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About Town - Hermosa Beach
Party this weekend
The big St. Patrick's Day Parade and Festival, a signature Hermosa event, will be expanded this year to include an entire weekend of dancing, traditional music, competitive surfing, food, and a kiddy carnival and petting zoo.
But if you want to jump the gun, there's a grand fund-raising "hooley" (party) 6 to 10 p.m. this Saturday at the Clark Building, 861 Valley Drive, with a ticket price of $10 for adults and $5 for kids 12 and under.
The hooley will feature food donated by Hermosa restaurants, music from the Wrath of McGrath, step dancers from the Kelly School of Irish Dance, and a feature that is both quintessentially Irish and quintessentially Scottish, a no-host bar. Coffee and tea will be free.
The parade and festival will be Saturday and Sunday, March 18 and 19.
The centerpiece event, the parade, will be 11 a.m. Saturday, beginning at Valley and Pier and winding down to Hermosa Avenue, where it hangs a left to dissipate into the Emerald Isle fog.
Featured will be bagpipe bands, ancient Celtic warriors, politicians in antique cars, high school bands, and the popular floats. A park-and-ride shuttle will run from Mira Costa High School, 701 S. Peck Ave., Manhattan Beach, where parking is free.
Throughout the weekend, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days, the festival will feature food, music from the Misty Isle Pipe Band, traditional dancing, a roving Irish fiddler, and arts and crafts, all along Hermosa Avenue downtown.
On Sunday, longboard and shortboard contests begin at 7 a.m. near the pier.
For more information call 374-1365 or 376-3903.
All together now
The Hermosa Beach Community Chorus is taking applications for male and female singers for its spring concert in June at St. Cross Episcopal Church. Auditions are required only for sectional placement and balance of voices, not for membership, organizers said.
Rehearsals are 7 to 8:30 p.m. Monday nights in the second-floor choir room behind the church, 1818 Monterey Blvd. For information call choir director Edward Allmond at 376-6560 or reach him at emmin@earthlink.net. ER