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The venue opened as Coca-Cola Starplex Amphitheatre on July 23, 1988, [2] with a concert by Rod Stewart. The outdoor covered amphitheater featured 7,500 seats under a pavilion and 12,500 general admission lawn seats. [3] After Coca-Cola's naming rights expired in 1998, the venue was known simply as Starplex Amphitheatre.
The Music Hall at Fair Park (originally the Fair Park Auditorium or State Fair Auditorium) is a performing arts theater in Dallas, Texas's Fair Park that opened in 1925. [ 4 ] The building features Spanish Baroque architecture with Moorish influences, including six stair towers topped with cast domes and arcade porches overlooking Fair Park.
Among Seattle's best-known annual cultural events and fairs are Seattle Art Fair, [31] Seattle International Film Festival, Northwest Folklife over the Memorial Day weekend, numerous Seafair events throughout the summer months (ranging from a Bon Odori celebration to hydroplane races), the Bite of Seattle, and Bumbershoot over the Labor Day weekend
A free outdoor performance featuring giant puppets, live music, circus arts and vertical dance will be put on at the World's Fair Park Amphitheater 7-9 p.m. Oct. 11 and 13.
It was one of several places where Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke November 10, 1961, on his only visit to Seattle. [3] The building also served as the home of the Unity Church of Truth from the mid-1950s until 1960, and was a major rock concert venue from the mid-1960s until 1970.
Originally opened as the Seattle Center Coliseum in 1962, it was renovated in 1995 as KeyArena and rebuilt in 2020-2021 as Climate Pledge Arena. The arena hosts over 100 events per year and was the region's top live concert touring venue in 2016 (according to Venues Today magazine)
This 1996 map of the Pioneer Square-Skid Road Historic District shows the location of the Kingdome (at the lower right in the map). The Kingdome (officially the King County Stadium) [4] [note 1] was a multi-purpose stadium located in the Industrial District (later SoDo) [7] neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, United States.
The first gig, on 7 June at Hyde Park, London was witnessed by 100,000 fans. [1] This was followed by a series of dates in Scandinavia through the rest of the month, followed by a US tour starting in Madison Square Garden on 12 July. [2] The US tour continued until the group's final concert on 24 August in Hawaii, after which the group split. [3]