Seattle Times music critic Patrick MacDonald sat down with Norm Langill, the One Reel executive who has been a part of Bumbershoot since the 1970s, to talk about how Seattle's music and arts festival has changed over the decades.

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Listening In Live: Bumbershoot Day 2

After an intentionally slow Saturday – besides Beck there were no absolute must sees – we headed back to Bumbershoot Sunday for a whammy of an evening. Everything we planned to see was packed into the last five hours of the day.

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Listening In Live: Bumbershoot Day One

We started the day refreshed, slept in, and took our sweet time getting to the festival. After the suck that was yesterday, we were stoked at the efficiency and consideration of the festival organizers, One Reel.

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So The Other Day...Bumbershoot Murphy's Law

As you're reading this, realize we made it to Seattle. Oh, but was it an adventure.

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Bumbershoot Weekend Preview: Part I

I am northbound this weekend, flying to Seattle for the 38th annual Bumbershoot Music & Arts Festival. Instead of looking forward to school I get to anticipate 3 days of all things art in a city I've never seen.

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Bumbershoot Weekend Preview: Tentative Schedule

This weekend I'll be traveling with my partner in crime to Seattle for the sold out Bumbershoot Music & Arts Festival. Just looking at the breadth of this festival strikes fatigue in my bones.

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The former Bellingham indie-rock band everyone used to see for $5 is now a high-profile, major-label Bumbershoot guest.

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I stepped behind the curtain and took a seat in the dark. In front of me, a round speaker. It was stuffy. Familiar. And yet, there would be none of what I knew from my Catholic upbringing.

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This year's Bumberblog is brought to you by the Vera Project, Seattle's all-ages music venue run by and for youth. The Vera team is made of hard-core music lovers who will be recording what's happening, as it happens at all hours of Bumbershoot 2007.

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Bumbershoot, a Seattle festival that claims to be "green," forced thousands of concert-goers to throw away bottles of water or other drinks as they entered an aging stadium with no functioning drinking fountains.

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Amazing line up already for this Labor Day Weekend of Music & Arts. The Shins, Panic at the Disco, Wu-Tang Clan, Devendra Banhart...and so many more. 3-day tickets already sold out. Hurry. Premiere Seattle music Event.

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