Ballard SeafoodFest just one month away

Meghan Walker Ballard

Ballard’s biggest annual summer festival is coming up soon.

In its 45th year, Ballard SeafoodFest will take over central Ballard for three days, July 12th through 14th.

Events will include live music all three days, a massive beer garden, kids’ activities, the Festi-bowl skate competition at the Ballard Commons, and the ever-popular (and slightly disturbing) lutefisk eating contest.

The organizers are still looking for a few good volunteers — they need help with the beer garden, info booth, kids area, set-up and tear-down, game plank, and seafood shack. To sign up, click here.

We’ll update with more info closer to the date, but if you want to make your plans early, visit the SeafoodFest website to learn all about it.

23 thoughts to “Ballard SeafoodFest just one month away”

    1. I can. Tell us how many “seafood” stands there’ll be this year? Choices? There are a gazillion places serving “seafood” here in Seattle. How many will be represented in Ballard this year? Being seen is more urgent than the intent of the event. I think you can find more “seafood” at McDonald’s than you will again this year. But that doesn’t matter to the cool people. Uh uh, they need new pics on their I-phones.

      1. Gosh, I’d hate to see how you feel when you find out that Fremont Oktoberfest isn’t exclusively authentic, German Oktoberfest beers.

  3. Ah good nothing like paying 200% more for food truck fare prepared by temp festival staff.

    This pic is something from Portlandia: woke “nonbinary” wymyn narcissistically writhing, boomers in jorts, folded arm techies silently wondering why they live here.

      1. Not worse than you waiting by your computer for a new blog post here, only to embarrass yourself with some ignorant, childish comment.

        1. I don’t think there is anything in that statement that is technically incorrect. If that’s your thing, go for it. It’s a shame the only way people in Ballard can have fun is by slaughtering animals of the sea.

          1. shut it troll, nobody cares about what you think. Go ahead, cry to the mods, like you did before, they know you are a troll too.

          2. I think that was a little over the top. Often, when I get moody I go walk around and enjoy my beautiful surroundings.

          3. This is what they do. They know I’m right so they say I must be “basement dwelling 300lb cheetoh incel blah blah”.

            Libs are cancelled. Hey Woketards, remember how you screeched about the crime rate being down FOR YEARS ? Whelp, turns out everybody including Mayor Big Hands finally admits otherwise.
            Pathetic.

        3. This guy and his alternate personalities are three rungs beyond the bat-shit-crazy bar. Just hoping his over worked aorta gives out prior to his shooting spree.

          1. Freya…now you’re getting yourself all worked up🤓
            Maybe you would be better off taking your dog for a walk.

          2. Moderators, if saying you hope someone dies isn’t grounds to get someone removed, what is the bar?

    1. YES! This! Seafood Fest means summer and no matter what our differences we can all enjoy each other enjoying tasty food, a cold beverage and a beautiful festival day.

  6. Why is this thing called a “seafood” fest, when there’s basically 1 place serving “seafood”? For Gods sakes, we live on the Puget Sound, very close to the ocean, yet the choices for “seafood” are limited. This has turned into a hipster parade, where showing off your latest tattoo and bringing your dog is the thing to do. Worse yet, traffic sucks, and people drive WAY too fast up side streets, looking for “that spot”.

    2. It is as if seeing people enjoying themselves physically pains you.

      Pretty simple, if you don’t like it, don’t go. If you are unhappy with the choice of vendors, don’t go. If you hate people and fun, don’t go. Just shut up about your personal misery already.

      If you want to talk about how hard it is for small businesses in Ballard then stop whining about a festival that brings thousands in for a weekend where they will see, and possibly patronize the shops and most likely return to them after the festival. It’s a great time for the shops in and around Ballard to get new customers. It’s a great time for people to gather and build community.

      More than anything else I’m looking forward to the Skate Like A Girl “Festi-Bowl” and no amount of angry troll hate will make mem or the other thousands of happy people, agree that everything sucks and there are no solutions.

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