46th Annual Northwest Folklife Festival

From 46th Annual Northwest Folklife Festival Website:

On Memorial Day Weekend, Northwest Folklife will present the 46th Northwest Folklife Festival a signature event for this region. Once again, we will host 800 performing groups, 5,000 artists and 152 cultural communities. The past 45 years have only been possible because of gifts of support, and we thank our contributors and Friends of Folklife!

While this celebration of our folk arts and traditions has long heralded the start of summer, in 2017, the Northwest Folklife Festival feels especially significant. In this era of our polarized society, when distrust, fear and anger is so prominent, we need to find those places where we share space, engage with one another and build community.