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Day One: Comedy, British Soul, and Singer-Songwriter Couples Fight Off the Rain [Bumbershoot Unmapped]
Posted on August 31, 2008
I've been a pretty unabashed fan of the Seattle music and arts festival Bumbershoot, which has occurred every Labor Day weekend since 1971 since I first heard of it, with the caveat that I first heard of it under rather good circumstances. An old roommate had told me about it in 1994, but I'd forgotten all about it until the August 1996 road trip I wrote about here, I defected, via Greyhound, to Seattle from the group's intended San Francisco, and I wound up at the Green Tortoise, a rooming house near Seattle Center, where Bumbershoot was underway. I went to the gate, paid my fee, and caught g...
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