Concert

The City of Fort Lauderdale hosts a special concert series called Friday Night Tunes one Friday every month from February to May at Joseph C. Carter Park (southwest field).  The concerts feature live performance from bands representing a wide range of musical genres from Jazz to R&B to the Top 40.  Bring your blankets, chairs and snacks to enjoy a concert under the stars.  The concert runs from 7 pm to 10 pm and usually is on the 3rd Friday of each month.   

Key Largo Merchants Association hosts this WACKY Anything that Floats Race every year at Blackwater Sound, mile marker 104, bayside in Key Largo, Florida Keys.  This family-friendly event encourages participants to create some sort of craft made from materials found around the house.  You can't use actual parts of boats, motors, foam or pool toys.  Watch what people's imaginations can come up with.  Teams are encouraged to dress up as they navigate their "boats" on the race course.

Come out to the beautiful Islamorada Founders Park for one of the best outdoor music festivals in the Florida Keys.  Bay Jam was started years ago as an event to promote the Arts in local schools.  Artists perform and proceeds go to benefit local students in the form of scholarships and tickets to arts perfromances ($180,000 in proceeds from events were given for art, music and dance scholarships).  Guests also bring in canned foods to get in which benefits local food banks.

Jupiter Seafood Festival at CARLIN PARK (new location) in Jupiter is a 2 day event featuring 9 different live entertainers and oodles of delicious seafood.  This is the 4th Annual Seafood Festival with last year's event bringing in over 14,000 people.  Bring your chairs or blankets and some sunblock then enjoy the live music and delectable seafood. There will be a Children's Area with activities for the little ones who are admitted free.

Celebrate Mexican culture and heritage this year on May 2nd in Delray Beach at the "Cinco De Mayo" festival at the Old School Square Pavilion. The event is hosted by the Hispano-Latino Cultural Alliance.  This Saturday Fiesta (the 5th of May is on a Tuesday this year) will include folk dances, Flamenco, Square dancers, Latino bands, Mariachi performances and games.  

The Big Pine & Lower Keys Rotary Club would like you to celebrate America's independence with them this 4th of July at their 9th Annual celebration at Big Pine Community Park.  The park can be found at mile marker 30 on the bayside at the end of Sands Road. Gates will open at 5pm to a family-friendly affair filled with food, drinks, games and activities.  Enjoy a live music performance followed by a show stopping fireworks display at nightfall.

“I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.” 

― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

Morikami Museum and Gardens every summer offers special evenings to come out and enjoy their beautiful gardens.  When the days are hot, bright and humid, Morikami welcomes guests to take an evening stroll through the grounds and enjoy the culinary treats of the Cornell Cafe (separate cost). Relax and enjoy the sun's slow descent into the horizon. Very little is more spectacular than the sun's last rays hitting the Morikami lake with the Japanese bridge in the background.

Morikami's Lantern Festival is one of the most beautiful and popular events at the Gardens.  Obon is the Japanese festival to honor ancestors who are believed to briefly visit the living. It is held in the summer time. But, wait, isn't this a FALL event at Morikami for 2018?  Yes.  This is why it is only in the "Spirit of Obon" since summers are not the most comfortable times to enjoy an outdoor festival in South Florida.

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day in Delray Beach this year with the annual St. Patrick's Festival and Parade.  Friday, from 5-10 pm, enjoy the Siamsa Celtic Celebration (Irish variety show) at the Center for the Arts Pavilion near Old School Square. There will be Irish cultural performances, traditional Irish grub with beer, and the St. Baldrick's Head Shaving Fund-Raiser.  St. Baldrick's is a childhood cancer research fundraiser in which every year on St.