The Merchants of Seaside present the 5th Annual
Countdown Seaside: A New Year's Eve Celebration to welcome in 2014!
Tomorrow night, Dec. 31, everyone is invited to experience a big family-friendly party in SEASIDE® featuring live entertainment, kid's art projects, street performers and fireworks over the Gulf of Mexico. Festivities begin at 6 p.m. and last until the last firework lights up the sky.
Especially for the kids,
Abrakadoodle will be on hand from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. offering unique art projects as part of the New Year's Eve Celebration. There is no cost to participate in the projects, which include making celebratory noisemakers, as well as a time capsule for families to place New Year's wishes and resolutions. SEASIDE
® will also have face painters, balloon sculptors, stilt walkers, jugglers and street magicians to get both the young and young-at-heart in the festive spirit.
Spectators will be entertained in the final hours of 2013 by a variety of singers/ songwriters ranging from Today's Country to Pop Rock. Headliner
Mockingbird Suntakes the amphitheater stage at
10:30 p.m. to help ring in the New Year with a blend of traditional country and alternative rock and Texas country in the spirit of
Pat Green,
Jack Ingram and
Eli Young Band. The celebration kicks off at
6 p.m. with a performance byNashville-based
Daniel Ellsworth and The Great Lakes, who released their first full-length studio album, Civilized Man, in 2011. The album was listed in the top 100 albums of 2011 by Amazon, with the pop-rock single "Shoe Fits" debuting at number seven on Amazon's top 100 songs of 2011. Their full-length studio album, Kid Tiger is due out for release in the spring of 2014. They will be followed by
Mama's Blue Dress at
8:30 p.m., an all-female quartet that blends the Dixie Chicks with a side of Little Big Town. Their band's airtight harmonies and vocal chemistry, blazing twin fiddles and a hint of soul have played in sold out rooms throughout the southeast. They have performed at the CMA Music Festival, the Country Throwdown tour, the Georgia National Fair, the 30A Songwriters Festival, Folk Alliance, and on WSM Radio's "Coffee, Country & Cody."
At the stroke of
midnight, SEASIDE
® will then light up the skies over the Gulf of Mexico and welcome 2014 with its exciting
fireworks display from a barge in front of Bud & Alley's—a South Walton tradition. Colorful bursts of light will be visible from the beach, as well as in the SEASIDE
® Amphitheater in Central Square. A synchronized music soundtrack will be simulcast in the Amphitheater, as well as on 30A Radio (30ARadio.org or 107.1FM).
For more information, visit
www.seasidefl.com or call
(850) 231-6179. During the holidays, connect through #ShopSeasideFL to find out about local merchant specials and features.