St Patrick's Day Festival

After missing our town's St Patrick's Day Festivities the weekend prior to the holiday due to the weather, we made it to the 40th annual Columbia celebration in the Five neighborhood this past weekend.

Jim and I were all about the music rather than the green beer.

This neighborhood celebrates its history with murals and photos of what it was like the in 1940s and 1950s.

Some features have been preserved like this cowboy in a bathtub. This building is currently for lease so some lucky business can have this as an attraction.

The old theater is now a bar. This neighborhood has many bars since it is in walking distance to USC which seems to be a party school from what we witnessed!

There is an eclectic collection of buildings here.

I need some crazy green wearables for next year.

We saw many marvelous and fun outfits.

The day was like a music festival for us. 5 stages throughout the neighborhood, each on 1 of the 5 streets that intersect here. 

Many genres were represented including rock, funk, hip hop, country, folk and pop. The music started at noon and went until 8 - 9pm (we left before crowd got super drunk and wild). Each band played 1 hour so it was constantly changing with a fantastic variety. Definitely an event for the music lover.

Here were the entertaining 502s from Orlando. I am guessing they are a college band because the students here knew the lyrics. These guys used a great variety of instruments throughout their set.

 

This was the Stews out of Alabama. Since we are partial to rock, they were one of our favorites for the day.

 

We saw a lot of great bands and had a blast. The day started off cold and wet and ended up hot and sunny!

Here is the website for local's reference next year! https://stpatscolumbia.com/

Have a marvelous day/evening (wherever you are on the clock)! ~Val