Ethnic Food and Fun: Good Samaritan Parish Festival Guide

Rain or shine, hundreds are expected to attend the 18th annual Good Samaritan Parish Festival Thursday through Sunday in Ambridge.  

Attendees to the four-day festival on Eighth and Melrose Avenue can expect lots of live music, ethnic foods and plenty of games and activities for adults and children.

Brother Ambrose, director of music and liturgy, who oversees fundraising, said the event is the largest fundraiser for Good Samaritan and helps to maintain the church's ministries and outreach to the community.

Highlights include a silent auction, raffles, a bake sale, bingo on Glenwood Avenue and Polka Mass on Saturday with Pittsburgh Catholic Bishop David Zubik as celebrant.

If you go:

Festival hours:

6 to 10 p.m. Thursday

6 to 11 p.m. Friday

noon to 11 p.m. Saturday, with booths open at 2 p.m.

1 to 10 p.m. Sunday

Entertainment

Thursday

• Touche, 6 to 10 p.m.

Friday

•  Lenny Gomulka & Chicago Push, 7 to 11 p.m.

Saturday

• Dick Tady Orchestra, noon to 5 p.m.

• Polka Mass, Bishop David Zubik, celebrant

• Dick Tady Orchestra at Church, 5:30 p.m.

• Chuck Blasko and the Vogues, 8 to 9 p.m. and 9:30 to 10:30 p.m.

Sunday

• The Cavaliers, 1 to 5 p.m.

• Ambridge Steel Drum Band, 6 to 7 p.m.

• Johnny Angel and the Halos, 7 to 8 p.m. and 8:30 to 9:30 p.m.

• Silent Auction announced in Cafeteria, 9 p.m.

• Stuffed Chicken Breast from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday

• Fish Fry from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday

• Stuffed Cabbage Dinner 1 to 7 p.m. Saturday

• Spaghetti and Meatball Dinner from noon to 7 p.m. Sunday.