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Don't Forget-Perdido Key Wine and Arts Fest

Great Day Planned on Perdido Key Today

Today is the day 1PM-6PM for wine tastings, 50 wines offered, art works and artists, live musical entertainment from the Skyline Kings, food and fun at the Perdido Key Wine and Arts Festival

Big Band Music is back

The National Naval Aviation Museum Presents Music Program:

Featuring the Glenn Miller Orchestra with a Special Tribute to the Centennial of Naval Aviation

The Glenn Miller Orchestra, a fully self-contained group consisting of 19 members, will bring unique jazz and big band sounds to the Museum at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 3. This special concert will include music and swing dancing that will pay tribute to the Centennial of Naval Aviation.

 
 The World Famous, Glenn Miller Orchestra, is the most popular and sought after big band in the world today for both concert and swing dance engagements.  With its unique jazz sound, the Glenn Miller Orchestra is considered to be one of the greatest bands of all time.  The present Glenn Miller Orchestra was formed in 1956 and has been touring consistently since, playing an average of 300 live dates a year all around the world.  As of January 2011, trombonist Gary Tole is the orchestra's musical director.

 Tickets to The Glenn Miller Orchestra performance at the National Naval Aviation Museum are $27.50 for general public and $22.50 for Foundation members and groups of 20 or more.  The Cubi Bar Café will feature a special menu before concert with a cash bar beginning at 5:15 p.m. 

About the National Naval Aviation Museum

The National Naval Aviation Museum features nearly 300,000 square feet of displays and is one of the world’s largest aviation museums. Located aboard Naval Air Station Pensacola, the facility boasts more than 150 beautifully restored aircraft representing Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard aviation and is Florida’s most-visited museum. Among the countless things to touch, see and experience is the brand new museum expansion, Hangar Bay One, which adds 55,000 square feet of exhibit space. Don’t miss thrilling flight simulators , as well as the drama and power of amazing IMAX® films on a seven-story tall giant screen. The Cubi Bar Café offers a unique dining experience, and the Flight Deck Store is the perfect place to find a memento capturing the spirit of Naval Aviation. Museum admission is free. The National Naval Aviation Museum is open daily from 9 a.m.–5 p.m., except Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and New Year’s Day. The National Naval Aviation Museum features FREE admission and a full slate of events throughout the year including many to celebrate the Centennial of Naval Aviation.  For a list of upcoming Museum events, exhibits and attractions, visit NavalAviationMuseum.org or call the Naval Aviation Museum Foundation at (850) 453-2389 or (800) 327-5002.

Perdido Key Photo Contest

Submit your photo here info@ideaworksusa.com and good luck!!!

Don't Miss the 2010 Wine & Arts Festival

 

Enjoy food, fine arts, live entertainment and wine sampling under the grand tent at the inaugural Perdido Key Wine & Arts Festival. It's an event you'll come back to year after year.

  

Saturday, June 12, noon-7 p.m. 

 

Sample the wine in your own signature keepsake wine glass, and purchase your favorite wines to take with you. Enjoy live entertainment with Johny Barbato and the Lucky Doggs from 3-7. $15 wristbands can be purchased at the event and include food and wine sampling and your commemorative glass.

Arts Festival from noon-7p.m., Wine Festival from 3-6 p.m. outdoors at Villagio, 13700 Perdido Key Drive. For information call (850) 492.4660.

The 2010 Wine & Arts Festival is sponsored by ResortQuest and Perdido Key Chamber of Commerce.

Suzi Ragsdale at Perdido Key Silver Moon Sun May 30th

One of the favorite writers/performers of local Perdido Key folks will be here over the Memorial DAy weekend.  This is an opportunity not to be missed.

The Silver Moon presents Suzi Ragsdale with Rick Whaley and Dave Chatham

Sunday May 30th

6:30 PM Door Opens • 7:30 PM Show

Suzi Ragsdale

You never know what can happen at the.....Silver Moon

The Silver Moon is located across from the Flora Bama 850-492-3407

Tickets Available at the Door - $10 donation to musicians -

or Call For Advance Reservations

Silver Moon 850-492-3407 or Brucie 251-942-6060

Suzi has performed at the Songwriters Festival over the years, and we are delighted to have her back, along with Rick Whaley and Dave Chatham.  Her upbeat soulful music & performance style with heartfelt messages could not come at a better time!!  

 

You can view Suzi's promo link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hig5w-SAhpY&feature=related  and go to www.suziragsdale.com 

Big Lagoon Amphitheater Ribbon Cutting

Location: Big Lagoon State Park
Date: May 25, 2010 - Tuesday
Time: 4:00 -6:00 pm
Entertainment By Clark & Company
 
Park Fee will be waived from 3:30-6:00 pm

After much anticipation, a two year construction phase and at a cost of around $1.5 million, the brand new 300 seat amphitheater is complete and ready to again be used for events, weddings and family reunions. The rental fee is $150 plus tax and entrance fees.
The Perdido Key Chamber of Commerce will be hosting the Grand Opening, Ribbon Cutting and Dedication. 
 
When the park opened it 1979, it boasted an open outdoor amphitheater where many family friendly events were held, such as "Picking in the Park" where local musicians came and played regularly for residents and tourists alike.  Unfortunately, the original amphitheater was completely destroyed by Hurricane Ivan in 2004 and had to be demolished in 2005. 
 
Big Lagoon State Park is located in the southwestern corner of Escambia County about 10 miles west of Pensacola.
Access to the park is from Gulf Beach Highway, StateRoad 297. The park consists of 732.40 acres.  

A big thanks to The Shrimp Basket and Lillian's Pizza for donating food for this event.

Perdido Key to host first annual 2010 Wine & Arts Festival

Inaugural event to be held June 12th from noon-7 p.m.

Perdido Key, Fla. (May 14, 2010) –The Perdido Key Chamber of Commerce and ResortQuest will

host the first annual Perdido Key Wine and Arts Festival featuring live entertainment, fine arts

and food and wine samplings on June 12, 2010. The event will be held outdoors at Villagio,

13700 Perdido Key Drive, from noon to 7 p.m.

Wine sampling begins at 3 p.m., with more than 15 wines accompanied by a variety of hors

d’oeuvres. Local radio station, Sunny 105.7, will conduct a live broadcast on-site from 1 to 3 p.m.

Johnny Barbato and the Lucky Doggs will perform live music from 3 to 7 p.m.

A $15 wristband includes appetizers, wine samples and a commemorative wine glass for

sampling.

For more information on the event call 850.492.4660 or visit: www.VisitPerdido.com.

ABOUT PERDIDO KEY, FLA.

Located on a narrow strip of snow white beaches and crystal blue waters, Perdido Key is in the

northwestern “panhandle” of Fla., between Pensacola, Fla. and Orange Beach, Ala. No more

than a few hundred yards wide in most places, Perdido Key stretches some 16 miles, with

almost 60 percent located in federal or state parks – making it one of the last remaining

unblemished stretches of wilderness in the Florida Panhandle.

 

Perdido Bay Tribe

PERDIDO BAY TRIBE MEMBERS CO-AUTHOR CHILDREN’S BOOK BASED ON THE HISTORICAL CREEK INDIANS OF THE SOUTHEAST

Strong Fox: How Fox Came to Help a Village Grow Stronger is the first children’s book by authors Stan Cartwright and Edna Dixon

PERDIDO KEY, Fla. (April 28, 2010) – Authors Stan Cartwright and Edna Dixon recently announced the publication of the first story for children based on the historical Creek Indians of the Southeast. Strong Fox: How Fox Came to Help a Village Grow Stronger is a fictional tale set in the1700’s, starring a little red fox who, along with the inhabitants of a small Muscogee Creek village, shares a pleasant mountain valley along the Flint River in west central Georgia. Despite his small size, Strong Fox learned at a young age to use his cunning and intelligence to outwit village dogs and other prey in order to survive. After befriending a young Creek Indian child who, like him, faces some of the same obstacles in life, Strong Fox helps him realize his special talents and use them to make valuable contributions to his tribe.

Cartwright is vice chief of the Perdido Bay Tribe of Southeastern Lower Muscogee Creek Indians, an organization dedicated to learning, honoring and sharing the history and cultural life ways of the Creek people of the southeast, and raising awareness of the many contributions they made to the fabric of southern culture.  Dixon is an adopted member of the tribe, known as Wordweaver among her tribal friends. She has served for many years as a one-on-one correspondent to student researchers through Perdido Bay Tribe’s online classroom. She also writes for and manages the Tribe’s Web site and is the grant writer for many of their educational outreach programs.

Strong Fox: How Fox Came to Help a Village Grow Stronger is available at online through the publisher’s Web site, www.authorhouse.com, and other major online bookstore outlets, such as Amazon.com. A portion of all sales of the book go to help support the education outreach of the Perdido Bay Tribe.

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Perdido Bay Tribe is a local and state recognized tribe of Creek Indians and friends dedicated to the preservation of its Muscogee Creek heritage. Perdido Bay Tribe was founded in 1990 as an outgrowth of the life-long work of its principal chief, Bobby Johns Bearheart, to preserve Creek arts and culture in the Southeast. Perdido Bay Tribe members maintain an active outreach to honor this heritage through art, education and service in a variety of cultural, social and environmental programs. For more information on the Perdido Bay Tribe, visit www.perdidobaytribe.org.

Art On Display-Perdido Key

Nearly every week you can find local artists displaying their wrroks at various venues across the Perdido Key area.  The two most obvious are at the Artworks Studio in the Villagio Shopping Center on the Key itself but turn into Innerarity Point Rd and the familiar little garden shack one block down the road will entertain you for a time with whimsical pieces.

The Southwest Branch of the Library on Gulf Beach Highway is another discovery spot for the art fancier.  This week two local favorites will share their works.  

April Delatte of Lost Key Impressions will show acrylics and oils.  Portraits, landscapes and lighthouses are some her subjuects to be shown this week through Saturday.

Beth Winn of the Artworks Studio and Gallery will exhibit watercolor portraits and beach scenes this week at the libray as well.

The address is 12248 Gulf Beach Highway, 850-453-7780

or check out the web site for more details http://www.cityofpensacola.com/library/news.asp?view=detail&rID=15324

Triathalon, Boats and Art- A Unique Perdido Key Combination

Ahhh Perdido Key, there is always something to do for all tastes and interests.  It still amazes me how little people outside our area know the secrets of the "Perdido" area.  Take this perfvect example. This week end you can run a triathalon or attend an art show while browsing waterfront townhomes for sale and take stroll over to a huge in-the-water boat and yacht show.

First thing Saturday morning the 14th annual (yes this has been gong on now for 14 years!!) Mullet Man Triathalon will be run starting at the Flora Bama Lounge a with all events starting and ending at the FL/AL state line.   The swim will be a ¼ mile in the Gulf of Mexico. The bike segment will be on paved four-lane highway (Alabama Hwy 182) heading west and return to Flora-Bama Lounge and Package. (Bike helmets are required) The 4-mile run will begin at the Flora-Bama Lounge, heading west, under the Perdido Pass Bridge and back.  It starts at 7:30 so get there early to see the event and pre-register if you have not aleady here:  Mullet Man Registration

The event will benefit the M. Lane Gilchrist Memorial and the Leukemia Lymphoma Society.  Hang around after the race to enjoy the other "mullet heads" at the Flora Bama Lounge and come back next week for the 26th annual Interstate Mullet Toss and Gulf Coasts Greatest Beach Party at the same location.  Not to be missed 

If art is your thing then head over to Banana Bay.  This townhouse subdivision is just under the Theo  Baars bridge, to the west, on the Perdido Key side.  You  can't miss it and probably have said or heard said "what on earth is that really colorful place under the bridge".    It's a neat place to call home or personal get-away at the beach.  Banana Bay is hosting an art show in conjunction with the multiple open houses for those homes for sale in the complex.  Elayne Mazure and Agnes Sturgen put the event together and you can meet yours truly at the 6049 Elysian address. Come and see this unique condo complex with beach, intracoastal access, boat docks, pool and amenities. I will be there with cokes and beer along with several other real estate agents and artists from 11:00-3:00.  Banana Bay is reached by turning left after the bridge on Gongora, left again on Don Carlos and go under the bridge. A few hundred yards down will be the entrance to Banana Bay.

You will have passed the Oyster Bar on your way to the art show so now you know where the Perdido Key Boat show is holding the in-the-water Boat and Yacht sale. For more details see my post here http://www.myperdido.com/my_perdido/2010/04/perdido-key-boat-show.html