Mud Island Hot Jazz Lawn Party updates our annual Speakeasy FUNdraiser into an expansive indoor/outdoor event! Dust off your dancing shoes and press your party clothes and get ready to travel back in time to the roaring 20’s! Spend a lovely afternoon circa 1921 swinging, swigging and dancing all while raising funds to support educational programming at the most unique historic site in Philadelphia. It’s an immersive and jam-packed time!
Your $35 (until June 4, then $40) General Admission ticket includes:
- Live music by Drew Nugent and the Midnight Society
- Flappers!
- One bar ticket for our Speakeasy Bar starring Mud Island Punch featuring Revivalist Gin, craft beer courtesy of Attic Brewing, wine courtesy of Country Creek Winery plus more surprises!
- Complimentary non-alcoholic beverages
- Silent Auction including your chance to win a private Candlelight Ghost Tour for you and 20 friends
- BYO picnic (no outside beverages permitted) or purchase your snacks on site
- Contests! Prizes! Best Dressed Lady, Best Dressed Gentleman, Best Couple, Best Group and Best Hat!
- Casemate Cinema featuring silent movies of the era
- Tarot readings (fee applies, paid directly to reader)
- Cigar Lounge (purchase your smokes and enjoy in the lounge)
- Vendors of exciting vintage and reproduction goodies
Upgrade to VIP ($55 until June 4, then $60) and get everything above PLUS:
- Classical burlesque performance by Margot Starlux
- Additional bar ticket
- Complimentary tarot reading
- Exclusive early access to the Casemates, including Casemate Cinema and complimentary popcorn
And MORE!
- Reserve a picnic table (comfortably seating 4 to 8) for $15
- Fire the Fort Mifflin signal cannon! $20
- Want to make it a family outing? Children 5 and under are FREE, students ages 6 to 18 - $8. All general admission activities included, no bar ticket.
Tickets limited to assure an awesome (and safe!) experience so purchase early or risk disappointment. We cannot guarantee walk-up sales. If limited on-site tickets are available prices will be higher. Typical COVID protocols in place such as masks when in a situation where social distancing is not possible, such as the dance floor or indoors.
No outside beverages permitted.
Special thanks to our "Cat's Meow" sponsor, MERIDIAN BANK