SEATTLE — It’s not Labor Day weekend in Seattle with out Bumbershoot. Town’s most storied music pageant returns to Seattle Heart for its 52nd version this summer season, and on Wednesday, organizers revealed the 2025 lineup.
This 12 months’s slate options a number of the greatest headliners to grace the impartial fest since third-year organizers New Rising Solar took the reins, led by arena-filling rockers Weezer (performing their basic “Blue Album”), art-pop funkstress Janelle Monáe, Norwegian alt-pop star Aurora, electro-pop vets Sylvan Esso, and indie rock pillars Automobile Seat Headrest and Vibrant Eyes.
Past Seattle’s Automobile Seat Headrest, contemporary off releasing its new rock opera “The Scholars,” Bumbershoot’s hometown contingent consists of jazz-rap dignitaries Digable Planets (celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of “Blowout Comb”), reunited post-hardcore favorites Fairly Ladies Make Graves, punk lords the Homicide Metropolis Devils, Sub Pop experimentalist J.R.C.G., TeZATalks, and indie rockers Nice Grandpa, who made their welcome return this spring with their first album in six years, “Patience, Moonbeam.”
Different highlights embody indie rock singer-songwriter Indigo de Souza, hip-hop vets Saba and Tank & the Bangas, Tennis, and NYC funk brigade the Budos Band.
The 2-day music and humanities pageant sprawls out throughout the Seattle Heart campus Aug. 30-31; two-day passes, beginning at $199 (plus taxes and costs), are on sale now at bumbershoot.com. On Might 9, weekend passes will enhance to $225 and single-day ticket gross sales will open at $125.
When New Rising Solar took over Bumbershoot and reanimated the beloved pageant in 2023 after a three-year hiatus following the pandemic, the brand new crew vowed to return the Seattle establishment to its eclectic roots, elevate the nonmusical arts and Pacific Northwest tradition, and maintain ticket costs down. Whereas this 12 months’s tickets are according to up to date festivals prices, it’s value noting that the introductory degree costs symbolize a big enhance from final 12 months, leaping from $70 to $125 for single-day tickets and $125 to $199 for two-day passes.
Requested concerning the worth enhance, organizers pointed to an intensive presale interval over the autumn and winter, the place followers might purchase weekend passes for $100 — a discount charge for the Bumbershoot devoted keen to tug the set off earlier than the lineup was introduced — as a “demonstrable response to our commitment to keeping ticket prices down.”
In addition they famous that Bumbershoot proceeds help the pageant’s nonprofit arm, Third Stone, which helps to coach the subsequent era of Seattle occasion producers and “works to remove barriers for marginalized communities through workforce development and festival as classroom for each year’s intern cohort.”
Nonetheless, there are a number of different methods for music followers to chop down on ticket prices. Bumbershoot’s new “Crew Pack” gives 4 weekend passes for $800. Additionally, the Bumber crew and Capitol Hill Block Get together are rolling out a “Big Gulp” joint ticket to each festivals for $340 (should be 21 and up). Block Get together organizers used to run an analogous cope with its sibling pageant, Day In Day Out, earlier than deciding to fold DIDO, at the least for this 12 months.
