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SunFest is the Community Organized Music Festival that Takes Over West Palm Beach Every Year
Clip: Season 7 | 2m 16sVideo has Closed Captions
SunFest Music Festival takes over the West Palm Beach waterfront every year for a weekend of music.
There’s one event that takes over the West Palm Beach waterfront every year for a weekend of music, art, and fun: SunFest. SunFest was founded in 1982 by a group of business leaders in the community who wanted to create an event that would bring attention and traffic to West Palm Beach small businesses.
On the Town in The Palm Beaches with Frank Licari is a local public television program presented by WPBT
Palm Beach County Tourist Development Council
On the Town in The Palm Beaches with Frank Licari
SunFest is the Community Organized Music Festival that Takes Over West Palm Beach Every Year
Clip: Season 7 | 2m 16sVideo has Closed Captions
There’s one event that takes over the West Palm Beach waterfront every year for a weekend of music, art, and fun: SunFest. SunFest was founded in 1982 by a group of business leaders in the community who wanted to create an event that would bring attention and traffic to West Palm Beach small businesses.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipFounded in 1982, Sunfest is Florida's largest waterfront music festival, held annually in downtown West Palm in May.
It has more than 85,000 fans rocking and rolling every year.
Let's meet the executive director.
Here we are, right on the edge of the water here, where it's like, so expansive and open and beautiful.
But once a year, people converge from all over the place and this place becomes a whole other thing.
Talk to me about the history of Sunfest.
Sunfest was started 40 years ago by a group of local business people that said, we want to bring something to the community, to bring people from all over for that point, to drive economic impact for downtown West Palm.
And they had this vision of creating an event to bring people of all walks of life, all genres, bring them here and celebrate, um, celebrate what Palm Beach County has to offer some.
This is a 501 nonprofit that was founded by the community, the members of the community, and it's still that way today, 40 years later.
And we're, I think, most proud of that, of how it's community based.
The community puts the festival on.
There's only four of us on staff that do the work.
Super small group.
It's really the community that makes up the festival.
And it's an eclectic mix of music.
Right when we first started, it was jazz.
We started as.
Jazz.
It was jazz focused.
We try to program a little bit of everything.
We're not trying to be the biggest music festival in the country.
We're trying to be the best community- based music festival.
I love that you have headliners that names that you know, and then also local bands, correct?
Right.
Because if you're a local, you can apply to get on the stage.
We have a fresh local artist series where we have over 300 applications every year, easily 300 that come in, and those local bands to try to have the chance to perform before a headlining act.
Yeah, and it's really a great opportunity for them.
They love to see their name up against a headliner name like that.
That's the cool part about it is that you really are like, you're right here.
You're right on the water as you're watching your favorite band, which is a cool thing, you.
Know, where community coming together to put this on, but it's for the benefit of our community.
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