Summer Festivals in Delaware

What Delaware lacks in size, it certainly makes up for in festival spirit. The number of festivals across the baby state is small, but they have a large impact. With music festivals that pay homage to legends, and draw some of the finest musicians of their genres from around the United States each summer, this little state heats things up from May through August.

There is musical entertainment in the form of everything from marching bands to orchestras at the Annual Old Dover Days in Dover, Delaware taking place on May 4, 2007 and May 5, 2007. If you like instrumentals, you will be in musical heaven. Maypole dancing, art and craft booths, food, an antique auto show, and actors dressed as colonial characters round out this great family event, making it accessible even to those who are not so into songs without words. For more information on Old Dover Days, check out http://www.visitdover.com/.\

The DuPont Clifford Brown Jazz Festival at Rodney Square in Wilmington, Delaware takes place this year from June 17 - June 24, 2007. The DuPont Clifford Brown Jazz Festival is the largest free outdoor jazz festival on the entire east coast! Each year, twenty or so of the best jazz artists in the country take part in the festival's events, performing before a crowd of ten thousand eager listeners. If you would like to attend, get all the facts you will need, including information on purchasing tickets from the website at http://cliffordbrownjazzfest.com/

If you love Bob Marley, you can connect with plenty of other fans at the Wilmington, Delaware Tribute toBob Marley People's Festival taking place on July 29, 2007. The event takes place in Tubman Garrett Riverfront Park, and draws Marley devotees from all over the country for a day devoted to celebrating both the music and the message of the infamous man. Get the scoop at http://www.peoplesfestival.com/

Get your fill of the blues at Tubbman-Garret Riverfront Park in Wilmington at the end of summer. The Riverfront Blues Festival takes place from August 10^th through the 12^th this year. The Riverfront Blues Festival has become a nationally known must-see event for blues fans in the northeast. The festival has always been just a two day event up until this year where it has grown to three days with a Friday night kickoff event. After parties have also been added this year as a new item to the lineup of the festival. The new after parties take place on Friday and Saturday nights at several small venues in and around Wilmington. Find out how you can participate at http://riverfrontbluesfest.com/