The weather is less than ideal, as it tends to be on Parade Day, but the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade will roll up Delaware Avenue nonetheless. The parade starts at 2pm and begins at City Hall and travels to North Street. Bring warm clothes, rain gear and a good attitude as you watch Buffalo's Irish-American community celebrate their biggest day of the year.
After the parade, you can continue the celebration at countless locations around the city including Darcy McGee's and the Buffalo Irish Center. The Irish Center - the epicenter of Irish culture in Western New York - has a full day of festivities planned. At 3pm, The Leftovers will be playing in the Irish Center bar. At 3:30pm, Penny Whiskey will be playing in the Center's Emerald Room. And at 5:15pm, the World Champion Rince na Tiarna Irish dancers will be performing.
Rince na Tiarna is a world-renowned Irish dance school based in Buffalo, NY. Rince na Tiarna dancers have won All-Ireland championships and World Championships and performed on local and national television shows. If you miss the dancers in today's parade and at the Buffalo Irish Center, they will also be performing at the Irishman Pub in Williamsville at 6:30 and at Malone's Bar & Grill in Kenmore at 7:30.
Picture: Fioana Dargan of Rince na Tiarna
Source: Buffalo Rising