A sand sculpting competition is part of the fun at the Folly Beach Sea & Sand Festival.

The 2012 Folly Beach Sea & Sand Festival will take place the weekend of Saturday, March 24 and Sunday, March 25. Center Street will be shut down at 8 a.m. March 24 and the arts, crafts and food vendors and non-profits will open their booths at 10 a.m.

At 11:30 a.m., the street party and live music will get kicked off on the Follywood Stage by Reid Stone and Jeff Davis of Guilt Ridden Troubadour, followed by the Folly Beach Bluegrass Society from 12:50-1:50 p.m., and the Shakin’ Martinis from 2:10-3:10 p.m. Concrete Jumpsuit will close the festival down on that stage from 3:30-5:00 p.m.

Meanwhile on the Chill & Grill Stage (the main stage), Champagne & Friends will get things rolling at noon and play until 12:50 p.m., followed by Weigh Station from 1:10-2:10 p.m., Jupiter’s Garden featuring James Justin Burke from 2:30-3:30 p.m., and Stereo Reform will bring it home from 3:50-5:00 p.m.

The Folly Art Guild will also be holding its Tides of March Festival in the Folly River Park on Saturday.

Sunday the festival will continue with the Folly Wahine Surfing Competition and the Folly Beach Now Sand Sculpting Competition. The day will culminate with the East Coast Party Band concert at the Tides Resort.

This festival is free and open to the public, and there will be nearly 100 street vendors offering arts, crafts, clothing, concessions, children’s games, silent auctions plus much more.

The Folly Beach Sea & Sand Festival is presented by the Folly Association of Business, Follywood Productions and Blue Planet Green Events. More information can be found online at www.follybeachseaandsand.com.

Coordinators for the event are now accepting sponsorship and vendor applications, volunteer sign-up forms, silent auction items, etc.. To donate a gift for the silent auction, sign up as a sponsor or vendor, contact Toni Reale at toni.reale@gmail.com. For more information about the music lineup for this year, contact Ben Bounds at follywoodrocks@gmail.com. To join the Folly Art Guild, contact Andie Weathers at andiew@earthlinnk.net or Kerry Hupp at kerryhupp@bellsouth.net. To sign up for the Wahine Surfing Competition, contact Nancy Hussey at nancy@follywahine.com. To pre-register for the Sand Sculpting Competition, contact Vince Perna at vperna@dunesproperties.com.

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By Vince Perna

I am amazed by every Jupiter’s Garden show I see, but the one on this past June 30 at the Pourhouse took the title of “Best I have ever seen”.  If you have not seen the band, do yourself a favor and check out one of their shows; you will not regret it. The sound is incredible, with broad strokes of jam after enjoyable melodies and tunes that make you dance. You can’t help but move out to the dance floor and shake your stuff while the band blows your mind with their incredible rhythms.
The night started well enough with the band playing a healthy dose of originals with a few covers mixed in. After a monumental jam, which usually signals the end of the first set, lead vocalist Justin Burke told everyone that they weren’t finished yet, and busted out a version of Michael Jackson’s “Don’t stop ‘til you get enough”. Nice vocals, Justin.  The whole dance floor was packed in a well deserved homage to the King of Pop.
The second set was even better with the jams flowing like wine. A few guests helped charge up the sounds. Jesse Prichard contributed a few blistering guitar solos, and Rusty Cole from Sol Driven Train came out from behind the bar to lend some soulful bass to the sound.  Rusty was having so much fun that bassist Andy Lassiter had to wrestle the bass out of his hands to continue the set. You could tell everyone was having a great time and the sounds proved it.  “We have so much more to play,” Burke had to tell Cole.  Thank God they did!  I can’t wait until next time.

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