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# Your Guide To This Year’s 18th Avenue Feast In Bensonhurst
- URL: https://bklyner.com/guide-years-18th-avenue-feast/
- Published: 2017-07-25T18:58:52.000Z
- Updated: 2017-08-15T14:56:24.000Z
- Author: Zainab Iqbal
- Tags: Announcements, Arts & Culture, Bensonhurst, community, Events, Nonsponsored, 18th ave fest, angelo timoneri, italian-american feast, Mayor de Blasio, santa rosalia, walter curella, #wp

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Photo: William Caruso

Get ready, Bensonhurst’s annual *Festa di Santa Rosalia* is back!

The 42nd annual Italian-American Feast will start on August 17, on the boulevard named for *Cristoforo Colombo*, between 68th Street and 75th Street and will last through August 27.

On weekdays, [the Feast](/everything-need-know-41st-annual-18th-avenue-feast-bensonhurst/) will bring delicious food, live music, rides, and carnival games to the strip from 6pm to 11pm. Weekends start earlier, with the festival running from 11am to 11pm.

The 10-day event honors the patron saint of Palermo, Sicily, where the “Festa” has been celebrated continuously since 1624\. Organizers of the Bensonhurst event say it is the largest Italian-American festival in Brooklyn.

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Photo via Angelo Timoneri

The Feast will kick-off with a live performance by Walter Curella. Event organizer Angelo Timoneri hopes the mayor is able to come and speak a few words as well. And though he isn’t sure it’ll happen, “there’s still a huge probability that it might,” Timoneri said.

Here are other honorary guests expected to show up: The Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, Councilman Vincent Gentile, State Senator Marty Golden, Assemblyman Peter Abbate, and Councilman Mark Treyger.

Other bands being featured on the 10-day Feast are MGM, R3 Brothers, and Voice among others.

A great day to attend the festival is August 27, said Timoneri, when there will be a solemn procession up 18th Avenue and then back down 20th Avenue to [Saint Dominic’s Roman Catholic Church ](http://brooklyncatholic.blogspot.com/2011/08/st-dominic-bensonhurst.html?ref=bklyner.com)(2001 Bay Ridge Parkway). The march will be followed by a 3pm mass at the church, and, as always, parishioners will be treated to free cannoli and refreshments, courtesy of [Villabate Alba](http://villabate.com/?ref=bklyner.com), after the service.

“I just want a greater turnout,” Timoneri said. “We’ve been doing this for such a long time. I like the whole ensemble the food, the music… especially the music.”