by doitinnorth | Mar 9, 2025 | events/locations, evergreen
St. Patrick’s Day Irish Celebration
Each year, Irish Arts Minnesota hosts the annual St. Patrick’s Day Irish Celebration in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota.
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For over 40 years, we’ve invited the community to see local musicians, dance performance groups, art exhibitions, and storytellers. In 2024 alone, over 7,000 people from the Twin Cities joined us at the Landmark Center to celebrate Irish-American culture. Proceeds from our events help sustain our programs, like educational grants, that support Irish artists all year round. The St. Patrick’s Day Celebration is produced by Irish Arts Minnesota and is presented in partnership with the Minnesota Landmarks.
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We celebrate with all things Irish, with activities for the whole family!
Local and regional music on four different stages
Traditional Irish dancing from local dance schools and adult performance groups
Irish Marketplace with authentic Irish merchants, artisans, and informational resources
Traditional food, American-style sandwiches, with Irish and local beer
Seminars on Irish topics, including music, language, and theater
Children’s stage and crafts activities offered free of charge
Since 1967, the St. Patrick’s Association has been the organization behind the greatest Saint Patrick’s Day Parade in the nation, hosted in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Not only does our 100% volunteer group sponsor and coordinate the parade each year, but we also strive to donate at least $10,000 annually to local charities.
Most of our planning and fundraising is done during the six weeks leading up to Saint Patrick’s Day. But, we have a year-round presence serving our community. Whether cleaning up a park on Earth Day, volunteering with the Ronald McDonald House, or spreading cheer during the summer parades, you will undoubtedly see us sporting our green throughout the Twin Cities!
Rice Park
109 West 4th Street
St. Paul, MN
by doitinnorth | Dec 8, 2024 | art/design, evergreen
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The Star of the North Concert Band is a non-profit, charitable organization of over fifty musicians from the Minneapolis and St. Paul communities in Minnesota. The group was organized in 1994 to contribute to Minnesota’s musical tradition by providing an opportunity for local accomplished musicians to share their talents, develop their abilities, and make contacts with other performing musicians (locally, nationally, and internationally) via rehearsals, concerts, and tours.
by doitinnorth | Oct 27, 2024 | events/locations
Gangster Ghost Tour 2024
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History haunts the halls of Landmark Center as infamous gangsters return to life got Gangster Ghost Tour!
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One night a year, the rumors of Landmark Center’s haunting come true! Get ready for an all-new experience as we’ve transformed our infamous Gangster Ghost Tour, tailor-made for the ultimate ghost and gangster enthusiasts! Immerse yourself in the gritty world of bootlegging, gambling, and bank heists right in St. Paul. Encounter the infamous Barker gang, known for their daring bank robberies and kidnappings, meet Tim Filbin, the notorious slot machine ‘czar,’ and connect with the notorious Molls, including Evelyn Frechette, John Dillinger’s infamous partner. Embrace the eerie atmosphere as you explore the shadowy corridors of the Landmark Center. Don’t miss the chance to have your mugshot taken to show you’ve committed your own crime alongside these legendary figures.
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Event
Gangster Ghost Tour 2024
Wednesday October 30th, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
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Tickets available now!
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Advance ticket purchase is required.
$10 per person (suitable for ages 12+), tours begin at 6pm, last one hour, and depart every 15 minutes.
The last tour scheduled is 8:30pm.
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Location
Landmark Center
75 West 5th Street
St. Paul, MN
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by doitinnorth | Mar 13, 2022 | events/locations, evergreen
Irish Celebration
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Landmark Center: Experience all things Irish at this event featuring Celtic music, dancing and authentic vendors. Produced by the Irish Music and Dance Association, hosted by Minnesota Landmarks.
Thursday, March 17th – 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Landmark Center
75 5th Street W
St Paul, MN 55102
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Landmark Center
75 5th Street W
St Paul, MN 55102
(Visit irishmusicanddanceassociation.org for full vaccination policy.)
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The Greatest Parade in the Nation is Back!
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Thursday, March 17th – 12 p.m to 12:30 p.m.
St. Patrick’s Parade
109 W 4th St
St Paul, MN 55102
St. Patrick’s Parade: Join us as we paint the city of St. Paul green again! Shenanigans begin at noon starting at Rice Park, traveling down 5th St, and ending at Mears Park.
This year’s parade will be a reversal of our traditional route in years past. The fun begins at Rice Park (5th St & Market St) and will travel along 5th Street, ending near Mears Park (5th St & Sibley St).
We reversed the route this year so we can all head straight on to CHS Field to celebrate the return of St. Paul’s beloved St. Patrick’s Day Parade with a big party! The Ballpark Hooley presented by Guinness will start immediately after the parade (12:30 pm) and will feature live music by The Northerly Gales and Tim Sigler, Irish dancers, and some great food and drinks. Tickets for the Ballpark Hooley are $5 in advance or $10 at the door. (Parade is free)
St. Patrick’s Parade
109 W 4th St
St Paul, MN 55102
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by doitinnorth | Jan 30, 2022 | events/locations
~ 136th Winter Carnival ~
The final International Competition Ice Designs are now on view thru February 6th, weather permitting!
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The Saint Paul Festival and Heritage Foundation’s 136th Saint Paul Winter Carnival will run for 10 days – all day on weekends and evenings during the week. Now through Sunday, February 6th, the festival will attract 250,000+ people from Saint Paul and beyond to celebrate winter in Minnesota. Landmark Center, located in the heart of downtown Saint Paul, the Minnesota State Fairgrounds, and businesses throughout the city will be venues for event festivities, which include ice carving competitions, family-friendly artistic and educational activities, and much more!
The festival has expanded each year to provide new programming that reflects changing demographics of the community. Landmark Center features free entertainment activities from diverse cultures: music and dance by local artists, hands-on crafts, and food and merchandise booths from around the world.
Most events are fred, open to the public, and will take place in downtown Saint Paul, near Rice Park and Landmark Center, as well as at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds.
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History of the Saint Paul Winter Carnival
Since 1886, the Saint Paul Winter Carnival continues to bring family-friendly events and community pride to Saint Paul and the Twin Cities metro area.
The Saint Paul Winter Carnival is the oldest winter festival in the United States. It predates the Tournament of Roses Festival by two years.
Several Eastern newspaper correspondents kindled the start of the Winter Carnival by visiting Saint Paul in the fall of 1885 and returning home to report that Minnesota, in general, was another Siberia, unfit for human habitation.
A group of business owners decided to retaliate by creating a wintertime festival which would showcase all the beauty of Minnesota winters. They worked with the City of Montreal which already had a winter carnival in place. Due to a small pox epidemic which suspended the 1886 Montreal Festival, Saint Paul lured Alexander Hutchinson, the designer of Montreal’s ice palaces in 1883, 1884, and 1885 to blueprint Saint Paul’s first ice castle. The castle was constructed on February 1, 1886 at a cost of $5,210 with a height of 106 feet. A comparison to this first castle is the Pepsi Palace of 1992 with a cost of $1,900,000 and a height of 165 feet (a Guinness record).
As with the concept of the Montreal Festival, the legend and other activities were also adapted. Montreal’s Ice King accompanied by Queen Aurora. The Saint Paul characters in turn became King Boreas and the Queen of the Snows. The mischievous Vulcan and his red-caped Krewe were created from the Germanic tradition of the energy and disruption which springtime brings to the final days of winter.
The Winter Carnival Legend itself was initially written down by newspaper columnist Frank Madden in 1937 and has been updated and revised ever since.
Today, King Boreas and the Queen of the Snows rule over approximately 21 members of the Royal Family including Boreas’s four brothers Titan, Euros, Zephyrus and Notos along with their four princesses, the Prime Minister and up to ten Royal Guards. The culmination of the Winter Carnival is the dethroning of Boreas by the Vulcan Krewe.
The Royal Family and Vulcan Krewe are made up of volunteers that make over 400 appearances during the year to local and national festivals, nursing homes, schools and hospitals on behalf of the Winter Carnival and the City of Saint Paul.
The Saint Paul Winter Carnival is produced by the Saint Paul Festival and Heritage Foundation and is funded by private donations and corporate contributions. The Board of Directors, supported by hundreds of corporate and individual members, employs a full time staff to help plan this community celebration.
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Thank you and credit to the Minnesota Historical Society; the Ramsey County Historical Society; archives of the Pioneer Press and “Fire and Ice” by Moira Harris for helping contribute to this collection of history! Also, thank you to Winter Carnival’s own, Tom Barrett, for helping us digitize all this history!
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