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Brevard Live
SIGFEST continued
Three local charities to benefit
from this event are Genesis House
Shelter, Space Coast Paratroopers, and
Brevard Music Aid. The live entertainment
is provided by Adam Van den
Broek, Ana & David, Frank Lessard,
Mayhem, Greg & Brian, Buckshot,
Wreck and The Day After.
Sunday, February 12, 2pm,
Earl’s Hideaway, Sebastian
Honey Island Swamp Band
G
reat music begins with great
songs, and great songs are what
the Honey Island Swamp Band is all
about. The band came together after
Aaron Wilkinson (acoustic guitar,
mandolin, vocals) and Chris Mule’
(electric guitar, vocals) were stuck in
San Francisco after the levee breaches
following Hurricane Katrina devastated
New Orleans, and had a chance
encounter with fellow New Orleans
evacuees Sam Price (bass, vocals) and
Garland Paul (drums, vocals) at John
Lee Hooker’s Boom Boom Room on
Fillmore Street. They knew each other
from having all played together in
some form or another in various New
Orleans bands, and with the great unknown
regarding their return to their
underwater hometown looming in the
distance, they decided to put together
a band and get some gigs going.
They are back in New Orleans,
still playing together and having released
a new CD called Demolition
Day. The band‘s music has been described
as “Bayou Americana.”
March 4 & 5, 9am to 5/7pm, 51st Annual
Grant Seafood Festival
For 50 years, the little South Brevard​
community of Grant has been hosting
our county’s largest and longest
running event, The Grant Seafood Festival.
Free admission, free parking,
125 plus arts & crafts exhibitors, community
service exhibits, continuous
live entertainment and a scrumptious
menu of succulent seafood. It’s hometown
hospitality at its best. For Grant
this event is more than a festival - it’s a
family tradition.
What makes this event so unique
is it is accomplished by a 100 percent
volunteer effort; there are no commercial
food vendors! All food is prepared
“in house” by Grant residents, often
times with several generations working
alongside one another.
Proceeds from the event are put
back into the many programs and projects
that the Grant Community Center
sponsors. Throughout the 50 year history
of the festival over two million
dollars has been awarded in college
scholarships for local students; all of
who also are required to volunteer with
the event. Grant Community Center,
Grant Library, Grant Historical House
and various children’s programs are
also funded by the festival.
The festival features live bands entertaining
the crowd all day; this year’s
line-up includes on Saturday, March
4th, Whiskey Tango (10-2:45) and
The Umbrella Thieves (3-7); on Sunday,
March 5th, Luna Pearl (10:15-
2:15) and County Line Road (2:30-6).
For half a decade the Grant Seafood Festival has been a community tradition.
Brevard Live February 2017- 19