You’re in luck! Here are 5 events to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in Columbia this week
Get ready to go green.
St. Patrick’s Day is on Thursday but the Columbia area has multiple events and activities slated to celebrate the holiday several days this week. And with weather expected to be fairly pleasant and the concerns about COVID-19 waning, plan to get tickets soon and arrive early to beat the crowds.
Below are five ways to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in the area.
St. Pat’s Steel-Nanigans 3-day Celebration
Steel Hands Brewing
2350 Foreman St., Cayce
Thursday, Friday and Saturday
Steel Hands Brewing’s three-day event will feature live music, food specials and green beer. The food specials will include bangers and mash and Shepard pies while supplies last.
The 10,000 square-foot facility opened in December 2018 just outside downtown Columbia. The facility includes a 2,500 square-foot taproom, outdoor gathering space and restaurant.
Steel Hands’ website states it’s the largest production brewery in the Midlands with 900 barrels of fermentation capacity in its brewhouse. The brewery runs a 30 barrel, fully automated brewhouse.
Live music lineup:
Thursday: Ed Lemon & the Get Rights (5-9)
Friday: The Eric Weiler Group (7-10)
Saturday: The Giant Leaps (1-4) & Civil Remedy (5-9)
St. Pat’s in Five Points
Saturday: 7:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Tickets and more info: https://stpatscolumbia.com
It’s the big return of the St. Pat’s in Five Points festival, which was sidelined in 2020 and 2021 amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The St. Pat’s bash, which will be on Saturday, is perhaps the foremost festival on Columbia’s calendar, routinely drawing as many as 40,000 revelers to the village.
There will be two headliners for the event: the Grammy-winning Blues Traveler, a mainstay of 1990s radio, and Surfaces, a Texas-based pop act that has collaborated with Elton John, among others. In all, 23 musical acts are set to appear at this year’s St. Pat’s bash.
Blues Traveler had two platinum-selling and three gold-selling albums in the 1990s, highlighted by 1994’s “Four,” which sold more than 6 million copies and helped nab the group a Grammy for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group. That album included the ubiquitous singles “Run-Around” and “Hook.” The group has continued to record and tour and has released 14 studio albums.
Surfaces, based out of College Station, Texas, debuted in 2017. The video for their catchy 2019 single “Sunday Best” has been viewed 126 million times on YouTube. The group is comprised of singer/songwriters Forrest Frank and Colin Padalecki.
The 5th Annual Lucky’s St. Patrick’s Day Crawl
Saturday 8 p.m. through Sunday 3:59 a.m.
Check-in time: 4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Liberty Tap Room & Grill, 918 Gervais Street, Columbia
The fifth annual bar crawl will feature six different places to visit, each with their own specials and activities. For instance, Liberty Tap Room plans to offer $4 Guinness, $4 Highlands Gaelic Ale, $5 Irish Car Bombs and $5 Jameson Pickle Back shots.
The event will also feature a costume contest with a $1,000 grand prize and a professional photographer on hand. Tickets for the crawl can be purchased online here.
Crawl locations:
Craft Axe Throwing
Hickory Tavern
Liberty Tap Room
Old Chicago
Social Bar and Lounge
Twisted Spur Brewing
St. Patrick’s Day at Tin Roof
Thursday: 6 p.m. - Friday 2 a.m.
1022 Senate St., Columbia
Come drink some green beer and listen to live music at Tin Roof in Columbia. The music starts with Phil James at 6 p.m., followed at 10 p.m. by the Bailey Road Band.
Tin Roof regularly features live music and offers a variety of food, from chicken wings and tenders, to Nashville hot chicken sandwiches and quesadillas.
St. Patrick’s Adoption Special
Tuesday - Thursday: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Columbia Animal Services, 127 Human Lane, Columbia, SC 29209
Not interested in partying or getting good drink deals this year? Try celebrating St. Patrick’s Day a new way by finding a new fur baby. Columbia Animal Services is hosting an adoption special this week. All pet adoptions will cost just $17 each. Sharing a little luck with a shelter animal by giving him or her a new home will be one St. Patrick’s Day to remember.
This story was originally published March 15, 2022 at 6:00 AM.
