Northwest Folklifepresented a Bulgarian Community Celebration for the 2011 Northwest Folklife Festival, which took place on Friday, May 27 through Monday, May 30.

The Bulgarian community is a growing part of the Balkan community in the Pacific Northwest, numbering around five thousand in the Seattle area alone.

Read more about the Bulgarian Cultural Focus at:

http://www.nwfolklifefestival.org/cultural-focus/bulgarian-celebration/

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“A Bulgarian performance of dance, folk music and singing was so popular that Seattle police reported that the line for the show snaked outside the door, weaving through the parking lot and into the street...”

Read the full article of The Seattle Times at the following link: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2015190731_folklife31.html