WEST SEATTLE SUMMER FEST 2025: Final hours!

3:02 PM: This is it – last call to get down to West Seattle Summer Fest, which wraps up at 5 pm. Music ends around 4 – last scheduled act is Massy Ferguson, on the West Side Stage at 3 pm. And Better As Brass (above), founded by West Seattle resident Kevin Freitas, is busking at California/Alaska right now. Kevin says this is their second year at Summer Fest, and that he started it because “I just wanted a brass band in West Seattle!” …Also an unofficial part of the festival, the canvassers – WSB’s Hayden Yu Andersen talked to Erin Phillips, volunteering for Washington Bus – an organization that encourages young people to get politically active- drumming up support for Seattle’s Democracy Voucher program.

She’s from Northeast Seattle but told Hayden she’s having a great time learning about West Seattle during her first Summer Fest. (Speaking of politics, mayoral candidate Joe Mallahan remains the only candidate we’ve seen here, but incumbent mayor Bruce Harrell is due at the West Seattle Indivisible meeting in the Center for Active Living at 3:30 pm – we’re planning to be there.)

Meantime, we found a booth with multiple artists exhibiting, from Rain City Clay in Arbor Heights:

That’s one of the artists, Jody Wally.

4:23 PM: A sign that the festival is wrapping… deflation has begun:

The Summer Fest crew’s goal is for breakdown to be done by 9 pm; streets are expected to remain closed until 10.

6:26 PM: The mayor’s appearance lasted more than twice as long as planned; story to come. Your editor got back to the festival in its waning moments. Huge thanks to everyone who hung out with us, contributed content, and/or stopped by to say hi over the three days, and therefore made it possible to get through the first Summer Fest without WSB co-founder Patrick Sand (who usually spent many days ahead of time preparing, from collecting and collating festival info to amassing and packing tabling supplies like tape and tacks – we managed to find all that and brought it along).

9:20 PM: One loose end from this afternoon – we did get some video of Massy Ferguson, last scheduled stage band of the festival, but technical trouble prevented us from a timely upload:

We love WSB July 13, 2025 (7:51 pm)

Thanks again, WSB for all you do, this fest was fantastic and having WSB so carefully covering the details makes us so lucky as always.

local July 13, 2025 (8:59 pm)

Thank you WSB for your dedication even in Patrick’s absence. West Seattle appreciates you so much!

Bob Anderton July 15, 2025 (2:42 pm)

I enjoyed West Seattle Summer Fest last Saturday but I lost my prescription sunglasses there. They are not going to work for anyone else, so they may have been tossed aside and will hopefully be found eventually. No luck with the lost and found at the event. They were in a black case and are black plastic frames with red mirrored lenses.I’d really appreciate getting them back if anyone finds them.Thanks!

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