President Obama will be back to raising money during his upcoming May 10 visit to Seattle, with The Dave Matthews Band headlining Obama’s second fundraiser in seven months at the Paramount Theater.

The tab is $5,000 for lunch and a picture with the 44th president, $1,000 for lunch, and general admission for that starts at $250 and goes down to $100 for cheap seats.

In each of two previous Obama visits, the $1,000 lunch has been the “low budget” event, with Obama heading off to Medina for a $35,800-per-couple event with the big givers. No such event has yet leaked to the news media.

Obama has held just one limited, public event during his two previous visits of the 2012 campaign cycle. He visited the Boeing Everett assembly plant during a February stopover and toured a 787 Dreamliner. In September, he greeted a few selected supporters after Air Force One touched down at Boeing Field.

Ordinary citizens have, on occasion, been brought in to introduce Obama at fundraising events. But absent have been the large public rallies beloved by the last Democrat who was campaigning to hold onto the White House.

Bill Clinton held a big rally at the Pike Place Market in 1996, did a bus tour through Southwest Washington with Al Gore — drawing 10,000 people in the Republican bastion of Lewis County — and spoke about job retraining at Shoreline Community College.

Obama will not linger long in Seattle. He has a $40,000-per-person event that night at the Southern California home of actor George Clooney.