A new chapter for Bumbershoot?

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Ashli Blow

Ashli Blow Jan 12, 2018

Jan 12, 2018

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                <h1>A new chapter for Bumbershoot?</h1>
                <h2><p>Seattle's legendary arts festival Bumbershoot almost didn't return this year. The only reason it did was because of a concert promoter, AEGLive, which took financial responsibility for the $4 million-plus event. The Seattle Times reports AEGLive has 14 regional offices worldwide and produces 5,400 concerts</p></h2>
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               <p>By <a href="/author/ashli-blow/">Ashli Blow</a></p> 
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            <p>Seattle's legendary arts festival Bumbershoot almost didn't return this year. The only reason it did was because of a concert promoter, AEGLive, which took financial responsibility for the $4 million-plus event. <a href="http://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/music/bumbershoot-under-a-cloud-of-debt-can-aeglive-lift-it/?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">The Seattle Times reports</a> AEGLive has 14 regional offices worldwide and produces 5,400 concerts a year, including Coachella. So why take on a local headache like Bumbershoot? “We all felt that it was a heartbreaking scenario for this thing with such a legacy, history and that was part of the fabric of the city,” said AEG Rep Rob Thomas of last year’s debacle.</p>
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Seattle's legendary arts festival Bumbershoot almost didn't return this year. The only reason it did was because of a concert promoter, AEGLive, which took financial responsibility for the $4 million-plus event. The Seattle Times reports AEGLive has 14 regional offices worldwide and produces 5,400 concerts a year, including Coachella. So why take on a local headache like Bumbershoot? “We all felt that it was a heartbreaking scenario for this thing with such a legacy, history and that was part of the fabric of the city,” said AEG Rep Rob Thomas of last year’s debacle.

By Ashli Blow

Ashli Blow is a Seattle-based freelance writer who talks with people — in places from urban watersheds to remote wildernesses — about the environment around them. She’s been working in journal