Events

Live music, crafters and entertainment for the whole family, including live crab races, children’s activities, face painting, balloon sculptures, crab toss, live ‘touch tank’, sand art and more!  Food features seafood and oysters of course! Plus crabs, burgers, sushi and beverages (beer, wine, oyster shooters, and soft drinks).

Celebrate the opening of oyster season on the Chesapeake Bay at one of the oldest and most popular oyster festivals in the United States, the annual U.S. Oyster Festival. Always the third weekend in October, the Oyster Festival is famous for its amazing seafood, including plentiful wild harvest and farm raised oysters prepared in various […]

Patuxent River Appreciation Day (PRAD) is an annual festival, which creates awareness, recognition, and promotion of the economic, social, recreational, cultural and historical impact of the tributaries and environs of the Patuxent River and the basin through which it flows. The festival brings together, and reflects the continuing commitment of the community, Calvert County Commissioners, […]