Riverfront Festival Caters to Our Elders 

Golf Cart Shuttle Service

This year there will be a free golf cart shuttle service throughout the Festival that will be devoted to helping folks who find it hard to walk a long way move through the festival easily.  It will make continuous rounds from the Carrabelle CARES’ host tent at the intersection of US 98 and Marine Street down through the whole Festival to the Wharf Pavilion at the other end of Marine Street.  Weems Hospital and the First Responders will offer shady rest areas along the way where the shuttle will stop.  A new venue at the corner of Marine Street and Avenue C, the “Carr’s Hill Stage” will be a great place to rest, be entertained by the musical, historical adventures of Ken Horne and Frank Pardue, and still be in the middle of everything.

Special Close Parking for Disabled People

Two special parking areas for individuals with disability tags will be provided this year on Avenue B between the Hometown BP and the Georgian Motel and on the east end of Avenue C between Third Street and Marine Street close to the new Sands Field Park.  You can call 697-2141 on the days of the festival for more information.

Carrabelle Riverfront Festival-2010

Carrabelle CARES and the City of Carrabelle cordially invite you to attend the 22^nd Annual Carrabelle Riverfront Festival on Saturday, April 28^rd and Sunday, April 29^th. 

Please join us as we celebrate the culture, history and vitality of coastal Carrabelle.  Our annual festival offers regional arts and crafts, family friendly attractions and local culinary treats. 

The two-day event held each spring on Marine Street caters to locals and visitors alike and attracts crowds from across the panhandle. 

The unique unpretentious charm of Carrabelle is on display as we celebrate our laid back life style with unique hometown attractions like Carrabelle’s own Fishy Fashion Show, Pet Parade and the Procession of the Species.  The hours of the festival are 10 AM to 6 PM on Saturday and 10:00 AM to 4:00 pm on Sunday. 

Admission is FREE.

Models show their "catch"

Come spend the day, bring your friends, family or pet to tour Marine Street and the Carrabelle Riverfront Festival.  One of this year's special attractions is the arrival of the Governors Stone, a historic two masted sailing vessel.  More to come on this important guest. 

Returning to grace this year’s Riverfront Festival at the Carrabelle Wharf pavilion stage are the fabulous and infamous models of Carrabelle Riverfront Festival’s original Fishy Fashion Show.   Outrageous "Do’s and Do Knots" of coastal couture are reveiled with festive flair as  local fashionista Joan of Lanark and Jan Neshat of Eastpoint present the 2012 Fishy Fashion Show collection.

"What I enjoy most of all is sharing of creative energy with my friend Jan Neshat", Joan of Lanark says, adding "My biggest hope is  that in showing what we have this year - we can excite others to gather together for their own creative camaraderie and make new fishy fashions for more fashion shows!!! We will need folks brave enough to walk the plank, er, I mean the run way ! Models who can really ham it up will make the show  fun".

This year's collection will be presented in all of its splendor at a new time on Saturday afternoon at 2 pm at the Carrabelle Wharf Pavilion.  If you are interested in sponsoring one of the Fishy Fashion show models or sporting one of the festive fashions, please let us know!

Also returning to the festival as a headline event this year is  Carrabelle’s own home-town version of the wildly popular Procession of the Species. Join in the fun on Saturday  at 1:00 pm at the Carrabelle Wharf Pavilion on Marine Street. 

The Procession of the Species will begin its springtime parade with an Introduction of the Species.  It will then start  its annual march to the beat of the accompanying percussion, winding its way up and down Marine Street and ending with a jubilant return to the local woods via the Nature Walk located on Ave C.

Folks interested in the wilder side of Carrabelle may want to explore the un-tamed wildness of the Nature Walk.  Touch tanks teeming with marine life and forest denizens including mammals, birds, reptiles and critters will flank the procession’s triumphal return to the pine trees and swamps of North West Florida’s Forgotten Coast.

Not to be outdone, the four legged friends and family pets will also be on the march in this year’s Franklin County Humane Society's Pet Parade.   The Pet Parade will begin on Saturday morning at 10:30 am.

Ready to Get Their PARADE ON!

This promises to be loads of family fun and laughs as these adorable Forgotten Coast denizens strut their “stuff” up and down Marine Street.  “Pet”-a-cured and pampered, full of fluff and flair, our little family friends are drawing special attention on the behalf of the less fortunate. Not all pets are as fortunate as these with their high fashion ensembles.  So they remind you to "Stop by the Franklin County Humane Society's booth and adopt one of our 'forgotten' friends and provide a warm and loving home."  

This year’s kidZONE is being brought to you by its new festival host, the “Friends of the Franklin County Public Library". In its traditional location behind Sandy Beach Properties, the kidZONE will delight children and the young among us with  its “treasure hunt” and other festival attractions on both Saturday and Sunday.