Feis at the Beach Irish Dance Competition
- Irish dance competition returns April 25 at the Wildwoods Convention Center in Wildwood, NJ. - Features regional and international schools competing across age groups and is family-friendly. - Details and schedule at capemaycountyherald.com
Feis at the Beach returns to Wildwood on Saturday, April 25, bringing Irish dancers back to the Wildwoods Convention Center for a full-day competition. (wildwoodsnj.com) The event is scheduled at the convention center at 4501 Boardwalk in Wildwood, and listings for the competition show a 9 a.m. start on April 25. The Wildwoods tourism site says the event includes an admission fee. (capemaycountyherald.com) (stayhappening.com) (wildwood.com) A feis is an Irish dance competition, and the Wildwoods and Wildwood.com event pages say this one is organized by the Cummins School of Irish Dance. Those listings say dancers compete in solo categories ranging from beginner levels to advanced championships. (wildwoodsnj.com) (wildwood.com) Registration records on FeisWeb show the 2026 event as “Cummins and D’Arcy Feis at the Beach 2026” in Wildwood, with entries closing on April 20 at 6 p.m. or when the cap was reached. A separate FeisWeb page showed an overall cap of 800 entries, with 496 registered when that page was crawled. (feisweb.com 1) (feisweb.com 2) An entry-list page on FeisWeb said paid-in-full entries were posted as of April 21, 2026, and listed dancers from schools including Cummins, Slattery, DeNogla Academy, Hunt, McDade-Cara and Marie Moore. That suggests the field reaches beyond South Jersey and pulls competitors from multiple schools in the Mid-Atlantic circuit. (feisweb.com) The Wildwoods has hosted the competition before. A Cape May County Herald article from 2017 described that year’s event as the sixth annual Feis at the Beach, which places the competition in Wildwood at least a decade back. (capemaycountyherald.com) This year’s return lands in the middle of the spring event calendar at the shore, with the Herald including it in its April 22-29 roundup and Wildwoods tourism sites promoting it as a family-friendly cultural event. On Saturday, the boardwalk convention center shifts from beach-season prep to hard shoes, soft shoes and daylong competition. (capemaycountyherald.com) (wildwoodsnj.com)
