Festivals

[hollyking]

The festival season is getting started and since this is the first full summer I’ll be here in Seattle I was wondering what festivals you would recommend I check out. I’ve got Bumbershoot, Bite of Seattle, Northwest Folklife, Fremont Fair and the U. District Street Fair on my list. What am I missing?

Comments

[jedifreeman.livejournal.com]

http://www.washingtonrenfaire.com/

[hollyking.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I keep forgetting about that one.

[dianthus.livejournal.com]

http://www.bellevuefest.org/

[intrepid-reason.livejournal.com]

I will be at a few of those. :)

[filksinger.livejournal.com]

You appear to have missed probably the biggest of them all: The Puyallup State Fair (http://www.thefair.com/page.asp?view=23). (Weird Al tickets are still available: get 'em while they're hot!)

There is also the Puyallup Spring Fair (http://www.thefair.com/) this weekend, the King County State Fair (http://www.metrokc.gov/parks/fair/), and, small by comparison, but not bad, the Kent Cornucopia Days (http://www.kcdays.com/).

Don't know what that last one is going to be like, though. It used to be pretty much a medieval fair, until it went up against a much bigger event of that type in scheduling. It nearly vanished, was rebuilt into a more multi-cultural event, and now has been moved about a month earlier in the year. Many of the more medieval elements were moving back in last year. They had the SCA out in force, as well as a living chessboard, as of last year, so who knows what it will be now.

[loba.livejournal.com]

Good to see you're interested in going out to lots of these (I go to several myself; perhaps I'll see you there). There is muchmuch fun to be had in the Spring and Summer. :-)

PS: You're welcome for the first list; glad to see it's getting used.

[loba.livejournal.com]

PPS: I checked with Jim; sorry to say that the Tall Ships won't be back in this neck of the woods for a year or so.

:-P Wish they were coming this summer. I know you really want to see them.

[cow.livejournal.com]

Hooray Streetfair and Folklife! I'll definitely be at both of those.

There's also Capitol Hill Block Party, although I can't remember if that's summer or fall.