January Winter Haven - Florida Citrus Festival
Titusville, Florida - Space Coast Birding & Wildlife Festival Tampa - The Gasparilla Pirate Festival
The Gasparilla Pirate Festival is an annual event that Tampa hosts every January. The festival is named after famed pirate José Gaspar, who operated out of the Tampa area back in the Golden Age of piracy. The festival begins when Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla sail into town on a 165’ pirate ship, making landfall near downtown Tampa and having a huge parade through the middle of town. It’s a crazy time, and certainly my favorite annual festival in Florida (I try to make it over to Tampa each January to catch it).
The Gasparilla Pirate Festival is sandwiched by two other Tampa festivals. A week before, there is a family oriented children’s parade, as well as a “Piratechnic Extravaganza” of fireworks launched over Tampa. This is a good festival to bring the whole family to, and is far less crowded than the main “invasion” and pirate parade a week later. A week or two after the parade, you will see the more adult-oriented Sant’Yago Knight Parade, which marches from Ybor City and as such, predictably can get a little blue....read more February Lake Worth - Street Painting Festival
Watch the streets come alive as the artists transform the pavement into works of art. It happens the last weekend of every February in downtown Lake Worth, Florida.
Tampa - Florida State Fair
Free entertainment, food, more than 100 rides and games and exhibitors from all over the state.
Mount Dora - Mount Dora Arts Festival
This nationally ranked fine arts festival attracts 285 artists from all over the world. The fine arts are displayed throughout the downtown village attracting thousands fo visitors. For more information please call the Mount Dora Center for the Arts 352-383-0880
Midway, exhibits, live entertainment and plenty of strawberries to celebrate the harvest of strawberries. Daytona Beach - Bike Week
Motorcycle festival
Mount Dora - Antique Boat Festival
Over 150 antique, classic and historic boats are on display
Thousands converge on Jacksonville each April for this free outdoor blues festival featuring performances from renowned blues artists. Orlando - Central Florida Fair
10 Day Event with music, dance, shows, rides, attractions, food, exhibits and livestock display.
Clewiston Sugar Festival
While there are always some things to do in Clewiston year round - bass fishing in Lake Okeechobee is always good – every April, the town really comes into its own with the Sugar Festival.
The Sugar Festival takes place over two weekends – the second and third Fridays and Saturdays in April. Like all county-style fairs, you will find standards like farming equipment expos and a beauty pageant (where they crown an annual Miss Sugar). One of my favorite events localized to the Clewiston festival is the Taste of Sugar Dessert Contest, where chefs of all types strive to make the most delectable sugary creations they can. Other highlights include an old fashioned cane sugar grinding exhibition (surprisingly interesting) and an antique car show. Admission to the festivities is free, so why not? It really is the highlight of Clewiston’s entertainment offerings...read more about Clewiston »
Pensacola Crawfish Creole Fiesta celebrates the Cajun influence in the Northwest Florida Community. The event is one of the largest crawfish boils in state. This event features thousands of pounds of boiled crawfish in addition to other traditional Cajun and Creole fare such as red beans & rice, crawfish pie, boudin balls, and even fried gator tails. Held in Historic Bartram Park - located on beautiful Pensacola Bay in downtown Pensacola
St. Augustine - Ponte Vedra - Florida's First Coast Birding and Nature Festival
June July Pensacola - Pensacola Beach Air ShowThe Navy's world-famous Blue Angels perform August September Pensacola - Pensacola Seafood Festival
Gulf Coast Seafood served in traditional and gourmet recipes and a variety of continuous local entertainment at the entertainment stage located in Fountain Park and at the Gazebo in Seville Square. This festival has been consistently recognized as a Top 20 Event in the Southeast by the Southeast Tourism Society. New Smyrna Beach - New Smyrna Beach Jazz Fest
Performances along Flagler Avenue.
Daytona Beach Film Festival
Films from around he world, celebrity guests and film competition.
A day of fun and music at Ed Smith Stadium - Past performers have included Gregg Allman, Delbert McClinton, Buddy Guy, Solomon Burke, John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers, Coco Montoya, Fabulous Thunderbirds, Jimmie Vaughn, Sonny Landreth, Shemekia Copeland, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Dr. John, The Radiators, Junior Wells, and more greats of the blues. Epcot International Food & Wine Festival
Ethnic cuisine along with wine and beer tasting. Winemakers and guest chefs from around the globe. Pensacola Interstate Fair
Entertainment, rides, games, agricultural and education-oriented exhibts and displays. Mount Dora - Annual Bicycle Festival
Attracting 1000 cyclists, this is Florida's oldest and largest bicycling event! With rides of varying lengths skill levels, cyclists of all ages come and see why Lake County is recognized as one of the best places in the world to ride (Bicycling Magazine, March 1998) November Mount Dora - Light Up Mount Dora (Sunday after Thanksgiving)
Lighting of Donnelly Park and Downtown Mount Dora with close to 2 million sparkling lights! Wonderful Holiday Season Entertainment and festivities including Community Choir, Ballet, Soloist, Singalongs and Santa!! December Fernandina Beach Lighted Holiday Parade
The Florida State Fair is also held in Tampa in February and is a lot of fun. There are more than 100 rides and games and don't forget the food. From anything fried to cotton candy, ice creams and caramel apples. The kids from 4H and FFA will be onsite showing their animals and wait until you get to Cracker Country. Cracker Country is a turn of the century rustic Florida village. There are always great bands for the headline entertainment as well as daily parades, a sea lion splash show, ballroom dancing, bull riding and barrel racing.
The Florida Renaissance Festival is held every February and features enchanted crafts villages, applaud hundreds of performers, knights a fighting and birds of prey. Of course there is also delicious food and continuous entertainment. This event is held annually at Deerfield Beach....read more »
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