Community Calendar

27TH ANNUAL
BRAZILIAN FESTIVAL
AUGUST 17TH | 2025
12pm - 7pm
Seattle Center 305 Harrison St - Seattle WA

FREE FESTIVAL | ALL AGES

Live music, Brazilian Food, Music Workshops, Dance Workshops, Kids Activities and exhibits.
Seattle Center's Festál, is a series of cultural community festivals and events designed to celebrate, preserve and share the rich traditions of the region's diverse communities with the widest possible audience. Festál is a vital part of Seattle Center's role in helping to build a larger community and is presented by Seattle Center Foundation.

BrasilFest is to expose our community to Brazilian arts and traditions during the week of the Brazilian Folklore Day. This is a unique mission, as this day is not usually celebrated outside of Brazil. In Brazil, this event is an important educational tool in continuing Brazilian folkloric traditions. Our mission goes beyond keeping traditions alive, and combines traditional and contemporary Brazilian expressions. It provides an opportunity to bring together all artists and organizations concerned with Brazil and to unite them in one venue. Thereby we hope to increase the visibility of the Brazilian cultural landscape to our community.

BrasilFest was created in 1999 by Brazilian immigrants Eduardo and Ana Paula Mendonça.

Join the fun and discover the cultural arts, heritage, and traditions that are the centerpiece of BrasilFest, a family-oriented free event, showcasing the lively culture and spirit of Brazil.

This year, the spotlight shines on the resilience, achievements, and cultural influence of Brazilian women, with the theme “Brazilian Women: A Ccelebrate the extraordinary women who have shaped Brazil’s past and continue to redefine its future.

Festival highlights include a special panel discussion on Brazilian Women Entrepreneurs, coordinated by Larissa Prates and Jonathan Batista. Additionally, don’t miss an insightful panel on Brazilian Health Care Professionals, sharing valuable knowledge from Brazilian health care
professionals working in Seattle.

There will also be a variety of musical entertainment, plenty of energetic dance, delicious food, and authentic crafts, plus kid's activities.

BrasilFest was established in 1999 by Brazilian immigrants and husband and wife duo, Eduardo and Ana Paula Mendonça, to share Brazilian arts and traditions during the week of Brazilian Folklore Day. This is unique because the holiday isn’t widely celebrated outside of Brazil, yet is
an important day to educate and share Brazilian folkloric traditions.

BrasilFest is part of Seattle Center Festál, a year-round series of 25 free cultural festivals. Learn more about Festál (seattlecenter.com/festal).

Discover the joyous fun of the original swing dance, Lindy Hop! We start from the very beginning and make this class series accessible to everyone, regardless of experience. Get ready to have a whole lot of fun! Vaccination, Boosters, and Upgraded Masking Required.

🎷 Jazz Jam at Butter Notes Café 🎷
📍 Butter Notes Café – Everett, WA
🗓️ Every 1st & 3rd Sunday @ 2 PM

☕ Come sip, snack, and swing!

Join us for an afternoon of live jazz and spontaneous creativity at Butter Notes Café! Whether you’re here to play or just enjoy the vibes, you’re welcome.

🧇 Fresh croffles and warm coffee served all afternoon
🎶 Open to all instruments, all levels
💛 Donations encouraged to support local musicians and future sessions

Bring your instrument, your friends, or just your love for music!

Free Music Olympia presents the fourth annual Scherler Sundays afternoon concert series. 31 acts in total, spread across every Sunday in July and August. Featured performers include Swamp Dogg, Pearl and the Oysters, Some Velvet Sidewalk, Afrocop, Karl Blau, LAKE, Rae Isla, C.O.C.O., Soul-Junk, Sunbathe, Kendl Winter, Afrok, Seaside Tryst and many more! All ages, absolutely free, outdoors, ADA accessible, dog-friendly. Food, beverage and treats available on site.

Join us the 3rd Sunday of each month from 4-8pm for a pop-up CIDER tasting with Press Then Press cider shop (pressthenpress.com). We’ll be featuring bottle pours and tasting flights of craft, small-batch ciders. Each month will feature a new theme. A delicious and fun way to learn more about all things cider!

**Watershed Pub is located on the southwest corner of Thornton Place, one block from the Link Light Rail Northgate Station. ADA accessible facility, limited-mobility dropoff access directly from 3rd Ave NE. Plant-based, gluten free and alcohol free options available. Guide and service animals always welcome, dog friendly patio (well-behaved, on leash). Free, time-limited street parking and Thornton Place garage parking, and free transit center parking across 3rd Ave NE available.**

The Normandy Park Arts Commission has worked throughout the winter and spring to create an exciting summer music schedule for the annual ‘Music in the Park’ concert series! Every Sunday in July and August at Marvista Park, the City is hosting free concerts starting at 5:00 pm. These concerts are open to the public and feature live music and a theater performance. The summer will culminate with a special jazz music finale in late August featuring This finale will offer an entire afternoon of music with three bands. Bring a picnic blanket or lawn chair and enjoy this fantastic summer lineup in 2025

Immerse yourself in the sultry, swingin’ Jazz Age of the Harlem Renaissance, where the Cotton Club is the place to be! Infused with the iconic tunes of Duke Ellington, Dorothy Fields, Harold Arlen, and more, After Midnight weaves groundbreaking jazz standards with rapturous dance and the rhythmic poetry of Langston Hughes in a jubilant production fit to blow the roof off the theater. Timeless songs like “Stormy Weather,” “On the Sunny Side of the Street,” and “It Don’t Mean a Thing” will have you leaping to your feet to join the fun.

Winner of the Tony®, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards
Featuring a live jazz band on stage, and the best tap dancing in the Pacific Northwest
A 5th Avenue Theatre debut and original staging

Welcomed by KNKX. Frank Vignola is one of the most extraordinary guitarists performing before the public today. His stunning virtuosity has made him the guitarist of choice for many of the world’s top musicians, including Ringo Starr, Madonna, Donald Fagen, John Lewis, Tommy Emmanuel, Lionel Hampton, the Boston Pops, the New York Pops, and guitar legend Les Paul, who named Vignola to his “Five Most Admired Guitarists List:” for the Wall Street Journal.

His dynamic genre-spanning music has brought him to 21 countries on three continents – and still growing – performing in some of the world’s most illustrious venues, including the Sydney Opera House, Carnegie Hall, The Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, New York’s Lincoln Center, The Blue Note, and the world’s oldest indoor concert hall, Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, Italy.

Pasquale Grasso - It was the kind of endorsement most rising guitarists can only dream of, and then some. In his interview for Vintage Guitar magazine’s February 2016 cover story, Pat Metheny was asked to name some younger musicians who’d impressed him. “The best guitar player I’ve heard in maybe my entire life is floating around now, Pasquale Grasso,” said the jazz-guitar icon and NEA Jazz Master. “This guy is doing something so amazingly musical and so difficult. “Mostly what I hear now are guitar players who sound a little bit like me mixed with a little bit of [John Scofield] and a little bit of [Bill Frisell],” he continued. “What’s interesting about Pasquale is that he doesn’t sound anything like that at all. In a way, it is a little bit of a throwback, because his model—which is an incredible model to have—is Bud Powell. He has somehow captured the essence of that language from piano onto guitar in a way that almost nobody has ever addressed. He’s the most significant new guy I’ve heard in many, many years.”