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September 1, 2013 at 8:58 pm #608935
2 Much WhineParticipantWe thought about going but tickets (with fees) are $69.50 per person! The price for a family of 4 would be $278 without any food drinks or parking. Am I the only one that thinks this is silly? I, for one, refuse to pay that much. Perhaps I was spoiled by the reasonably priced festival in the past. How about you?
September 1, 2013 at 10:41 pm #796980
JanSParticipantyes…way too high…many of us cannot afford that. I remember seeing Bonnie Raitt (twice) , KD Land, Dwight Yocum…5 bucks.
Is that for single day? Or the whole weekend?
September 1, 2013 at 11:15 pm #796981
DianeParticipantyep; I used to get pass for entire 4 day weekend; for $55; wasn’t all that long ago; but then quality went down so bad, wasn’t even worth that; now the prices are only for the wealthy; does seem quality has maybe increased again, but WAY too pricey
September 2, 2013 at 12:21 am #796982
elikapekaParticipantAgree wholeheartedly, and not just about Bumbershoot. Pretty much any concert or sporting event is going to cost a family several hundred dollars by the time you figure in all the costs. Husky tickets we paid $70 for last year were $140 for the game yesterday. Lots of people are getting priced out of much of what the city has to offer.
September 2, 2013 at 3:59 am #796983
hammerheadParticipantI also hear the parking prices are high too, with a lot of spaces in the neighborhoods taken away.
Then the “special” people with private box seats have special parking. (Talking about the new Husky stadium.)
September 2, 2013 at 4:18 am #796984
KevinParticipantContrast these rates to “Folk Life” which fortunately is still FREE!
September 2, 2013 at 5:17 am #796985
CandrewB1ParticipantYep, remember thinking the same thing a couple of years ago. “What, how much?” I guess you grow up and other things take precedence. Bumbershoot is no longer for me.
September 2, 2013 at 3:18 pm #796986
smokeycretin9ParticipantBUmbershoot used to be free. It also used to have more of an arts center about it. I remember art cars, underground animation series, and one year someone brought a Tesla Coil.
ho-hum, another “good old days” story
September 2, 2013 at 3:55 pm #796987
JoBParticipantit remains to be seen if Bumbershoot is pricing itself out of it’s audience
September 2, 2013 at 4:41 pm #796988
chris hParticipantWell, they sold 120,000 tickets before the event even started so there seem to be plenty of people willing to pay the price (including myself). I do miss the days when the full weekend pass was $55 and there was more of a focus on local music.
September 2, 2013 at 5:11 pm #796989
JanSParticipantchris h…how does that compare to previous years tickets sold/attendance? Any idea?
September 3, 2013 at 7:00 pm #796990
GrazieParticipantStopped going to B’shoot so many years ago I can’t recall when. Shame, it used to be the end-of-summer-fest I really looked forward to.
FolkLife gets my money now – glad to donate the suggested fee (and a bit more) for the amazing variety of music there – and the workshops – and many of the same food vendors who show up at Bite Of Seattle.
September 3, 2013 at 7:28 pm #796991
maplesyrupParticipant$70 seems like a lot on the surface but this year I got my money’s worth. Yesterday I saw 8 acts, most of them very good, + Patton Oswalt & Friends. Not a bad deal as far as I’m concerned.
The only downside is having acts in Key Arena. boo.
September 3, 2013 at 7:57 pm #796992
skeeterParticipantThat seems like a lot of money to me as well. But if that is what fans are willing to pay then that’s what it is. Ultimately it’s really the fans setting the ticket prices since they determine whether to buy or not.
September 3, 2013 at 8:08 pm #796993
datamuseParticipantIt’s been several years since I worked for Bumbershoot, but 120,000 is about on par with what I remember.
Key Arena itself might be one reason ticket prices have gone up. The reason Bumbershoot used to put acts in Memorial Stadium instead of Key Arena was that it was WAY cheaper. I’m not privy to the reasons for the change–it happened after I stopped working for the festival. Key Arena does have substantially larger capacity, though.
September 3, 2013 at 11:27 pm #796994
lazybeardParticipantBumbershoot began as a city funded event that was free to everyone and then in 1980 One Reel took it over as the city couldn’t afford to put it on anymore.
This article here (http://bit.ly/17qydbPs) states ticket prices are upwards of $55/day with 3 days going for $120 (published 5/3/2013).
The signs are there in the festivals that as the time gets closer to it, ticket prices go up (I got a bunch of email from The Stranger even telling me so).
Anyone could of bought a ticket then, and then re-sold it on the secondary market pretty easily for cover last weekend or even prior. The opportunities are there to get tickets at a better price, its just a matter of taking advantage of it.
$70 is a lot of money for a day at a festival, but if you spend an entire day, soak in what you can, you’ll get 12+ hours of music which is a great value considering the prices of individual concerts today (how much was Death Cab For Cutie’s last tour?).
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