Experience Seattle’s Jimi Hendrix Park this weekend
Oct 7, 2016, 1:56 PM
Before he became a rock icon, Jimi Hendrix grew up in Seattle. (Experience Hendrix image)
(Experience Hendrix image)
Are you ready to experience the long awaited Jimi Hendrix Park in Seattle? Phase one of the park opens this weekend, and is likely to cause crosstown traffic as locals come to honor one of Seattle’s most celebrated artists.
Located at 2400 South Massachusetts Street, in the heart of Seattle’s Central District, the initial phase of the Jimi Hendrix Park honors the legend’s place in Seattle history, as well as his immense influence on music.
It’s the product of six years of effort and fundraising $1.5 million by voodoo children and foxy ladies with a burning desire to see the park completed. The product is as bold as love.
Jimi Hendrix Park phase 1
Phase One is called “Little Wing” and includes an array of Hendrix-themed features, so even on a rainy day (likely in Seattle), patrons can dream away.
The gateway bears the artist’s signature. There’s a stairway over yonder, where the park entrance lays. The park includes deconstructed guitar features and flower petals among its landscape.
“The top of the guitar, you start this path, and along that path is a chronological timeline of his life,” said Project Manager Maisha Barnett. “Paralleling that, into the center of the park, are the lyrics of two of his songs – ‘Angel’ and ‘Little Wing.’”
There are also rain and butterfly gardens, and a range of trees and flowers.
Jimi Hendrix Park phase 2
Phase two of the Jimi Hendrix Park is still under construction, but is expected to debut in 2017.
The next portion will include performance spaces — with potential for jammin’ — and another art feature. The project still needs $329,000 to complete this portion.
“There will be an outdoor amphitheater area that can be for multiple purposes, the other part we are still fundraising for we call ‘The Shadow Way Wall,'” Barnett said.
That wall will display silhouettes of Hendrix and will be placed at the northern stretch of the park.
More information about the Jimi Hendrix Park effort can be found at www.jimihendrixparkfoundation.org.
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