and it's already as crowded as fuck.

You gotta get there really early if you wanna get a free wristband to see a mainstage show like the steve miller band

and the tickets to get in are 20 to 100 bucks!
this used to be a free festval.
it was began by the city of seattle as a way to ease the tension during the viet nam war.
the city fathers knew that in the summer it began, there would be rioting in downtown, so they started a music festival