Seattle Center and the Bumbershoot music festival

Seattle Center has been the longtime site of Bumbershoot, an annual music and arts festival that traces its origins to the 1971 Festival '71 and later became known as Bumbershoot. Held across the Seattle Center campus, the festival historically presented a wide range of national and local musical acts and helped showcase Seattle artists to broader audiences. Bumbershoot's decades-long run at Seattle Center documents changing trends in the city's music scene and popular culture.