Overview
Bumbershoot '06
Official Poster Artwork by Andrio Abero
By 2006, Bumbershoot was navigating a changing festival landscape while remaining true to its roots.
Across the country, large-scale music festivals were gaining popularity and reshaping expectations for audiences and performers. Yet Bumbershoot, produced by One Reel, continued to distinguish itself through its multidisciplinary identity, a festival where music shared space with film, theater, dance, literary arts, and visual art.
Each Labor Day weekend, Seattle Center once again became a vibrant cultural campus. Major music stages attracted national touring artists, while theaters, galleries, and smaller venues hosted contemporary dance performances, experimental theater, author readings, and film programs.
Even as the broader festival industry leaned more heavily toward music-driven events, Bumbershoot maintained the broader vision that had defined it since the early 1970s: a public gathering where multiple art forms could exist side by side.
By 2006, more than thirty-five years after Festival ’71, Bumbershoot remained a defining cultural tradition for Seattle, a place where audiences could encounter both celebrated performers and unexpected creative discoveries under the same umbrella.
Bumbershoot 2006's line up included: “Awesome” / 3 Inches Of Blood / A Cup o’ Joe / Abyssinian Creole / AFI / Alejandro Escovedo / Alison Bechdel / Andi Zeisler / Anis Mojgani / Annex Theatre Presents: Spin The Bottle / Arj Barker / Arthur Sze / As I Lay Dying / Ashok Mathur / Atmosphere / Aziz Ansari / Badly Drawn Boy / Bay Area Derby Girls / Ben Fong-Torres / Best Week Ever / Bettye Lavette / Birds Of Paradise / Bitter:sweet / Blondie / Blue Scholars / Boston Derby Dames / Bradley Hanson / Brangien Davis / Breakestra / Brent Hoff and Wholphin / Brett Alexander / Brett Dennen / Cancer Rising / Carl Hancock Rux / Carolina Rollergirls / Catherine Wing / Cathy Sorbo / Charles Burns / Charles D’Ambrosio / Charles Tonderai Mudede / Christian Finnegan / Christine Deaver / Christopher Frizzelle / Chuck Palahniuk / Cloud Cult / Cocorosie / Common Market / Copeland / Craig Fisher / Crawlspace: Daniel Comiskey and C.E. Putnam / Crystal Skulls / Dana Gould / David Cross / Daylight Basement / Deadbeat / Deerhoof / Degenerate Art Ensemble / Dengue Fever / Derby / Donald Byrd / Doug Benson / Dr. Pepper Schwartz / Dub Championz / Eileen Myles / Electric Shades Of Blue / End of Summer: Three Views of Bumbershoot / Erase Errata / Eric Slovin & Leo Allen / Erik Larson / Erin Belieu / Evany Thomas / Feist / Firepod / Flatstock 10 / Floyd Standifer Quartet / Frances McCue / Gary Shteyngart / George Saunders / Go Like Hell / Gokh-Bi System / Great Big Sea / Greil Marcus / Halou / Hari Kondabolu / Harrold Gomez / Hawthorne Heights / Holiday Reinhorn / Horatio Sanz / Ian Roberts / Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk / Izabelle / J. Brad Wilke / J.W. Marshall / Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey / Jacqui Naylor / James Greer / Jamie Lidell / Jenny Hart / Jeremy Enigk / Jerry Quickley / Jim Knapp Orchestra / Jimmy McDonough / Johanna Kunin / John Bishop Group / John Douglas Marshall / John Moe / John Mulaney / John Olson / Jon Benjamin / Jon Raymond / Jose Gonzalez / Joshua Beckman / Kane Hodder / Kansas City Roller Warriors / Kanye West / Kary Wayson / Katy Lederer / Kelley Johnson Quartet / knitta / Korby Lenker / Kurt B. Reighley / Lady Sovereign / Laila Lalami / Laura Veirs / Lisa Jervis / Lusine / Luther “Guitar Jr.” Johnson / Lynn Jacobson / Macklemore / Mad Rollin’ Dolls / Maghed Zaher / Mandy Greer / Marcie Sillman / Maria Bamford / Maria Dahvana Headley / Mark Pickerel & His Praying Hands / Mark White / Mary Gaitskill / Mary Lynn Rajskub / Mates Of State / Matt Besser / Matt Costa / Matt Smith / Matt Walsh / Matthew Zapruder / Meghan Hounshell / Mel Gordon / Melanie Noel / Metric / mewithoutYou / Michael Van Horn / Michael Walker / Michelle Tea / Mike Daisey / Minnesota Rollergirls / Mon Frere / Morgan Murphy / Motorworks II / Mountain Con / NAKeD PUPPeTS / New Fangs / Ngugi wa Thiong’o / Nick Licata / Nick Thune / Nico Vassilakis / Nomo / Nouvelle Vague / Of Montreal / Old Skool Skaters / Olympic Sound Collective / Orly Cogan / p:ano / Pacific Northwest Ballet / Particle / Pat O’Day / Paul F. Tompkins / Paul Scheer / Peggy Platt / Peter Boal / Peter Greyy / Pixel Dolls, MeatSpace, and Everything All at Once / PK & What Army? / Po’okela Street Band / Quad Express / Rat City Rollergirls / Reggie Watts / Rik Wright / Rishi Rich Project / Rob Huebel / Robert Santelli / Rocky Votolato / Rogue Wave / Romance / Rubberbandance Group / Ryan Schierling / Sara Gruen / Sarah Mangold / Sarah Schulman / Sean Wilsey / Seattle Neutrino Project / Seattle Public Theater / Sera Cahoone / Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings / Shooter Jennings / Shoshana Berger / Sirens Sister / Slender Means / Softly Threatening: Artwork of the Modern Domestic / Sonya Kitchell / Sparta / Speaker Speaker / Spoon / Starlee Kine / Stephanie Pearl-McPhee / Steve Miller Band / SuttonBeresCuller / Synthclub / Tami Sagher / Texas Rollergirls / The 826 Laureates / The BellRays / The Blood Brothers / The Briefs / The Can’t See / The English Beat / The Epoxies / The Fall Of Troy / The Gossip / The Hollowpoints / The Invisible Eyes / The Like / The Living Jarboe / The Lonely Forest / The Lonely H / The New Pornographers / The Po Show/The Fisher Ensemble / The Purrs / The Randy Oxford Band / The Saturday Knights / The Subdudes / The Swains / The Thermals / The Transmissionary Six / The Veronicas / The Village Green / The Vis-a-Vis Society / theater simple / Thee Emergency / Todd Barry / Toi Sennhauser / Tor Dietrichson With Mambo Cadillac / Trisha Ready / Troy Miszklevitz / Universes: Live From the Edge / Vashti Bunyan / Velella Velella / Victor Quijada / Vijai Nathan / Wave Books Poetry Bus Launch / West Valley Highway / Whitney Pastorek / William Anthony / Yellowcard / Yerba Buena / Zach Galifianakis / Zero 7 / Zoe Scofield
