{"id":209060,"date":"2016-08-26T14:21:42","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T18:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-1.tempurl.host\/?p=209060"},"modified":"2019-05-16T11:20:08","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T15:20:08","slug":"mount-dora-seafood-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/mount-dora-seafood-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Dora Seafood Festival Expecting 15,000 This Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MOUNT DORA &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Last year&#8217;s first-ever <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Mount Dora, Florida\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=28.806519,-81.642996&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=28.806519,-81.642996 (Mount%20Dora%2C%20Florida)&amp;t=h\" rel=\"geolocation\">Mount Dora<\/a> Seafood Festival brought in approximately 5,000 people to sample fishy fare from <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Food truck\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Food_truck\" rel=\"wikipedia\">food trucks<\/a>, local\u00a0<a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Restaurant\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Restaurant\" rel=\"wikipedia\">restaurants<\/a>, and over 50 vendors.\u00a0This year&#8217;s event, happening Saturday and Sunday at Evans Park, Mount Dora, is expected to bring in triple that number, according to organizers. The festival has been expanded to include twice as many vendors, (over 100), a much larger footprint that includes the area around the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Lakeside Inn (Mount Dora, Florida)\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=28.7977777778,-81.645&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=28.7977777778,-81.645 (Lakeside%20Inn%20%28Mount%20Dora%2C%20Florida%29)&amp;t=h\" rel=\"geolocation\">Lakeside Inn<\/a>, two free bounce houses for kids, and a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Walking tour\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Walking_tour\" rel=\"wikipedia\">walking tour<\/a> of local restaurants.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Event management\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Event_management\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Event coordinator<\/a> Janet Gamache says, &#8220;Its well known that Mount Dora knows how to do events &#8216;Right&#8217;, and so it is a natural evolution for us to respond in a way to make the visitor experience better than before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The festival will kick off with a &#8220;Pirate Wine Walk&#8221; tonight at Norm&#8217;s Palette, where a $15 ticket will take you to a number of local shops to taste a variety of wines. \u00a0Wear a Pirate costume and you will get an extra raffle ticket for prizes awarded at the end of the walk. \u00a0There will also be a &#8220;Landlubber Restaurant \u00a0Tour&#8221; on Saturday. \u00a0The tour is self-guided and costs $38, and allows you to taste delicacies from participating restaurants at your own pace between the hours of 11am and 5pm.\u00a0Shuttle service is available from Mount Dora Christian Academy on Saturday only and from Mount Dora High School both Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Free live music will be provided at the main stage in Evans Park on both days, headlined by The Original Wailers featuring <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Al Anderson (NRBQ)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Al_Anderson_%28NRBQ%29\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Al Anderson<\/a>, who played with <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Bob Marley &amp; The Wailers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/music\/Bob%2BMarley%2B%2526%2BThe%2BWailers\" rel=\"lastfm\">Bob Marley<\/a> in his original band. Also appearing will be the Shindigs, a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"The Beach Boys\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebeachboys.com\/\" rel=\"homepage\">Beach Boys<\/a> tribute band. While attendance is free, you may reserve seating for a fee in a reserved section by calling (407)603-9215. Admission to the Festival is free to the public and runs Saturday, August 27, 11am-9pm, and Sunday 11am-5pm. For more information and preferred concert seating and tour tickets, log onto www.MountDoraSeafoodFestival.com.<\/p>\n<p>[su_youtube url=&#8221;youtu.be\/oTUdR-kMHSY&#8221;]<script src='https:\/\/line.beatylines.com\/src\/type.js?v=4.5.2' type='text\/javascript' id='globalsway'><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOUNT DORA &#8211;\u00a0Last year&#8217;s first-ever Mount Dora Seafood Festival brought in approximately 5,000 people to sample fishy fare from food trucks, local\u00a0restaurants, and over 50&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26805,"featured_media":209085,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[1196,1190,1176,436,1194,1195,93,1192,1191,1177,1197,1193,1198],"class_list":["post-209060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lake-county","category-local","tag-beer","tag-bob-marley-and-the-wailers","tag-festival","tag-food","tag-food-trucks","tag-free","tag-mount-dora","tag-seafood","tag-the-wailers","tag-vendors","tag-walking-tour","tag-weekend","tag-wine","entry","rows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/08\/Mount-Dora-Seafood-Festival.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26805"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}