If you follow our Things To Do calendar, you already know that Seattle has an embarrassment of riches when it comes to great events—November is no different. There may be colder weather and shorter days this month, but there’s no shortage of excellent arts, music, food, and holiday events. Below, we’ve rounded up the 150 biggest events that you should know about, ranging from performances like George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker and The Humans, to big-name concerts like the Trans-Siberian Orchestra and Kid Cudi, to food events like the Miracle on 2nd Pop-Up and the Grilled Cheese Grand Prix, to authors like David Sedaris and Alec Baldwin & Kurt Andersen, to art events like SAM Remix and the opening of Seattle on the Spot, to holiday events like WildLights, the Green Lake Gobble & Mashed Potato Munch Off, and plenty of makers’ markets. See them all below, and, as always, find even more options on our complete Things To Do calendar.
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1. Earshot Jazz Festival
If you have any love for jazz in the Pacific Northwest, clear your schedule right now for the Earshot Jazz Festival. The nonprofit Earshot began life in 1984 and has presented 2,500 concerts since then, and the festival marks the yearly culmination of their programming. This year, it will feature more than 50 events in venues across the city, including “the contemporary giants of the art” (Brad Mehldau, Brian Blade, and Wycliffe Gordon), according to Charles Mudede, not to mention the avant-garde star Satoko Fuji and Greg Tate’s Burnt Sugar Arkestra, which is “all about Miles Davis fusion period.” What keeps Earshot so vital, year after year? “Jazz is an expanding universe,” said festival executive director John Gilbreath to The Stranger‘s Dave Segal in 2014. “All directions. All of the time. In Seattle, as around the world. And that’s the juice for this festival, presenting that momentum within the frame of this place, at this time.”
