October 10th and 11th will celebrate what has become known as one of the largest and possibly the longest running annual heritage festivals in the Myrtle Beach area, the 16th Annual Sons of Italy Italian Festival.
This years’ festival again features Italian food, continuous music, Italian themed souvenirs, a free children’s activity table, Italian desserts, arts and crafts vendors, beer and wine, and more. The entertainment this year includes two fantastic headliners: classical and contemporary Italian tenor Aaron Caruso, and international performing artist Natalie Pinto. Also performing during the two day event will be keyboard and vocalists Tony Posillico and Frank Gigli, and Larry Tanelli with The Tony Torre Orchestra, just to name a few.
This year the food tent is adding raviolis to their ever popular offerings of sausage and pepper heros and Italian meatball subs. The souvenir booth has also been greatly expanded, and includes “La Cucina”, a full line of kitchen items including espresso sets, decorated oil bottles and spoon rests, aprons, Italian themed coasters and mugs, aprons and beaded wine bottle ornaments. The expanded Raggazzi Children’s Souvenirs area has added more wearables in infant, toddler and youth sizes, coloring books, stickers, temporary tattoos and paper doll book with Italian themes, as well as Italian word books for youngsters, beach balls and Italian Teddy Bears. The desserts include Italian ices, Cannollis, and Zeppolis along with many types of cookies and biscotti.
The Sons of Italy are dedicated to preserving and promoting Italian heritage and culture, and offer regular membership to Americans of Italian descent, as well as social memberships to non-Italians.
Tuesday 6 October 2009
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