St. Patrick's in Salt Lake: A complete guide

🇮🇪 Top o' the mornin': The big annual parade and Celtic festival by the Hibernian Society of Utah is Saturday at the Gateway.

• Find your parade-watching spot before it starts at 11am.
• Siamsa — a Gaelic word for music and mirth, pronounced "Shee-am-sa" — features Irish performances and food until 5pm.

☘️ 4th West Fest: Mountain West Cider is inviting families — including kids and pups — to enjoy live music, vendors and other fun at its St. Paddy's fest.

• When: 11am-6pm Saturday
• Admission: Free

🍻 Sláinte: Salt Lake's breweries, distilleries and purveyors of libations are hosting pub crawls and parties all weekend. All these events are 21+.

• Piper Down is filling its biggest weekend of the year with live, genre-spanning Irish music Friday, Saturday and Monday. Cover is $10 until 4pm and $20 after, with $5 admission Friday. Come back next weekend for the Luck o' the Irish drag brunch.
• Handle Bar is hosting live Irish music Saturday, Sunday and Monday. $10 cover after 4pm.
• Pubcrawls.com has organized SLC pub crawls Friday, Saturday and Monday with beads, food and drink specials and admission to mid- and after-parties. Tickets cost $10.99-$24.99.
• Lucky's Bar Crawl includes cover at up to eight downtown bars, swag and admission to two parties from 4pm to midnight Saturday. Tickets cost $25 each, or $20 if bought in groups.
• Make a game of it with Beehive's photo scavenger hunt and pub crawl to four downtown bars. Tickets cost $15, and the journey starts at 1:30pm Saturday.
• Lucky 13 is serving an Irish "feast" and specialty cocktails now through Monday.
• Peruse the wares of local artisans at RoHa Brewing Project's St. Patrick's Day spring market 1pm-6pm Saturday, with live music at 7pm.
• Bewilder Brewing is pouring four new Irish beers Saturday through Monday, with Irish food specials and bagpipers.

• Urban Lounge is hosting a St. Pat's House Party at 10pm Friday. Then head back Monday for Pixie and the Partygrass Boys' folk fusion. Tickets cost $20 in advance for each event.
• Swap that buckled top hat for a stetson at the Westerner's shenanigans Friday ($10) and Saturday ($20).

🎙️ Shane Gillis: The Irish-American comedian is playing the Delta Center.

• When: 8pm Saturday
• Tickets start at $137.

🏓 Lucky Cups: Win prizes at Valley Fair Mall's pingpong ball challenge.

• When: 2pm Saturday

🎻 Bonny Celtic Moon: A Saturday afternoon Celtic music workshop ($20) serves as an interactive primer for the evening's concert ($30) featuring Shanahy and Stonecircle.

• When: 1pm and 6pm Saturday
• Where: Alliance Theater, Trolley Square

☠️ Burly leprechauns: The Man Up Store is hosting games, treats and local artists.

• When: 10am to 6pm Saturday

🎨 Paints and pints: Take a page from the Book of Kells as you create your own St. Paddy's painting at SaltFire Brewing Co.

• When: 2pm Sunday
• Tickets: $30