40th Annual Cedar Key Seafood Festival
Saturday Oct 17 and Sunday Oct 18, 9 am to 5 pm Hungry for Seafood?
Want to shop at over 150 Arts and Crafts booths?
Want to enjoy two days of live music on the Gulf?
Looking for Family Fun? The 40th Annual Cedar Key Seafood Festival offers all that and more. As Levy county`s largest event, the 40th Cedar Key Seafood Festival celebrates the area`s fishing heritage, offering two days of fantastic food, shopping, music, and family fun on the beautiful island of Cedar Key. The Cedar Key Lioness, Miss Thelma McCain, has organized over 150 art and crafts exhibitors to exhibit and sell their work on Saturday and Sunday from 9 am until 5 pm along Cedar Key`s Second Street in the annual Seafood Festival Arts and Crafts Fair.
On Saturday morning at 11 am, the crowd pleasing Lions Club sponsored Seafood Festival Parade, under the direction of Lions Parade Chairwoman Susan Hollandsworth, proceeds down Gulf Boulevard to the City Marina. Floats, decorated golf carts, bikes, boats, cars, and individuals compete in good humored fun for prizes and the best sea creature costume. Participation is free. Parade registation forms for the free event are available at retial outlets around town and can be downloaded at www.cedarkeylionsclub.org in the NEWS Section. And then there`s the seafood!
Organized by the Cedar Key Lions Club and Festival Chairmen Roland Senecal and Maurice Hendrix, the Food in the Park is a community wide fundraising event, with over a dozen Cedar Key community groups, churches, nonprofits, and school clubs serving up fresh seafood and homemade delicacies in food court booths at the beach-side city park.
Typical of the delicacies a the festival are grouper sandwiches, clam fritters, funnel cakes, smoked mullet, crab cakes, corn on the cob, French fries, hamburgers, hot dogs, coke, iced tea, coffee, ice cold water, lemonade, cakes, cookies, and deserts. Enjoy your seafood under a cabana while listening to free live music at the seaside in Cedar Key`s beachfront City Park. The Live Music in the Park, sponsored by the Cedar Key Lions Club and put together by Anna White, takes place from noon until 5 pm on Saturday and Sunday, presenting great music sets performed by outstanding Central Florida musicians.
Live music continues in the evening at local establishments throughout the island. | 
