Join us & Mayor Dennis P. Williams for the officla grand opening of the 2016 season of the Downtown Wilmington Farmers Market at Rodney Square on May 18, 2016! This year at the market we are featuring several new food trucks including Outlandish Food truck, I Don’t Give A Fork, Brunch Box and Tyler’s Water Ice. We are also excited about the new Café Tables and Chairs. Other new vendors include Lionheart Coffee, World Café Live and L&D Fine Art. Also enjoy music by Tony Mowen!
The Farmer's Market begins on May 4th and operate every Wednesday, rain or shine, through October 26th from 10:00 AM. until 2:00 PM, except for June 22nd for the Jazz Fest
The Downtown Wilmington Farmers market opens for business everyWednesday in beautiful Rodney Square, between 10th & 11th Streets and Market & King Streets. Centrally located, Rodney Square has been the center of great events such as the annual Clifford Brown Jazz Festival and First Night Wilmington and is the perfect setting for the Farmers Market. The Square comes to life each Wednesday beneath the statue of Caesar Rodney, for whom the park is named. The Farmers Market offers an array of the freshest local produce, plants, herbs and cut flowers.
The Market also offers a large assortment of beautiful handmade and other items, including arts and crafts, unique jewelry and delicious home baked goods. Stroll the Square and then relax under an umbrella at one the many café tables. Enjoy a delicious breakfast or lunch while listening to a variety of free live entertainment.
Wilmington welcomes "Jersey Boys"
"Jersey Boys" is the Tony Award winning musical that tells the story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.
The show is coming to The Playhouse on Rodney Square May 10 -15, and the star of the show, Russell Fischer, came to town early to check the city out.
He was also kind enough to sit down and share his experiences and his views on Wilmington - here's the video:
I hope you get to take advantage of the incredible talent that is brought to Wilmington on a regular basis.
Click Here for more on the shows at The Playhouse.
Marty
Wilmington is in the center of Arts and Culture
I want to pass along this message from our friend Brendan Cooke, Executive Director at OperaDelaware:
Please join OperaDelaware for the historic East Coast Premiere of Franco Faccio's lost Hamlet, and Verdi's Falstaff. Our first ever grand opera festival is attracting press attention from all over the world. So far, over 500 people are attending from outside a 30 mile radius of Wilmington, and almost 700 attendees who are new to our patron base. We'd obviously love to have the critics from Paris, Milan and London see full houses.
I continue to be impressed with the truly incredible talent that Wilmington attracts. I hope you'll join me in enjoying these beautiful and powerful productions!
Click Here for more information.
Marty
Meet & Greet opportunity for Downtown Wilmington
Please join the downtown business community on Tuesday, May 10 at the Baby Grand as we celebrate our upcoming "Summer in the City" - trust me, this will be a great event!
Downtown Wilmington Celebrates Shakespeare Day
Lunchtime on Market Street on Friday provided a real treat as the Delaware Shakespeare Festival coordinated a production of all of Shakespeare's plays in under an hour using more than 50 people from our community.
All of this took place in front of The Grand Opera House - and I would dare say we had participation from people from all walks of life and all of our great communities - artists, musicians, attorneys, business leaders, young, not so young, students, professionals, and more!
I am proud of our vibrant arts community in Wilmington - and I am proud that Downtown Visions helped sponsor and support this event.
Marty
