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Hot ticket: Seafood festival to make a splash
By BARBARA L. FREDRICKSEN
Published May 5, 2005
About $10-million's worth of boats and equipment, three music shows, seafood and festival food and more highlight the Cotee River Seafood Festival and Boat Show, 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday in New Port Richey's Sims Park.
The annual fun fest also includes a nautical and nature art show, poetry readings, a Mother's Day breakfast on Sunday ($3) and children's games. Free music by Hazard Factor, D.W. Gill and Bluestrain and the Back Alley Blues Band plays from 11:30 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. Saturday; the Blues by the River Concert ($5) starring Willie Lomax Blues Revue with Shawn Brown, Sarasota Slim and Larry "Rhino" Reinhardt and Jimmy Thackery and the Drivers is from 5 to 11 p.m. Saturday; and the free Groovin' by the River concert with Shaketown, Ron Acierno and the Classics and the Crests, featuring Tommy Mara, is presented from 1 p.m. to closing on Sunday. (Bring blankets or folding chairs for seating at all concerts.)
Admission to the seafest is free, but a $2 donation is encouraged.
To reach Sims Park, take U.S. 19 to Main Street in New Port Richey. Go east on Main and over the Pithlachascotee River bridge. The park is on the left. Free parking is available throughout downtown and in a lot one block south of Main at the end of Bank Street.
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