What’s On Suncoast? 10.20 – 10.27
The Suncoast Post asks, “What’s On, Suncoast?” Here are some ideas for the area this week from October 20 – 27, 2023!
Water Lantern Festival
Water Lantern Festival
5851 Nathan Benderson Circle, Sarasota, FL 34235
While they’re called many things, such as lantern festivals, lights festivals, floating lanterns, water fest, or Chinese lanterns – only Water Lantern Festival allows you to Light The Water in a way you’ll never forget. Experience the magic of thousands of lanterns as the soft lights reflect upon the water. Water Lantern Festival is filled with fun, happiness, hope, and great memories that you’ll cherish for a lifetime. This is a family-friendly event that can be shared by everyone. Friends, families, neighbors, and lots of people that you haven’t met can come together to create a peaceful, memorable experience.
Design your own lantern, and send your own well wishes aglow across the lake. Food trucks will be on-site, along with music and fun. For more details, visit Water Lantern Festival Info
Hours: Gates open at 4:30 p.m., with launch at 6:30-7 p.m.
Cremesh European Restaurant
Cremesh European Restaurant
7232 Manatee Avenue West Bradenton, FL 34209
Cremesh European Restaurant’s menu is based on local ingredients with a European influence. You will find inspirational bistro food, which is fresh and tasty. Their commitment and passion is to the authenticity of all the dishes and the freshness of core ingredients.
With an elegant European-inspired menu and wine list, Cremesh European Restaurant in Bradenton is a fantastic establishment with outstanding food coupled with great service and ambiance. They look forward to you stopping in to give them a taste soon!
Hours: Tuesday through Sunday, 5 p.m. – 9 p.m.
32nd Annual Pumpkin Festival
32nd Annual Pumpkin Festival
5500 C.R. 675 Bradenton, Fl 34211
Hunsader Farms is hosting its 32nd annual pumpkin festival here on the Suncoast. Kids can ride camels, and there’s a snack to satiate any sweet or salty craving. There’s plenty to do between live music, stunt shows, and animal experiences. Admission is $15, and there are some special exhibits that are offered by different vendors that might be an extra cost – such as the butterfly experience.
The staple of any pumpkin or fall festival is the hayride, and those are included in admission. The corn maze and train rides cost an extra $2 per person. The festival runs on Saturdays and Sundays through the end of the month. Happy fall here on the Suncoast, see everyone out on the hayrides this weekend!
Hours: October 21 – 22, 2023 from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
The Dinner Detective Tampa Murder Mystery Show
The Dinner Detective Tampa Murder Mystery Show
5312 Avion Park Drive, Tampa, FL 33607
The Dinner Detective Tampa here on the suncoast eschews campy costumes and plots for an exciting evening of food-accompanied mystery and paranoia, where actors hide among the diners, playing innocent and making everyone a potential suspect. To solve the crime, guests freely interrogate one another, chivvying out clues about the murderer and determining who has a bloodthirsty look in their eyes. Between dramatic deaths and simulated police involvement, guests dig into four-course meals, washed down with bottomless iced tea, coffee, and drinks from the cash bar. The diner who comes closest to solving the mystery through their snooping goes home with a prize basket to show off to their friends or split with the murderer as per their shadowy conspiracy. Prop guns and gunshot sound effects may be used during the performance.
Hours: varied – buy tickets HERE.
The Choir of Man
The Choir of Man
1010 N WC MacInnes Pl Tampa, FL 33602
Known across the globe as “the ultimate feel-good show,” THE CHOIR OF MAN offers up 90 minutes of indisputable joy. It’s a party. It’s a concert. It’s the best pub lock-in you’ve ever been to. Featuring pop, classic rock, folk, Broadway and pub tunes, THE CHOIR OF MAN has something for everyone. A multi-talented cast of nine talented blokes from a pub called The Jungle combines hair-raising harmonies, foot-stomping singalongs, world-class tap dance and poetic meditations on the power of community in this riotously enjoyable homage to that gathering place we all love so much: your local pub. With a real working bar on stage serving up free pints courtesy of Coppertail Brewing Co., come ready to drink in the action. Cheers!
Hours: Varied – purchase tickets HERE.
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