Shrimp Festival Details Announced

48th Annual National Shrimp Festival in 2019. | photo courtesy of Coastal Alabama Business Chamber.

GULF SHORES, Ala. — The Coastal Alabama Business Chamber has announced further details for the Shrimp Festival, which is returning after two years of cancellations on October 6-9 at the intersection of Highway 59 and East Beach Boulevard in Gulf Shores. Country singer/songwriter Trent Tomlinson is headlining the event with a free concert on October 8 starting at 8:15 p.m. Other acts include The Voice final four contestant Kirk Jay, longtime Shrimp Festival favorites like The Velcro Pygmies and Dr. Zarr’s Amazing Funk Monster, and tribute bands. Other events include sand sculpture demonstration and training on October 7 at noon and a sand sculpture contest the next day. Also on October 8 will be the 5k/10k Run & Walk around the Hugh S. Branyon Backcountry Trail and the Singing for Scholarship Competition open to Baldwin County students.