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Mo Chairde (Friends),
Cead Mile Failte! (100,000 welcomes)! The 2009 St.
Patrick’s Day Parade and
Charlotte Goes Green Festival invites our sponsors, our vendors,
and you to participate in the Twelfth Annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade and
Charlotte Goes Green Festival, which will take place on Saturday, March 14,
2009.
We are proud to announce this
year's Grand Marshal, WBTV news anchor, Maureen O'Boyle.
40,000
spectators watched Charlotte’s Eleventh Annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade as it marched through
the heart of Charlotte to the sound of pipes and the cheers of the families
lining the streets. The combination of flags, floats, kids, and pipe band music
made everyone smile and be Irish for a day. The Twelfth Annual Parade will be even
bigger and better!
The St. Patrick’s Day Parade grows in size each year as
more participants become part of an annual tradition. Charlotte’s St.
Patrick’s Day Parade is a community wide combination of traditional bagpipe
bands, floats, various organizations and Irish dancers marching with recreation-center drill teams and
neighborhood associations.
Parade:
The St. Patrick’s Day Parade is a non-profit event, open
to the public. The
Parade is open to neighborhood associations, schools, alumni groups,
cheerleading and drill teams, international organizations, police, fire, elected
officials, commercial businesses, and anyone else who wants to be Irish for a
day.
Important! This year we will have a new parade route and
for this year only, we have a different start time for the parade since the ACC
Tournament is in town on the same day. The parade will step off at 10:30AM at
Tryon and 9th street in uptown Charlotte. The parade will march South to Tryon
St. and 3rd. Street.
Festival: We expect
that the 2009
Charlotte Goes Green
Festival will be our biggest and most attended yet. There
will be something for everyone from 6 to 60 to enjoy.
We have moved over slightly to a new location this
year, which is next to last year's location. The Festival will be held on
Tryon St.
from 3rd St.
to 1st St.
The festival hours are 10AM – 6:30PM and it will feature Irish music,
Irish dancers, bagpipers, food, vendors and plenty of beverages. There is no
admission fee, it's all Free!
Check out our photos page for pictures of the 2007 parade
and festival.
We’ll have more
announcements throughout the year about festival activities.
Keep watching this site.
Slan,
Linda Dyer Hart
St.
Patrick’s Day Parade Founder
Art Fitzgerald
Parade Director
The Charlotte St. Patrick’s Day Parade is organized
and operated by the Charlotte St. Patrick’s Day Parade Foundation, Inc. We
are a 501c3 non-profit organization and receive no public funding. For more
information or to make a donation, please contact Linda Dyer Hart
The Twelfth Annual
Charlotte Goes Green
Festival is
produced by Dyer Hart Productions.
The Twelfth Annual
Charlotte
Saint Patrick's Day Parade is organized by the Charlotte St.
Patrick's Day Foundation, Inc.
You can also apply on line for the 2009 Parade on the website www.charlottestpatsday.com/application.htm
For further information contact Linda Dyer Hart at:
803-802-1678 or via e-mail at dyerhart@hotmail.com
For 2009 Sponsorship opportunities or
Vendor
applications (Irish arts/crafts/food),
contact Linda Dyer Hart.
2008 Sponsors
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