Don't Miss: Chicago Gaelic Park’s Irish Festival 2019

OAK FOREST, IL — Add the 33rd Chicago Gaelic Park’s Irish Festival to your Memorial Day weekend plans. Irish dancers, singers and a slew of bands will perform on six stages across the park. A petting zoo, Irish horse exhibition and sports contests are available for family-friendly fun.

Don't miss the Irish sausage eating contest. Gaelic Park wants to make the Guinness Book of World Records for the most Irish sausages eaten during a three-day Irish festival weekend.

On Friday, featured bands include The Dancing Noodles, Backwest Music, The Fitzgeralds, The Fenians, Steel City Rovers and Billow Wood. Gerard Haughey and Sean O’Donnell, Bernie Glim and Friends and Jerry and Kara Eadie also will be entertaining crowds.

Saturday's entertainment includes Jig Jam, Backwest Music, The Fitzgeralds, The Fenians, Steel City Rovers, Liam Durkin, Colm Keegan, Paddy Homan and The Nobel Call, Billow Wood, Kilgubbin Brothers, Larkin and Moran Brothers and The Neverly Brothers. For dancing, check out The Foy Irish Dancers, Blackbird Academy of Irish Dancing and Maiden Street Irish Dance Academy.

On Sunday, check out Nathan Carter, Maggie Speaks, Backwest Music, The Fitzgeralds, The Fenians, Heartsfield, Steel City Rovers, Liam Durkin, The Irish Musicians, the Pipe and Drums of the Emerald Society, the Dennehy School of Dance and Lavin Cassidy Irish Dancers.

Chicago Gaelic Park’s Irish Festival is located at 6119 147th St. in Oak Forest. It runs from 4 to 11 p.m., Friday, May 24; from 2 to 11 p.m., Saturday, May 25; and from 1 to 11 p.m., Sunday, May 26.

Tickets can be purchased at the gate and cost $18 for adults and $15 for kids 12 and under. There is a $3 discount if tickets are bought in the first hour the festival is open.

Learn more at the Chicago Gaelic Park’s Irish Festival website.