Bumbershoot �Cis an annual international music and arts festival held in Seattle, Washington. One of North America s largest such festivals, it takes place every Labor Day weekend at the 74-acre (299,000 m2) Seattle Center, which was built for the 1962 World s Fair. Seattle Center includes indoor theaters, outdoor stages, McCaw Hall, and Memorial Stadium. The name of the festival was taken from bumbershoot, a colloquial term for umbrella, probably coined in the 19th century as a portmanteau of umbrella and parachute. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BumbershootSummer Solstice Parade and Pageant- is an annual event sponsored and produced by the Fremont Arts Council (FAC), an organization that supports the arts and artists in and around the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. Started in 1989 by Barbara Luecke and Peter Toms, the parade quickly grew to thousands of spectators and hundreds of participants. The parade kicks off the Fremont Fair, a benefit for the Fremont Public Association. The pageant, a large-scale community play using over a hundred dancers, musicians and giant puppets, follows the parade at the end of the parade route at Gas Works Park. Admission to the fair is free but donations (advertised to end poverty, and donated to the Fremont Public Association) are encouraged. The parade is famous for its wild and creative floats and ensembles and for the Solstice Cyclists who strip down before the parade and paint their bodies unofficially start the parade every year.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fremont_Fai��Bite of Seattle is an annual food festival that takes place over three days in July at Seattle, Washington, USA s Seattle Center.Founded by Alan Silverman, the president of Festivals, Inc., the first festival was held in 1982 at Green Lake, with 25 restaurants participating and 75,000 in attendance. In 2003, there were 60 restaurants participating with over 450,000 visitors.http://www.biteofseattle.com/home/defaul��Northwest Flower Garden Show is an annual exhibition of horticulture held in Seattle, USA, for one week each February. It is the largest garden show west of Philadelphia. It is held inside the Washington State Convention and Trade Center. The show features display gardens, awards, seminars, and a marketplace for plants and gardening supplies.http://www.gardenshow.com/Google is your friend ;)Also a list of fairs festivals in Seattle- http://www.seattle.gov/html/VISITOR/fest��
Instead of a Wikipedia answer, I ll tell you from a local s POV.Bumpershoot: Hundreds of bands over the span of Labor Day weekend. Lots of food, pot, festival type stuff. Lots of famous artists in the stadium and local bands. Huge attendance (I don t go anymore because it costs so much).Fremont Fair: Awesome parade where naked people bike and paint themselves, there are cool floats, and all the hippies come out. You can buy lots of cool souvinery things.Bite of Seattle: It has music, not on the scale of Bumbershoot, but good enough. Its basically just tons of food stands from all over the world. Go if you re hungry, but it s gotten expensiveYou should move here, it rocks!!!
Yeah every season during the year and every year the Downtown Association does those events to bring color to the city and make it mor attractive for the visitors and also for the residents to enjoy. Here is thier link http://www.downtownseattle.com/
Bumbershoot is definitely worth checking out. We attended the Bite of Seattle this year and were really disappointed.