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Sarasota Hispanic Latino Festival

The Sarasota Hispanic Latino Festival featured Charityn and Yovany and many other well known musicians. Sponsored by The Academy of Latin Arts and Science, the event offered food, music, dancing and family friendly activities for children. Mostly a family crowd, the biggest excitement was when Charityn, who has been called the Latin Oprah, appeared onstage. She took the time to meet and take photos with her fans individually and seemed to sincerely enjoy this.

Florida Mountain Boys play at Noise Ordinance 2 in Sarasota

The Florida Mountain boys play bluegrass – lots of pickin’ and strummin’ with great harmony thrown in.  The Noise Ordinance festival showcases all kinds of local bands from rock to folk.  They played a variety of music straight from a bluegrass festival.  Find more about them on their website.

Sarasota bands play at Noise Ordinance

Noise Ordinance 2 was held at the Cock and Bull pub on April 23.  Sarasota does support the arts, but usually it is established groups and organizations that get the most attention.  This all day/night event promoted the amazing indie musical talent here in Sarasota.  39 bands played a range of styles to a crowd  of young and old.  One popular alternative band was Igor.  As you can see from the video below, they rocked the stage.

Vinyl Music Festival brings Darude to Sarasota, Florida

See a rare up close look at one of the top DJs in the world!  I’ve filmed nightclubs in Atlanta and Miami…but the energy in Sarasota last night was just amazing!  As far as I’m concerned, the VMF founders have a huge success on their hands.  It’s about time for this infusion of excitement into the Sarasota nightlife.  If you didn’t make it…so sad for you…so just plan next year’s spring break or vacation around this event – it’s sure to stay around!

Sarasota Vinyl Music Festival

Sarasota young VIPs partied at the Vinyl Music Festival opening event at the Ivory Lounge last night.  This was the kick off for the 4 day Vinyl Music Festival.  According to Rich Swier, VMF cofounder,  “we created and will continue to build Vinyl in order to bring more current world-class musical entertainment to a world class city.”  In our view, this first night was a success and generated great buzz about the festival leading up to the main event on Saturday night.