Events

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This year over one billion people in 192 countries will participate in various events all over the world to celebrate Earth Day. How and where will you join in and make a difference? Emerald Coast residents, here’s your chance and Topsail Hill Preserve State Park is the place.

Topsail Hill Preserve State Park, the University of Florida IFAS Extension, Florida Sea Grant, and Friends of Topsail Hill Preserve State Park invite you to the 5th Annual Walton County Earth Day Festival & 5K Race on April 20, 2013.

Spring is here and we are all ready for a little outdoor live music. Bud and Alley’s Waterfront restaurant in Seaside has quite the lineup and we can’t think of a better place to chill and enjoy some tunes. Enjoy small plates from a special menu while you sip cocktails or have dinner at the Tarpon Club upstairs or the restaurant downstairs. 

During the last year local artist Andy Saczynski has gained a lot of traction, winning numerous awards, performing live art demos at events like the 30A Songwriters Festival and opening his own gallery in Grayton Beach.

The Grayton Beach Kids Fishing Tournament is so much fun - for kids and parents. It's a joy to see the kids so excited. There's nothing like seeing a kid hook their first fish. The South Walton Chapter of the Coastal Conservation Association has the 7th annual edition set for April 13 from 8 a.m. to  noon.

Every year the Seabreeze Jazz Festival gets bigger and better. This year the bar has risen with the addition of a new permanent stage at Aaron Bessant Park, at Pier Park in Panama City Beach.

Click here to enter to win a pair of weekend passes!
We're giving away multiple pairs of passes on April 10th - bonus entries for sharing. Passes are for Thursday through Sunday. Go all 4 days or give some days away to family or friends.

Mother Trucker, an on-the-road musical written by David Wayne Reed hits Seaside this Spring.  The story is the eastbound and lowdown tale of a widow, Ruby Lee Jenkins (Meghan Bode), and her son, Teddy Bear (Alan Daugherty), grappling with a new life on the road after the untimely trucking death of her husband.  It is both an homage and parody to the trucker movies of yore. Ruby drives her pink Peterbilt through a landscape dotted with country crooners, sexy hitchhikers, rig jockeys, Johnny Law and Jesus in pursuit of Alabama No-No Juice.

The Third Annual "It's a Spring Thing" event takes place April 6 from 10am-2pm at the beautiful location of Camp Helen State Park, and is presented by the Department of Environmental Protection, the park and Friends of Camp Helen State Park. The event is a fun, interactive experience that promotes a variety of activities and resources available in Walton County, Bay County and the surrounding areas.

Join our friends at Sirens at the Beach, an upscale lingerie boutique in Grayton Beach, as they host a private trunk show with Michelle Blenkinsopp of Shell Belle Couture. This will mark the designer’s first showing in the United States. The boutique will also be hosting a One Year Anniversary Soiree on that same day, April 18, from 7pm to 8:30pm.

On Friday, April 5, famous athletes will play in a celebrity golf tournament at Burnt Pine Golf Club at Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort, voted the #1 Resort on Florida’s Emerald Coast. Through the Affordable Home Insurance Charities Foundation this event will benefit the Wounded Warrior Project.