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COMMUNITY EVENTS Pensacola Blue Wahoos Schedule July home games at the Blue Wahoos Stadium. For tickets and information, visit milb.com. July 4 at 4:05 pm - Biloxi Shuckers vs Blue Wahoos July 5, 6 & 7 at 6:35 pm - Biloxi Shuckers vs Blue Wahoos July 8 at 6:05 pm - Biloxi Shuckers vs Blue Wahoos July 9 at 4:05 pm - Biloxi Shuckers vs Blue Wahoos July 18, 19, 20 & 21 at 6:35 pm - Rocket City Trash Pandas vs Blue Wahoos July 22 at 6:05 pm - Rocket City Trash Pandas vs Blue Wahoos July 23 at 4:05 pm - Rocket City Trash Pandas vs Blue Wahoos
Blue Angels Practice Dates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . July 11, 12, 25 & 26 The world-famous Blue Angels can be seen practicing over the National Naval Aviation Museum at NAS Pensacola select days throughout the year. Department of Defense identification cardholders and their guests (active duty service members, retirees, and their families) can visit the National Naval Aviation Museum to watch the Blue Angels practice. The gates will open at 9:30 am. The practice flight demonstrations can also be viewed outside of NAS Pensacola including Fort Pickens, boat cruises, and various points throughout downtown. The Blue Angels will take off around 10:30 am and the practices last for about 55 minutes. Practice schedules are subject to change.
Fireworks at the Beach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . July 4 Head over to beautiful Pensacola Beach to get into the patriotic spirit this Fourth of July! Enjoy the white sands and crashing waves of the beach. Be sure to keep your eyes on the night sky this Fourth of July for a dazzling fireworks display along the Pensacola Beach Boardwalk and Santa Rosa Sound. Fireworks are provided by the Pensacola Beach Chamber of Commerce, the Santa Rosa Island Authority and the Escambia County Tourist Development Council. The show will take place at 400 Quietwater Beach Rd Gulf Breeze and fireworks will start at 8:30 pm.
Bluey composer, Joff Bush. Join the Heelers in their first live theatre show, featuring brilliantly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . July 20-23 created puppets, this is Bluey as you’ve nevThe latest production from PenArts at The Gor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . July 4 don is here–introducing How The Light Gets er seen it before. Doors open at 5 pm and the Come out with your blankets and lawn chairs In–a modern-day fable about the kindness of show begins at 6 pm each day. The Pensacola and get ready for a fantastic fireworks show strangers, hope and Kintsugi. Four lonely people Saenger Theatre is located at 118 South Palafox over the bay. The fireworks are choreographed happen to meet in a Japanese Garden. Each Place. For tickets and more information, visit to play with music from local radio station Cat with their own stories, written on paper and pensacolasaenger.com. Country 98.7. Be sure to bring a radio to get the skin, they come together when one of them full experience! Sertoma’s annual Fourth of July falls apart. Wrapped around the concept of Jerry Garcia Band Cover celebration will be at William Bartram Memorial Kintsugi, this is a hauntingly beautiful and poi- Band @ Vinyl Music Hall Park (211 Bayfront Pkwy). The firework extrava- gnant modern-day fable. There will be a daily . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . July 28 ganza will start at 9 pm. showing from July 20 to July 23; On Thursday Formed in Athens, GA in 2012, the Jerry Garcia through Saturday at 7:30 pm and Sunday at Band Cover Band (JGBCB) has been filling a hole Blue Angels Air Show 2:30 pm. Tickets are on sale now for $17. The in the Grateful Dead scene by offering up spirited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . July 8 Gordon Community Art Center is located at covers of classic songs pulled exclusively from This world-famous Blue Angels will be performing 306 N De Villiers Street. For tickets and more the repertoire of the Jerry Garcia Band, Garcia’s long-running side-project. JGBCB has played over Pensacola Beach on Saturday, July 8 for the information, visit eventbrite.com. shows from Key West to Colorado, exciting auannual Pensacola Beach Air Show! Locals and diences with performances of beloved Garcia tourists alike flock like seagulls to Pensacola Gallery Night Pensacola tunes not found within the traditional Grateful Beach in excitement to see the Blue Angel’s ”Sustainable Summer” flight demonstration. The airshow is scheduled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . July 21 Dead catalog. Doors open at 7 pm and the show to start around 11 am at Casino Beach. To learn This family-friendly, community, arts and cultural begins at 8. The Vinyl Music Hall is located at 2 S Palafox Street. For tickets and more information, more, visit visitpensacolabeach.com. event is hosted the third Friday of each month visit vinylmusichall.com. from 5 to 9 pm in the streets of downtown PenPensacola Splash Fest sacola. The event monthly themes set the tone Movies in the Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . July 15 for the evening’s featured art, performers, musical Come cool off at the 1st Pensacola Splash Fest performance stage and activities. Gallery Night’s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . July 28 at Community Maritime Park (301 West Main art zones will host more than 60 local artisans Bring your blankets and lawn chairs out to Street). There will be numerous water slides, along Palafox Street in addition to a newly-add- Community Maritime Park for a family-friendly bounce houses, water obstacle courses, slip-n- ed Market Zone located at Government Street movie underneath the stars! The movie Strange slides, and more to help you cool off and have across from Plaza Ferdinand. For details, check World will be shown at the Hunter Amphitheater. The event is free and free parking will also be fun. For more fun, there will also be a variety out visitpensacola.com. available at Community Maritime Park and City of food, a dunk tank, corn hole, sports games Hall. Concessions from local food trucks may Bands on the Bayou and a watermelon-eating competition! Access to the water activities is gained via wristbands, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . July 22 be available for purchase. Pre-show activities which are $15 for each participating adult, $5 Bands on the Bayou is a community-centric begin at 6 pm and the movie will begin playing at sunset. Community Maritime Park is located for each non-participating adult, $10 for each outdoor concert series that supports local nonat 301 West Main Street. For more information, child 17 and under, and free for children 5 and profit organizations in the community. Ran by visit cityofpensacola.com/calendar. under. Additional costs may apply to additional the East Hill Neighborhood Association, Bands activities. Wristbands can be purchased at the on the Bayou is bringing Pensacola residents door or online. For wristbands and find more together for family-friendly, free outdoor con- America @ Pensacola Saenger information, visit apexshowsandevents.com/ certs featuring local musicians and artists. On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . July 30 pensacola-splash-fest. July 22, beginning at 6:30 pm, local group Ben When America, the perennial classic-rock favorite, Loftin & The Family will take the stage. Bands hit the road in 2023, they’ll celebrate their 53rd White Tie Rock Ensemble: on the Bayou is hosted at Bayview Park located Anniversary with their powerful performances. British Rock @ the Bay Center at 2001 E Lloyd Street. For more information, Founding members, Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell met in high school in London in the late . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . July 15 visit bandsonthebayou.com. 1960s and quickly harmonized their way to the Step back in time on July 15 as the White Tie top of the charts on the strength of their signature Rock Ensemble presents an evening of British Bluey’s Big Play @ song “A Horse With No Name.” America became Rock at the Pensacola Bay Center. Featuring Pensacola Saenger a global household name and paved the way with the hits of The Rolling Stones, Wings, The Who, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . July 25 & 26 an impressive string of hits following the success Bad Company and a whole lotta Led Zeppelin, When Dad feels like a little bit of Sunday after- of their first #1 single. Forty-plus years later, these this classic rock show will fill the arena with a noon rest, Bluey and Bingo have other plans! friends are still making music together, touring the long-lost familiar sound from the good ole days Join them as they pull out all of the games and world, and thrilling audiences with their timeless of British Rock! Doors open at 7 pm and the cleverness at their disposal to get Dad off that sound. Doors open at 6 pm and the show begins show begins at 8 pm. The Pensacola Bay Center bean bag. Bluey’s Big Play is a brand-new the- at 7 pm. The Pensacola Saenger Theatre is lois located at 201 E Gregory Street. For tickets atrical adaptation of the Emmy award-winning cated at 118 South Palafox Place. For tickets and and more information, visit pensacolabaycenter. children’s television series, with an original story more information, visit pensacolasaenger.com. com/events/detail. by Bluey creator Joe Brumm, and new music by
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