Two day event featuring fun activities for the whole family. Vendors, music, contests and cooking events. Held in Steinhatchee at the Steinhatchee Community Center.
The events hosted by the State Park will be: 2/20/12 - evening event at Cedar Key Museum 2/22/12 - stargazing hayrides at Cedar Key Scrub State Reserve 2/24/12 - evening event at Cedar Key Museum More info to follow
The 10th annual Florida State Bluegrass Festival will be held at Forest Capital State Park. The event will feature dozens of country and bluegrass music peformers, a chili cook-off with over a$1,000 in cash prizes, free musci workshops, arts and crafts and food vendors.
The 5th Annual Southern Music Rising Festival will take place in downtown Monticello starting April 15th. Stroll through charming, historic Monticello stopping in differnt venuea to enjoying some of America's finest blue grass muscians.
The 59th Florida Folk Festival is a three day celebration of the music, dance, stories, crafts and food that make Florida unique. The Florida Folk Festival is one of America's oldest and Largest Folk Festivals and is held annually along the banks of the historic Suwannee River in White Springs.
Join the Florida Trail Association and the Alachua Conservation Trust during MLK weekend to celebrate the wintering Sandhill Cranes, endangered Whooping Cranes, wild horses, bison and more than 270 species of birds in Alachua County.
Activities include: Discovering more than 150 wintering birds, including the American Bald Eagle Biking the Gainesville-Hawthorne Trail Saturday night dinner with a keynote speaker Silent Auction Wildlife and Birding Presentations
There is a fee for registration that covers breakfast, lunch, dinner and shuttle service to bird-watching locations.
The annual Chiefland Watermelon Festival is held in downtown Chiefland. The festival is the biggest event of the year in Chiefland. Come out and enjoy delicious watermelon as well as fun filled events including: a parade, auction, seed spitting contest and the annual Watermelon Queen contest.
Eerie Acres Haunted Attraction offers affordable Halloween fun and fright for all ages. Climb aboard our Hayride to view a variety of Halloween themed decorations, get lost in our Maze, face your fears in our Haunted Woods or bring the little ones for fun in our Kid Zone.
The Central Florida Peanut Festival takes place the first Saturday of October each year in Williston's Linear Park. Organizers say this Williston tradition celebrates all things nutty. Rides, crafts, music, information booths and the Little Peanut royal family. Make no mistake there are always LOTS of peanuts. The festival is truly everything peanuts - from crafts oriented to the nut to countless bags of the area's prized crop to feast on to the crowning of Little Peanut King and Queen and Baby Peanut
The Inglis-Yankeetown Lions Club presents its annual Seafood Festival and Arts and Crafts show. For info call 352-505-7936 or email: yankeetownseafoodfestival@gmail.com.
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Clay Landing Days will feature rides through the north trail system where visitors will experience the lifestyle of early settlers and Seminole Indians. One of the rides is accessible to persons with disabilities with little or no assistance, including wheelchairs. This fun ride and journey into the past will bear witness to survival skills used by Native Americans and pioneers alike to learn how they lived, what clothing they wore and how food was prepared over campfires. If you master communication with them, you may even get to sample tasty morsels.
Clay Landing Days activities are free with a paid park admission of $6.00 per carload of up to eight people. For more information please call the park at 352-493-6072.
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Annual show and sale for the Log Cabin Quilters. Great gifts for the holiday season can be found. View the quilters at work and see some of the awesome products they have created.
The festival will include several events including: parades, live entertainment, caroling, visits with Santa and lighting competitions. Come join the fun!!
Community pride and holiday cheer make the annual "Light Up Williston" celebration memorable for all who attend. This event will include a parade to celebrate the city being lit for the holidy season
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The Fanning Springs Festival of Lights is one of the longest running holiday festivals in the area. It receives a very large attendance of locals and out-of-the-area folks alike to enjoy the arts and crafts, the antique car show, the great entertainment, the delicious food, the famous rubber ducky race in the afternoon and, if the river is accommodating, the lighted boat parade.
