Southern Maryland Celtic Festival April 27, 2019

I’d been waffling between the Fells Point Maritime Heritage Festival (Formerly the Privateer Festival which I attended last year) and the Southern Maryland Celtic Festival. Then a member of a living history group called the Wilde Irishe emailed me to see if I could come and that sealed the deal. The Maritime Heritage Festival will have to wait another year.

I found this event to be well put together and well worth the steep entry fee of $25 ($20 if purchased in advance plus a service charge). There’s a wide variety of things to see and do here with a lot of competitions from dance to music to sports.

There were also a large number of food options with at few doing Celtic food and drink. As the line to those were long I did the shrimp basket from Calvert Crabs which I found to be reasonably priced for event food at $10 for the basket and $1 for the bottle of water.

There were a number of living history groups from a variety of time periods spaced out comfortably with a variety of exhibits and demonstrations for the visitors to enjoy and learn from. The photo below is one I took of the Wilde Irishe group.

I ran into an exhibit presented by The Longship Company, a boat called the Gyrfalcon. I hadn’t heard of them before but hope to be able to catch their vessels on the water soon!

I would definitely recommend keeping an eye out for this event next year if you missed this one! You can see more photos I took at this event by clicking here.

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