The Rotary's 2021 Banana Split Festival, has been cancelled amid the coronavirus crisis.  This also means that the Big Banana Baseball Tournament is also cancelled for 2021. "We are thankful for the volunteers and festival committee members who have already given so much time and effort as they prepared for the festival over the past year", said Susan Valentine Scott, Chairman of the 2021 Banana Split Festival. Our decision was made from an abundance of caution for the safety of our volunteers, guests, and vendors, as well as practicality.

Contracts for entertainment are confirmed well in advance along with marketing campaigns. Those are some of the festivals largest fixed costs and with the continued uncertainty of how the social gathering restrictions will be lifted, the most responsible course of action was to cancel.

The festival committee remains optimistic. While the festival is cancelled, we hope to create a fun, ice cream social event where we can all celebrate together with our famous banana splits later this summer in collaboration with other scheduled events around the city of Wilmington.

The Banana Split Festival is a co-sponsored festival by both Wilmington Rotary organizations for the purpose of raising funds for local non-profits and Rotary Scholarship Funds. To learn more about Rotary visit www.rotary.org .