Buzzing like a hive, 150 volunteers scurry around the fellowship hall of St. Clement Catholic Church. It is just one day before the beloved Florida Strawberry Festival, and the church has one of just three booths on the entire grounds that offers the city’s signature strawberry shortcake. Last year, green-aproned volunteers sold more than 90,000 […]
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ARTIST PROFILE: The Band Perry
buy suhagra online suhagra online no prescription The 2014 Florida Strawberry Festival will culminate with one of the hottest acts in American country music. Huddled up in Canada last month, The Band Perry will migrate south for the Florida Strawberry Festival in the middle of its world tour. The 2014 appearance will be the siblings’ […]
Continue ReadingAnnual parades celebrate festival season
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online pharmacy buy celexa online cheap pharmacy When a band tours practically nonstop for 15 years, it’s difficult for its members to remember when they played certain shows. But, in some cases, they’ll clearly remember the venue. Rock legends Styx count the Florida Strawberry Festival as one such venue. “We did play it once, and […]
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Natalie Brennan still remembers making Pysanky eggs when she was a little girl with her paternal grandmother, Anna Michaluk. Anna had emigrated from Ukraine in the early 1900s and brought with her the tradition of creating colorfully designed eggs. Now, more than 50 years later, Brennan still is practicing the folk art, which is also […]
Continue ReadingARTIST PROFILE: Kellie Pickler
online pharmacy buy rogaine online no prescription Although some Plant City residents may not have been too happy about last month’s nippy weather, country music darling Kellie Pickler knows it could be much worse. “Don’t complain about how cold it is in Florida,” Pickler says. “I’m in Ohio, and it’s freezing!” Hopefully, it will be […]
Continue ReadingARTIST PROFILE: Boyz II Men
Boyz II Men, the four-time Grammy-winning act, will bring its soulful sound to the Florida Strawberry Festival this year for the first time. “We’re excited be a part of this show, with talented artists like The Band Perry and Lee Brice and Rascal Flatts,” says founding member Shawn Stockman. “We want to bring our own […]
Continue ReadingARTIST PROFILE: Caroline Kole
In many ways, Caroline Kole is a young soul. And she should be — she’s only 16. But already, she’s been climbing the country music charts and earning airtime. Still, the Tampa Bay native, who now lives in Nashville, gets excited about the little things in life. She remembers her first snow day in Tennessee. […]
Continue ReadingARTIST PROFILE: Lee Brice
Lee Brice seems to approach music like a point guard handles a basketball game: He does well for himself and makes his teammates look good, too. The South Carolina-born country singer has had just as much success writing songs for other artists as he has for himself. He has three chart-topping singles to his own […]
Continue ReadingARTIST PROFILE: Little Big Town
Fitting in with an all-star country cast, Little Big Town will take the Wish Farms Soundstage Saturday, March 1. The quartet’s lineup — Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Schlapman, Jimi Westbrook and Phillip Sweet — has remained the same since its 1998 inception. Little Big Town’s self-titled debut released in 2002, on Monument Records. But, it was the […]
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