{"id":2448224,"date":"2019-09-01T09:31:36","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T15:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=879050"},"modified":"2019-09-01T09:31:36","modified_gmt":"2019-09-01T15:31:36","slug":"dozens-injured-after-steel-barricade-collapses-at-seattles-bumbershoot-fest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/dozens-injured-after-steel-barricade-collapses-at-seattles-bumbershoot-fest\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozens Injured After Steel Barricade Collapses at Seattle\u2019s Bumbershoot Fest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/5781077di.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Approximately 25 people were hurt \u2013 and four people hospitalized \u2013 after a stage barricade collapsed during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bumbershoot\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bumbershoot\" data-tag=\"bumbershoot\">Bumbershoot<\/a> music festival in Seattle Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The incident took place during Jai Wolf\u2019s set at the annual Labor Day weekend festival at the Seattle Center; roughly 3,000 people had congregated around the stage for the performance. Jai Wolf canceled the remainder of his set as soon as the four-foot-high barricade collapsed.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gNFbHJNFxgA?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSaturday night at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bumbershoot-festival\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bumbershoot-festival\" data-tag=\"bumbershoot-festival\">Bumbershoot Festival<\/a> there was steel barricade failure that resulted in several non-life threatening injuries,\u201d organizers <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bumbershoot\/status\/1168050684035391488\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">tweeted<\/a> in a statement. \u201cThose injured were handled by on-site medical teams and further treatment continued at an area hospital as deemed necessary.\u201d The four people hospitalized suffered minor injuries, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/f8db51f894474ddea1d879ec1d45de42\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>the Associated Press<\/em> reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs soon as I walked on the stage tonight, one of the steel barricades separating the crowd and the stage collapsed due to the crowd pushing and jumping on the hill,\u201d Jai Wolf said in a statement. \u201cI cut the music because I noticed members of the audience had fallen on top of each other. Before we could continue the show, we had to assess any potential injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jai Wolf\u2019s set has been rescheduled for Sunday night at the Memorial Stadium; Saturday Bumbershoot passes would be honored at the festival Sunday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.0882352941176\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">SEATTLE \u2013 we\u2019re rescheduling my <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bumbershoot?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">@Bumbershoot<\/a> set to today at 6:55 pm at Memorial Stadium\ud83e\udd18\ud83c\udffd <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eL2M3ShxGA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/eL2M3ShxGA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jai Wolf (@JaiWolfx) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JaiWolfx\/status\/1168082507939504133?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">September 1, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/steel-barricade-collapse-bumbershoot-879050\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Approximately 25 people were hurt \u2013 and four people hospitalized \u2013 after a stage barricade collapsed during the Bumbershoot music festival in Seattle Saturday. The incident took place during Jai Wolf\u2019s set at the annual Labor Day weekend festival at the Seattle Center; roughly 3,000 people had congregated around the stage for the performance. Jai [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2448224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 03:26:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}