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Bumbershoot (Festival)


  • [Bumbershoot is an annual international music and arts festival held in Seattle, Washington that takes place every Labor Day weekend at the Seattle Center, which was built for the 1962 World's Fair. Held in 1971 and 1972 as Festival '71 and Festival '72 (aka Mayor's Arts Festival), the name was changed in 1973 to Bumbershoot. The name was taken from bumbershoot, a colloquial term for umbrella. Bumbershoot was chosen as the festival's name as a metaphor for being an umbrella for all of the various arts and performers it encompasses.]
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  • Variants

    • Bumbershoot (Festival) (Seattle, Wash.)
    • Seattle Arts Festival
    • Seattle Festival for the Arts
    • Bumbershoot: Seattle's Music & Arts Festival
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    • Descriptor

        Music festivals
    • Descriptor

        Art festivals
    • Associated Locale

        United States
    • Associated Locale

        Seattle (Wash.)
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        • Earlier Established Forms

          • Bumbershoot (Festival) (Seattle, Wash.)
        • Sources

          • found: Financial statements and auditors' report [of] the Bumbershoot Festival for the years ... 1985, 1984 and 1983.
          • found: Ergo!, 1993:p. 2 (Bumbershoot, the Seattle Arts Festival, is presented by the Bumbershoot Festival Commission)
          • found: NUCMC data from Seattle Municipal Archives for Seattle (Wash.). Dept. of Parks and Recreation. Bumbershoot Festival records, 1973-1976(Bumbershoot, also known as the Seattle Festival for the Arts, was first organized in 1971)
          • found: Bumbershoot 2012 official program, 2012:p. 2 (Bumbershoot; started as Festival '71 in 1971)
          • found: Its WWW home page, Sept. 6, 2012(Bumbershoot) about Bumbershoot (Bumbershoot: Seattle's Music & Arts Festival is now in its 42nd year; takes place at the 74-acre Seattle Center; produced by One Reel) history > 1971 (first Bumbershoot wasn't called Bumbershoot but rather Festival '71) 1973 (dubbed Bumbershoot for the first time) - http://bumbershoot.org/
          • found: Wikipedia, Sept. 6, 2012(Bumbershoot; annual international music and arts festival held in Seattle, Washington; takes place every Labor Day weekend at the 74-acre (299,000 m²) Seattle Center; began as a city-funded arts and music festival called Mayor's Arts Festival, also known as Festival '71, held at Seattle Center on August 13-15, 1971; Festival '72, held on July 21-23, 1972; in 1973 the festival adopted the present name Bumbershoot; in 1980 the city brought in Northwest non-profit organization One Reel to produce the event; they have been running it ever since)
        • General Notes

          • [Bumbershoot is an annual international music and arts festival held in Seattle, Washington that takes place every Labor Day weekend at the Seattle Center, which was built for the 1962 World's Fair. Held in 1971 and 1972 as Festival '71 and Festival '72 (aka Mayor's Arts Festival), the name was changed in 1973 to Bumbershoot. The name was taken from bumbershoot, a colloquial term for umbrella. Bumbershoot was chosen as the festival's name as a metaphor for being an umbrella for all of the various arts and performers it encompasses.]
        • Editorial Notes

          • [See also related access points for individual instances of this festival, which include specific information about the number, date, or place of individual festivals.]
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          • 1988-04-15: new
          • 2022-11-11: revised
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