Special Events
First Thursday, arts, displays, exhibitions, talks and music, first Thurs of every month, Charles Street Corridor, free admission to Walters and BMA Martin Luther King Parade, Jan, Eutaw Street St Patrick’s Day Parade, Mar, starts at Inner Harbor Preakness Celebration, parades, concerts, races on the water and balloon launches, third weekend in May, throughout the city Preakness Celebration Parade, floats, marching bands and clowns, May, Downtown Preakness Celebration Events, May, Harborplace and The Gallery Preakness Crab Derby, May, Lexington Market Preakness Derby, May, Pimlico Race Course Volvo Waterfront Concert Series, Inner Harbor Harborplace and The Gallery Summer Concert Series, featuring music of all kinds from rock to reggae to big bands (website: www.harborplace.com), May-Sep, Amphitheatre Balticon, Maryland Regional Science Fiction Convention, May, Wyndham Harbor Hotel (website: www.bsfs.org/b39hist.htm) Latino Fest, cultural festival (website: www.eblo.org), first two weeks Jun, Patterson Park Annual Charles Village Parade, Jun, Charles Village Liberty Week at the Harbor - 60th Commemoration of D-Day, Jun, Harborplace Baltimore Fourth of July Celebration, 4 Jul, Harborplace Amphitheatre, Inner Harbor Artscape Festival (website: www.artscape.org), Jul, Mount Royal Avenue Maryland State Fair, originally just a farmers’ markets, now also includes hundreds of stalls and a massive fun fair (website: www.marylandstatefair.com), last week Aug and first week Oct, Maryland State Fairground, Timonium Baltimore Book Festival, Sep, Mount Vernon Annual Chocolate Festival, Oct, Lexington Market Fells Point Fun Festival, Oct, on and around Broadway, Fells Point Baltimore Thanksgiving Day Parade, Nov, Pratt Street to Market Place Lighted Boat Parade, spectacular event with over 50 boats decorated and glinting in the dark, first week of Dec, Inner Harbor
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