How Seattle’s Bumbershoot Festival Aims To Balance Art And Commerce
The post How Seattle’s Bumbershoot Festival Aims To Balance Art And Commerce appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Pavement headlines the 2024 Bumbershoot festival. Levi Erdman, Courtesy of New Rising Sun Seattle’s Bumbershoot, which has been around since the early 1970s, may be one of the oldest continuously running music festivals in the United States, but it has been reinventing itself around a new vision and mission since New Rising Sun and Third Stone took over management in 2023. This year, with national acts like Janelle Monae, Weezer, Aurora and Bright Eyes headlining over Labor Day weekend, Bumbershoot has expanded its ambitions to be a hub of art, creativity and community throughout the northwest. In its heyday, Bumbershoot drew over 120,000 attendees from Friday to Monday of the holiday weekend, showcasing top name bands and charging top dollar ticket prices, but that model was showing signs of strain even before the pandemic. With the old management contract expiring, the City of Seattle, which owns the festival, went looking for a partner with a different approach: a more intimate, more affordable festival with deeper connections to the region and its culture. Joe Paganelli, CEO, New Rising Sun Courtesy of New Rising Sun “When we took over Bumbershoot, the city made clear they wanted it to be community-centered,” said Joe Paganelli, CEO of New Rising Sun, the production company that currently runs Bumbershoot. He said that unlike the large, for-profit music festivals that have to contend with issues like industry consolidation and the logistics of booking big touring acts, New Rising Sun is aiming for a more manageable event that blends big-name acts with middle tier and local performers and includes a wide range of creative experiences beyond just the music. Paganelli says ticket sales this year have been strong and organizers expect 35-40,000 attendees over Saturday and Sunday, about the same as 2024. In addition to the musical acts…
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Pavement headlines the 2024 Bumbershoot festival. Levi Erdman, Courtesy of New Rising Sun Seattle’s Bumbershoot, which has been around since the early 1970s, may be one of the oldest continuously running music festivals in the United States, but it has been reinventing itself around a new vision and mission since New Rising Sun and Third Stone took over management in 2023. This year, with national acts like Janelle Monae, Weezer, Aurora and Bright Eyes headlining over Labor Day weekend, Bumbershoot has expanded its ambitions to be a hub of art, creativity and community throughout the northwest. In its heyday, Bumbershoot drew over 120,000 attendees from Friday to Monday of the holiday weekend, showcasing top name bands and charging top dollar ticket prices, but that model was showing signs of strain even before the pandemic. With the old management contract expiring, the City of Seattle, which owns the festival, went looking for a partner with a different approach: a more intimate, more affordable festival with deeper connections to the region and its culture. Joe Paganelli, CEO, New Rising Sun Courtesy of New Rising Sun “When we took over Bumbershoot, the city made clear they wanted it to be community-centered,” said Joe Paganelli, CEO of New Rising Sun, the production company that currently runs Bumbershoot. He said that unlike the large, for-profit music festivals that have to contend with issues like industry consolidation and the logistics of booking big touring acts, New Rising Sun is aiming for a more manageable event that blends big-name acts with middle tier and local performers and includes a wide range of creative experiences beyond just the music. Paganelli says ticket sales this year have been strong and organizers expect 35-40,000 attendees over Saturday and Sunday, about the same as 2024. In addition to the musical acts…
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