{"id":2783,"date":"2004-09-01T18:37:47","date_gmt":"2004-09-02T08:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/02\/bumbershoot-tips\/"},"modified":"2019-12-11T08:25:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T16:25:12","slug":"bumbershoot-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/01\/bumbershoot-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Bumbershoot tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:3934,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.jasonwebley.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260214141404\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.jasonwebley.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-06 23:23:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 05:22:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-17 21:40:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 07:16:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-28 10:47:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 19:10:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 19:29:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-10 12:58:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-10 12:58:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>A re-post from <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/bumbershoot_tip.html\" title=\"Bumbershoot Tips\">last year<\/a> &#8212; some rambling from me on how best to approach this upcoming weekend&#8217;s Bumbershoot festival (which, unfortunately, I&#8217;ll only be hitting two days of this year, due to my workplace not closing down for Labor Day).<\/p>\n<p>Some general tips and approaches I use for getting through the weekend:<\/p>\n<p>I carry as little as possible, so I don&#8217;t wear myself down with a big bag or anything. Camera, wallet, a book to scribble down what I&#8217;m doing and seeing so the pictures make sense, and that&#8217;s about it.<\/p>\n<p>The Bumbershoot guides published in the Seattle Weekly and the Stranger are godsends. Before each day starts, I browse through to find anything that sounds like it might be interesting, whether or not I&#8217;ve heard of the artist, and mark it on the schedule (last year I found that the Seattle Weekly&#8217;s guide had better rundowns on the acts, but the Stranger&#8217;s single-sheet 4-page schedule was easier to keep in my pocket). Then, when I&#8217;m wandering around, I just see what I&#8217;ve marked off, and randomly choose one for whatever time it is to check out. If I like them, great, if they don&#8217;t quite hold my interest, then there&#8217;s plenty of other choices.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t be afraid to deviate from your plan, though. There&#8217;s so much good stuff out there that it&#8217;s impossible to see it all, so you shouldn&#8217;t stress about missing an act &#8212; and there&#8217;s likely to be something worth seeing that you wouldn&#8217;t have picked up on just from reading about it. Not being a big reggae fan, I never would have planned to stop by Jumbalassy last year, but hearing them as I walked by sucked me right in.<\/p>\n<p>Take the time to just wander around and explore all the nooks and crannies. I almost completely missed the Jazz stage last year &#8212; it&#8217;s up some stairs, kind of tucked away in a corner. I keep forgetting how big Seattle Center is, and how easy it is to lose bits and pieces of it when you&#8217;re focusing on getting from a specific point A to point B. Follow your nose. :)<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget to peoplewatch! This goes beyond just trying to navigate through the crowds &#8212; see who all is around you, pay attention to them, keep an ear out on what they&#8217;re saying. I&#8217;ve discovered some good shows that I might have missed just by hearing some random stranger get all excited about whatever band they&#8217;re heading off to see. A small crowd of people gathered somewhere might be nothing more than a momentary traffic jam, but it might also be a street performer worth watching &#8212; I discovered one of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonwebley.com\/\" title=\"Jason Webley\">favorite local artists<\/a> this way the first year I was at Bumbershoot. Saw a crowd and decided to see what was up, ended up picking up a couple CDs and have been a fan ever since.<\/p>\n<p>And most importantly &#8212; have fun! Enjoy the music and the sun, browse through the craft booths, go play in the fountain, or wade in the pool. We&#8217;re blessed with a huge festival with a ton of things to do on a gorgeous weekend &#8212; don&#8217;t let it go to waste!<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Peach (Cut.Rate.Box)&#8221; by Beborn Beton from the album <em>Tales From Another World<\/em> (1999, 4:43).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A re-post from last year &mdash; some rambling from me on how best to approach this upcoming weekend&#8217;s Bumbershoot festival (which, unfortunately, I&#8217;ll only be hitting two days of this year, due to my workplace not closing down for Labor Day).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2035,2043],"tags":[1092,13,80],"class_list":["post-2783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-personal","tag-bumbershoot","tag-life","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}