The third day of the 2015 Bumbershoot Music & Arts Festival brought idyllic weather for a final day of music, comedy and other forms of artistic expression. Katy Bellamy and Sunny Martini were there to capture the action.
Cameron Deuel – The second day at Bumbershoot 2015 kicked off with reggae hero Lee “Scratch” Perry, who came out decorated in a costume so vibrant I firmly believe he invented several new colors.
Cameron Deuel – After the eleven consecutive years I’ve attended Bumbershoot, Seattle’s summer end-cap music and arts festival, it feels like the event still doesn’t have a clear notion of its own identity.
The second day at Bumbershoot, Seattle’s annual festival of music and arts, settled in to it’s own a bit this afternoon as music programming hit its stride with a full slate of loud 90s guitar rock bands (Dead Moon, Melvins, Social Distortion and Faith No More) performing in Memorial Stadium while a packed Key Arena played host to the day’s leading electronic acts like Flosstradomus and Zedd.
Today started with a flood on anti-Bumbershoot sentiment on social media, spurred in part by a damning Seattle Times column asserting that the 34 year-old music and arts festival had been abandoned by the people who made it special and succumbed to “corporatitis,” and, whether you agree with that sentiment or not, it was kind of a rough day.
