Tagged: St. Patrick's Day Parade

Essential Pittsburgh
9:00 pm
Wed March 13, 2013

What's a St. Patrick's Day Parade Without Bag Pipes?

Credit Bonnie Cousins / Pittsburgh St. Patrick's Day Parade
Taking a look at the history of the bag pipe and it's connection to St. Patrick's Day

Award Winning Bagpiper, E.A. Channon, author of "Ballad of a Bagpiper: Whatever Blows Up Your Kilt" has performed for royals like Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Diana and icons like Bill Gates and President Reagan. He tells us everything we could possibly want to know about bagpipes.

Then, Pittsburgh St. Patrick's Day Parade Committee Chairman Pat O'Brien joins us to talk about how the Steel City's St. Patty's Day parade has become the second biggest in the country.

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St. Patrick's Day Parade
5:13 pm
Wed March 13, 2013

More than 200,000 Expected For Pittsburgh's St. Patrick's Day Parade

Credit Jeff Meade/Flickr

On Saturday Pittsburgh's annual family-friendly St. Patrick's Day parade and festivities will begin at 10 a.m. The Pittsburgh parade is held March 17 or the Saturday immediately preceding that date.

Leave the green beer at home though, because city code prohibits drinking alcohol in public. The ordinance is more commonly known as the "Open Container Law."

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