Here at SoWal.com we keep our ears and our eyes open. We work every day on our calendars to keep YOU up to date on all the great stuff our community has to offer. We're constantly on the phone, scouring the web, and scrubbing social media for the latest details. Our inboxes overflow with emails from every South Walton town and event planner.
Memorial Day Weekend kicks off summer and South Walton beach towns bustle with beach lovers enjoying holiday fun in the sun. Every which way you turn there are tons of fun ways to rejoice with family and friends.
From outdoor music concerts to movies under the stars, outdoor children's theater to fireworks displays, you can always find special activities unique to our beach. Here's our latest SoWal List packed with wonderful events coming up over the long weekend.
Thursday, May 23
Sacred Heart Hospital on the Emerald Coast and the Forrest Williams Band are teaming up for a great concert on Friday, September 20 at 6 p.m. Save the date for the Backyard Boogie for the Arts featuring the Forrest Williams Band & Friends in Santa Rosa Beach. Proceeds from the event will benefit Sacred Heart Hospital on the Emerald Coast’s Arts in Medicine program.
WaterColor Inn & Resort has a great line up for everyone in SoWal this summer with weekly concerts and movies in the amphitheater at Marina Park. Bring your friends and family, a chair or blanket for seating, and be ready to enjoy outdoor entertainment under the stars.
Local Catch Bar & Grill just released their exciting music schedule for the Summer and it's full of great local performers and well-known bands. Since opening last March, Local Catch has become a hot spot for live music and great food!
Join local student musicians at Destiny Worship Center on May 10 for Music for Missions. This unique community event created and produced by local student, Brandon Crowther (16), is a student-led benefit concert, featuring local musicians, to raise funds to support an orphanage in Guatemala.
You don't have to be an artist to be part of the popular SoWal art and music festival, ArtsQuest - be a volunteer!
Do you have a love for the arts and a generous spirit? If so, the CAA would like to enlist you as a volunteer for the ArtsQuest Fine Arts & Music Festival in WaterColor. The vitality of ArtsQuest depends on the kindness and generosity of the community we serve.
This Saturday evening, May 4, at 7:30 p.m. the Seaside Repertory Theatre presents "Duke & The King", a captivating story about South Walton's own Duke Bardwell, and his days spent performing with The King of Rock & Roll, Elvis Presley.
The Board of Trustees of The St. Joe Community Foundation announced a grant of $10,000 to Sinfonia Gulf Coast in recognition and support of the non-profit symphony orchestra’s performance and education programs for the upcoming 2013-2014 season.
Bud & Alley’s wraps up the Spring 2013 Music Series this Friday, April 26 with Jennifer Steele performing songs of Patsy Cline. Most of us know Jennifer as the Executive Director of the Cultural Arts Alliance of Walton County (CAA) and a producer of the ArtsQuest Fine Arts & Music Festival and 30A Songwriters Festival. She was also a co-founder of the Seaside Repertory Theatre and served as the company’s Managing Director for seven years before joining the CAA.
