April 2-3 2011

Pensacola JazzFest
Seville Quarter
Pensacola, FL
(850) 433-8382
www.jazzpensacola.com
The Pensacola JazzFest, now in its 28th year, is a FREE all-jazz festival held in downtown, historic Seville Square. A state-of-the-art sound system brings the music to wherever you are in the park. In addition to the great music lineup, food, drinks and jazz merchandise will be offered for sale at reasonable prices. The Arts and Crafts Exhibition presents a variety of art items, jewelry, clothing, and more, and has proven to be a popular feature of the JazzFest. In addition, local area vendors will offer some tasty food options for the hungry jazz listeners. Some seating is provided, but your favorite reclining lawn chair will make it just right.

April 8-10 & 15-17 2011

The Emperor's New Clothes
South Baldwin Community Theatre
Gulf Shores, AL
(251) 968-6721
www.sbct.biz
Hans Christian Anderson's Emperor Marcus the Third wonders how he can possibly run an empire when he's only 14-years-old. In an attempt to appear more mature to his people, he accepts the credo that "clothes make the man."

Alice Through the Looking Glass
Pensacola Little Theatre
Pensacola, FL
(850) 432-2042
www.pensacolalittletheatre.com
Join Alice as she journeys once again into a magical land filled with fantastical characters and exciting adventures. This time Alice passes through a mirror into The Looking-Glass World where everything is backwards and topsy-turvy. The world is a giant chessboard and Alice must venture across the land in her quest to become a queen. She matches wits with Humpty Dumpty, Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum and ultimately battles the dreaded beast the Jabberwocky. Tickets range from $10 to $20, youth 12 and under are admitted at half price.

April 16 2011

3rd Annual Treausre Hunt Arts, Crafts Fair & Car Show
Orange Beach Sportsplex
Orange Beach, AL
(251) 981-6626
www.gulfshores.com
Lots of food and fun for the whole family are being planned and local artists and craftsmen will be displaying and selling their works. In addition the festival will feature our 2nd annual open car/motorcycle show and a community yard sale with a wide variety of "treasures from the attic." Admission is free.

Pensacola Symphony Orchestra: Pictures at an Exhibition
Saenger Theatre
Pensacola, FL
(850) 595-3880
www.pensacolasaenger.com
Ravel's popular orchestration of one of his piano compositions begins the night, with elements of a dance suite. Violinist Jennifer Frautschi will then perform Stravinsky's violin concerto, and the 2010-2011 season will end with another of Ravel's masterful orchestrations for a piece originally written for piano. Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition takes the listener through a gallery filled with the works of Viktor Harmann, ending with the triumphal Great Gate at Kiev. Tickets range from $20-$77.

April 22 2011

A Chorus Line
Saenger Theatre
Pensacola, FL
(850) 595-3880
www.pensacolasaenger.com
In an empty theatre, casting for a new Broadway musical is almost complete. For 17 dancers, this audition is the chance of a lifetime. This is A Chorus Line, the musical for everyone who's ever put it all on the line. Winner of 9 Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize for drama, this singular sensation is the longest-running American Broadway musical ever. Now A Chorus Line returns. Come meet the new generation of Broadway's best.

April 28-30 2011

Driving Miss Daisy
Pensacola Little Theatre
Pensacola, FL
(850) 432-2042
www.pensacolalittletheatre.com
The place is the Deep South, the time is 1948, just prior to the civil rights movement. Having recently demolished another car, Daisy Werthan, a rich, sharp-tongued Jewish widow of 72, is informed by her son, Boolie, that henceforth she must rely on the services of a chauffer. The person he hires for the job is a thoughtful, unemployed black man, Hoke, whom Miss Daisy immediately regards with disdain and who, in turn, is not impressed with his employer's patronizing tone and, he believes, her latent prejudice. But, in a series of absorbing scenes spanning 25 years, the two, despite their mutual differences, grow ever closer to, and more dependent on each other, until eventually they become almost a couple.

April 29 - May 1 2011

Pensacola Crawfish Festival
Bartram Park
Pensacola, FL
(850) 436-5508
www.visitpensacola.com
The Pensacola Crawfish Festival celebrates the Cajun influence in our community, and is held on the waterfront in Bartram Park. This event is one of the largest crawfish boils in the state. 30,000 attendees expected.

27th Annual Interstate Mullet Toss
Flora-Bama Lounge
Perdido Key, FL
(850) 492-0611 or (251) 980-5118
www.florabama.com
Join over 1,000 people who come to this event and throw a mullet from the Florida side to the Alabama side. There's also the Miss Mullet Bikini Content, volleyball, skeet shotting, a keg toss, three bandstands and 17 bar stations.

April 30 - May 1 2011

Goombay Gulf Coast
Historic Belmont-Devilliers Neighborhood
Pensacola, FL
(850) 207-0206
www.visitpensacola.com
Goombay Gulf Coast has already become the second largest gathering of steel drum bands in the United States, and it continues to grow. Over 25,000 people attended in 2009. Feel the rhythm of some of the best regional and international reggae, calypso, steel drum bands and Caribbean music around. Stilt-walkers, African dance and drum presentations, and a variety of activities will celebrate grassroots ties to the local African-American community.