T he No. 1 sign I’m getting older? I’m starting to think about generations a lot when I go to music festivals.

When the mind begins to wander in festival downtime waiting for the next band to start playing, my sociology-inclined brain starts filtering out demographic groups to contextualize the general musical climate. That was especially the case when venturing over to Seattle for Bumbershoot over Labor Day weekend .

With Bumbershoot downsizing to three stages over two days this year, they weren’t as clearly split as past years when there was more counter-programming between the stages. But enthusiasm can still be gauged even if the makeup of the crowd didn’t drastically shift.

While the festival has certainly skewed towards targeting an elder millenial/Gen X audience the past cou

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