St. Patrick’s Day Festival

2015 St. Patrick’s Day Festival highlights: Saturday morning parking was available for free at 1) Parking Garage near City Hall, located at Basic Road and Lead Street. Accessed from Basic Road and 2) Parking Garage near Justice Facility, located at Water Street, near Basic Road. Accessed from either Water Street or Texas Avenue.
A must see is the Carrolier Academy of Irish Dance! The children participated in the parade and scheduled events throughout the weekend. Led by Debbie Carroll and Shelley Locklier, the two dancers have Irish dance teaching credentials; both teachers travelled the world with Michael Flatley’s Lord of the Dance.
Fun for the children included the ferris wheel and carousel. Since the Las Vegas Valley does not have a permanent ferris wheel and carousel to ride, we enjoyed taking a twirl on both. Ferris wheel tickets were 4 tickets per person. Carousel tickets were 3 per person, but an adult is free if standing next to small children who are on the ride. Each ticket = $ 1.25.
I would like to see a greater use of food trucks. We saw pizza, Mexican, Filipino, hot dogs, cupcakes, and snowcones. Come on Las Vegas Valley food culture, come out and show us what you offer.

The annual st. patrick’s day festival on water street in Henderson. The thing about a lot of these festivals is that they all are the same. You have a mini carnival for the kids with rides and booths of funnel cakes and hot dogs. There is a whole lot of vendors peddling stuff. And there is food and live music. The reason why this place only gets 2 stars is that I wish everything would have been more St. Patrick-​esque. I get that you have to have the carnival stuff for the kids. But, as an adult (or so I believe I am), when you go to a holiday festival like this one, I would like to see places selling celtic gear and corned beef and cabbage. I don’t want to see native american jewelry and gyro’s. Just saying… On another note, the rage hard rock music was awesome! I felt like joining the IRA after a couple of songs!

Went here this past weekend and it was a great time! lots of cool things to see and do here on water street. Started the morning with some kick-​ass Danish and coffee from Flemming’s Bakery, grabbed a spot on the curb and watched the parade go by…
Politicians, pageant winners, local businesses and organizations, FOX 5 News Team, car clubs, high schools, dance troops, and even characters from Star Wars! Something for everyone, and great fun for the family… ALOHA!!!

A parade is a parade is a parade. I love a parade.
The City of Henderson always orchestrates a great party. The parade lasted about an hour then the events plaza has been converted into a carnival midway with all the games, rides and food stands.
The El Dorado has set up a stand with corned beef & cabbage plus green beer. There’s more than a dozen beer & food stands selling all your fair staples.
The main stage has live entertainment throughout the day and everyone is having a grand old time.
Bring the kids and head out to Henderson-​Sunday is the last day.
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