Mraz and many more added to Bumbershoot

Bumbershoot keeps growing.

The popular Seattle music and arts festival added more artists and bands to its long lineup. Joining such stars as Modest Mouse, Sheryl Crow, Katy Perry and Franz Ferdinand are: Jason Mraz, Kasabian, Audrye Sessions, The Knux, Akron/Family, Vivian Girls, The Devil Makes Three, Elvis Perkins in Dearland, Maximo Park, Wale w/ UCB, OTEP, Mirah, Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears, 3 Inches of Blood, U.S.E., Kay Kay & His Weathered Underground, Say Hi, Mayer Hawthorne & The County, The Minus 5 and Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band.

The new adds go on. Also on the list released this week: Telekinesis, Everest, Oren Lavie, The New Mastersounds, Dyme Def, Delhi 2 Dublin, The Dusty 45s, Visqueen, Truckasauras, Head Like a Kite, Akimbo, Paul Oscher "Alone with the Blues," Parenthetical Girls, Massy Ferguson, The Lonely Forest, Sleepy Eyes of Death and Past Lives.

Also joining the lineup: Macklemore, The Whore Moans Present: The Black Atom!, Michael Shrieve's Spellbinder, Wallpaper, Point Juncture, WA, D.Black, Spaceman, Kim Field & The Mighty Titans of Tone, Handful of Luvin', Champagne Champagne, Romance, Kristen Ward, Dept. of Energy, Hotels, The Kindness Kind, Mark Taylor Quartet, Black Whales, Kore Ionz, Grand Hallway, Anomie Belle, Steve Griggs Quintet, We Are Golden, Olympic Sound Collective, The Not-Its!, Central Services' Board of Education and Recess Monkey.

Even more acts are yet be announced.

Bumbershoot 2009 goes down Labor Day weekend, Sept. 5-7, at Seattle Center (See the entire lineup so far at www.bumbershoot.org).

Three-day passes are $80 until Aug. 21 (they cost $120 thereafter). Single-day tickets go on sale July 21. For details, call 206-281-7788 or go to www.bumbershoot.org.

Marian Liu: 206-464-3825 or mliu@seattletimes.com