"2010 FLORIDA STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL!"
Plant City, FL
March 4 - 14, 2010
The Florida Strawberry Festival's theme for 2010 will be "Come Celebrate With Us!" The theme was chosen for the 75th annual Festival because the event was founded to celebrate the harvest that helped establish Plant City's reputation. The diamond anniversary edition will feature 24 headline acts, more than 80 carnival rides, nearly 400 vendors, exhibitors and food concessions, and more. There will be more free shows than ever in the entertainment tent,
The Florida Strawberry Festival's headline entertainment is going beyond country in 2010 to include rock music's REO Speedwagon and Lynyrd Skynyrd, best known for the 1974 Southern anthem "Sweet Home Alabama."
The festival stage will include members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, including Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Righteous Brothers' Bill Medley, and Country Music Hall of Fame members Roy Clark and Mel Tillis.
Entertainer Debbie Reynolds will be featured on the festival's new Red Hat Day on March 9, intended to attract members of the Red Hat Society.
Big-name entertainers include the Country Music Association’s new artist of the year Darius Rucker, former Trick Pony member Heidi Newfield, and singer and two-time "Dancing with the Stars" winner Julianne Hough.
The festival didn't stray far from its roots with such festival favorites as The Oak Ridge Boys, Patty Loveless and Josh Turner. Gospel music star Michael W. Smith also returns to the festival stage.
The lineup also includes comedian Bill Engvall, whose credits include hosting CMT's "Country Home Fried Videos."
Whatever your interests, they have it all. Exhibits of agriculture, commerce, industry, livestock, fine arts, horticulture, and crafts await you.
To the fun and excitement of the community fair, add the gala events of the Florida Strawberry Festival®. Throw in the bright lights, stimulating music, laughing voices from the ride-filled Mighty Bluegrass Shows’ Midway, the entertainment, and all the food one cares to eat, and you have the best in the world of entertainment!
Runa Pacha WIND RHYTHMS flute music and their performances will also amaze you!
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY FAIR –
Miami, FL
March 26 – April 11, 2010
One of the biggest delights for kids in Miami is experienced every year – when the Miami-Dade County Fair and Exposition, better known as “The Fair,” comes to town. Now in its 59th year, Miami’s fair is one of the largest in the country, attracting nearly 750,000 visitors each year. It has everything you could want at a fair – monster roller coasters, scary haunted houses, kiddie rides, games, cotton candy, elephant ears, and much more.
The Fair also has plenty of souvenir and gift shopping, student and adult exhibits, agriculture competitions, a daily Mardi Gras parade and FREE live entertainment.
Be sure to stop by to say hello and hear a Runa Pacha WIND RHYTHMS SOLO PERFORMANCE!
