Southern Satisfaction, a Tallahassee based band with over 20 years of experience playing concerts, parties, weddings, and community events will kick it into gear with a mix Classic Rock, Disco, Pop, R&B and Country from the 50’s up to current hits.  Be ready to be blown away by this five member band, four of which are vocalist.  They will be playing Friday April 26^th at 4:00 PM.

Opening the festival Saturday morning at 9:00 AM will be local resident Debi Jordan playing her mix of classic rock, blues, beach music and originals on the Gulf Coast!  Debi is a gifted singer and consummate guitarist who leave her audience breathless and thoroughly entertained.  She is a solo acoustic guitarist and singer songwriter who immediately takes command of her audience with a powerful voice and an unmistakable, gutsy and physical stage presence.

At 12:00 PM the Band Tin Horn will be performing original Country with Bluegrass and American roots. Tinhorn is a band of richly experienced professionals who are comfortable picking up most any instrument and makin’ some awesome music.  Deb Berlinger has enjoyed making rhythm for marching, rock, Latin, jazz, and blues bands since the 70’s. Dave Leporati comes from a long love of traditional bluegrass, rock-a-billy, and honky tonk. Dennis Dunn is also a member of Moon Pie Fever, a swing/dance band so you can bet his original country tunes are toe-tappin too.  No one is pluckier on stand up bass that Dennis’ wife Erice, and their harmonizing vocals will remind you of old country roots.

And at 3:00 PM last but certainly not least this year’s featured entertainment,  straight from Nashville Tennessee, award winning Songwriters, Steve Williams, Woody Mullis, and  Mike Geiger will be performing “Nashville Writers in the Round”.  These three dynamic songwriters/musicians will be performing several #1 songs that they wrote and were made popular such as “Adelaide” sung by George Strait, “Hillbilly Shoes” by Montgomery Gentry, “Darlene” by T. Graham Brown, “Cold One Coming On” by Montgomery Gentry, “The City Put the Country Back In Me” sung by Neil McCoy, and “Redneck Yacht Club” by Craig Morgan. You will hear these songs the same way they sounded the day they were written. Experiencing up close and personal guitar vocal performance of these hit songs by the writers themselves will make you feel like you are behind the scenes and a part of Nashville’s ever evolving songwriter community.

Come out for the weekend, shop for locally made arts and crafts, eat some of our delicious local seafood and listen to the great line up of performers with a variety of music for all ages. 

Schedule of Events

Friday April 26^th

 4:00-4:30 PM      Opening Ceremony - Captain Zack Osprey and the Mermaid Queen arrive on the Governor Stone followed by the raising of the flag.

4:00-8:00 PM       Southern Satisfaction - a variety of songs from the 50's all the way up to current. The band mixes it up with Classic Rock, Disco, Pop, R&BCountry.

Saturday April 27^th

9:00-11:30 AM     Debi Jordan - classic rock, blues, beach music and originals on the  Gulf Coast! 

9:00 - noon          Sammy Tedder - soulful, soothing and mysterious sounds of the river cane flute in the History Hill Heritage Tent.

10:00 AM             Pet parade - Check at the Carrabelle Area Chamber of Commerce or download from 

                           http://www.carrabellecares.org/index.cfm/m/30/dn/Pet%20Parade/

11:30-12:00 AM   Pirate Show - Pirate Skit for kids on the main stage.  Don't miss it!

12:00-2:00 PM     Tin Horn - a band of richly experienced professionals who are comfortable picking up most any instrument and makin’ awesome music will performing original Country with Bluegrass and American Roots. 

12:00 - 5:00 pm   Frank Lindamood - virtuoso of bluesy ballads and banjo

1:00 PM              Procession of the Species - annual march of the local species 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.

2:00-3:00 PM       Fishy Fashion Show - Outrageous "Do’s and Do Knots" of coastal couture revealed with festive flair offashionista Joan Matey of Lanark and Jan Neshat of Eastpoint.

3:00-6:00 PM       Nashville Behind the Scenes - Straight from Nashville Tennessee, award winning

                          Songwriters, Steve Williams, Woody Mullis, and  Mike Geiger will be performing “Nashville

                          Writers in the Round”.  

NEW FESTIVAL SCHEDULE!!! At this years 2013 festival!

Carrabelle Riverfront Festival-2012

Carrabelle CARES and the City of Carrabelle cordially invite you to attend the 23rd Annual Carrabelle Riverfront Festival on Friday, April 26th and Saturday, April 27th for this 2013's "Pirates of the Carrabellean".  

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 4PM to 8 PM on Friday and 9:00 AM to 5:00 pm on Saturday. 

Admission is FREE.

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.  Franklin County Emergengy Management, Weems Hospital and the First Responders will offer shady rest areas and a "boo-boo" station along the way where the shuttle will stop.  A new venue at the corner of Marine Street and Avenue C, the “History Hill Heritage Stage” will be a great place to rest, be entertained by the musical, historical adventures of Sammy Tedder or Frank Lindamood, 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.

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 2012's special attractions was the arrival of the Governors Stone, a historic two masted sailing vessel.  

Returning to grace this 2012’s Riverfront Festival at the new main stageCarrabelle was the fabulous and infamous models of Carrabelle Riverfront Festival’s original Fishy Fashion Show.   Outrageous "Do’s and Do Knots" of coastal couture were reveiled with festive flair as  local fashionista Joan of Lanark and Jan Neshat of Eastpoint presented 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 said, 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".

Also returning to the festival as a headline event this year was  Carrabelle’s own home-town version of the wildly popular Procession of the Species.  

The Procession of the Species began its springtime parade with an Introduction of the Species.  It  then started  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 explored 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 marched in 2012’s Franklin County Humane Society's Pet Parade.   The Pet Parade was held on Saturday morning at 10:30 am.

Ready to Get Their PARADE ON!

The 2012 festival was loads of family fun and laughs as these adorable Forgotten Coast denizens strutted their “stuff” up and down Marine Street.  “Pet”-a-cured and pampered, full of fluff and flair, our little family friends were 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."