Florida Rambler’s Seafood Festivals calendar is the most comprehensive available, updated monthly and current for 2020.
Festivals
6 ways to experience Key West, Hemingway style
Last updated on June 17th, 2020 at 07:44 am Ernest Hemingway ended up in Key West like many others — by accident. He came for a day and ended up staying for a decade. That was close to a century ago, and the town has yet to recover from his […]
Local color: Lake Placid Caladium Festival, July 23 to 25, 2021, is about a vivid plant
This small town festival celebrates a uniquely Lake Placid product: caladiums, a colorful plant grown commercially almost nowhere else. There’ll be music, food, a car show, arts and crafts plus bus tours of the caladium fields.
Local sodas are back at Sebring Soda Festival, April 2-3, 2021
Sebring, a small town along the lovely Lake Wales Ridge in Central Florida, is staking a claim for something new — Florida’s first (and only) craft soda festival, the Sebring Soda Festival. Local small-batch sodas made with real sugar are making a comeback, partly as an outgrowth of the craft beer phenomenon. This Sebring festival is a good opportunity to taste what it’s all about.
Top 75 Florida events, fairs & festivals: Updated with cancellations
Florida loves a good festival. Here are 75 hand-picked festivals around the state that range from funky local bashes to huge nationally known cultural events.
2020 Florida Spring Training games cancelled
Pick your games, and we’ll help you find other things to do and places to stay nearby.
Fort Myers Beach Shrimp Festival: Cancelled
This isn’t frozen shrimp or imported shrimp or farmed shrimp. The huge boiling pots at the Fort Myers Beach Shrimp Festival are filled with fresh, right-off-the-boat Gulf pink shrimp. Members of the Lions Club have perfected the cooking technique over 50 years of Shrimp Festivals.
Grant Seafood Festival, March 6-7, 2021
The Grant Seafood Festival is put on by community volunteers and has been held every year since 1966 in this riverside enclave between Melbourne and Sebastian.
Florida State Fair, Tampa, Feb. 11-22, 2021
TAMPA — The Florida State Fair marks its 114th year. Our annual guide includes campground and lodging links with a full menu of things to do nearby.
Swamp Cabbage Fest marks 55 years (2021 dates TBA)
You can get gator tail and swamp cabbage at this festival. But the real reason to go is to revel in a last corner of small town America in Florida — beauty pageants, high school bands, armadillo races and a rodeo.
![](https://www.floridarambler.com/wp-content/uploads/Vote411-election-info-1.jpg")
