginia."Tom Robbins: Author reflects on writing, Richmond and the many decades since he left" by Bill Lohmann.
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The One Reel Film Festival, held within Bumbershoot, celebrates American independent film shorts. Bumbershoot incorporated new arts forms such as poetry slams and break dancing as well as older arts such as circus, contortion, aerial, and street theater. One Reel signed a three-year programming and promotional agreement in 2008 with AEG Live, one of the largest for-profit international promoters of rock concerts and large events. The deal allowed AEG to assist One Reel with booking musical acts and sponsorship but ultimately proved unfruitful for both parties.
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She also headlined Lollapalooza in Chicago, however, her set was cut short due to inclement weather. Lorde made other appearances including at Roskilde in Denmark, Fuji Rock in Japan, Bumbershoot in Seattle and Life is Beautiful in Nevada.
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Jack Fearey (1923 – 2007) was an American director of the Seattle Center and a television pioneer in the Pacific Northwest. Fearey was best known for establishing two major Seattle civic festivals, the Bumbershoot and the Northwest Folklife Festival.
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In 1998 they traveled to Seattle with producer Jon Kertzer and played at the Bumbershoot Festival there. Their first album Bareback, produced by Joe Boyd, was well received and was named Record of the Month for WXPN in Philadelphia.
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Among the area's largest music festivals are the Merritt Mountain Music Festival, the Vancouver Folk Music Festival, the Sasquatch! Music Festival in George, Washington, Seattle's Bumbershoot, and Portland's MusicfestNW. Portland's Waterfront Blues Festival is the largest blues-based festival west of the Mississippi River.
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Morgxn opened for Skylar Grey in 2016, for Great Good Fine Ok and Phoebe Ryan in 2017, and for X Ambassadors and Dreamers in 2018. He played at Lollapalooza and Firefly Music Festival in 2018. In 2019 he toured with Robert DeLong, and performed at Bumbershoot.
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"Gigi Gaston Bio" Bumbershoot Productions. Retrieved 2013-04-05. Her documentary The Cream Will Rise (1998) discussed singer/songwriter Sophie B. Hawkins's early years, played at film festivals and was well reviewed in Variety. Gaston directed the music video for Olivia Newton-John's updated "I Honestly Love You".
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Richardson has performed at the Bridgetown Comedy Festival, SF Sketchfest, Aspen Laff Festival, Bumbershoot Music & Arts Festival, North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival, Boston's Women In Comedy Festival, and performs regularly in Los Angeles. She has toured with Chris Hardwick, Rob Delaney, Jimmy Pardo, Dana Gould, and Matt Braunger.
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Red Sky Poetry Theatre poets were more cooperative at first and not competitive as the Slams were.Alyssa Burrows, "Slam Poetry: A Brief History from Chicago to Seattle", History Link, July 16, 2001, accessed May 30, 2014 (The only competitions Red Sky Poetry Theatre would do would be to decide who would be reading at the Bumbershoot Literary Festival. Hundreds applied.)Phoebe Bosché, Poets Compete For Bumbershoot Readings, Arts Focus Volume 3 Number 7, March 1989, Page 2Phoebe Bosché, Writers Overwhelm Red Sky, Arts Focus,June/July 1987, Page 2 Kathleen Daviduke AKA Katushka, a frequent reader at Open Mics, would win a place in the 1992 Poetry Bus: The Metro Moving Poetry Series.
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CALYX is the recipient of numerous awards, including: an American Library Association GLBT Fiction Award Finalist, a Pushcart Prize, Bumbershoot Book Fair Best Literary Journal Award (three times), the Oregon Governor's Arts Award, The American Literary Journal Award (three times), The CSWS Oregon Women of Extraordinary Achievement Award, the OSU Friends of the Library Achievement Award, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Book Award, the PEN West Non-Fiction Award Finalist, The Stewart H. Holbrook Award from the Oregon Institute of Literary Arts, the American Book Award for the Forbidden Stitch, the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines Award for Excellence (twice), the Bumbershoot Small Press Best Cover (twice), and the Best Offset Book Design, as well as others.
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In 1980 the city brought in Northwest non- profit organization One Reel to produce the event; they have been running it ever since.Bumbershoot History , official Bumbershoot site. Accessed online 4 September 2007. A mid-1980s attempt by Seattle Center itself to wrest back control was overruled by the City Council.
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Artists such as The Eurythmics, James Brown, Spinal Tap and Tina Turner shared the turf with art oddities like the gigantic flying pencil, the Bumbernationals soapbox derby and robotic art. Although initially resistant to hip hop, in the mid-'90s Bumbershoot introduced some of the first large-scale hip hop shows ever held in Seattle, a tradition that's still very much alive. From the ashes of the grunge rock scene came a new brand of Seattle sound; influential alternative rock bands such as Sleater Kinney, Modest Mouse, Death Cab for Cutie and Grand Archives have played Bumbershoot. In the new millennium, international artists have included groups such as Baba Maal, The Grand Kabuki Theatre of Japan, and an Ethiopian youth circus.
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Lewis would go on to produce for Macklemore, the two eventually working full-time as a title-credited duo. In 2008 they formalized the collaboration as a duo and performed at Bumbershoot, at the Sasquatch Music Festival in The Gorge Amphitheatre and at the Outside Lands Music Festival in San Francisco.We Interview: Macklemore! . Seattlest (March 28, 2008).
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That same year, the rapper appeared at many U.S. music festivals, including Bumbershoot, Outside Lands, Lollapalooza, Rock the Bells, SoundSet, Sasquatch, and Bonnaroo. His album The Heist was released in October 2012. Previously released singles "My Oh My", "Wings", and "Can't Hold Us" were announced to be included on the album – as was the song "Make the Money".
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Buckwheat won an Emmy for his music in the CBS TV movie, Pistol Pete: The Life And Times Of Pete Maravich. Buckwheat Zydeco played many major music festivals, including the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (numerous times), Chicago Blues Festival, Newport Folk Festival, Summerfest, San Diego Street Scene, Bumbershoot, Montreux Jazz Festival, the Voodoo Experience, and countless others.
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The album was produced by Cornel Wilczek. In 2009 they won The Age EG Best Band and Best Album awards. Rumble Shake and Tumble was released on 16 August 2011 on Spunk Records, and was again produced by Cornel Wilczek. Wagons toured in the USA and Canada appearing at the Bumbershoot festival in Seattle in September 2011.
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They recruited Seattle-based drummer Michael Welke, formalized their return as a band, and performed with their new lineup at the Bumbershoot Festival in Seattle in the summer of 2004. The year ended with the self-release of a five-song EP, Sometimes You Have to Work on Christmas (Sometimes) and another sold-out show at the Crocodile.
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Bullitt was instrumental in founding several Civic and community projects in Seattle. She helped found Bumbershoot, an annual international music and arts festival in Seattle, which takes place every Labor Day Weekend at the Seattle Center. In the seventies, Bullitt helped found a savings and loan bank for women, called Sound Savings & Loan. Bullitt helped restore Pioneer Square.
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One Reel has also operated Teatro ZinZanni, the "Summer Nights" concert series and "Family 4th at Lake Union" events. As the One Reel Vaudeville Show, the organization had been involved in the event since its second year, 1972, but with their new role as festival producer came big change. Once again, the festival featured headlining national and international talent (acts that year included Emmylou Harris, Chuck Berry, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Etta James, Clifton Chenier, Eugene Fodor and Martin Mull), but added an admission charge. Initially that admission charge was US$2.50 a day (although there was a "Free Friday", a tradition lasted for over a decade); as of 2007, it had grown to US$40 a day,Bumbershoot Tickets at Official Site , Bumbershoot Ticket Sales, Accessed online 16 August 2008.
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The Lonely Forest was formed in 2005 and won EMP's under-21 Sound Off! competition. The band Lonely Forest released the album Arrows in 2011 on ILG, Warner Music Group’s independent label. The band played at Bonnaroo (2012), Sasquatch (2010, 2014), and Bumbershoot (2006, 2009, 2011, 2014). Their videos debuted on MTV, and they received support from the Seattle radio station KEXP.
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Seattle Center includes both indoor theaters and outdoor stages.Kathy Mulady and Debera Carlton Harrell, City looking to breathe new life into Seattle Center, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 24, 2006. Accessed 4 September 2007. The name of the festival was taken from bumbershoot, a colloquial term for umbrella, probably coined in the 19th century as a portmanteau of the words umbrella and parachute.
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Faith & Disease (aka Faith and Disease) played 300+ live shows during their time, including appearances at Bumbershoot, Folklife, headlining at Convergence Festival, NXNW, and an invite to the 1999 CMJ Music Festival, and extensive tours of the US in 1998, 1999 and 2001. They played their final show on March 23, 2006 at Seattle's Neumos. No reunion plans have been set.
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Larger parasols capable of blocking the sun for several people are often used as fixed or semi-fixed devices, used with patio tables or other outdoor furniture, or as points of shade on a sunny beach. Parasols are occasionally called sunshades. An umbrella may also be called a brolly (UK slang), parapluie (nineteenth century, French origin), rainshade, gamp (British, informal, dated), or bumbershoot (rare, facetious American slang).
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Macklemore dropped "Professor" from his name, and released his first official full-length album, The Language of My World in January 2005. He appeared as a featured artist on The Physics' song "Good" in 2009. In 2008, 2009, and 2011, Macklemore performed at Bumbershoot, a major arts and music festival in Seattle. In 2009 he released The Unplanned Mixtape, which reached No. 7 on iTunes.
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These exhibitions typically feature as many as 100 poster artists from all over the US, overseas, and Canada. The first FLATSTOCK show was held in San Francisco in 2002. Each Spring since March 2003, the FLATSTOCK show has been part of the South by Southwest Music Conference (SXSW) in Austin, Texas, and it has been a part of the Bumbershoot Music Festival in Seattle each Fall.
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The Trucks played 2006's Sasquatch! Music Festival as well as New York's CMJ Festival. In 2007, The Trucks toured nationally (USA), with notable appearances at South by Southwest in Austin, and Bumbershoot in Seattle. The Trucks' song, Shattered (from their debut album) is featured in the second episode of season five of the Showtime series The L Word (Look Out, Here They Come!).
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The Smith EP was released in 2007. During a July show in Omaha, Nebraska, the band signed a deal with Saddle Creek Records which would release their debut LP. The single "Your English Is Good" was released in July and later included on their album Elephant Shell. That year the band performed at Coachella, Lollapalooza, Bumbershoot, the Glastonbury Festival, and the Reading and Leeds Festival.
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In March 2000, her book Throwing Fire at the Sun, Water at the Moon was published. The book is illustrated by her paintings. A book of Anita's poems, at the helm of twilight, won the 1992 Bumbershoot/Weyerhaeuser Award and the Governor's Writing Award for Washington State. She also received a grant from Artist Trust to aid her in researching Throwing Fire at the Sun, Water at the Moon.
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The Girls released their self-titled debut album in 2004 on Dirtnap Records; soon afterward, the band fell apart, and every member left except Brown. In 2006, the band returned with Brown and an otherwise new lineup, and their second album, the Martin Feveyear-engineered Yes No Yes No Yes No, was released on Dirtnap Records in 2008. To promote the album, they performed at that year's Bumbershoot on August 30.
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Both of which performed at the all-day Rap Festival (featuring 30 or more of the top regional rap/hip-hop acts of that time). The event, much like Lollapolooza, was strictly Rap and was called "Phunky Phat 95." It took place at the Evergreen State College during the summer of 1995. Source of Labor performed at Seattle's arts festival, Bumbershoot, and inspired Macklemore to become a rapper.
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Sam Graydon worked on two short films that screened in the Seattle International Film Festival in 2012. He was the director of photography on Bunker and wrote and directed Pretty Face. Gary Busey starred in his 2011 short film Jenny, which he wrote and directed. Winda Benedetti's short films have been in many festivals, including as 1 Reel Film Festival at Bumbershoot and the California Independent Film Festival.
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" Daulne (center) performs with Zap Mama at Bumbershoot 2007 in Seattle on 3 September 2007. The next album Sabsylma (1994) contained music with Indian, Moroccan and Australian influences and earned Zap Mama a Grammy nomination for Best World Music Album. Daulne explained that the sharper sound of Sabsylma was due to the increasing influence of American music and the sound of being on the road. "We've been touring so intensively.
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The album was produced by Mick Harvey of the Bad Seeds, who also played on the album. Wagons again toured North America in 2014 appearing at festivals including the Vancouver Folk Festival, Montreal Jazz Festival, and RBC Ottawa Bluesfest. Wagons have toured extensively in Australia as well as in New Zealand, the USA and Canada, appearing at music festivals including SXSW, Bumbershoot, Montreal Jazz Festival, Bluesfest, Big Day Out and Laneway.
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Light In The Attic Records: Wheedle's Groove Similar Seattle funk and soul history was covered by Jennifer Maas's 2009 documentary of the same name.Wheedle's Groove Movie, official site. Retrieved 2010-10-02. As of 2010 a group of musicians, largely veterans of these bands, have reunited to perform under the name Wheedle's Groove.Andrew Matson, Bumbershoot 2010 day one notable act: Wheedle's Groove, Seattle Times, 2010-09-05. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
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In 2008, they recorded a version of Huey Lewis and the News's song, "If This Is It", for a Huey Lewis tribute album."Throw Me The Statue Cover Huey Lewis," Stereogum, June 20, 2008. In 2008 Throw Me the Statue toured the U.S., performed at South by Southwest, Bumbershoot, the Sasquatch Festival, and opened for Cake in Seattle."THROW ME THE STATUE announce their first US tour!" secretlycanadian.
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In 2019, English embarked on a headlining tour, titled the "Live in Close Proximity" tour. The tour consisted of 8 dates, all in the US, beginning on 20 July 2019 in Anaheim, California at The Parish at House of Blues and concluded on 30 August 2019, in Seattle, Washington at the Bumbershoot festival. On 24 April 2020, English performed at Elvis Duran's Stay at Home Ball with Calum Hood of 5 Seconds of Summer.
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Schmader, a solo performer, has created works under the direction of Dan Savage, Chay Yew, and Matthew Richter, with productions at Seattle's Hugo House literary center and Bumbershoot Arts Festival, San Francisco's Theatre Rhinoceros, New York CIty's Dixon Place, and the Wexner Center for the Arts. Outside of full solo productions, Schmader has performed at Seattle's On the Boards and as a guest of the feminist art-and-performance collective Sister Spit.
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Grand Hallway spent the majority of 2010 on tour, playing at SXSW, CMJ, Bumbershoot, and Capitol Hill Block Party. They played with bands such as Shearwater, Cave Singers, and The Thermals, and developed a strong fanbase of their own. In the fall of 2010, Harmon and Zasche left the band, and Grand Hallway began work on their third album, Winter Creatures. They opted to record this time in Portland, Oregon with producer Cory Gray.
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It was designed to be a Pittsburgh version of Milwaukee's Summerfest and Seattle's Bumbershoot. Scott Mervis of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reviewed the Gnarls Barkley performance favorably, while criticizing Bob Dylan's set list choices. Mervis' review resulted in several contrary letters to the editor. The festival, which had been planned as an annual event, did not return for a second year because American Eagle Outfitters had moved away from using music as a marketing tool.
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Robertson's poetry won him the Tor House Robinson Jeffers Prize in 2003,Tor House Poetry Prize 2003 the Elizabeth R. Curry Poetry Prize at Slippery Rock University in 2006, the Sinclair Poetry Prize from Evening Street Press in 2009,Sinclair Poetry Prize and the Atlanta Review's International Merit Award in 2014. He won the Bumbershoot Writers-in-Performance Award in 1993, the Pacifica Award in 1995 and the Literal Latte Award in 1997.
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He also opened for Seal and the Dave Matthews Band. Throughout his touring in the US and Europe, Saadiq played various music festivals, including Austin City Limits, Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, South by Southwest, Voodoo Experience, Bumbershoot, Outside Lands, and Pori Jazz. In February 2009, he performed at the Harvard Club of Boston as part of the music television series Live from the Artists Den. On June 25, he played the Blue Note Tokyo in Japan.
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Tablet worked extensively with the Rat City Rollergirls, Bumbershoot, the Seattle Erotic Art Festival, Vain, Three Imaginary Girls, the Seattle Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, KEXP, Seattle Art Museum, Henry Art Museum, Seattle International Film Festival, Seattle Public Libraries, Roq La Rue, Richard Hugo House, Grand Illusion Cinema, I Heart Rummage, Home Alive, the Independent Media Center and most of Seattle's alternative music venues. Tablet folded in September 2005 after its 103rd issue.
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The film, which focused on several all female bands, was awarded Best Documentary at the New York Underground Film Festival in 1996. Finch left the band in 1996, during the recording of their fifth album,The Beauty Process: Triple Platinum. Sparks and Greta Brinkman played bass on the album, after which Gail Greenwood – formerly of the band Belly – became the band's full- time bassist. L7 performed at the Bumbershoot festival in Seattle, Washington in 1997.
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Gogol Bordello's live shows and Hütz's stage presence have earned them invitations to places such as The Whitney Museum in New York, The Tate Modern in London and the Venice Biennale in Italy. Gogol Bordello has played events such as Riot Fest, Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, Glastonbury, Roskilde Festival, Reading, Virgin Mobile Fest, Leeds, Bumbershoot, Austin City Limits Music Festival, Byron Bay Bluesfest and A Campingflight to Lowlands Paradise.
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Brent is a recipient of the Andy Kaufman Award, which recognizes innovation in stand-up comedy and was a finalist in the 2008 San Francisco Comedy Competition. Brent has appeared on Conan, Lopez Tonight, and various shows on Comedy Central. He also toured with the Comedians of Comedy and has performed at such festivals as Coachella, SF Sketchfest, Bumbershoot and the Just for Laughs Festival. His first album, inspired by Joe Frank, is Tales from the Brown Side.
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The album's second track, Me Cai, was featured on the HBO series True Blood in the episode "Scratches" (Season 2). The USA Network used Libertad, Sol, and Paloma for their series Covert Affairs. The Asunción album tour included headlining spots at the Montreal Jazz Festival, Bumbershoot, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Vancouver Folk Music Festival, Calgary Folk Music Festival, and Sunfest in London, Ontario. Radio-Canada picked the band for their Révélations 2008 roster alongside Coeur de Pirate and Caracol.
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Khalifa performed a short version "Roll Up" followed by "Black and Yellow" at the 2011 MTV Woodie Awards in March 2011. He later performed the song on the Late Show with David Letterman on April 11, 2011 and on Jimmy Kimmel Live in May 2011. The song was part of his 49-minute set during the final day of the 2011 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. He also sang it at Bumbershoot in September 2011.
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They began touring in the United States and internationally. They played at the San Francisco Blues Festival in 1980 and 1982, the Montreal International Jazz Festival, the San Diego Street Scene, Seattle's Bumbershoot Festival and the Juneau Jazz & Classics Festival in 2002. Their 1993 album, Night Vision, was produced by Joe Louis Walker, who also performed on it. The album included "My Next Ex-Wife," which won a W.C. Handy Award for Song of the Year.
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Shortly after, "Into the Wild", written and performed by LP, was prominently used in a Citibank national television advertisement campaign. In April 2012, LP released her first major label album, Into the Wild: Live at EastWest Studios, a five-song live extended play, and started touring extensively including festivals such as SXSW, Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, Bumbershoot, Tropfest as well as Tokyo's Sonic Boom and London's Hyde Park. In 2012, she became the first female Martin Guitar ambassador.
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The audience at the San Francisco Pop Festival saw them perform 'A is for Alphabet' with Razorcuts leader Gregory Webster on vocals. In September 2005, the band enjoyed playing to a packed crowd at Seattle’s Bumbershoot music festival. Shortly afterward, the band began recording their debut LP Math and Physics Club which was released a year later in October 2006, meriting a favorable review from Pitchfork Media and named "Best Indie Pop Album of 2006" by PopMatters.
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Charlie Burks, the coordinator of the first Bumbershoot Writers in Performance Competition in 1981,Kate Robinson, "The Battle of the Bards", University Herald, Page 1, 9, February 1981 was not officially on the board but collaborated with Red Sky Poetry Theatre on a regular basis.Dianne Simmon, They're Performing Poetry: 'Deserve to be Read Out Loud', Seattle Post- Intelligencer August 1, 1981 Pg D-1 Burks' influence on the collaborative efforts of Red Sky Poetry Theatre was substantial. The expression "Poet's Gymnasium", in the context of Red Sky Poetry Theatre as a forum for perfecting one's poetry, is attributed to Burks.Tom Phalen, "Poetry As A Contact Sport -- Rhythm And Rhyme In Your Face Can Be Beautiful And Bombastic, But It's Never Boring", Seattle Times, March 4, 1993, accessed May 29, 2014Phoebe Bosché, Words Off the Page: Poetry in Performance, Arts Focus Volume 7 Number 6 , January 1988, Page 1, 4, 5 Red Sky Poetry Theatre joined Burks in judging the Writers in Performance contests that would decide who, out of hundreds, would read at Bumbershoot.
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The band, in particular Kudlow and Reiner, were the subject of the 2008 documentary film, Anvil! The Story of Anvil, directed by the screenwriter and former Anvil roadie, Sacha Gervasi. Upon its release, the film garnered critical acclaim from many major publications, and has since brought the band renewed recognition, including opening slots with AC/DC and Saxon. Appearances at major heavy metal festivals, including Download, Bumbershoot and Loud Park, and independent music festivals like SXSW, also followed the release of the film.
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Aterciopelados play at Bumbershoot, Seattle Center, Seattle, Washington. Aterciopelados' first album, Con El Corazón en la Mano (With my Heart in my Hand), features crashing, distorted guitars and a loud punk drumbeat. With their second album, El Dorado (The Golden One), Aterciopelados began to expand their horizons, including traditional llanera rhythms of the Colombian countryside as well as the rock-bolero sound of their first big hit, "Bolero Falaz" ("Talkative Bolero"). "At first what we were doing was very elementary", said Andrea.
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On July 20, 2008, Flobots played at the Mile High Music Festival in Commerce City, Colorado with headliners Dave Matthews Band and John Mayer. On July 26, 2008, Flobots played 93.3's Big Gig at Coors Amphitheater in Greenwood Village, Colorado with Offspring. On September 1, 2008 they performed at Bumbershoot Music and Arts Festival in Seattle, Washington. The single "Handlebars" became popular on alternative rock radio in April 2008 and peaked at No. 3 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart.
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In addition to the three vocalists from their first album, it featured a collaboration with Danish singer-songwriter Tina Dico. That same year, Binns co-wrote the Emma Bunton track "Breathing". Zero 7 at Bumbershoot in 2006 Zero 7 released their third album, The Garden, in May 2006, which contained vocals performed by Binns as well as guest vocalists Furler and Swedish folk musician José González. The album was named after the collage that artist friend Gideon London produced for its cover.
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Harkonen also began to lose inspiration around the recording of their final EP, Dancing and the band called it a day sometime in 2005. They recorded several more records prior to their breaking up which were released right around and just after the band disbanded. The band's last show was at the Seattle music festival Bumbershoot in 2005. Ben Verellen has confirmed in interviews that the band's name was taken from that of the fictitious House Harkonnen from Frank Herbert's Dune series.
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In the early 1980s, One Reel worked with Red Sky Poetry Theatre (RSPT) which ran many of the Literary Arts aspects of Bumbershoot for several years. RSPT would hold competitions to determine the local talent that would read on the performance stage. This was a precursor to the Poetry slam. According to its website, One Reel originated as a traveling show, "The One Reel Vaudeville Show" in 1972 and was founded by former One Reel president and CEO Norman Langill.
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The album spent five weeks at number 4 on CMJ's hip hop charts, while the video for its lead single, "Yesterday", also gained regular rotation on MTV. That same year, he performed at Bumbershoot and returned to Capitol Hill Block Party. He was also one of the candidates to portray The Notorious B.I.G. in the 2009 biopic Notorious, though the role ultimately went to Jamal Woolard. Six months after the album's release, Black renounced his belief in Jesus and Christianity.
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Bart Baxter is an American poet living in London, UK."Poets West", accessed April 21, 2014 He has been published in ERGO! (a paperback anthology of work by Bumbershoot writers), Seattle Review, Red Cedar Review, The Ohio Poetry Review and Raven Chronicles. The Washington Poets Association created the Bart Baxter Award in 1998 which "recognizes poetry on the stage, not just on the page." Baxter was on the board of Red Sky Poetry Theatre for three years from 1989 - 1991.
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Ann Reed (born December 1, 1954) is an American singer-songwriter and guitar player from Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is one of the few women guitarists who primarily play the twelve-string guitar. Reed has appeared on Good Morning America and on radio shows such as A Prairie Home Companion and The Morning Show on Minnesota Public Radio, All Things Considered, and Mountain Stage. She has performed at folk festivals including Bumbershoot and the Winnipeg Folk Festival, and continues to perform in concert.
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Redmond has been featured in many music festivals including the Touch Festival in Berlin, Seattle Bumbershoot Festival, the Institute for Contemporary Art in London, Tambores do Mundo in Sao Luis, Brazil, as a soloist at the World Wide Percussion Festival in Salvador, Brazil. In Feb. 2002 Redmond's percussion duo performed at the Vienna International Percussion Festival and in 2006 her group, Sundarhalahari, performed at the UFBA Percussion Festival in Salvador, Brazil. In the spring of 2007 she presented and performed at the Univ.
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André Allen Anjos, better known by his stage name RAC, is a Portland-based Portuguese-American musician and record producer. RAC has created more than 200 remixes in the rock, electronica, and dance music genres for various musical artists, with his work featured in ads from Citigroup and Hulu, among others. The live, five-piece touring act has been featured at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Firefly Music Festival, Bumbershoot, Corona Capital music festival and Lollapalooza music festival.
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In the meantime, Macklemore kept busy as a solo artist, appearing on The Physics' song "Good" in 2009, as well as performing at the Seattle major arts and music festival Bumbershoot in 2006, 2009, and 2011. Macklemore's second mixtape, The Unplanned Mixtape, was released on 7 September 2009. It would later reach No. 7 on the iTunes Hip Hop chart. The mixtape was accompanied by the singles "The Town" and "And We Danced", the latter of which featured singer Ziggy Stardust.
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The following day, another video teaser was uploaded revealing the title and cover art for Goulding's third studio album, Delirium. Goulding at Bumbershoot 2015 On 7 September 2015, it was announced that Goulding would be performing at the 2015 AFL Grand Final, along with Canadian musician Bryan Adams and American musician Chris Isaak. On 17 September, Goulding debuted her single, "On My Mind", the lead track from Delirium, on BBC Radio 1's Breakfast Show. She also announced that Delirium would be released on 6 November.
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Ted Leo and the Pharmacists performing at the Bumbershoot festival in Seattle in 2007. In 2006, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists left Lookout! amidst financial crises within the label, and signed a new contract with Chicago-based Touch and Go Records. The band's popularity continued to expand through constant touring and performances at large festivals such as the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and the Pitchfork Music Festival. Their fourth full-band album, Living with the Living, was released on March 20, 2007.
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Midnight Marauders, Track 7, "We Can Get Down." He was also mentioned on Phife Dawg's solo album Ventilation: Da LP. As a part of the Native Tongues crew, White appeared on "Pease Porridge" by De La Soul, on its 1991 album De La Soul Is Dead, which features several other Native Tongues emcees as well. In 2006, White joined A Tribe Called Quest on stage during its performance at the Bumbershoot festival. He is also the manager of Washington D.C.-based rapper Head-Roc.
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Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears have performed at music festivals including Bonnaroo, Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Bumbershoot, Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival, Sasquatch! Music Festival, Wakarusa Music and Camping Festival, Musikfest, Latitude Festival, and Splendour in the Grass. The band has appeared on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Late Show with David Letterman, Austin City Limits, and Later... with Jools Holland. Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears were featured in Echotone, a 2010 documentary about the Austin, Texas music scene.
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Carol Ann Windley was born in Tofino, British Columbia and raised in British Columbia and Alberta. Her debut short story collection, Visible Light (1993) won the 1993 Bumbershoot Award, and was nominated for the 1993 Governor General's Award for English Fiction and the 1994 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. She followed in 1998 with her first novel, Breathing Underwater. In 2002, Windley won a Western Magazine Award for "What Saffi Knows", which later featured as the opening story in her short story collection Home Schooling (2006).
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It was revealed that his second studio album would be titled Beauty Behind the Madness. Beauty Behind the Madness was released on August 28, 2015, and debuted atop the Billboard 200, earning 412,000 album equivalent units in its first week. It reached the top 10 in over ten countries, as well as reaching number one in Canada, Australia, Norway, and the United Kingdom. The album was promoted by Tesfaye headlining various summer music festivals, including Lollapalooza, the Hard Summer Music Festival, and the Bumbershoot Festival.
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This was a result of a series of incidents including a shooting at an Ice Cube concert in the early 1990s as well as the Teen Dance Ordinance. George and Alexei soon joined forces and formed their own duo that utilized Geo's raps and Sabzi's beats and became known as the Blue Scholars. Since then the duo has performed in over 400 shows together across the United States including the Sasquatch! Music Festival in 2005, 2006, and 2008, and Bumbershoot opening for Kanye West in 2006.
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Music Festival in George, Washington, Seattle's Bumbershoot, Boise's Treefort Music Fest, and Portland's MusicfestNW. Portland's Waterfront Blues Festival is the largest blues-based festival west of the Mississippi River. Among the most notable rock artists originating from the region are Jimi Hendrix, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Foo Fighters, The Decemberists, and Sleater-Kinney. The history of Northwest rock, however, finds its roots in the mid-1950s and 1960s with such bands as The Sonics, The Ventures, The Kingsmen, and Paul Revere and the Raiders.
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Outside of remixing, Anjos has done work creating original music content for HBO's Entourage, and was a principal member of the indie-electronica band, The Pragmatic until its end in 2010. RAC also composed and performed the soundtrack for the videogame Master Spy. RAC performed at music festivals including the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Firefly Music Festival, Bumbershoot, the Corona Capital music festival, Ultra Music Festival and the Lollapalooza. RAC was nominated for a Grammy Award for Say My Name (Odesza featuring Zyra) in 2016.
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Don Wilsun, who previously co-founded Dogtown Poetry Theater with Joe Scozzy, was a driving force in the founding of Red Sky Poetry Theatre. Along with Joe Keppler, Tom Parson, who also started the Bumbershoot Small Press Fair in 1977,Now It's Up to You Publications "Tom Parson (Now it's Up to You Publications) was active in Seattle's poetry community, organizing the first Small Press Book fair at the annual Bumbershoot Festival in 1977, helping to organize the Red Sky Poetry Theatre..," accessed May 26, 2014 and Judith Roche, whose home was used as a meeting place to plan Red Sky Poetry Theatre, Wilsun formed the core of what would become Red Sky Poetry Theatre.Joe Marshall, 'Scuse Me While I Kiss Red Sky, UW Daily, February 23, 1990 Pg 8, 10 Prior to forming Red Sky Poetry Theatre, Wilsun held ad hoc readings which were simply called Poetry Theatre. Wilsun named his labor of love Red Sky because one day he was putting up flyers for his Poetry Theatre in the Pike Place Market and as he was doing so, saw an amazing red sunset.
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A second Congress in 1955 led to formal incorporation. By 1956, Allied Arts represented 57 local arts organizations and 55 artists and activists, including Kenneth Callahan, George Tsutakawa, and Lucile Saunders McDonald. The new group convinced the city to create an advisory Municipal Art Commission. The Commission, created August 1, 1955, published a master plan on June 23, 1956, which reads like a list of what would occur in Seattle over the next few decades. They proposed dedicating 2 percent of city capital funds to purchase art works (which in 1973 became One Percent for Art); establishing an annual city arts festival (Bumbershoot, established 1971Bumbershoot History , official Bumbershoot site. Accessed online 21 October 2008.); hosting a world's fair (the Century 21 Exposition, 1962Official Guide Book, Century 21 Exposition, 1962.); public funding for the Seattle Symphony; creating opera and ballet companies (the Seattle Opera, founded 1963,Company history, Seattle Opera official site. Accessed online 21 October 2008. and Seattle's Pacific Northwest Ballet, founded 1972 as Pacific Northwest Dance Association, are now among the leading institutions of their kind in the countryCori Ellison, MUSIC; In Seattle, Wagner's Stock, At Least, Continues To Rise, New York Times, July 29, 2001.
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Coltura has staged street theatre and performance art in a tradition akin to commedia dell'arte. In September 2016, Coltura staged performances at gas stations, public events, and streets in Seattle to raise awareness about pollution-emitting gasoline vehicles. The performances were inspired by the strategies employed by the Colombian politician Antanas Mockus, who as mayor of Bogotá hired mimes to poke fun at drivers who drove past pedestrian crosswalks. Coltura performed at Seattle Design Festival, where they displayed an art installation as well as performing at the First Thursday Art Walk and Bumbershoot.
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The Bumbershoot, a major Memorial Day arts and music festival, was founded as Festival '71 in 1971 and was renamed to its current name in 1973. The Northwest Folklife Festival, now a major Washington Labor Day event, was also founded during Fearey's tenure as director of the Seattle Center. Additionally, Fearey oversaw the installation of covered walkways in the Seattle Center to shield pedestrians from Seattle's famous rainy weather. He also worked to bring the "Treasure of Tutankhamen" tour to Seattle, which exhibited for 4 months in 1978 at the center's Flag Plaza Pavilion.
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Seattle is unique in that since 1999 it has been electing a Poet Populist. While similar to Poet Laureate programs, for which dignitaries or government officials select a poet, Seattle conducts a citywide popular vote to determine the Poet Populist. In Seattle, local poets are nominated by Seattle literary organizations for election to the post of Seattle Poet Populist.Seattle City Council News Release: Poet Election Winner to be Announced at Bumbershoot After the formal nomination process voting opens to Seattle residents who generally have a few months to vote for their Poet Populist choice.
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Jett performing live at the Bumbershoot festival, in Seattle, Washington, 1994Jett returned to producing for the band Circus Lupus in 1992 and again, in 1994, for Bikini Kill. This recording was the New Radio +2 vinyl 7-inch EP for which she also played and sang back-up vocals. The Riot Grrrl movement started in the 1990s, with Bikini Kill as a representative band, and many of these women credited Jett as a role model and inspiration. In 1997, Jett was featured on the We Will Fall: The Iggy Pop Tribute album.
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Headley is a 2012 Nebula Award Finalist, a 2013 Shirley Jackson Award Finalist, a MacDowell Colony Fellow, and has attended The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, The Sundance Playwright's Lab, The Kennedy Center's New Visions/New Voices workshop, Brave New Works, and the WordBridge Playwright's Lab. She has been a featured author at ABA Winter Institute, Bumbershoot, Wordstock, and the Texas Book Festival. In 2017, she was nominated for a World Fantasy Award in Short Fiction for "Little Widow." Her novel The Mere Wife was nominated for the 2019 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel.
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Eduardo Mendonça (born August 21, 1960 in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil) is a guitarist, percussionist, singer, composer, and director of "Show Brazil!". He traces his heritage to a royal African family called "Mama Beka", meaning "Prophet of the Royal Court". He settled in Seattle, Washington in 1994 and was a member of the percussion ensemble Bakra Bata, before forming his own band and production company, Show Brazil. His group performs and offers workshops at festivals all over the Pacific Northwest, including Bumbershoot, the Northwest Folklife Festival, the Seattle International Children's Festival, and many others.
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He has toured throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. He has performed and/or recorded with mainstream artists as; Bonnie Raitt, The Indigo Girls, Joe Cocker, Joan Baez, and Clint Black, both as a solo artist and with other groups. He appeared at festivals like The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Seattle's Bumbershoot, Hard Rock Hotels, The Sundance Film Festival, and appeared on CBS 60 Minutes. Boyd first started playing gigs in junior high in his older brother's band, The Benzi Kriks, around Sewart Air Force Base in Tennessee.
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Motopony is a Seattle-based alt-psych band led by singer Daniel Blue. With the success of their previous full-length albums and a recording journey to the iconic Abbey Road Studios, Motopony has toured around the world playing festivals including SXSW, India's NH-7 Weekender and Bumbershoot, with U.S. tours and dates all across the UK.Vivascene: Motopony ‘Motopony’ Music Review September 18, 2011. Since their debut, Motopony's music has been featured on shows like HBO's Hung, How to Make It in America,Early Word: Motopony Ride Fox's House and USA's Suits.
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In December 2010, it was announced that Vendetta Red would reunite for a one-off show at El Corazon in Seattle on March 5, 2011. This turned out to be an extended reunion. The band members later announced they had also begun working on new material and had enlisted the noted rock/metal producer Terry Date to produce what would be their first album in six years. Vendetta Red performed some of this new material at Bumbershoot 2011, as well as material from their previous studio albums, a Sirens Sister song, and a solo (Davidson) acoustic version of Seconds Away.
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The show's other celebrity guests included Patty Schemel, Eric Erlandson, Brody Dalle, and Donita Sparks. The band embarked on an international tour in May 2015, beginning with shows in England, Scotland, Spain, and Italy, followed by a North American tour, which included performances at Seattle's Bumbershoot festival and the Montreal Pop festival. In Minneapolis, where the band formed, the trio played on the Walker Art Center's lawn for the two-day Rock the Garden festival, June 20–21, 2015. In August 2015, midway through the band's tour, bassist Herman was fired from the band, for originally unspecified reasons, and replaced with Clara Salyer.
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Naomi moved to New York City after college and began writing songs. During this time, she also started playing guitar. She played at various clubs in Manhattan, including The Bitter End, The Sidewalk Cafe and The Living Room. Following a tour of the US in 2003, which started in New York and ended at the Bumbershoot Festival in Seattle, she moved to Los Angeles to work with the producer Paul Fox (XTC, 10,000 Maniacs, Sixpence None the Richer, Edwin McCain, Phish, The Sugarcubes). Naomi has come to prominence in the international YouTube community where she broadcast her own "virtual" summer tour during 2006.
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After 18 months of touring, the band released their debut album, Kids Raising Kids. The album was picked up and rereleased by ATO Records in April 2013 after the band signed with them in December 2012. The album features their Top 10 radio hit "Heartbeat" and has been cited in magazines such as The New York Times and Paste. Since their formation, Kopecky has toured in the United States and Canada and has performed in music festivals such as Bonnaroo, Firefly Music Festival, Austin City Limits Music Festival, Lollapalooza, Outside Lands, Bumbershoot, South by Southwest, LouFest, and Paper City Music Festival.
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The band has performed at many national festivals including Coachella, Bonnaroo, Stagecoach, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, Bumbershoot, and Pickathon. In 2011, they performed at several large folk music festivals such as Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Newport Folk Festival, Floydfest, Pilgrimage, and ROMP roots and branches. They played at San Francisco's Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival, the Sasquatch Festival, Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits Music Festival, Firefly Festival, Rock the Garden, All Good Music Festival and the Newport Folk Festival in 2012. Trampled By Turtles made their national television debut April 24, 2012 on Late Show with David Letterman.
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VladiROCKstok '96 was the first major international music Festival in Vladivostok, Russia, taking place on September 21, 1996. The festival was founded by two U.S. Executive Producers (David Poritzky and Dan Gotham), Vladivostok's New Wave Radio and 21st Century Productions, along with a team of more than 100 staff and volunteers from Vladivostok, Seattle, and places in between. Other partners in the event included members of the production team of Bumbershoot Festival in Seattle (USA), and nearly a dozen corporate sponsors. Nine bands performed at the festival - including headline Russian acts DDT and Akvarium, as well as Seattle exports Goodness and the Supersuckers.
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New material from Middle Cyclone was first widely publicized when Case performed at Bumbershoot in Seattle, WA on Saturday August 30, 2008, from 1–2:15 pm. In addition to older material such as "Favorite", "Margaret vs. Pauline", and "That Teenage Feeling", the set included four songs from the unreleased album, including "I'm an Animal", "The Pharaohs", "Don't Forget Me", and "Vengeance Is Sleeping". Fan-made video recordings of the songs were posted the next day to YouTube and received widespread attention shortly thereafter in early September when the videos were posted to websites such as Stereogum.
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Steve Earle onstage with Allison Moorer at the Bumbershoot event in 2007 In September 2007, Earle released his twelfth studio album, Washington Square Serenade, on New West Records. Earle recorded the album after relocating to New York City, and was his first use of digital audio recording. The disc features Earle's wife, Allison Moorer, on "Days Aren't Long Enough" and "Down Here Below." The album includes Earle's version of Tom Waits' song "Way Down in the Hole" which was the theme song for the fifth season of The Wire in which Earle appeared as the character Walon.
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The Story of Anvil, directed by the screenwriter and former Anvil roadie Sacha Gervasi. Upon its release, the film garnered critical acclaim from many major publications, and has since brought the band renewed recognition, including opening slots with AC/DC and Saxon. Appearances at major heavy metal festivals, including Download, Loud Park and Hellfest, and independent music festivals like Bumbershoot and SXSW, also followed the release of the film. Reviewers have described Anvil as a pioneering heavy metal band that was popular in the 1980s but then faded into obscurity in the 1990s, while refusing to stop playing, recording, and gigging.
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In 2015, Scovel taped his first hour-long stand-up special at the Woolfe Street Playhouse in Charleston, South Carolina; the special was aptly named Rory Scovel: The Charleston Special. In 2017, his next special, Rory Scovel Tries Stand-Up for the First Time, was released by Netflix. Scovel has opened for comedians such as Louis C.K., Nick Swardson, and Daniel Tosh. He has performed at the Montreal Just for Laughs Festival, the FYF Fest in Los Angeles, the Vancouver Comedy Festival, the Del Close Improv Marathon in New York, the Bumbershoot Festival in Seattle, and the Chicago Improv Festival.
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In the mid-nineties, Goldston rose to prominence in the Pacific Northwest music scene as a session cellist, notably joining Nirvana on a US tour and appearing on their famous MTV Unplugged in New York set. Through the nineties and early millennium, Goldston played on dozens of studio albums. Meanwhile, with the Black Cat Orchestra, she toured and recorded for prominent national acts, including David Byrne (on his 1997 album Feelings), the One Reel Film Festival (at that time under the aegis of Bumbershoot), and NPR's This American Life. In 1996, the group recorded and independently released a self-titled debut album.
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His emails with the record label were later archived on a Fansite at www.theblackmetaldialogues.com. In 2017, Hill began doing stage readings of the emails with frequent collaborator Phil Costello, performing the show in New York City, Los Angeles, London, Oslo, and Wacken, Germany among other locations. In 2007, Hill appeared at HBO's U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado. Hill has also appeared at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Sasquatch Festival, Bumbershoot, Outside Lands, the Crap Comedy Festival in Oslo, the Bridgetown Comedy Festival in Portland, San Francisco Sketchfest, the New York Comedy Festival, Riot LA, and the Glasgow Comedy Festival among others.
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Jack Fearey is widely credited with transforming the Seattle Center into a civic center and Seattle cultural hub during his twelve years as director from 1970 until 1982. Under Fearey's direction, the site for the Seattle Children's Theatre, located at the corner of Second Avenue and Thomas Street, was acquired. He played a major role in the development of the Bagley Wright Theatre, which opened in 1983 after his departure as director of the Seattle Center, as well as the renovation of the Seattle Playhouse, which is now the Intiman Theatre. The Bumbershoot and the Northwest Folklife Festival each got their start under Jack Fearey's direction.
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The band has played the children's stages at several nationally acclaimed festivals including Lollapalooza in 2010 and 2016, Austin City Limits in 2011, The Life is Good Festival in 2013, Seattle's Northwest Folklife Festival multiple years, and The Bumbershoot Festival in 2009. They have been featured at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles on two occasions, in 2009 and 2013. Recess Monkey is a frequent performer at Performing Arts Centers across North America. Shows have included Symphony Space in New York City, They played the Millennium Stage at The John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. in 2011 and The Segerstrom Center For the Arts in Orange County, California.
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"Manooghi Hi". cdbaby.com. Retrieved March 12, 2013 and their second release "Silence" in 2011.Brian McKinnon (July 11, 2011). Muzikreviews.com, Manooghi Hi. Silence. Retrieved March 12, 2013 They have performed at festivals including Seattle's Bumbershoot Arts Festival, Austin's SXSW music conference, the Sundance Film Festival in Park City Utah, Oregon Country Fair in Eugene Oregon, Salem Oregon's "World Music Festival" and Darrington, Washington's Summer Meltdown. Manooghi Hi has been featured on KING TV Channel 5's "Northwest Evening Magazine", KCPQ Q13's "Morning Show", Seattle Channel's "Art Zone", KZOK radio's "The Bob Rivers Show", KEXP's local music spotlight "Audioasis" and KEXP's online feature "Song of the Day".
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With declining government grant support, Bumbershoot tried to keep afloat on donations and sales of posters, buttons, and T-shirts, but poor weather hurt attendance some years and left the free Festival scrambling for more financially stable options. First, the festival retrenched on the number of days and on bringing in national talent. According to John Chambless, about 25 percent of the 1975 budget went to out-of-town talent; the 1976 festival was nearly 100 percent local and was cut to two weekends; in 1977, it was further cut to just Labor Day weekend; as it happened, in both 1977 and 1978, Labor Day weekend was rainy.
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On July 4, 2015, the Weeknd headlined FVDED in the Park in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. On July 9, the Weeknd continued to promote the album by headlining summer music festivals, including Lollapalooza in Chicago, the Hard Summer Music Festival in Pomona, California, the Summer Set Music and Camping Festival in Somerset, Wisconsin, Philadelphia's Made in America Festival, Austin City Limits in Austin, and Seattle's Bumbershoot Festival. This followed the leak of three songs from the album in May 2015: "In the Night", "Can't Feel My Face", and a working version of "Acquainted" referred to as "Girls Born in the 90s" that was heavily reworked before release.
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The tour started off with 14 shows in Japan including a 7 show run at Zepp Tokyo before moving on to a concert in South Korea, the first he had performed there. After completing the Asian tour Dylan and the band performed a European Summer Tour comprising 27 dates including his only United Kingdom performance of the year at the Hop Farm Festival in Kent. The European tour finished the next day in Limerick, Ireland. After touring Europe Dylan returned home to the United States for a month-long summer tour beginning on August 4 in Austin, Texas and ending on September 4 in Seattle, Washington and Bumbershoot.
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Dreamers have also played with Atlas Genius, Civil Twilight, The Airborne Toxic Event, The Mowgli's, Young Rising Sons, The Vaccines, Weezer, Catfish and the Bottlemen, and All Time Low. They played Lollapalooza 2016 in Chicago, and have also put in appearances at Bumbershoot, Firefly, and Coachella along the way, and they went on a full US tour with The Griswolds in 2017 as well as with Night Riots in support of The Maine later that year.Kirsten Spruch, "DREAMERS' Game-tastic Video for 'Sweet Disaster'," Baeble, December 8, 2016. In 2018, they joined New Politics, alongside The Wrecks, on their Lost In Translation tour, named after their third album.
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Kesey was diagnosed with diabetes in 1992. In 1994, he toured with members of the Merry Pranksters, performing a musical play he wrote about the millennium called Twister: A Ritual Reality. Many old and new friends and family showed up to support the Pranksters on this tour, which took them from Seattle's Bumbershoot all along the West Coast, including a sold-out two-night run at The Fillmore in San Francisco to Boulder, Colorado, where they coaxed the Beat Generation poet Allen Ginsberg into performing with them. Kesey mainly kept to his home life in Pleasant Hill, preferring to make artistic contributions on the Internet or holding ritualistic revivals in the spirit of the Acid Test.
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It features selections of an interview with Case, excerpts from several Middle Cyclone songs, footage of Case and her band performing the songs, and collage art and animation to bridge segments. The video also provided fans a first listen to parts of "Magpie to the Morning", "This Tornado Loves You", "Middle Cyclone", "Polar Nettles", and "Fever" (in addition to two already featured at Bumbershoot: "Don't Forget Me" and "People Got a Lotta Nerve"). On February 18, the entirety of Middle Cyclone was streamed by NPR until the album's release on March 3. On February 24 the ANTI- blog released a free mp3 of Neko Case's song "Middle Cyclone" to commemorate the one year anniversary of the label's blog.
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Beginning with the first of two Fellowships from the Nevada State Council for the Arts in 1997 for performance poetry (the other came in 2001 for fiction), Figler has embarked upon a creative life to run parallel with his law career. (He is the only multiple Fellowship winner in two distinct categories). A popular Nevada (former) slam poet and travelling urban storyteller, Figler has toured the United States at many festivals and events as a featured performer. . Most notably, since 1997, he has been featured at SxSW, Bumbershoot, North by Northwest, the National Poetry Slam competition, the Porchlight storytelling series in San Francisco, the Back Fence PDX storytelling series in Portland, Oregon, HEEB storytelling and the SF Sketchfest 2011 & 2012\.
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Among Seattle's best-known annual cultural events and fairs are Seattle Art Fair, Seattle International Film Festival, Northwest Folklife over the Memorial Day weekend, numerous Seafair events throughout the summer months (ranging from a Bon Odori celebration to hydroplane races), the Bite of Seattle, and Bumbershoot over the Labor Day weekend. All are typically attended by over 100,000 people annually, as are Hempfest and two separate Independence Day celebrations. Additionally, the city is also home to the Seattle Polish Film Festival (SPFF), an annual film festival showcasing current and past films of Polish cinema. The festival is produced by the Seattle-Gdynia Sister City Association and awards the Seattle Spirit of Polish Cinema awards as well as the Viewers Choice of Best Film.
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MarchFourth marched around the performed as the opening act for No Doubt, lead singer Gwen Stefani has featured a marching band in her solo albums. They have performed with OK Go, Fleetwood Mac, No Doubt, KISS, Blink 182, Balkan Beat Box, Galactic, Rebirth Brass Band, Beats Antique, The Neville Brothers, Antibalas and Pink Martini. MarchFourth has had wide appeal at a variety of music festivals such as SXSW, Jam Cruise, Burning Man, Bumbershoot, Wakarusa Music and Camping Festival, Waterfront Blues Festival, Voodoo Experience, High Sierra Music Festival, FloydFest, Telluride Jazz Celebration, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, Festival International de Louisiane, Lotus World Music and Arts Festival, and Oregon Country Fair. MarchFourth was the marching band featured in an online advertisement for the short-lived Microsoft Kin smartphone.
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Since the release of his first album, Home Movies from the Brain Forest, the style has varied from a drum 'n' bass sound to a jazz-oriented dance sound that some call Electro- Swing, incorporating elements of funk, big-band and swing. Dorn currently resides in Los Angeles after living in New York City for the better part of 25 years. In 2008, Dorn led an eight piece band, which featured some of New York City's most revered soul and funk players. Assembled by Dorn to bring to life the "breakbeat jazz" stylings of the Mocean Worker studio albums, the group gave a series of high-profile performances, including Bumbershoot, Burlington Discover Jazz Festival and a residency at NYC venue Nublu.
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Blige returned to performing in January 2009 by performing the song "Lean on Me" at the Presidential Inauguration Committee's, "We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial". Blige also performed her hit 2007 single, "Just Fine", with a new intro at the Neighborhood Inaugural Ball after Barack Obama was sworn in on January 20, 2009. Blige appeared as a marquee performer on the annual Christmas in Washington television special. Blige performing at Bumbershoot in September 2010 Blige's ninth studio album, Stronger with Each Tear, was released on December 21, 2009, debuting at number two on the Billboard 200 and at number one on the Top R&B;/Hip-Hop Albums chart, selling 332,000 units in its first week of release.
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Drysdale has written and produced three full-length live shows at New York's Upright Citizens Brigade theater: The Drysdales Present: A Comedy Show (2001), The Daryl Hall and John Oates Mumbo Jumbo Hour (2003), and The Chipperton Family Vocaltainers' Shooby-Dooby-Dooby Hour (2004). The latter was an official selection at the 2005 HBO U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado. Other works of Drysdale include Production Consultant for the TV show Night of Too Many Stars. He performs stand-up, presents movies, and performs monologues at venues throughout New York City, and has performed on Comedy Central's Premium Blend and NBC's Late Friday, as well as at the Montreal Comedy Festival, the Chicago Improv Festival, and Seattle's Bumbershoot festival.
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Between 1984 and 1986 he performed at the Seattle Car Show in the Kingdome, Children's Orthopedic Hospital Telethons, and Seattle Center's Bumbershoot Festival with Afrika Bambaataa and the Soul Sonic Force. During this time, he also participated in dance workshops at the Seattle Central Community College. In 1987, the world-famous Icey Ice of the New York City Breakers came to Seattle, giving Fever One the opportunity to dance with a renowned, professional b-boy (breaker) and to appear with DJ Mixmaster Ice of U.T.F.O. In the early '90s Fever One taught hip-hop to children at local community facilities and held after school programs at middle schools. He joined a group of graffiti artists, b-boys, and DJs to create the DVS crew (Dropping Vicious Styles).
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The Decemberists remained off tour as they embarked on a new studio album. On September 4, 2010, the band opened for Neko Case and the headliner, Bob Dylan, the first day of the Bumbershoot Arts and Music Festival in Seattle, WA. There, they announced that they were wrapping up recording of a new album and debuted three of its tracks. The King Is Dead was released on January 14, 2011, with Peter Buck of R.E.M. contributing instrumentation to three of its songs. Colin Meloy later affirmed that R.E.M. had been an inspiration during the writing and recording of some of the album's material. "Down by the Water," a track from the new album, was released via the band's official site on November 2, and was immediately available on iTunes as a free download.
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In the following year, the band signed to Seattle independent record label Light In the Attic. In 2007, on their new label, the band released the Streets EP, and later remixed (Martin Feveyear) remastered and reissued The Blakes LP. 2007 and 2008 found the band touring internationally playing such prestigious venues as Le Bataclan and L'Olympia as well as international festivals Lollapalooza, Bumbershoot, Sasquatch, Eurockéennes, and more. In 2009, The Blakes released two more independent releases: Lights On EP (a limited run of hand silk screened cd's in jackets) andSouvenir LP composed of 17 songs quickly drew the attention of KEXP and received heavy rotation. At this time, the band embarked on a three-month tour of the US. Also in 2009, the Keim Brothers collaborated with producer Brian Brown and created the project BEADS.
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The band was formed by Matthew Lyall, Murray Mckenzie and Jeff Mitchelmore in 2011 after the demise of their previous project The Racoons. Arts & Crafts announced the signing of Gold & Youth in early 2012, along with the debut of their first single Time To Kill. At this time it was also announced that Louise Burns had joined the band as a permanent member, having previously provided guest vocals on several recordings as well as lead vocals on their third single titled Jewel. The band spent 2012 finishing the recording of their debut record Beyond Wilderness as well as making early international festival appearances at SXSW, The Great Escape, NXNE, CMW, Pemberton, Bumbershoot, and Big Sound (Australia), with their live appearances garnering critical acclaim from NME and The Guardian.
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In December 2010, Easter teamed with Chris Stamey, R.E.M. bassist Mike Mills, and drummer Jody Stephens of Big Star, along with a string section, to perform a live tribute performance of Big Star's album Third/Sister Lovers in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Joined by additional performers such as Matthew Sweet, the group performed a similar tribute concert in New York City on March 26, 2011, at the Barbican in London on May 28, 2012, The ongoing project has continued with concerts in Chicago and New York in 2013, a January 2014 concert in Sydney, Australia, and a series of five U.S. shows later in 2014 that included Seattle's Bumbershoot festival and a festival in Athens, Georgia. Performances in 2015 included a September show in Minneapolis and two October dates in San Francisco.
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Peter Sawicki AKA Tobeimean Peter Bio, Art Slant, accessed June 3, 2014 Martina and Alan Goodin would leave in 1992 and Trudy Mercer, instrumental in the publication of early SkyViews and Open Sound, would leave in 1994. Stephen Thomas,Belle Randall, 2004 Writer's Forum Stephen Thomas, Jack Straw Productions March 9, 2004, accessed June 3, 2014Kent Chadwick, "Northwest BOoks: Regional Writers in Review: Surprised By Truth", Washington Free Press, accessed June 1, 2014 who owned Cabaret Hegel which was a performance venue from 84 to 87, would become active in Red Sky Poetry Theatre. Although Thomas was not officially on the board, in 1981 he was a judge for the Bumbershoot Literary Competition. Thomas continued working closely with Red Sky Poetry Theatre until 1997.Stephen Thomas Bio, Poets Encyclopedia, accessed June 3, 2014 Steve Potter would join the Red Sky Poetry Theatre board in 1994 and stayed until the end.
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Grohl originally asked Novoselic to join Foo Fighters as a full-time band member; he declined, stating they would call it "Nirvana 2". Novoselic's first experience with Foo Fighters was during the encore of their show on August 29, 1997 at Memorial Stadium as part of the Bumbershoot festival, where he played bass for the band's covers of "Purple Rain" and "Communication Breakdown". In January 2002, Novoselic performed backing vocals for a non-album track titled "Walking a Line", later released on a special edition of the band's album One by One. Later, during the encore of Foo Fighters' secret show at Paladino's in Tarzana, California on December 22, 2010, the band, with Grohl on drums, was joined onstage by Novoselic and the band's live guitarist Pat Smear for a version of Nirvana's "Marigold", a 1992 Grohl original, which was a B-side on Nirvana's "Heart-Shaped Box".
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McCue has received grants and residencies from Centrum, Artist Trust, 4Culture, the Whiteley Center at Friday Harbor Laboratories, the Seattle Mayor’s Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, the Jack Straw Writers Workshop, the University of Washington’s Simpson Center for the Humanities, Hedgebrook, and from 1998 to 2002 was an Echoing Green Fellow. Spanning almost thirty years from Columbia University to the University of Washington, she has won numerous teaching awards. Her work for Richard Hugo House won her an Evergreen State Service Award in 2002 and a 2003 History Makers Award from the Museum of History and Industry. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, has been a runner-up for the Milliman Prize and a Stranger Genius Award, and has won the Joan Grayston Poetry Prize, Richard Blessing Scholarship, the Bumbershoot Written Works Competition, a GAMMA award, and the Grub Street National Book Prize.
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210 cruise ship visits brought 886,039 passengers to Seattle in 2008. Pike Place Fish Market is a Popular Seattle Tourist Destination Among Seattle's prominent annual fairs and festivals are the 24-day Seattle International Film Festival, Northwest Folklife over the Memorial Day weekend, numerous Seafair events throughout July and August (ranging from a Bon Odori celebration to the Seafair Cup hydroplane races), the Bite of Seattle, one of the largest Gay Pride festivals in the United States, and the art and music festival Bumbershoot, which programs music as well as other art and entertainment over the Labor Day weekend. All are typically attended by 100,000 people annually, as are the Seattle Hempfest and two separate Independence Day celebrations. Other significant events include numerous Native American pow-wows, a Greek Festival hosted by St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church in Montlake, and numerous ethnic festivals (many associated with Festál at Seattle Center).
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He stood up and started dancing his music. Keith originated the term “body music” to describe his new inventions. As a soloist Terry has appeared at Lincoln Center, Bumbershoot, the Vienna International Dance Festival, and the Paradiso van Slag World Drum Festival in Amsterdam and been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered and PRI's, "The World". His groups – Corposonic, Slammin All-Body Band, Crosspulse Percussion Ensemble, Professor Terry’s Circus Band Extraordinaire, Body Tjak (with I Wayan Dibia), and Free Dive – have performed in a variety of venues, including Joe’s Pub, WNYC, and Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors (NY); Grand Performances, LACMA Jazz, the Roxy, and the Skirball Center (Los Angeles); SFJazz, Vancouver Island MusicFest, and the Bali Arts Festival. Keith has performed with artists including Charles “Honi” Coles, Turtle Island Quartet, Gamelan Sekar Jaya, Kenny Endo, Freddie Hubbard, Tex Williams, Robin Williams, and Bobby McFerrin.
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Borowitz's success as a television performer led to his becoming a strong draw as a stand-up comedian, and he started headlining at major comedy clubs across the country, including Carolines on Broadway, where he hosts a monthly show called Next Week's News. Other major comedians who have appeared with him in that show include Amy Sedaris and Susie Essman of HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm. For four consecutive years starting in 2004, he performed at The Comedy Festival in Aspen, Colorado. In September 2007, he headlined an edition of Next Week's News at the Bumbershoot festival in Seattle, Washington, performing to standing-room- only audiences and critical acclaim in the press, including the Seattle Post- Intelligencer. He also performed to a sold-out house at the 2007 New York Comedy Festival, which featured other prominent comedians including Denis Leary, Bill Maher, and Sarah Silverman. In 2008, he hosted a series of sold- out shows at New York City's 92nd Street Y called "Countdown to the Election".
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Variety, June 19, 2005 The festival often partially overlaps the Cannes Film Festival, which can reduce attendance by industry bigwigs; in 2007 there were two days of overlap, May 24 and 25. The SIFF group also curates the Global Lens film series, the Screenwriters Salon, and Futurewave (K-12 programming and youth outreach), coordinates SIFF-A-Go-Go travel programs (organized tours to other film festivals) and co-curates the 1 Reel Film Festival at Bumbershoot and the Sci-Fi Shorts Film Festival at the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame. In 2006, Longhouse Media launched the SuperFly Filmmaking Experience, in partnership with the Seattle International Film Festival, which brings youth together from diverse backgrounds to work collaboratively on film projects that promote awareness of indigenous issues and mutual understanding of each other's cultures. Fifty youth from across the United States arrive in Seattle to then travel to a local Pacific Northwest reservation to create 4 films in 36 hours.
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Many authors read at Dogtown, including Steven "Jesse" Bernstein, a multi-published legend who toured with punk groups and recorded albums on the same SubPop label that brought Nirvana to the world. Other poets who contributed heavily to the rich aural adventure of Dogtown and went on to future writing of note were Charlie Burks, Charlie Burks, the coordinator of the first Bumbershoot Writers in Performance Competition in 1981, Britt Robson, Hans Skott-Myre, Linton Robinson, Cliff Finity, and Don Wilsun, who founding the Red Sky Poetry Theatre in continuance of the Dogtown tradition. Dogtown's impact lingered, but its performances only took place for a little over a year, from 1975 to 1976. The material presented there was as eclectic as is possible to get: wino blitherings, romance poems by starry-eyed ingénues, strict academic forms, and performance art (such as playing recordings of conversations in Market bars while passing around samples of trash and cigarette butts gleaned from the tables where they were taped).
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She took a freighter across the Atlantic and traveled through southern Europe, Morocco, Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania. Upon her return in 1975, Hamill published Troublante, her first book, and became an active member of the downtown literary community. She read frequently at venues such as the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery, wrote, directed and acted in Bob Holman’s Poet's Theatre and performed with new wave musician Adele Bertei (The Contortions) at the Mudd Club. A strong proponent of the spoken word, Hamill has read widely in New York City, across the country and in Europe at museums, venues and festivals such as St. Marks Church, The People's Poetry Gathering, The Walt Whitman Cultural Center, the WORD Festival, the Bowery Poetry Club, the Knitting Factory, CBGB’s Gallery, the Nuyorican Café, Central Park Summer Stage, Lowell Celebrates Kerouac, the Andy Warhol Museum, The Rubin Museum, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Seattle's Bumbershoot Festival, the Liss Ard Festival in County Cork, Ireland, Patti Smith's Meltdown Festival in London, the Latitude Festival in Southwold, England, and Liverpool's Heartbeats series.
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The Mowgli's co-headlined a US tour with Family of the Year, stopping at SXSW2013 along the way. On April 27, 2013, "San Francisco" hit #1 on the Sirius Alt 18 Countdown and shortly afterwards held the No. 1 spot on Alt Nation for two weeks. The song peaked at #11 on the Alternative Radio Charts and #4 on the AAA charts, where it was No. 9 overall for the year. The video for "San Francisco" was directed by Justin Baldoni. They performed "San Francisco" live on February 21 at Jimmy Kimmel Live and on Conan on May 23. The band toured the country 3 more times during 2013, playing at Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, Bunberry Festival, Summerfest, Center of the Universe, Hangout Festival, Bumbershoot, Loufest, Cultivate Chicago, Taste of Chicago Festival, Music Midtown Atlanta and Austin City Limits. During the 2nd weekend of ACL, the festival was cancelled due to rain, and the band performed an impromptu free show at the Austin Front Steps Homeless Shelter, generating the most single-day donations that the shelter had seen. The full length debut for Photo Finish, Waiting For The Dawn, was released June 18, 2013.
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Their musical influences, interests, and heroes range from Oasis to Wilco, The National to Grizzly Bear. In 2012, they headlined a US tour (with Morning Parade opening up), supported two months with Mutemath, and various dates with Young the Giant. Past tour mates have also included Florence + the Machine, Smashing Pumpkins, Anberlin, Neon Trees, Jimmy Eat World, Silversun Pickups, and Of Monsters and Men. Civil Twilight played the Main stages of 2012 festivals such as Austin City Limits, Bumbershoot (their 2nd visit), Milwaukee Summerfest (their third visit), and Music Midtown 2011 also saw them play most every major festival in the US, including but not limited to, Bonnaroo, Voodoo, Hangout, Mountain Jam, 80–35, Vh1's Best Cruise Ever, Rivers Edge, and a headline performance at the Rockin' the Daisies festival in Cape Town, South Africa. Civil Twilight's debut single in 2010, "Letters from the Sky", reached #5 on the Alternative radio charts and remained in the Top 10 for 6 months of the year, with over 1000 spins throughout Texas, and from Philadelphia to Seattle, selling over 200,000 copies. Their last single "Fire Escape" charted Top 20 Alternative, and received extensive coverage on Vh1, Fuse and MTV.
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In February 2011, Macklemore and producer Ryan Lewis kicked off a multi-city tour in Seattle, Washington, which included three sold-out shows at Showbox at the Market, a Seattle music venue.Corsiglia, Gina (February 23, 2011) Seattle Sends Macklemore and Ryan Lewis Out on a National Tour . Seattlest. Retrieved on December 30, 2012. That same year, the rapper appeared at many U.S. music festivals, including Bumbershoot, Outside Lands, Lollapalooza, Rock the Bells, SoundSet, Sasquatch, and Bonnaroo. Macklemore performing at The Heist Tour, in 2012 Their album The Heist was released in October 2012 and debuted on the U.S. Billboard 200 at number 2 of the week dated 27 October 2012, selling over 78,000 copies. "Same Love" was released on 18 July 2012 and after "White Walls". In January 2013, Music Choice featured Macklemore in the brand new series "Primed", which focuses on emerging artists. In May 2013, Haggerty was featured on Clinton Sparks's single "Gold Rush", along with 2 Chainz and D.A. The Heist World Tour began in August 2012 to promote The Heist. In January 2015, Macklemore announced via Twitter that his third studio album would be released sometime in the second half of that year.
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