Celebrate St. Patrick's Day In Ocean County With Local Bagpipers

SOUTHERN OCEAN COUNTY, NJ — If you want to celebrate St. Patrick's Day with beautiful, traditional bagpipe music, look no further. The Pipes and Drums of the Ocean County Emerald Society have announced their lineup for St. Patrick's Day.

Here's the full schedule of where to find these local bagpipe musicians on Thursday, in order of appearance. The only specific times listed are the first and final performances of the day.

1. Old Causeway - Manahawkin at 2:30 p.m.
2. Doyle's Pour House - Tuckerton
3. Caffrey's Tavern - Forked River
4. Lighthouse Tavern - Tuckerton
5. Caffrey's again
6. The Mainland - Manahawkin
7. And the day finishes with a return to Old Causeway between 8 and 8:30 p.m.

The band was founded in 1993 to spread Irish tradition through bagpipe music, according to their website. In the almost 20 years since, they have performed at many parades, festivals and memorials.