Ocean Fest to fill two days with music, vintage surf contest

Stay music, a classic browsing contest, environmental training and an “Oysterpalooza” are highlights of Ocean Fest in Surf Metropolis scheduled for later this month.

Going down at Soundside Park, the oyster occasion is to happen 4-10 p.m. Friday, Sept. 20, and the music pageant 3-10 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 21.

Tickets vary from $25 to $70 per particular person, relying on the occasion, and could be purchased on-line.

The $25 ticket for Oysterpalooza contains reside music, and a youngsters zone with Sturgeon Metropolis Environmental Schooling Heart based mostly in Jacksonville. The $50 ticket comes with a dozen native oysters. Meals vans, drinks and exhibitors will probably be on web site.

The browsing contest has contributors driving classic mid-length surfboards from the Nineteen Sixties and Seventies. Earlier than every warmth, contestants are to be randomly assigned a board from a curated assortment of greater than a dozen retro surfboards. Open warmth registration is on the web site.

The music pageant is to characteristic eight performances, instructional displays and distributors. The lineup as of late August contains Blue Footed Boobies, Of Good Nature, Will Overman, The Midatlantic, Oceanic, Tyler Mckaig, Justin Cody Fox, The Fontanelles, and Beht Manning.

Youngsters beneath 10 are free with ticketed adults. Youngsters attending Oysterpalooza with out a ticket don’t obtain oyster tokens.

Three Surf Metropolis surfers based Ocean Fest in 2019 to share their “love for the ocean, have fun the pure pleasure of browsing, and, most significantly, give one thing significant again to Mom Ocean,” in line with the web site. “With that in thoughts, Ocean Fest strives to coach the group about ecological threats to our valuable marine environments and train how we will higher defend these environments.”