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| Album | Bumbershoots Arts Festival 1985 |
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| Article number | GFR050 |
| Release date | 2015-10-09 |
| Genre | Pop,rock,soul |
| Description | BUMBERSHOOT ARTS FESTIVAL 1985 The first Bumbershoot Arts Festival was simply named ''Festival ''71''. The two-day event featured Sheb Wooley - best known for 1958 novelty hit "The Purple People Eater." It also included a logging show, indoor motorcycle races in the Seattle Coliseum, horseback rides for kids and "the world''s first electronic music instrument jam" The inclusion too of a ''Hot Pants Contest'' - a major attraction apparently, free of protest - suggests women''s lib had yet to reach Washington State by the often militant early 1970s. Total attendance was estimated at 150,000. Fast forward 15 years and the world - and indeed the Seattle festival - had changed. Pseudo-chauvinistic events were absent from the bill while among the few non-musical features was the somewhat higher-browed "Bumberbiennale," a retrospective of Seattle painting from 1925 to ''85. Police were brought in when too many fans tried to get into Stevie Ray Vaughan''s set in the Coliseum, and threatened to riot. Other popular acts performing included Bonnie Raitt (who, in addition to playing her own set duetted with SRV on a couple of numbers), Wilson Pickett, Bobby McFerrin, the Everly Brothers and dead-pan comedian Steven Wright. |
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Bumbershoots Arts Festival 1985
Ray Vaughan Stevie
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