Coastal Companion

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Take a Chance 5K Trail Run – Charleston, SC

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In Charleston runners have an opportunity to get away from the hot asphalt and on to the trail for some fun racing this summer.

 

Take a Chance

On the evening of Wednesday, July 13,Wannamaker County Park hosts The Chance Run. The 5K race starts at 6:00 p.m. in the evening and features a split in the course that forces runners to choose one of two routes.  Runners who choose the wrong path will find themselves on a slightly longer course than those who selected the other route. Take the chance!

 

Registration for the Race

Online registration for both of the Summer Fun Trail 5K Series races is open now through the day before each event. Late registration and packet pickup will be available on race day from 4:30 – 6:00 p.m. Fees to participate in each race are $20 or $16 for residents of Charleston County. The Summer Fun Trail Series is for participants ages 10 and older; runners ages 10-15 must be accompanied by an adult. Chaperones are not required to register or participate in the run.

To register online for the Summer Fun Trail 5K Series, visit www.ccprc.com or call 843-795-4386 for more information.

Take a Chance 5K race

Springing the Blues 2009 – Jacksonville Beach

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Springing The Blues is an annual festival drawing a crowd of approximately 125,000 blues fans to Jacksonville Beach. Here you can experience performances from some of the nation’s top Blues performers. Springing The Blues is a free outdoor blues music festival. The goal of the festival is to celebrate blues.  The three-day oceanfront music festival features a selection of blues performers as well as other  activities for the whole family to enjoy.

Springing The Blues festival is traditionally held at Jacksonville Beach, Florida’s Oceanfront SeaWalk Pavilion on the first weekend of April each year.

A Few Festival Facts:

• Downbeat Magazine named Springing the Blues as one of the top 50 Music Festivals in the World

• SouthEast Tourism Society named the festival as one of the top 20 destination events in the U.S.

• Springing the Blues is known as Florida’s largest free outdoor blues festival.

• In 1997 the festival was voted as “Best Festival in Northeast Florida” by Folio Weekly Magazine’s annual poll.

Past performers at the festival have included many famous musicians such as; Larry McCray, Phillip Walker, Tinsely Ellis, Saffire “The Uppity Blues Women,” Maurice John Vaughn, Earl King, Mitch Woods And His Rocket 88’s, Susan Tedeschi, North Mississippi Allstars, Tab Benoit, Little Jimmy King, Henry Gray and the Cats, Grammy Award winner Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, Ruby Wilson, Charlie Musselwhite, Rod Piazza & the Mighty Flyers, Robert Jr. Lockwood, R. L. Burnside, Smoky Wilson, Coco Montoya, Smokin’ Joe Kubek and B’nois King.

This year the festival will take place on April 3-5 at Seawalk Plaza, Jacksonville Beach, Florida