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As E Pike at 10th prepares once again to become the epicenter of the annual Capitol Hill Block Party, a production group with Pike/Pine roots will be powering Seattle’s largest annual musical festival for the next decade.

Earlier this summer, the Seattle City Council authorized a new ten-year agreement with New Rising Sun to produce the annual Bumbershoot Music & Arts Festival and related activations at Seattle Center.

CHS reported here in 2022 on New Rising Sun’s plans for reviving the festival in 2023 under a leadership group including Steven Severin of Neumos and Life on Mars, and Greg Lundgren of First Hill’s Museum of Museums and Vito’s.

Vito’s, by the way, remains semi-permanently shuttered on First Hill after a damaging fire in the summer of 2022. Lundgren told CHS the building owner was in negotiations with the insurance company and there was uncertainty around “if the building will be torn down or rebuilt.”

The ten-year deal comes as New Rising Sun is preparing for the 2023 return of the two-day Bumbershoot festival later this summer after CHBP producers tried their hand at a Labor Day festival at Seattle Center in 2022.

Bumbershoot will mark fifty Years this Labor Day Weekend, September 2nd and 3rd.

Learn more at bumbershoot.com.

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