Mobile, Alabama will host the first annual Son of a Sailor Fest, a free, family-friendly street festival honoring iconic musician Jimmy Buffett. The event features a second-line parade, live music performances by various artists including a tribute band, and food vendors.
Now it’s time to add another verse to that song: On Saturday, Sept. 21, Mobile will follow up with the inaugural Son of a Sailor Fest, a free, family-friendly street festival that will feature a second-line parade and an afternoon of music in Cathedral Square.
There’ll be more music at a SouthSounds Showcase Stage set up in Dauphin Street at the Joachim Street intersection. Disco Lemonade plays at 2 p.m. followed by Laurie Anne Nix at 3:30 and Eric Salter & The Sunday Sinners at 5 p.m. snowballed into the 2023 event. He said the discussion about carrying on with a potential annual event began almost immediately afterward.
Joseph Brennan, a Mobile filmmaker whose idea for an open foot parade honoring Jimmy Buffett, smiles as he takes in the huge turnout on Sept. 10, 2023.The 2023 event was “lightning in a bottle,” Brennan said. That couldn’t be planned. “There is something so perfectly serendipitous about this,” said Brennan. “I mean, let’s be real. It’s like, it’s two different types of cosplay. You know, it’s adults that like to dress up like pirates and parrots and cheeseburgers and whatever. And, you know, other adults that like to dress up like Sailor Moon or ‘Dragonball Z.’in the second line,” he said. “Even though that in no way relates to parrothead imagery, it’s just magic.
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