By April MacIntyre Jul 16, 2008, 5:25 GMT
The 38th annual Bumbershoot: Seattle's Music & Arts Festival announced their full 2008 lineup of acts.
07/10/2008 - Beck - Super Bock Super Rock 2008 - Day 7 - Parque Tejo - Lisbon, Portugal © Rui M. Leal / PR Photos
Seattle over Labor Day weekend becomes an unforgettable getaway featuring the largest urban music and arts festivals in North America.
Bumbershoot takes place over the 3-day holiday weekend (August 30 – September 1) at the 74-acre Seattle Center, located in downtown Seattle beneath the city's iconic Space Needle.
The Festival's 20 indoor and outdoor venues is home to live music, comedy, theatre, dance, film, spectacle, urban crafts, literary arts and visual arts.
The 2008 Bumbershoot music lineup includes:
Beck, Stone Temple Pilots, Death Cab For Cutie, T.I., The Offspring, Keyshia Cole, Lucinda Williams, Paramore, Neko Case, Band of Horses, The Black Keys, Superchunk, Nada Surf, Ingrid Michaelson, Del Tha Funky Homosapien, Jakob Dylan, !!!, Mike Doughty, Old 97's, Xavier Rudd, Anti-Flag, Minus the Bear, M. Ward, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Man Man, Joe Bonamassa, Saul Willliams, Brother Ali, Battles, Aiden, The Walkmen, Kid Sister, Estelle, Unearth, Tapes ‘n Tapes, The Weakerthans, Sons and Daughters, Asylum Street Spankers, Dan Deacon, Two Gallants, Blitzen Trapper, Sondre Lerche, Bedouin Soundclash, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, Tim Finn, Cheb I Sabbah & 1002 Nights featuring Riffat Sultana, Dale Watson, The Whigs, John Vanderslice, Flobots, Thao with the Get Down Stay Down, Final Fantasy, Adele, The Fall of Troy, Orgone, Langhorne Slim & The War Eagles, Forro in the Dark, These Arms Are Snakes, The Blakes, Sweet Water, Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby, Pacifika, Arthur & Yu, Darondo & Nino Moschella, Vicci Martinez, Ian Moore, Mark Pickerel & His Praying Hands, Barcelona, Kinski, Throw Me The Statue, J-Boogie's Dubtronic Science, Tyrone Wells, Howlin Rain, Monotonix, Black Eye & Neckties, The Shackeltons, West Indian Girl and many more.
The Festival also features three stages of comedy such as Zach Galifianakis, Janeane Garofalo, Greg Behrendt, Doug Benson, PRI's "The Sound of Young America" Live with host Jesse Thorn, and MTV's "Human Giant" stars (Aziz Ansari, Paul Scheer and Rob Huebel) will bring the popular show to the stage with a little help from their friends, and others too.
A world of arts includes everything from sci-fi legend William Gibson to Australia's Strange Fruit, The Seattle-Tehran Poster Show to The Post-It Note Reading Series, the 1 Reel Film Festival to Pacific Northwest Ballet, and much, much more.
For the complete Festival lineup and to start creating your personalized daily schedule, visit www.bumbershoot.org.
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