Bumbershoot is an annual international music and arts
festival held in
Seattle,
Washington. One of North America's largest such festivals, it takes place every
Labor Day weekend at the 74-acre (299,000 m²)
Seattle Center, which was built for the
1962 World's Fair. Seattle Center includes both indoor theaters and outdoor stages. The name of the festival was taken from , a colloquial term for
umbrella, probably coined in the 19th century as a
portmanteau of the words umbrella and
parachute.