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Beautiful blues
By WILMA NORTON
Published March 18, 2005
The Tampa Bay Blues Festival is a couple of weeks earlier this year, but it still packs a strong lineup: Jimmie Vaughan with Lou Ann Barton headlines at 8:30 tonight, Robert Cray at 8:30 Saturday and Little Feat at 8:30 Sunday. Others on the bill include Coco Montoya tonight, Savoy Brown Saturday and Shemekia Copeland Sunday. The music starts at 1 p.m. today and Sunday, 11:30 a.m. Saturday. Admission is $20 today and Sunday, $25 Saturday or $50 for a weekend pass. Vinoy Park, downtown St. Petersburg waterfront. 813 287-8844 or (727) 898-2100 or www.tampabaybluesfest.com
SPIFFS under the big Trop
For the first time in more than a decade, the SPIFFS Folk Fair returns to Tropicana Field where there are few worries about rain or overcrowding. More than 40 ethnic and cultural organizations will be on display. The entertainment includes the Gumbo Boogie Band tonight, Manase and His Island Connection tonight and Saturday night, Orquesta Infinidad Saturday night and El Grupo Pura Plena Sunday afternoon. The Parade of Nations is at 1 p.m. Saturday. Hours are 3 to 9 p.m. today, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. Tropicana Field is at 16th Street S and First Avenue S, St. Petersburg. Admission is $8 adults, $6 seniors, $5 children. Admission buy-one-get-one free today. 727 552-1896; www.spiffs.org
Festivus maximus
Other choices in the festival smorgasbord this weekend: Oldsmar Days, today through Sunday, on the waterfront, R.E. Olds Park, 107 Shore Drive W, Oldsmar. Free admission. 813 855-4233; www.utbchamber.com . . . DaliFest 2005, in the park adjacent to the Dali Museum, 1000 Third St. S, St. Petersburg. Hours 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday. Festival is free; Dali admission is reduced to $5 adults, 1 penny children. (727) 823-3767; www.salvadordalimuseum.org . . . Chili Blaze, 6 to 11 p.m. today, and Country in the Park, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, both with free admission, England Brothers Band Shell at Town Square Plaza Park, 5121 80th Ave. N, Pinellas Park. (727) 541-0721 . . . Butterfly Festival, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday and noon to 4:30 p.m. Sunday. Sunken Gardens, 1825 Fourth St. N, St. Petersburg. Included in admission, $8, $6 seniors and $4 ages 2-11. (727) 551-3100.
Fork at the ready
Check out some of the area's finest food and drink at the 20th annual Best of Tampa Bay, a culinary celebration that raises money for the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center in downtown Tampa. The treats will be spread through the center's lobby and along the riverwalk behind the center, 7 to 11 p.m. Saturday. $65 advance, $75 at the door. 813 229-7827; or www.tbpac.org
Baseball legends - and beer
Some of the greats of baseball, including new Hall of Famer Wade Boggs, take to the field again Sunday, this time to raise money for All Children's Hospital and the Major League Baseball Players Alumni Association. Also scheduled to appear in the Legends of Baseball Game at Bright House Networks Field in Clearwater: Vida Blue, Bob Feller, Luis Tiant, Orlando Cepeda, Harmon Killebrew, Goose Gossage, Ferguson Jenkins, Mudcat Grant, and many more, plus football players Mike Alstott and Desmond Howard and actor Jonathan Silverman. The home run derby starts at 5 p.m., the game at 6. $10-$12. (727) 467-4457.
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