The Olympia Harbor Days Festival, a free event offered every Labor Day Weekend, is an award winning free and family friendly event that showcases many of the vintage tugboats of the Puget Sound with a walk aboard show at the docks and races in the bay.  Visitors to the event may also find tall ships, steamships, other historic vessels of twentieth century commerce, tribal canoes, and current recreational small watercraft.  Harbor crises and sailings on Budd Bay are also offered.

On land, festival attendees enjoy great food, great music, great artisans, plus nautical and marine themed attractions, and hands on activities, including Olympia’s tugboat heritage, tribal history and the working waterfront with Port of Olympia tours.  All in all, here are over 300 things to do and see.

Bring your kids to this family-friendly maritime celebration and fuel their dreams of working on the water and sailing the world when they grow up. Olympia Harbor Days Festival also includes locally hand built small watercraft, tribal cultural sharings, sand carving, a LEGO Harbor Build, and dancing pirates just to name a few. The location at Percival Landing is a well-known Pacific Northwest maritime landmark located in downtown Olympia, the WA state Capitol, and is the southern-most tip of the Puget Sound, a destination for many who travel by boat. Hotels, shops, gallery’s, a children’s museum, restaurants, and bars featuring locally brewed beers, wines and distillery products are all within walking distance of the event.  For more to do before or after your festival

PERCIVAL FOOD G’ALLEY
-Bulgogi Hustle: Asian bowls
- Calvery Catering: Polish & German sausage
- Carlson Catering: Burgers, gyros, dogs, phillys, fries, lemonade
- Crabby’s Crab Cakes and Seafood Delights: Crab cakes, crab rolls, crab burritos, crab dip
- Cute Dumplings: Dumplings, bao buns, shish-kabob, bubble tea
- An' Tingz: Jamaican BBQ chicken!
- Little Creek Casino: Open pit cedar smoked salmon
- Little O’s Donuts: Cinnamon & sugar mini donuts
- Mr Roasties: Roasted corn and Elote
- OlymPITA: Middle eastern food including falafel, shawarma and hummus
- Oyster Boys: Asian bbq oysters, shrimp or porkbellie tacos, shaved ice
- Sweet Dreams: 20 flavors gourmet cotton candy & caramel apples
- Sweetlee’s Ice Cream: homemade ice cream, vegan options
- Tacos la Esquinita: Tacos, burritos, tamales
- Tony's Ynot Italian Ice: Ital Ice, sodas, slushies, pretzels, lemonade

PORT PLAZA FOOD G’ALLEY
- Breakthrough Hulihuli: Polynesian BBQ chicken and ribs
- Family Education & Support Services: make your own smoothie bike
- Johnson Insurance Solutions: Hamburgers
- Puget Sound Pizza: Pizza & cheeseballs
- The Village Perk: Coffee, espresso, redbull, cannoli
- Una's Kettle Corn: Kettle corn and lemonade

Schedule:

September 1, 2023

PERCIVAL LANDING MAIN STAGE:

- Squaxin Island Tribal Blessing / Opening - 5 - 5:15 p.m.

- Mick Hart and the Classic Vinyl Band (Classic rock) -  5:15 - 8 p.m.

- Beluga (Calypso) - 8:15 - 9:30 p.m.

PORT PLAZA TOWER STAGE:

- The Just Clark Band (Americana folk) - 5:15 - 8 p.m.

- Amira’s Belly Dancers (Belly dancing) - 8:15 - 9:30 p.m.

LIVE MUSIC ROAMING

- Two Town Tuners (Barbershop) - Fri 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

September 2, 2023

PERCIVAL LANDING MAIN STAGE:

- Cosmos Dream (Acoustic) - 10 - 11:30 a.m.

- Funk Town Blues Band (Blues) - 12:00 -1:45 p.m.

- River Ridge Taiko Ensemble (Japanese Drumming) - 2:15-3 p.m.

- Jim Page (Folk) - 3:30 - 5 p.m.

- The Oly Mountain Boys (Blue Grass) - 5:30 - 7 p.m.

PORT PLAZA TOWER STAGE:

- Rainier Riff (Jazz, rock, country, folk) - 10 - 11:30 a.m.

- Zumba (Dance) - 12:00 -1:30 p.m.

- Mukana Marimba (Marimba) - 2 -3:00 p.m.

- Coast Salish Tribal (Drumming & Dance) - 3:00 - 5 p.m.

- Tone Roller (Classic rock) - 5:30 - 7 p.m.

LIVE MUSIC ROAMING

- Two Town Tuners (Barbershop) - Sat 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

- Knot For Sale (Sea Shanty) - Sat & Sun Assorted Hours

September 3, 2023

PERCIVAL LANDING MAIN STAGE:

- Cavort (Celtic) - 10 - 11:30 a.m.

- Linda Carroll and Retro Grüve (Blues, soul, swing, jump) - 12 -1:30 p.m.

- Selassie Ites (Reggae) - 2:00 -3:30 p.m.

- Rich Wetzel / Groovin Higher Orch. (Jazz) - 4 - 5:45 p.m.

- Squaxin Island Tribal Blessing / Closing - 5:45 - 6 p.m.

PORT PLAZA TOWER STAGE:

- JT Underwood (Folk) - 10 - 11:30 a.m.

- Erich R. Ebel (History Talk) - 12 - 12:45 p.m.

- Budd Bay Sea Shanty Singers (Sea Shanty) - 12:45 - 1:45 p.m.

- Fisher Poets (Poetry/Song) - 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.

- Choro Tomorrow (Brazilian) - 3:30 - 5 p.m.

- Samba Olywa Pirates (Samba) - 5 - 6:00 p.m.

LIVE MUSIC ROAMING

- Two Town Sound Quartet (Barbershop) - Sun 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.

- Cool Breeze (Calypso) - Sun Assorted Hours

- Knot For Sale (Sea Shanty) - Sat & Sun Assorted Hours

Date: September 1 - 3, 2023

Location: Various Venues in Olympia, WA 98501

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