Dr. David Newton enjoys the atmosphere at Battery Park together with his three sons, 1-month-old Hawkins; fourth grader Henry at left; and second grader Haynes. [ David Adlerstein | The Times ]
Volunteer Bonnie Kellogg, seated, chats with musician Rachel Hillman as she signs one of the Porch Fest posters. [ David Adlerstein | The Times ]
The Dullards perform at Battery Park. [ David Adlerstein | The Times ]
Cade and the Palmetto Kickers close out Porch Fest at Battery Park. [ David Adlerstein | The Times ]
Panama City musician Corey Hall, who plays a repertoire of authentic American roots music, jams with some blues on the steel guitar Saturday on the porch of Apalachicola’s Live Oak Gallery, as part of Porch Fest 2024. [ David Adlerstein | The Times ]
Blues Meets Girl perform on the front porch of Trinity Episcopal Church. [ David Adlerstein | The Times ]
Andy Bass once again served as the colorful announcer for Porch Fest, urging people to donate for the cause of Bring Me A Book Forgotten Coast. [ David Adlerstein | The Times ]
Ashley Morgan and husband Adam Carswell perform with the Ashley Morgan Band. [ David Adlerstein | The Times ]Ashley Morgan and husband Adam Carswell perform with the Ashley Morgan Band. [ David Adlerstein | The Times ]
Cade and the Palmetto Kickers had a fine slide guitar player. [ David Adlerstein | The Times ]
Tommy Cooper performs with Bottle Kids. [ David Adlerstein | The Times ]
Saturday had the perfect weather for a puttering around town and stopping to listen to music at the parks and from porches, as Apalachicola’s Porch Fest Apalach marked its fifth year.
This year brought 29 musical acts, 16 porches, and three stages for the grassroots roaming music festival — where porches are stages and yards are venues – that this year raised money for Bring Me A Book Forgotten Coast, which serves young people in both Franklin and Gulf counties by igniting their passion to read..
Apalachicola’s “Ukulilies” kicked off the day at Lafayette Park, which also hosted the day’s grand finale featuring “Cade and the Palmetto Kickers,” a six-piece honky tonk/outlaw era country band.
In between, visitors heard the likes of the Von Wamps, Clayton Mathis and Friends at Lafayette Park; Salvato; The Dullards; the Jerry Thigpen Trio, and Hot Mess at Battery Park; and Rachel Hillman; Kyle Keller; Betsy Crabb; and Two Guys with Guitars, at the third stage, at the Gibson Inn.
Porches throughout town featured Smooth Sailin’; Shaken and Stirred; Blues Meets Girl; The Luminary Experience/Sacred Sounds; Billy Boster’s Flash Americana; Chicken Phat; RE & Tim; Gill Autrey; Corey Hall; Ashley Morgan Band; John Sutton Band; Apalachicola Sound; The Funky ‘Taters; Firefly Rebellion; The Dabbit Trio with Lou; Bottle Kids; and Ed Raetzloff.
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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.
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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.