Northwest Folklife Festival, held at the Seattle Center (former Seattle World's Fair ground), 74 acres of both indoor and outdoor concert venues, ranging from a 2,890 seat opera house (CLICKY #1) to meeting rooms that can handle a hundred people or so, along with outdoor locations (complete with stages). The amphitheater in from of the Horiuchi Mural (CLICKY #2) has held as many as 15,000 people (during one of the Seattle Center Hootenannies in 1963). Anything from formal concerts, song circles, workshops of various kinds, jamming, busking......

It's held on the last weekend in May, beginning Friday evening and lasting until Monday evening (Monday is Memorial Day in the U. S.).

Several thousand performers. Draws crowds in the hundreds of thousands (free to the public—so far). On the one hand, a great event for hearing people, "meet and greet," song fests of various flavors.....

On the other hand, it's a bloody mob-scene.

But you never can tell who might show up.

Don Firth