Arden Gild Hall

Arden Gild Hall
Wilmington, DE

Project: Shady Grove Music Fest & Local Band Showcase

Arden Gild Hall will revitalize their annual music festival called Shady Grove in July 2025. The fest features nine local bands and draws the venue's largest crowd of the year. The Wilmington DE venue also aims to integrate a monthly emerging artist showcase starting in Spring 2026.

Venue Info

Arden Concert Gild brings music to 160-year-old Gild Hall in Arden, Delaware. Located less than thirty minutes south of Philadelphia, the hall is nestled in the woods of the world-renowned art colony and villages, founded under the “Single-Tax” movement in 1900 by sculptor Frank Stephens and architect Will Price. Serving as a venue for performances dating back to its 1910 remodeling, the Gild Hall stage has been graced by Lead Belly, Pete Seeger, and Burl Ives, amongst countless others. The Concert Gild was founded in 1997 producing a handful of shows a year, and has grown since 2002 to include a group of volunteer producers and dozens of show-day volunteers. We are an all-volunteer gild of the Arden Club, Inc., a 501 (c)(3) non-profit community organization.