Midnight Madness Is Here!

Published: Tue, 12/04/12

MIDNIGHT MADNESS!

Annapolitans and visitors won't want to miss this year's two nights of Midnight Madness in downtown Annapolis Thursday, December 6th and December 13th. The town will be full of holiday music and cheer with opportunities to win gifts and prizes, take holiday photos and shop special sale prices at retail shops, which will each remain open until midnight for holiday shopping and festivities.

Come on out and shop, sing, laugh, stroll, and reconnect with old and new friends while shopping and dining in your favorite shops. Most will have special sales, offers and even better---free cookies, hot chocolate, wine, toddies, massages, and more!

Remember, it is so important to shop local and support our local businesses and our neighbors!

ENTERTAINMENT - December 6th

The Old Mill High School Steel Drum Band, Christmas Tree on City Dock.
Eastport vocalist (and former United States Marine) Lisa Bodenburg at Zachary's Jewelers
Sons of the Severn strolling throughout downtown
Wiley H Bates Performing Arts Chorus will be perched on the porch at The Maryland Inn
The Chesapeake Academy Chorus will be strolling through downtown
The Salvation Army Band will be next to their bell ringer at Main Street and Market Space
Radio stations WRNR and WNAV will be broadcasting live from City Dock.

ENTERTAINMENT - December 13th

Jazz Perpetrators at the Rams Head Tavern
Sons of Severn strolling throughout downtown
Lisa Bodenburg at Zachary's Jewelers
Strings of the Chesapeake will perform on Main Street
Wiley H Bates Performing Arts Chorus will sing outside the old opera house on Maryland Avenue
The District Brass Quarter will be on the Corner of Maryland Ave and State Circle.
The Salvation Army Band will be next to their bell ringer at Main Street and Market Space
Radio stations WRNR and WNAV will be broadcasting live from City Dock.

Downtown will be aglow with beautiful holiday decorations thanks to Sheehy Lexus of Annapolis, who is co-sponsoring this year's holiday decorations downtown.

PARKING & TROLLEY

There are plenty of parking options downtown to attend the events. The 2 hour metered spaces are free for two hours (from Thanksgiving through New Year's), and the Circulator Trolley picks up near all the parking garages and throughout downtown to provide free shuttle rides; shoppers can hit every shop in town.

The Circulator Trolley will also be running into Eastport and West Annapolis during Midnight Madness, so you can easily get from Downtown to those great shopping areas. And if you live in Eastport or West Annapolis, save worrying about parking entirely--trolley in!

For more information, please visit the Annapolis Business Association Facebook Page!

And Eleventh Hour Too!

...and for those of you who live for procrastination, Eleventh Hour (where all the downtown shops will remain open until 11pm) will be happening on Thursday, December 20th!

Come on down and join all the other last minute shoppers and snatch a great deal on a perfect gift for that perfect someone in your life!

The End!

Thank You!

On a personal note, shopping local is so important. All business is local and most of the shops in Annapolis are not big brands. They are your friends, your neighbors, the guy sitting next to you in church, the woman behind you in the grocery line. Our merchants are a large part of what makes Annapolis so special, let's all do our part to make sure they succeed!

We have a fantastic assortment of businesses in town in six distinct business districts. I have been working with the Annapolis Economic Development Corporation to highlight many of them is some short videos. Please take a look and share them and pass the word along.

The easiest way to view them is to visit our site and in the menu bar there is a SHOP LOCAL drop down highlighting the six real districts and one virtual--Main/State/Maryland, West Annapolis, Inner West Street, Outer West Street , Forest Drive, Eastport, and our Virtual businesses. (Some may not be complete yet, please check back).

All the best--