Be true to the Irish and celebrate St. Paddy's Day on Thursday. Here's our list of parties celebrating the only holiday in which you get assaulted for not wearing the appropriate color. Not to mention, it's the perfect day to drink all the green beer, Irish car bombs and/or Guinness you want.
Ri Ra Irish Pub
Open at 8 am for Kegs and Eggs
Dancers, pipers, traditional music, house-made corned beer, fish and chips, more
Live music by Crashbox
www.rira.com/rira/charlotte.html
Hartigan's Irish Pub
Green beer
$4 Guinness
Baby Guiness shots
Traditional Irish food
Cornhole, beerpong, and costume contest
Wild Wing
$2 Green Beers
$3 Guinness Pints
$4 Irish Car Bomb
No cover.
Howl At The Moon
$3 Green Beer
1/2 off Irish Car Bombs
Complimentary Irish feast (must RSVP)
Boardwalk Billy's Dilworth
$2 U-Call-Its
Kennedy's Premium Bar & Grill
Kickoff to Three Days of Green
Live music
Green beer and $5 car bombs
The Pub at Gateway
Budweiser Girls will be giving away free berr, beads, and other St. Patrick's prizes.
$2.50 Green Budlight Draught
$3.50 Guinness
$4 Jameson
$5 Imperial Guinness
$6 Irish Car Bombs
Tilt on Trade
$5 35ozs Mugs, or bring your own to support your NCAA team, (mugs can be NO larger than 35ozs)
$5 Car Bombs
$5 Cherry and Jager Bombs
No cover
NC Music Factory
Shamrock & Roll Bash
1 ticket gets you into 7 venues
Music by Paper Tongues, Sister Hazel, Simplified
Petra's Piano Bar
$6 pitchers of green beer (or regular beer)
$5 green apple martinis
Free hot dogs
Chance to win $25 bar tab
Dixie's Tavern
Live Irish tunes from The Federal Clan Kings
Snug Harbor
Weekly Shiprocked party
Performances by Cherry Von Bomb, Lilith DeVille and Bethann Phetamine, special guest Roxy C. Moorecox
Marigny
Free Green Beer
$2 Shots
$3 Drinks
$5 Vodka Red Bulls
Mortimer's
Celebrates 1 year anniversary
Kegs & Eggs
Suite & Whisky River
Bar crawl
Big Ben Pub
Live band & bagpiper
Green Beer
Corned beef & cabbage
Tavern on the Tracks
$3 Kililan
$4 20 oz. Guinness
Irish car bombs
Sir Edmond Halley's
Irish dancers, bag pipers, Irish fare, giveaways, outdoor bar
The Men's Club
$3 Leprechaun brew all night