Sunfest

Tonight begins one of the biggest weekends in the Palm Beaches. Downtown West Palm Beach will be full of people from all over South Florida for a five day concert festival, all weekend, called Sunfest. This event was founded in 1982, and is now Florida's largest waterfront music and art festival. Sunfest is held annually in downtown West Palm Beach, Florida the first week in May. SunFest attracts more than 280,000 visitors from all over the world.

Many PBA students are especially excited about the headlining act tonight, Weezer. Even though many students have papers and projects to turn in this week, they are budgeting their time so that they can have a little fun. Also performing tonight are a bunch of new musical artists who are just getting into the business.

The weekend continues with musical artists like Sister Hazel, Sean Kingston, Smash Mouth, ZZ Top, REO Speedwagon & Shinedown just to name a few.  The event prides itself with offering a huge variety of musical artists so that everyone will have someone they like.  This is a family frendly event with a variety of activities during the day for people of all ages, along with the concerts on three different stages.

 

The best part about the event, especially for all PBA students, is the Fireworks show that closes out the festival on Sunday night. Typically PBA students are unable to attend the event on Sunday for a variety of reasons, two of which being lack of sufficient funds, and the fact that final exams begin the next morning. This does not matter though because the firework show can be seen from all over the city, and looks especially great from across the Intracoastal Waterway on Palm Beach Island.