Flower Mart
Mt. Vernon, Baltimore
May 2-3
Frederick Celtic Festival
Urbana
May 10
Saturday
Arts Walk
Cumberland
May 10
U.S.A.
Women’s
Softball Team vs. Washington Glory
Prince George’s Stadium, Bowie
May 10
Wine in the Woods
Symphony Woods, Columbia
May 17-18
Chesapeake Bay Wine Festival
Stevensville
May 31-June 1
Festival
season heats up in May. Outdoor spring celebrations showcase food, wine,
art, music and one of Maryland’s signature events – Preakness
Week. Concerts, parade and balloon festival lead up to 133rd running of
Thoroughbred
racing’s middle jewel of the Triple Crown, May 17 at Pimlico.
Camera
... Action - Four days of cinematic joy
Tenth annual Maryland
Film Festival at Baltimore’s Charles Theater,
May 1-4, screens up to 100 features, shorts and documentaries. Local filmmakers,
guest hosts. Tent Village has free workshops, panel discussions. You might
run into John Waters or Barry Levinson.
Arts & Entertainment -
Feel the beat
Soothing sounds of jazz
and the blues at the Groove City
Jazz & Blues
Fest, May 10, in Cambridge. Free admission. Later in month, 13th annual
Western Maryland Blues Fest in Hagerstown, May 30-June 1.
Spectator
Sports -
Down the stretch, they come!
The
Preakness – largest one-day event in the region – returns
to Old Hilltop in Baltimore, May 17. If you don’t have a seat in
the grandstand, come early for entry to the infield.
Family
Fun - Hot iron on display
Watch craftsmen forge hot
iron at the Carroll County
Farm Museum during Blacksmith Days, May 17-18.
Camp overnight on the grounds of this 140-acre site, where
you’ll see what life on the farm was like in the late 1800s.
Great
Outdoors -
Keep 'em rolling
Want to be in a wagon train? Hitch up with the Western Maryland segment of
the National
Pike Festival and Wagon Train, May 16-18. Encampment at Hagerstown.
Reservations to participate by May 1. Or, just enjoy the show. 301-791-3246.
History & Heritage -
Redcoats are coming!
Witness the British attack on Havre de Grace during the War of 1812. Re-enactment,
May 3-4, at the Susquehanna
Museum of Havre de Grace. Hour north of Baltimore.
Also, guided nature walk along historic North Park Trail, May 24.
Insiders
Guide -
Sky show in Annapolis
Soaring excitement
at the U.S. Naval Academy as the Blue Angels perform their trademark aerial
maneuvers in honor of Commission Week. May 20, practice. May 21, show. View
from the banks of the Severn River or Annapolis Harbor.
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