The Evansville Firefighters Pipe and Drum Corps is hosting its 6th annual St. Patrick’s Day Celebration Saturday, March 10 at Germania Maennerchor.   The evening includes a memorial dedication, steak dinner, and  bi-level entertainment.  DJ Randy Weber will provide dance music upstairs, and the acoustic sounds of Chuck Grady will be heard downstairs.  Local fiddler Steve Mayo will provide dinner entertainment. 

 New to this years festivities is Celtic Fire, sponsored by Ri Ra Irish Pub.   Celtic Fire is an Irish Step Dance Performance Team from City Center Dance in Snellville, Georgia, and is under the direction of sisters Jessamy & Mercedes Bleth, both of whom are three-time World qualifying Irish dancers and former regional, national, and international competitors.  In 2011, members of Celtic Fire were the featured performers at the Yellow Daisy Festival in Stone Mountain, Georgia; Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri; the Carolina Opry in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina; and Disney World in Orlando, Florida.

Save the date of Saturday, February 25 for the 2012 Evansville Museum Contemporaries’ annual EMC UNCORKED. Participants will be able to sample dozens of wonderful wines provided by a variety of local and national vendors. From red to white, sweet to dry, and everything in-between, there are wines that are sure to suit everyone’s taste. Standard reservations are $35 in advance or $40 at the door.

In conjunction with the current exhibition  CITY LIGHTS: THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF JOHN DOWELL, the Evansville Museum will host a Champagne Brunch and Gallery Talk featuring John Dowell on Sunday, February 19 at 12:30 p.m.

Philadelphia native and Professor of Printmaking at the prestigious Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Dowell captures the pulse of various American cities in his large-scale color photographs. Dowell has worked as an artist for over four decades. A master printmaker whose prints, paintings and photographs have been featured in 49 one person exhibitions, he is represented in the permanent collections of 70 museum and public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Boston Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, France.