If you love Italian food, you won't want to miss "Festa Italiana", planned for 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 18 in Downtown Chico City Plaza. It's hosted by the Sons and Daughters of Italy - Vincenzo Bellini Lodge. Proceeds from the event will be donated to the Butte County Office of Emergency Management for Evacuation Support. There will be...

After last year's event was canceled due to COVID-19, the Columbus Italian Festival will be returning in October 2021. The event will begin at 5 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 8 and will conclude at 7 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 10. The Columbus Italian Festival will feature a bocce ball competition, an Italian cooking demonstration, and a marching band competition...

The Labor Day weekend brought the Feast of Santa Maria Di Prata, which featured the best homemade Italian food in Rhode Island, entertainment and good family fun. The Santa Maria Di Prata Society was started in 1984. Today, more than 30 some years, the group has continued its Labor Day weekend tradition with an annual neighborhood feast featuring h...

After several difficult years caused by the pandemic and bad weather, the Italian Fall Festa returns to Kettering this weekend. Rain caused the event to limited to a drive thru in 2018 and COVID-19 caused the same thing in 2020. Organizers told News Center 7′s Sean Cudahy that they were “looking forward to recovering, having a normal year, normal c...

The Ulster County Italian American Foundation’s 14th annual Italian Festival will return to T.R. Gallo Park on Sunday, Oct. 10. The festival will run from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the park at the foot of Broadway. It will mark the return of the festival to the park after last year’s event was scaled back and moved to the town of Ulster due to COVID-19...

The clams, sausage and peppers, fold-over pizza slices, rainbow cookie chocolate donuts (a must-try!), and enough pasta to feed an army will soon be dished out to thousands of San Gennaro Feast-goers in Lower Manhattan’s Little Italy. “The Feast of All Feasts” will run from Sept. 16 – 26, and 2021 will mark the 94th celebration of this historic and...

The Feast of the Madonna Dei Martiri returns this weekend, with two days of music on Thursday and Friday, Sept. 9 and 10, before the Feast begins on Saturday, Sept. 11, and continues into Sunday, Sept. 12. The Hoboken Italian Festival is a four day festival, but no day is greater than Saturday, the “Feast” day, when the 800 lb. statue of Madonna De...

St. Anthony’s annual Italian Heritage Festival will take place 2 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 11 at Glassboro’s town square. Celebrating the cultural roots and the history of Italians in America, the event will begin with procession from the St. Anthony’s Mutual Aid Society on Church Street to Rowan Boulevard, featuring the St. Anthony’s statue, deco...

The faithful returned to Golf Mill Park in Niles over the Labor Day holiday for the 121st annual Feast of Maria SS Lauretana Festival, a Sicilian religious tradition dating back to the 1620s in Italy and to the year 1900 in the Chicago area.  Although Friday, Sept. 3 and Saturday, Sept. 4 was a more traditional street festival with food, carnival r...

The Annual Italian Heritage Festival Park is slated to take place in Touro Park in Newport on Saturday, October 2, 2021 from 11am to 4pm.  Included this year is a pop up COVID Vaccination Clinic sponsored by the RI Department of Health from 12pm to 3pm.  This free event is open to the public and will feature live Italian music by “Calabria Bella”,...