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The
Seattle Saint Patrick's Day Parade,
recognized by CNN in 2009 as one of
the "Five places to get your green
on" in America, travels along a
1-mile route through the Emerald
City's downtown financial and retail
core the Saturday before Saint
Patrick's Day. Seattle's Saint
Patrick's Day Celebration is the
largest and oldest in the
Northwestern United States. In 2009,
some 20,000 spectators and groups
from throughout the Northwest turned
out for the city's Irish
shenanigans. Along with the annual
"Laying 'O the Green" where Irish
revellers mark the path of the next
morning's procession with a
mile-long green stripe, the Seattle
parade marks the high-point of
Seattle's Irish Week festivities.
The
week-long civic celebration
organised by the city's Irish
Heritage Club includes the annual
Society of the Friends of St.
Patrick Dinner where a century-old
Irish Shillelagh has been passed to
the group's new president for 70
years, an Irish Soda Bread Baking
Contest, a Mass for Peace that
brings together Catholics and others
in a Protestant church, and the
annual Irish Week Festival, which
takes place around Saint Patrick's
Day is enormous, including step
dancing, food, historical and modern
exhibitions, and Irish lessons. Many
celebrities of Irish descent visit
Seattle during its Saint Patrick's
Day Celebration. In 2010 The Right
Honourable Desmond Guinness, a
direct descendant of Guinness
Brewery founder Arthur Guinness,
will serve as the parade's grand
marshal. In 2009, The Tonight Show's
Conan O'Brien made a guest
appearance at the annual Mayor's
Proclamation Luncheon at local Irish
haunt F.X. McCrory's. And in 2008,
European Union Ambassador to the
U.S. and former Irish Prime Minister
John Bruton served as the parade's
grand marshal and marched alongside
Tom Costello, the mayor of Galway,
Seattle's Irish sister city. There
is also another Saint Patrick's Day
Parade, that also takes place in
Washington's eastern side of the
state in Spokane.
Starting from 4th Ave at Jefferson
in downtown Seattle. The Parade
travels north on 4th Ave starting
from Jefferson to the Reviewing
Stand at Westlake Park, and
officially ends at the Seattle
Center with Closing Ceremonies at 2
PM.
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