Sun 9/5 @ 10AM-7PM
Cleveland is awash in ethnic festivals in August and September, and luckily, quite a few of these beloved events are returning as more than the mere “drive-through” food-to-go events they were last year.
This weekend the area’s largest Hungarian festival, presented by the American Hungarian Friends of Scouting, returns for its 65th iteration. Taking place in the German Central Park in Parma, it opens at 10:30am with a flag-raising ceremony, with Catholic and Protestant church services in Hungarian at 11.
The part everyone loves starts at noon when the kitchens open and the traditional Hungarian food begins to roll out: stuffed cabbage, sausages, chicken paprikas, fresh baked bread, crepes, langos (fried dough), pastries and more.
You can get any or all of that to go but why? There’ll be music by Clevelander Walt Mahovlich’s Harmonia and the Alex Udvary band from Chicago. There’ll be dancers in authentic folk costumes from the Hungarian Scout Folk Ensemble with various guest dancer. There will even be free folk dance lessons for all ages. There’ll be kids’ activities, a live animal show, a book fair, folk arts and crafts, and vendors.
Admission I $7 which benefits Hungarian boy and girl scouts in northeast Ohio.
Go here for more details.