Apalachicola to jam Saturday to Porch Fest
Porch Fest Apalach is coming back for its fifth year of good times and great music! This year brings 29 musical acts, 16 porches, and three stages to downtown Apalachicola. The grassroots roaming music festival — where porches are stages, yards are venues, and good vibes rule the day – is from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. ET this Saturday, Oct. 12 . Visit porchfestapalach.com/ for more details.
The beloved Apalachicola “Ukuliles” will carry on the tradition of kicking off the day at Lafayette Park. Battery Park also kicks off at 11 a.m. with Salvato, a soulful singer songwriter group showing groovy trumpet leads. More musical acts will then spread out through town, playing on porches and stages.
The grand finale this year features “Cade and the Palmetto Kickers,” a six-piece honky tonk/outlaw era country band, starting at 5 p.m. and ending at 6 p.m in Battery Park.
Come on down for some free family-friendly fun. Both Lafayette and Battery Park will have food trucks, restrooms, and a children’s playground. Local restaurants will also be open.
Organizers encourage people to bring chairs, blankets, bicycles, wagons, picnics, cash (for tipping, donations, food, drink), hats and sunscreen.
Bring Me A Book Forgotten Coast is the designated charity for Porch Fest Apalach. Tips, merchandise sales and anything left over after paying expenses will go to improving childhood literacy in the area. Porch Fest looks forward to partnering with them in their mission to “ignite the passion to read” in young children in Franklin and Gulf counties.
The lineup
Stage A – Battery Park, 1 Bay Avenue: 11 a.m. – noon, Salvato; 12:30-1:30, The Dullards; 2 – 3, Jerry Thigpen Trio; 3:30-4:30, Hot Mess; 5 – 6, Cade and the Palmetto Kickers
Stage B – Lafayette Park, 169 Avenue B: 11 – 11:45 a.m., Ukulillies; Noon – 1, The Von Wamps and Friends; 1:30-2:30, Clayton Mathis; and the Von Wamps
Stage C – Gibson Inn, 51 Avenue C: Noon – 12:45, Rachel Hillman; 1-1:45, Kyle Keller; 2-2:45, Bety Crabb; 4-4, Two Guys with Guitars
Porch #1, 18 Sixth Street: Noon-12:30, and 1:30-2, Smooth Sailin’
Porch #2, Trinity Episcopal, 79 Sixth Street: Noon-1, Shaken and Stirred; 1:30-2, Blues Meets Girl
Porch #3, 53 17th Street: 12:30 – 1:30, The Luminary Experience/Sacred Sounds
Porch #4, 50 14th Street: 1-2, Billy Boster’s Flash Americana; 2:30-3:30, Chicken Phat
Porch #5, 74 Avenue K: 1-2, RE & Tim
Porch #6, Live Oak Gallery, 156 Market Street: 1-2, Gill Autrey; 2:30-3:30, Corey Hall
Porch #7, 200 Fourth Street: 1:30-2:30, Ashley Morgan Band
Porch #8, 39 Seventh Street: 1:30-2:30, John Sutton Band
Porch #9, 111 Fourth Street: 2:30-3:30, Apalachicola Sound
Porch #10, 222 Seventh Street: 2:30-3:30, The Funky ‘Taters
Porch #11, 42 Sixth Street: 3-4, Firefly Rebellion
Porch #12, 211 Eighth Street: 3-4, Kyle Keller
Porch #13, 127 Avenue B: 3-4, Rachel Hillman
Porch #14, 128 Fourth Street: 3:30-4:30, The Dabbit Trio with Lou Wamp
Porch #15, 1192 10th Street: 4-5, Bottle Kids
Porch #16, 156 Sixth Street: 4-5, Ed Raetzloff
Meet the Editor
David Adlerstein, The Apalachicola Times’ digital editor, started with the news outlet in January 2002 as a reporter.
Prior to then, David Adlerstein began as a newspaperman with a small Boston weekly, after graduating magna cum laude from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He later edited the weekly Bellville Times, and as business reporter for the daily Marion Star, both not far from his hometown of Columbus, Ohio.
In 1995, he moved to South Florida, and worked as a business reporter and editor of Medical Business newspaper. In Jan. 2002, he began with the Apalachicola Times, first as reporter and later as editor, and in Oct. 2020, also began editing the Port St. Joe Star.