“It means a lot of happy residents and a great opportunity for visitors to come to our area and enjoy what locals dream about living for every fall,” said Grant Brown, Gulf Shores’ director of recreation and cultural affairs. 🍤
After two lost years, the National Shrimp Festival is poised to open Thursday in Gulf Shores. The forecast is fine and it’s safe to say expectations are high.
When the Coastal Alabama Business Chamber canceled its 2020 fest due to the COVID-19 pandemic, supporters hoped it would be a one-time thing. But as variants rose and fell into fall 2021, that year’s fest. That was a hard situation and “we took some heat,” said Wallace, who is the festival’s media chairman.
The core formula is the same: Visitors find free entry into a gulf-side panorama of live entertainment, arts and crafts, food vendors, fine arts and children’s activities. As the event’s name would lead one to expect, many of the vendors specialize in seafood, though standard carnival fare also will be plentiful.
Wallace also encouraged people to take a good look at the festival layout. It went decades with little change, but 2019 was different thanks in part to the city’s renovation of the public beach area.
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