Overview
Bumbershoot '00
As the calendar turned to the year 2000, Bumbershoot entered the new millennium with nearly three decades of history behind it and a firmly established place in Seattle’s cultural life.
Produced by One Reel, the festival continued its tradition of transforming Seattle Center into a sprawling Labor Day weekend celebration of the arts. Music remained a major draw, but Bumbershoot’s defining feature was still its breadth. Across the campus, audiences could experience a wide range of creative disciplines, from concerts and theater to film screenings, literary events, dance performances, and visual art exhibitions.
The turn of the millennium also highlighted how much both Seattle and the festival had evolved. The city was experiencing rapid growth driven by technology, music, and a thriving arts scene. Bumbershoot reflected that energy while maintaining its founding idea: a large, inclusive cultural gathering where many forms of art could coexist.
What made Bumbershoot distinctive as it entered the 2000s was its balance of scale and discovery. Audiences might arrive for a major concert but leave having encountered experimental theater, a poetry reading, or a new visual artist.
Nearly thirty years after Festival ’71, the umbrella remained open, welcoming artists and audiences into a shared creative space at the heart of Seattle.
Bumbershoot 2000's line up included: Sugar Ray / Joan Jett & the Blackhearts / Tracy Chapman / Big Star / Ben Harper / Elliott Smith / Modest Mouse / Sleater-Kinney / David Cross / Motôrhead / Ani DiFranco / Maceo Parker / Savage Garden / Magnetic Fields / Common / Death Cab for Cutie / Ladysmith Black Mambazo / Bill Frisell / Joan Osborne / Ozomatli / Robbie Fulks / Ronnie Spector / Southern Culture on the Skids / Zap Mamaa / Compay Segundo / Marc Ribot & los Cubanos Posizitos / Mark Eitzel / Ken Stringfellow & Jon Auer / John Wesley Harding / Kristin Hersch / Kelly Joe Phelps / Colin James & the Little Big Band / Martha Wainwright / Quasi / Martin Sexton / Maktub / Abdullah Ibrahim Trio / Amy Denio / Bad Livers / Battle of Bumbershoot DJ/Turntablist Competition / bill bissett / Billy Collins / Billy Frank, Jr. / Boubacar Traore / Clayton Eshleman / Corey harris & Henry Butler / David Shields / Deke Dickerson & the Ecco-Fonics / Elvin Bishop / Eric Bogosian / Father Guido Sarducci (Don Novello) / Freakwater / George Clinton & Parliment/Funkadelic / Indigenous / Iris Dement / James Welch / Jim Carroll / Jonathan Richman / Jovino Santos Neto Quinteto / Kina / Lee Maracle / Los de Abajo / Mark Isham / Mark Lindquist / Mighty Clouds of Joy / Nathan & the Zydeco Cha Chas / Oliver Mtukudzi & Black Spirits / Pat Graney Company / Pete Krebs / Project Bandaloop / Robin Holcomb / Roger Bonair-Agard / Sandra Bernhart / Sarah Jones / SD Prism Dance Theatre / Sister Spit / Strathcona Chinese Dance / The Coup / The Giraffes / The Otha Level / The Paladins / Trimpin / Urban Bush Women / Wayne Horvitz / Wylie & the Wild West
