Choose Us! Pretty please?

We're very excited to find out that once again your very own Kansas City Irish Fest has been nominated for some pretty high honors. Except this time, they are even higher. The annual Visitors' Choice Awards, presented by the Kansas City Convention and Visitors Association, honor the best in Kansas City according to visitors. This year, we’ve been nominated for Best Ethnic Festival, Best Family Festival, and the very top honor, Best of Kansas City. We're pretty stoked about that.

This is a big deal for us. After all, we won Best Festival in KC in 2007 and 2008. We ended up losing to the Renaissance Festival in 2009. And, we really hate to lose.

Here's who were up against:

Favorite Ethnic/Heritage Festival or Event

• Festa Italiana
• Fiesta Kansas City
• Kansas City Irish Fest
• Kansas City Greek Fest

Favorite Family Festival/Event
• Jiggle Jam
• Kansas City Irish Fest
• Kansas City Renaissance Festival
• KCRiverfest
• Santa-Cali-Gon Days

Best of Kansas City
• Country Club Plaza
• Fiorella’s Jack Stack Barbecue
• Gates Bar-B-Q
• Kansas City Irish Fest
• Pryde’s Old Westport

So we need your help. If you live in the 5 county KC metropolitan area, you can't vote on account of you not being a visitor and it's their choice. If you live elsewhere, cast your vote by going here. If you do live here, contact all your friends and family outside town who love Irish Fest and have them vote. Help Irish Fest reclaim in its rightful spot atop all of our town's festivals and events. And help us show everyone that we are the Best of Kansas City.

Laren