KEXP Blog: Bumbershoot After Dark 2011

[philaros]

I spent much of last weekend in the Bumbershoot Music Lounge, taking photos of the "secret" in-studio performances that KEXP was broadcasting live each afternoon at the 2011 Bumbershoot Music & Arts Festival. But I also got out to see some of the other performances in the evenings, and I made sure to attend the inaugural sessions of Bumbershoot After Dark. Co-produced and curated by the people behind Decibel Festival, Bumbershoot After Dark was the first annual official afterparty for Bumbershoot, featuring electronic dance music in the spacious Exhibition Hall at Seattle Center. Unfortunately, because I had to get up in the mornings for my Music Lounge duties and because I had to rely on bus transportation home, I wasn't able to stay to the end of each session, which ran from 10 pm to 4 am. So I missed out on the second half each evening, but still saw and heard enough to know it was a good start for a great idea, and I hope it continues. You can read about my experiences in the full post on the KEXP Blog. I also contributed some photos; the full set is not yet up in my Flickr stream, but it is available in KEXP's Flickr. Also see the Bumbershoot category on the KEXP Blog for more coverage.

I have a little backlog of music posts to write: besides some brief notes on the rest of Bumbershoot, I also still need to post about this year's Concerts at the Mural series, and Sleepy Eyes of Death's final show at Neumos last month. Plus I'm going out to see Kinski tonight, and I'll be reviewing Unwoman's album Uncovered Vol. 1. So I'll have to make some time to get writing.