Bumbershoot: Talent Lineup Announced

Organizers for Bumbershoot have announced the complete lineup for this year's arts festival, which takes place Labor Day weekend at Seattle Center.

Bonnie Raitt, Jethro Tull, Rickie Lee Jones, Third Eye Blind, Live, and Screaming Trees are among the top acts scheduled to perform. Here are some of the daily highlights:

Friday, Sept. 4 - Modern rockers Live, Angelique Kidjo, Native American author-filmmaker Sherman Alexie, Canadian singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn, African children's troupe Circus Ethiopia, Celtic stompers The Paperboys, and singer/songwriter Dar Williams.

Saturday, Sept. 5 - singer/songwriter Rickie Lee Jones, classic rockers Jethro Tull, Beatle offspring Sean Lennon, modern rockers Third Eye Blind, trip-hoppers Morcheeba, Peruvian vocalist Susana Baca, Seattle rock trio Modest Mouse, indie rockers Yo La Tengo, anthropologist Jane Goodall, and 1997 U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Haas.

Sunday, Sept. 6 - Playwright-performer Eric Bogosian, folk diva Joan Baez, blues guitarist RL Burnside, reggae band Steel Pulse, lo-fi techno band God Lives Underwater, The Alarm's Mike Peters, '60s rockers ? and the Mysterians, New York's Doug Elkins Dance Company, taiko drummer Leonard Eto and the Crescent City sextet New Orleans Klezmer All-Stars.

Monday Sept. 7 - Honky-tonk legend Buck Owens, blues singer Bonnie Raitt, Ellensburg rockers Screaming Trees, country singer Kim Richey, indie folk diva Mary Lou Lord, reggae stars Burning Spear, singer/songwriter Pete Droge, American Music Club founder Mark Eitzel, Seattle indie rockers Sunny Day Real Estate, alt-country from Mike Ireland and Holler, folk singer Dave Van Ronk, Spearhead frontman Michael Franti, trippy British songstress Beth Orton, and Cuban trombone master Jimmy Bosch.

Tickets are available now through Bumbershoot's Web site at www.bumbershoot.org, and beginning Aug. 3 at Western Washington Rite Aid stores and Ticketmaster. Daily tickets are $10 in advance, $14 at the gate; two-day passes are $18; four-day passes are $32. For more information, call the Bumbershoot Hotline at 206-281-8111.