Delaware festivals
several annual festival delaware firefly music festival annual fourday music festival first held july held woodland acre site adjacent dover down dover festival feature nationallyknown musical act performing several stage fourday period headliner act included killer black key jack white included total act festival ground also feature camping area food beverage venue approximately people attended festival big august quarterly also referred big quarterly august quarterly annual religious festival held wilmington delaware festival started peter spencer connection quarterly meeting conference african union church four meeting year one august became annual conference church minister assignment next year announced among business — time free black slave alike come together multistate area celebrate faith singing dancing testifying feasting oldest celebration country senator joe bidens remark significance big quarterly published congressional record july vol august vol delaware state fair also known harrington fair delaware state fair delaware state fair occurs last two week july fair various musical act perform grand stand grand stand also used demolition derby circus performance entertainment delaware sängerbund german singer alliance hold annual threedaylong oktoberfest oktoberfest feature carnival ride german food demonstration german singing dancing delaware shakespeare festival outdoor shakespeare festival take place summer month rockwood park located near wilmington mission delaware shakespeare festival create professional theatre educational program order understanding appreciation shakespeare’s work wilmington home several ethnic festival sponsored traditional ethnic church city popular italian festival hosted held june neighborhood surrounding st anthony padua roman catholic church highlight italian festival procession church statue saint throughout community last afternoon festival st hedwig roman catholic church sponsor polish festival along city riverfront october holy trinity greek orthodox church present greek festival church ground june ethic festival feature carnival ride ethnic food craft musical performance end october rehoboth beach hold annual sea witch halloween fiddler festival clifford brown jazz festival free jazz music festival held annually rodney square wilmington honor wilmington native respected jazz trumpeter clifford brown first festival held open lawn central area city wilmington flower market held may wilmington rockford park flower market threeday long festival serf fundraiser charitable organization benefit delaware child weekend halloween sussex county hosted world championship punkin chunkin pumpkin shot device airpowered cannon trebuchet catapult various contraption performance various style class device supplemented food booth musical performance punkin chunkin held due legal insurance issue cancelled second weekend october bridgeville host annual apple scrapple festival carnival center around preparation consumption apple scrapple also includes contest live entertainment car show tractor pull craft show second saturday march chocolate festival rehoboth beach convention center feature chocolate made professional amateur bakery child tradition unique delaware return day occurs every two year thursday following november general election believed event kind united state continuation tradition date back delaware earliest day th century festivity include reading election result sussex county courthouse balcony town crier parade winner loser ride together open coach roasting ox behind courthouse ceremonial symbolic burying hatchet sand lewes beach dover day celebrated midspring early summer dover delaware feature town history culture festival highlight paradefollowed carnival ride food stand along historic green downtown