The 1st Annual Delmarva Blue Crab Festival will be all about food, fun, education and the future. Mark your calendar, and get yourselves to 30045 Eagle Crest Road #2 in Milton, Delaware for the weekend of Friday, August 10th through Sunday, August 12th.

Fabulous Food

The central food focus of this Festival celebrating the Delaware, Maryland and Virginia (Delmarva) region is on crabs – specifically the blue crab, a flavor-packed seafood and longtime local favorite. Those who know will tell you that the flavor is unequaled. For those eager to find out why, the Festival will offer pot after pot of fresh steamed crabs along with plenty of space to spread out and “hammer claws,” “pull aprons,” and “eat mustard.” For those new to eating blue crabs, there’ll be free lessons on lingo and technique so that you’ll quickly become a crab pickin’ pro. (You do have to buy the crabs!) Some other seafoods that will be available include clams, oysters, shrimp and mussels. The Festival’s food is guaranteed not to disappoint!

Lots of Live Music

Eating crabs and being entertained is a natural fit. The family friendly entertainment will feature live musical acts on 3 Festival stages. Mike Hines, a suave new talent with a distinctive tenor/baritone voice, will be taking the stage on Friday night from 6:00 to 8:00. Keith Mack will be entertaining with acoustic finger-style guitar. Keith was a member of the band "Patty Smyth and Scandal" and has toured with Paul Young and Joe Cocker. The Watershed Blues Band is a Salisbury, Maryland-based band playing blues from the likes of Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Taj Mahall. It would be hard to find a band that has more fun than The Funsters. This 10-piece band hasn't had a personnel change in 12 years. The tightly knit Funsters will take the stage on Sunday from 4:00 to 6:00 pm. Banana Boom plays an amalgamation of rock, ska, and funk. Their original and indefinably unique sound will be heard on Saturday from 6:00 to 8:00 pm.

Comedy

Comedian Kelly Terranova will be performing on Friday & Saturday nights from 6:00 to 8:00. (Tickets for Kelly Terranova are separate from the Festival’s entry tickets.)

Environmental Awareness

An important goal of the Delmarva Crab Festival is to ensure that there are plenty of blue crabs available, now and in the future, so that those of us who enjoy them can continue to do so. So the Festival has chosen the Chesapeake Bay Foundation as a beneficiary of the event to receive a portion of the proceeds. As one of the region’s foremost nonprofit environmental stewardship organizations, the Foundation is uniquely positioned to show and tell us all what we can do to help improve bay and ocean water quality as we improve the environment overall. A healthier environment means more and better natural resources such as blue crabs.

To get more info & purchase tickets from the Festival's official web site go to: Delmarva Blue Crab Festival

To learn more about protecting the environment in the Delmarva region go to: Chesapeake Bay Foundation