WATCH: Shark Encounter To Wow Crowds at Space Coast Seafood & Music Festival in Viera
By Space Coast Daily // March 6, 2019
only traveling Shark Encounter expo in the USA
ABOVE VIDEO: The Shark Encounter Exposition will wow crowds at the Space Coast Seafood & Music Festival, March 7-10. Watch as Space Coast Daily’s Alan Zlotorzynski braves the man-eaters to give everyone a close-up look at these beautiful animals. The only traveling Shark Encounter expo in the USA will be among the hundreds of exhibitors and attractions that will wow the crowds during the four-day Space Coast Seafood & Music Festival extravaganza at Space Coast Daily Park in Viera.
BREVARD COUNTY • PORT CANAVERAL, FLORIDA – Sharks have captured our imaginations for hundreds of years, stirring the fears and fascination of ocean goers and scientists alike.
The only traveling Shark Encounter expo in the USA will wow the crowds during the four-day Space Coast Seafood & Music Festival extravaganza, set for March 7-10 at Space Coast Daily Park in Viera, Florida. The show is free with festival admission.
The Exposition will be featured in the Shark Experience Pavilion, which features a specially designed aquarium that holds several sharks and divers at the same time.
There will be three free shows on Thursday and Friday and four shows each day on Saturday and Sunday.
The show and exhibit combine education and entertainment – along with a few surprises for the audience.
“This is a very unique show and will really give the audience a special insight into the life of one of the ocean’s most feared predators,” said Giles Malone of Space Coast Daily, who is presenting the family seafood festival.
“We feel that this Shark Encounter Experience is a terrific addition to the Space Coast Seafood and Music festival as it will help our patrons better understand these magnificent creatures.”
Tickets are available at all area Chamber of Commerce for just $8 and all TICKETMASTER locations.
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SPACE COAST DAILY PARK – THE VENUE: The beautiful 30-acre park was named after Space Coast Daily – Brevard’s most popular free news source. Space Coast Daily Park is ideally located in the middle of Brevard County, just off Interstate 95, for easy access from all areas of central Florida. Please do not bring the following items to the event: No food or beverages, coolers, chairs, alcohol of any kind, weapons, umbrellas may be brought into the event. Enter Space Coast Daily Park from Stadium Parkway. Parking is $5 and VIP parking is $10.
ABOUT THE SPACE COAST SEAFOOD & MUSIC FESTIVAL
The Space Coast Seafood and Music Festival will feature a large and diverse variety of seafood and other food choices for the public during the four-day festival, March 7-10 at Space Coast Daily Park in Viera.
Lobster, aka Maine’s red gold, is one of the gustatory stars of the Space Coast Seafood and Music Fest, a weekend jammed with great music and fantastic food.
From 5 p.m., Thursday, March 7 to the evening hours on Sunday, March 10, Viera’s expansive and easy to get to Space Coast Daily Park will be the place for grazing on seafood and listening to top musical entertainers perform live on the Space Coast Daily Stage.
“King Lobstah” will be joined by shrimp, clams, oysters and other princes of the deep during this seafood extravaganza. For seafood lovers and music lovers, this will be a weekend to remember.
“We will have a terrific amount and variety of seafood on offer at the festival,” said Giles Malone, partner in Maverick Multimedia and Brevard Productions, publishers of Space Coast Daily and organizers of the festival.
“Top-class seafood vendors will join us from here at the beautiful Space Coast Daily Park and from all across the USA to satisfy every appetite. We thought of the landlubbers, too, and we’re also offering lots of great BBQ and other food choices.”
Seafood vendors have been selected for the variety of dishes they bring to the festival table. Familiar faces on the Brevard restaurant scene will also be dishing out their specialties.
High-quality vendors will serve shrimp cocktails, prepared with fresh, still warm shrimp with lots of spices, cocktail sauce and drawn butter.
Additional menu items, among others, include fish tacos and smoked whiting with drawn butter.
If all the mention of drawn butter brings images of high cholesterol, not to worry, for Firestone will also have non-seafood, healthy offerings such as broccoli salad and kale salad.
Willy T’s Crab Shack, home of Maryland-style crab cakes will offer their legendary authentic Maryland-style crab cake sandwich, Willy T’s chefs start with generous portions of lump blue crab meat, to which is added the company’s “World Famous Secret Family Recipe” spices before being deep-fried to perfection.
The sandwiches are served on artisanal buttery brioche buns with lettuce and tomato on the side.
Willy T’s also features mini versions of the crab cakes and spicy shrimp sandwiches, as well as crab salad and shrimp and clam baskets.
Hammerheads Seafoods, mainstays at outdoor events around the country, will present their seafood delights, including crawfish, crab legs, alligator, calamari, lobster mac and cheese and seafood boil, and that’s just for starters.
These are just for starters, folks. There’s plenty of more seafood to discover at the biggest food event of the year in Brevard.
Because man lives by more than seafood alone, the festival features an international beer and wine pavilion, an arts and crafts show, a children’s activity zone and special events such as the Pirates’ Parade and Party, when several Pirate Krewes, including the Brethren of the Space Coast Pirates’ Krewe, strut their stuff.
Pirate sword fighting demos, roaming pirate troubadours, pirate belly dancers and even a pirate balloon artist make for “aargh-mazing” entertainment. The legendary Panama Pearl and Rosalie The Red will organize a wide variety of pirating activity during all four days.
After the parade, the pirates will party hearty, with samplings from Code Rum, the festival’s official rum.
The festival also features a carnival with rides and games, cooking demos, magic shows and much more.
SPACE COAST SEAFOOD & MUSIC FESTIVAL MUSICAL LINE UP & SCHEDULE
THURSDAY, MARCH 7, OPENING NIGHT CELEBRATION:
• Thursday, March 7: The Space Coast Symphony Under The Stars at 7 pm. is free with festival admission.
• Friday, March 8: SOJA and Ky-Mani Marley, 7:30 p.m.
• Saturday, March 9: Travis Tritt, The Charlie Daniels Band, The Cadillac Three: 7 pm
• Sunday, march 10, Molly Hatchet 3 p.m: free with $8 (advance) or $10 festival admission.
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The 2019 Space Coast Seafood & Music Festival at Space Coast Daily Park in Viera, is sponsored by Viera Hospital, Space Coast Daily, First Choice Medical Group, All Points, Florida’s Space Coast, News 6, Miller Lite and Savings Safari.
For more information, or if you would like to register for the Arts & Crafts Show, call 1-855-386-3836 or e-mail Contact@SpaceCoastDaily.com
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SPACE COAST DAILY PARK – THE VENUE: The beautiful 30-acre park was named after Space Coast Daily – Brevard’s most popular free news source. Space Coast Daily Park is ideally located in the middle of Brevard County, just off Interstate 95, for easy access from all areas of central Florida. Please do not bring the following items to the event: No food or beverages, coolers, chairs, alcohol of any kind, weapons, umbrellas may be brought into the event. Enter Space Coast Daily Park from Stadium Parkway. Parking is $5 and VIP parking is $10.
NOTE: There are no refunds, exchanges or rain checks for any reason. Gate admission does not include seafood, food or beverages. Children under 10 are free. Bags will be checked for inappropriate items. Please be courteous and avoid bringing prohibited items.
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FOR MORE INFORMATION, visit SpaceCoastSeafoodFestival.com, call 321-323-4460 or 1-855-386-3836 or e-mail Contact@SpaceCoastDaily.com
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