HUKA Entertainment Poised to Bring New Life to Mobile’s Saenger Theatre
A New Era for a Historic Stage As the Mobile City Council prepared to vote on a proposal to have SMG manage the historic Saenger Theatre with HUKA Entertainment handling…
National Shrimp Festival 2011: Fine Artists Steal the Show in Gulf Shores
The Annual National Shrimp Festival drew its usual crowds of locals and winter visitors to Gulf Shores in mid-October 2011, with boardwalk food vendors and steel-drum stages flanking the event’s…
Festival of Musicians Donates $1 Million in Free Passes to BP Oil Spill Cleanup Workers
Organizers of the inaugural Festival of Musicians are offering roughly $1 million worth of free admission passes to Deepwater Horizon cleanup workers, ahead of the five-day music gathering set for…
Baldwin County Approves Five-Day Festival of Musicians at Stockton’s Bicentennial Park
The Baldwin County Commission has approved a five-day Festival of Musicians for July 8-12, 2010, at Bicentennial Park in Stockton after the event lost its original permit in Foley just…
Hangout Fest’s Debut Weekend Pledges All Profits to Gulf Oil Spill Cleanup
As the Deepwater Horizon oil spill spread across the Gulf, organizers of the brand-new Hangout Beach, Music and Arts Festival in Gulf Shores announced all profits from its inaugural weekend…
The Roots Step In for Flaming Lips at Inaugural Hangout Music Festival
Days before the first Hangout Music Festival opened in Gulf Shores in May 2010, organizers replaced the Flaming Lips, sidelined by multi-instrumentalist Steven Drozd's illness, with the Roots — a…