Bumbershoot announced the music lineup for its Labor Day weekend, and it includes a couple of Kitsap connections.
The top names on the list of performers are Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and Death Cab For Cutie. Death Cab, of course, is fronted by Olympic High School product Ben Gibbard.
Those two acts will
doubtless be among the mainstage performers for the Sept. 2-4
festival, which runs on a Friday-Sunday schedule this year instead
of the traditional Saturday-Monday.
Lemolo, the dream-pop brain child of North Kitsap’s Meagan Grandall, will be making a return appearance. With a second CD — the excellent “Red Right Return” — to play, they’ll be in the Seattle Center extravaganza for the first time since 2011.
Also among the acts announced for Bumbershoot 2016 are KYGO, Tame Impala, G-Eazy, Pretty Lights, Halsey, DJ Snake, Father John Misty, and … Billy Idol. Every year, the festival seems to come up with one or two veteran artists that up the Cool Quotient, and this year, it’s … Billy Idol.
Passes go on sale April 29 at bumbershoot.com
— MM
