Gulf Shores, Ala – May 10, 2012 – The City of Gulf Shores will host its first S’mores on the Shore event of the season at 5:30 PM on Thursday, May 24 at the west end of the Gulf Shores Public Beach.

S’mores on the Shore will feature live music from Sugarcane Jane, campfires and of course all of the makings for s’mores. These family friendly events were introduced for the first time last summer and have quickly become a hit for vacationing families, as well as, those just looking for some free fun and excitement.

Bring your blankets, chairs, friends and family and join us as we kick back and relax on the beautiful, white sand of the Gulf Shores Public Beach.

For more information about S’mores on the Shore or any of the City of Gulf Shores’ events, contact the Special Events Division at 251-968-1171.

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Tour Dates

5/17    Hangout Music Fest                          Gulf Shores, AL

5/20    The WorkPlay Theatre                   Birmingham, AL

5/21     Smith's Olde Bar                                     Atlanta, GA

5/23     The Basement                                          Nashville, TN

5/24     Patton Alley Pub                                     Springfield, MO

5/25     Blue Moose Tap House                         Iowa City, IA

5/25     Summer Camp Music Festival           Chillicothe, IL

6/2        The Bitter End                                         New York, NY

6/10     Bonnaroo                                                   Manchester, TN

7/14     Great South Bay Music Festival        Patchogue, NY

8/3        Jones Beach Amphitheater                 Long Island, NY

8/11     Peach Festival (w/ Allman Bros.)   Scranton, PA

10/11   Harvest String Festival                        Ozark, AR

(Orange Beach)

Just two weeks after The Wharf had its inaugural Bands, Barks and Brews event, today they are kicking off "Rockin' Thursdays" at the Ferris Wheel Palm Plaza.  Rockin' Thursdays is a weekly free music event featuring local and regional musical acts.  Grab your blankets or lawn chairs and head to the Wharf to enjoy The Jay Williams Band tonight from 5:00-8:00.

For more Wharf information check out:  Alwharf.com

(Orange Beach)

The Wharf in Orange Beach may not be about throwing fish, but they are about putting on great events and this weekend is no different.  The weekend kicks off today with the Bama Coast Cruise Car Show and concludes with Bands, Barks and Brews on Sunday.  The Bama Coast Cruise is a gear-heads dream featuring a vendor midway, swap meet, poker run, cash drawing and of coarse the judging of the autos.  Live entertainment will be provided by The Foxy Iguanas Friday from 7:00-9:00 and Saturday from 1:00-3:00.

Bands, Barks and Brews is a new FREE event at The Wharf giving patrons a doggie friendly environment full of local artwork, local beers, wiener dog races and live music featuring the Tip Tops.  This event will be held from 4:00-8:00 p.m. Sunday April 29th in the lawn adjacent to The Wharf marina.

While at The Wharf try one of our fantastic restaurants like Rafters restaurant and Sports Bar, Ginny Lane, Compleat Angler and Villagio.  The Wharf also has many shops to suit anybody's taste.  For more information check them out at: Alwharf.com.

GULF SHORES/ORANGE BEACH, AL - The 41st Annual National Shrimp Festival Committee, chaired by Ron Kutter, is proud to unveil the 2012 Official Annual National Shrimp Festival Poster. This year's winning design was created by Keith White, a native of Shallotte, North Carolina. 

The poster design contest is an annual tradition and in past years the winning design has not only been featured on the official poster sold at the festival, but elements of the art are also incorporated into other merchandise items including t-shirts, visors, and the like.

Keith is a graduate of the Art Institute of Atlanta and the American College for the Applied Arts, earning his Bachelor's degree in commercial art. After living in Atlanta for eleven years and working as a computer graphic artist, Keith moved back home to Shallotte in 1998. Until 2003, Keith worked as a graphic artist at Kool-A-Brew in Calabash, North Carolina. Starting in early 2004, Keith began working for The Brunswick Beacon, a weekly newspaper focusing on local news and events for the southeast, North Carolina coast. Keith serves as both graphic artist in the Beacon's advertising department and the Beacon's editorial cartoonist. In addition to his time at the Beacon, Keith is a freelance artist specializing in business logos, t-shirt designs and art focusing on local scenery and surfing, a personal passion. Keith is no stranger to local festivals.

Throughout the year, Keith's art can be found at various community festivals on the southeast coast of North Carolina. Keith's art has been chosen as the official festival art for the Ocean Isle Beach Oyster Festival for the past three years.

The 2012 41st Annual Shrimp Festival will be held on the public beaches of Gulf Shores from October 11th thru October 14th.  And as the Festival boasts, there really is something for everyone!  The festival is a project of the Alabama Gulf Coast Area Chamber of Commerce.

(Gulf Shores)

Memorial Day Weekend on Pleasure Island could never be complete without a visit to LuLupalooza at LuLu's in Gulf Shores.  This free, All-Ages Concert has attracted such wonderful artists as Jon Cleary, Honeyboy Edwards, Mac McAnally , John Mooney, Brandi Carlisle, Mat Kearney, Paul Thorn, Sonny Landreth…and it just gets bigger and better every year! The best way to celebrate Memorial Day on the coast!

This Years event will be held May 26 and 27th and the music lineup will be:

Saturday the 26th:

Honey Island Swamp Band 4:00

Eric Lindell  6:15

Lee Boys  8:30

Sunday the 27th:

Dread Clampitt 4:00

Bonerama  6:15

Roddie Romero & the Hub City All Stars 8:30

April 17, 2012 (Pensacola, FL) – DeLuna Fest is proud to announce the 2012 lineup for their third annual music and beach festival. Headliners Pearl Jam and Foo Fighters will be joined by Florence and the Machine, Band of Horses, Dwight Yoakam, Ben Folds Five, Guided By Voices, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Band of Skulls, The Wood Brothers and many more. DeLuna Fest is heralded as the ultimate end-of-summer music festival experience, taking place September 21 – 23 on the white sands of Pensacola Beach, FL. Tickets go on sale today, Tuesday, April 17th, at 8 am CT/ 9 am ET at www.delunafest.com. More bands, including a third headliner, will be announced in the coming months. A confirmed lineup is listed below.

DeLuna Fest hosts four stages, with two rising directly out of the sand, on the water’s edge of the Gulf of Mexico. Featuring a top-notch musical assortment of national headliners and regional favorites, DeLuna Fest is an easy to get to vacation destination with thousands of hotel rooms, condos and beach houses in close proximity. Accessible by car and boat, and located only 15 minutes from the Pensacola Regional Airport, Trip Advisor names Pensacola Beach one of the country’s top 10 beaches.

The festival’s tropical location fused with top-tier talent and a bevy of festival activities and amenities prompted 2011 headliner Perry Farrell, front-man for Jane’s Addiction, to call DeLuna Fest the “best kept secret in America.” And Popmatters says, “DeLuna Fest is an experience not to be missed.”

A shuttle service will be available for attendees traveling from downtown Pensacola or staying on either end of Pensacola Beach’s Santa Rosa Island. Other amenities on the festival site include two open-air Florida restaurants, mini-golf, a sports lounge with big screen TVs, assorted vendors, and more. Families are welcome; kids 10 and under are free when accompanied by a paid adult.

A limited quantity of advance price festival weekend passes are available for $159.95 and go on sale today at www.delunafest.com through Front Gate Tickets. Once tickets at the advance price level are sold-out, passes will then go on sale at the regular price of $199.95. VIP ticket packages are also available online for $649.95. VIP pass holders enjoy premier stage viewing, access to the VIP Beach Club Lounge and more.

For information on DeLuna Fest including lodging, shuttle services and VIP packages, visit www.delunafest.com.

WHAT: DELUNA FEST 2012
WHEN: FRI., SEPTEMBER 21 – SUN., SEPTEMBER 23, 2012
WHERE: CASINO BEACH BLVD., PENSACOLA BEACH, FL 32561
TICKETS: $159.95 3-DAY GA PASS / $649.95 VIP PASS
TICKETS AVAILABLE AT: delunafest.frontgatetickets.com
FESTIVAL WEBSITE: http://www.delunafest.com

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CONFIRMED ARTISTS INCLUDE:
Pearl Jam
Foo Fighters
Florence And The Machine
Band Of Horses
Dwight Yoakam
Ben Folds Five
Guided By Voices
DJ Jazzy Jeff
The Joy Formidable
The Gaslight Anthem
The Wallflowers
Superchunk
Joan Jett And The Blackhearts
Bad Brains
City And Colour
Band Of Skulls
The Wood Brothers
Walker Hayes
Kermit Ruffins And The Barbecue Swingers
Mike Doughty
The Corin Tucker Band
Rebirth Brass Band
Fishbone
Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk
The Silos
Motopony
Anders Osborne
Twothirtyeight
Bonerama
The Parlotones
Ben Sollee
Washboard Chaz w/ Tin Men
Eric Lindell
Mishka
Charmaine Neville
Chris Thomas King
Lights Resolve
Antoine Knight
The Villains
Kitt Lough
Hip Kitty
The Gills
Deadly Fists Of Kung-Fu
Paloma
DLP
Pioneers! O Pioneers!

(Orange Beach)

It seems like every week the Amphitheater at The Wharf announces another great concert.  This week they announced Miranda Lambert with special guest Lee Brice and Thomas Rhett. The show will be held Saturday July 12, with tickets going on sale Friday May 4th at the Amphitheater Box Office and Ticketmaster.com.

Bio:

On the caution-vs.-candor scale, it's not hard to figure out where Miranda Lambert comes down. "I'm really not careful at all," she says. "I probably should be. I pretty much don't have anything to hide, though. I never hid anything growing up. My parents were PIs, so I really couldn't."

She may have become a songbird instead of snooper, but in her own fashion, Lambert is following in the family business, as a private investigator of the heart -- a trade she recommences with relish in her third album, Revolution. The 25-year-old star's biggest hits have tended to be her boldest songs, so she's not about to put a lid on her plain-spokenness now.

"I mean every word I say in every lyric of every song on this record, and every record I've ever done," she declares. "I would never take back one word or lyric or point I've ever made, because it's part of who I am. And there are plenty of artists who wouldn't do so much of that, if that's the kind of music you're into. But if you're into honesty, I have the records for you," she laughs.

In her most successful single to date, "Gunpowder and Lead," Lambert declared that some little girls are made less of sugar and spice than more combustible substances. And the title track of her 2005 platinum debut, Kerosene, established her in the country music firmament as a figuratively and maybe even literally incendiary personality. But it may be no mistake that the new album's title, Revolution, could be taken as similarly aggressive or just a simple pledge of personal reinvention.

"I'm a little more stable in my life, and not the crazy, wild-eyed kid that was writing 'Kerosene' at 18," she says. "I've been through a lot and grown up a lot on the road. And I've always kind of been a little older than my age anyway. I have the regular 25-year-old small town girl side to me that likes to make cupcakes and live on a farm, and then I have this rowdy, crazy, headbanging, rock-star-girl side that is my life on the road. I feel this record shows more a complete picture of who I am.

On one end of the gamut lies the hard-rocking, vengeful "Sin for a Sin," cowritten by Lambert with Blake Shelton, in which it sounds like there might be the hint of a homicide. "Maybe, maybe not," she laughs, refusing to commit to an interpretation. "It's basically about cheating, love gone wrong, and the death of something, whether it's love or a person... That's trademark Miranda -- the song on my record that most sounds like me from 'Kerosene' or 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.' Nobody really gets to live out all their fantasies; I just get to sing mine in songs."

At the other end of the Revolution-ary spectrum is the tender but still thoroughly realistic "Love Song," cowritten with Shelton and two members of Lady Antebellum. "A song called 'Love Song' I would never think would be on my record," she admits. "You know what I mean? Because I just don't sing songs like that. But this song is about real people in real love, not the fairy tale. And you know, I guess I've reached a point where, it's all right to maybe love somebody.

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The Amphitheater at The Wharf is located at: 23101 Canal Rd
Orange Beach, AL 36561

(Orange Beach)

The Wharf in Orange Beach along with Red Mountain Entertainment, Baldwin Animal Rescue Center, Ginny Lane Restaurant and The Wharf present Bands, Barks and Brews to be held April 29th on the lawn adjacent to the Wharf Marina.

Bring your friendly dog on leash and enjoy the afternoon listening to The Tip Tops and socializing with Fido and Rover.  Activities include a leash-free area, wiener dog races, pet exhibits, local art sale, food, and of course, beer.  The event will be held from 4:00-8:00 p.m. Please visit alwharf.com for more info.

Benefiting the Humane Society of Baldwin County

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