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Seafair is an annual summer festival in Seattle, Washington, that encompasses a wide variety of small neighborhood events leading up to several major citywide celebrations. Its main events include the Torchlight Parade (and accompanying Torchlight Run), Seafair Cup hydroplane races, and an air show that often features the Blue Angels .
The Seafair Pirates, depicted here at White Center Jubilee Days (2007) just south of Seattle, are longstanding fixtures of Seattle's Seafair-sanctioned parades. Seattle, Washington, United States has almost twenty neighborhoods that host one or more street fairs and/or parades.
When the Gold Cup left Seattle for Detroit in 1955, local officials decided to hold a race of their own, and the Seafair Cup was born. [1] The 1951 Seattle race was co-sponsored through 1960 by the Seattle Yacht Club. Greater Seattle, Inc. (later renamed Seafair, Inc.) became the sole sponsor of the race, starting in 1961.
The 75th annual Seafair Festival begins June 29 and will feature more than 40 events over a 10-week period. Here's everything you need to know to find the right events for you.
Seattle, Washington includes fleet week during the annual Seafair. Seattle's Fleet Week was an outgrowth of its "Golden Potlatch" event that started in 1911. The Golden Potlatch was suspended in 1914, but was revived in 1934 as the "Seattle Potlatch of Progress and Fleet Week". This Fleet Week included a number of U.S. Navy ships.
And it’s the fourth consecutive Final at Seafair decided by penalty. The last Seafair, in 2019, Kelly was the beneficiary of a Shane penalty for going under 80 mph in the Final and got the win.
The Torchlight Parade is the longest of a series of parades around the greater Seattle area in the U.S. state of Washington. It is under the auspices of Seafair, a Seattle summertime celebration. The parade is one of the original Seafair events dating to the 1950 centennial celebration; the first parade was held on August 12, 1950, in the ...
The College Football Playoff got underway Friday but the main course is spread out through Saturday. Three first-round games will be played across three separate campus sites from State College ...