Gullah Geechee Nation International Music and Movement Festival - Charleston, SC
August 18, 2008 by Susanne
Filed under Art & Entertainment, Charleston, Coastal Happenings, Festivals, History & Heritage, South Carolina
| August 22, 2008 | to | August 24, 2008 |
Gullah/Geechee Artisans Reconnect Culture Through Crafts
The Gullah/Geechee Nation International Music & Movement Festival™ brings together authentic Gullah/Geechee artists from North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida in a major showcase of the artistic skills of Gullah/Geechees that teach how their visual arts, music, dances, and songs connect to their ancestry in Africa. Over the course of three days in historic Charleston, SC in the Gullah/Geechee Nation, people will be able to purchase traditional items and participate in a number of performances and interactive educational workshops. The events will be at different locations on Friday, August 22, 2008. However, the main events will be held Saturday, August 23, 2008 and Sunday, August 24, 2008 at the Charleston Maritime Center at 10 Wharfside Drive from Noon to 7 pm.
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Beach Music Festival - Jekyll Island, Georgia
August 15, 2008 by Susanne
Filed under Beaches, Festivals, Golden Isles, Music
There is no better way to celebrate summer than with a party on the beach. There’s big party is coming to the beach on Jekyll island this weekend. Wear your best Hawaiian shirt or tiny winy polka dot bikini and head out for a FREE Beach Blast Concert on Saturday August 16th from noon to 6:00 PM.
The event takes place on the beach, behind the Beach deck, so bring plenty of sun screen!
Rick Godfrey Band, Second Chance and the Swinging Medallions are performing. Click here to read our previous post about the Beach Music Festival on Jekyll Island
For more information call 1-877-4-JEKYLL or visit www.jekyllisland.com
Catfish Festival in Kingsland, Georgia
August 8, 2008 by etalentino
Filed under Coastal Happenings, Festivals, Georgia, St marys-Kingsland
| August 30, 2008 | to | August 31, 2008 |
6th Annual Labor Day Weekend Catfish Festival in Kingsland
If you want to experience a festival in true Southern Style, how about the traditional Catfish Festival in Kingsland taking place on Labor Day weekend? This festival serves up southern-fried catfish with a side of country music. Kingsland, Georgia’s 25th Annual Labor Day Weekend Catfish Festival which runs from Saturday, September 1st thru Monday, September 3rd in historic, downtown Kingsland, Georgia.
The First Annual Songwriter Festival in Amelia Island, Florida
August 6, 2008 by Susanne
Filed under Amelia - Fernandina, Art & Entertainment, Festivals, Florida, Music, News
SONGWRITER FESTIVAL SLATED FOR AUGUST 27-31 IN FLORIDA
The First Annual Amelia Island Songwriter Festival will drop anchor in Fernandina Beach, Florida, August 27-31. The BMI-sponsored event offers a unique combination of workshops, showcasing and networking opportunities for aspiring songwriters of all levels. Established Nashville hitmakers will also attend, performing their smashes at evening showcases on the island and offering invaluable insight during daily seminars led by songwriter and author Jason Blume. Numerous songwriting contests will also be staged with cash awards for first second and third places; the Grand Event held the final day of the festival will pit the winners of individual contests against each other for Song and Songwriter of the Year bragging rights, along with respective $1,000 prizes.
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12th Annual Tybee Festival of the Arts - Tybee Island, GA
August 5, 2008 by etalentino
Filed under Art & Entertainment, Coastal Happenings, Festivals, Georgia, Savannah
| October 18, 2008 10:00 am | to | October 19, 2008 6:00 pm |
Join us on the Tybee Pier & Pavilion from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. The event will include painters, jewelers, potters, woodworkers, photographers, and weavers throughout from throughout the Southeast. The event is free to the public, includes free parking and live entertainment.
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The 27th Savannah Jazz Festival, September 20 - 28, 2008
The nine-day Savannah Jazz Festival is one of the largest and most popular of the free Savannah festivals. It returns to Savannah for the 27th time and takes place Sept 20th -28th.
The Savannah Jazz Festival, celebrates jazz offers all types of jazz, from Dixieland, traditional swing, straight-ahead and bop to melodic standards, and funky down-home “gutbucket” blues.
Celebration of Hope, kicks off the festival on Saturday night (Sept 20). It is a Jazz Concert-Wine Tasting event to raise money for the Backus Children’s Hospital. Ticket Required. Call: 912-350-8194 for more information.
The Jazz Trio is headlining this evening.
Savannah Jazz festival features the best in international, national, regional and local jazz talent. The 2008 festival will feature;
Launch Party and Summer Benefit - Charleston Food and Wine
July 27, 2008 by Susanne
Filed under Charleston, Coastal Happenings, Festivals, Food, News, South Carolina
| August 28, 2008 | ||
| 5:30 pm |
Get a plate full of tasty details for the upcoming fourth annual Charleston
Food + Wine Festival, scheduled for March 5-8, 2009. A Taste of the Festival hosted by Bridgeside Events, includes a sampling from Charleston’s top chefs representing the Festival’s signature events along with specialty beverages, wine pairings and the announcement of the upcoming schedule. Featured chefs include Craig Deihl (Cypress), Lance Howard (Locklear’s), M. Kelly Wilson (Cypress), and Jimmy Hagood (Food for the Southern Soul).
Remember to Top Off Summer with Beach, Boogie & BBQ - Myrtle Beach, SC
July 26, 2008 by Susanne
Filed under Beaches, Coastal Happenings, Festivals, Food, Music, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
| August 29, 2008 | to | August 30, 2008 |
Come to Myrtle Beach for Labor day Weekend and visit the Beach, Boogie & BBQ Festival a grand finale for the summer of 2008. Enjoy live bands, hot celebrities, Kids Zone rides and activities, boat rides on the lake, Wheels at the Beach classic car show, arts and crafts, food concessions, 2008 Ford Focus car giveaway, IFOCE Eating Competition, a new 5K Run/Walk and a sanctioned S.C. barbecue competition. Bring lawn chairs or blankets and head to Grand Park across from The Market Common August 29-30 for this free event!
EverGreen Family Festival- Ponte Vedra, Florida
July 23, 2008 by Susanne
Filed under Coastal Happenings, Festivals, Florida, Nature, St Augustine
| August 23, 2008 | ||
| 10:00 am | to | 3:00 pm |
A chalk artist will greet you & invite you to create “green-sterpiece,” stroll through a cool rain forest in the courtyard, create a butterfly garden at the JAXPORT & TREE HILL butterfly activity table, stop by Guana Research Reserve’s estuary table and make a fun fish project, visit the the JAX4KIDS water station, enjoy special performances and demonstrations throughout the day by Cultural Center artists and instructors, help your child make drums out of recycled Boar’s Head Brand boxes, visit young local artist Chloe Cannan at her recycled art table, get your American Lung Association green tatoo, visit Marie Hurst/GreenSpace Interior Design’s green room for kids and families, listen to Cultural Center artist Lois Simon read her children’s book, MAC (The Story of a Happy Apple) and more!
Free Beach Blast Concert at the Beach Music Festival - Jekyll Island, GA
July 23, 2008 by Susanne
Filed under Art & Entertainment, Beaches, Coastal Happenings, Festivals, Georgia, News
| August 16, 2008 |
Beach bumming has never been so good!
Jekyll Island, Ga (July 22, 2008)— Jekyll Island is bringing the Golden Isles the biggest, best beach concert in years. Why? Because it is free. The 2008 Beach Music Festival is hitting the coast hard with musical sounds from the Rickey Godfrey Band, Second Chance, and the Swingin Medallions.