Weekend calendar of events
Friday August 9th 6:35pm
Irish Heritage Night at the Wilmington Blue Rocks with fireworks sponsored by the ICCD!
Saturday August 10th
The Diamond State Feis and Treble Reel Party and the music festival is back!! McMark and Company, Seven Rings, and Gerry Timlin will get the crowd boppin' with Irish tunes and rock classics! We will ultimately add the scheduled times for each band once finalized.
Sunday August 11th
The Delaware Feis, the NAFC Minor Belt Championships, and Storytellers session.
10:30am-11:30am - Kara Briggs
11:30am-12:30pm - Ed & Brett Taylor
12:30pm-1:30pm - Kara Briggs
1:30pm-2:30pm - Ed & Brett Taylor
Kara Briggs - "Festival of the Harvest Season"
Local historian Kara Briggs earned her MA in Historic Preservation from the University of Delaware. Kara is an architectural historian with the Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs’ State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO). She is a nearly lifelong member of I.C.C.D. and is well versed in Irish history and mythology. Kara is the author of “Images of America: Forty Acres” about that predominantly Irish neighborhood in Wilmington, Delaware.
Ed Taylor & Brett Taylor - "The Mills"
Edwin Taylor is a filmmaker / folk historian who has created Powdermen, a book and TV series being pitched to Hollywood and publishers. The content of which follows the local travails and achievements of the Irish immigrants who, along with many other national immigrants, settled here to live and work with the industrialists credited with building Wilmington.
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