Amelia Island - Celebrate the birth of the modern shrimping industry at the Annual Isle of Eight Flags Shrimp Festival on the first weekend in May. Enjoy fine arts and crafts, antiques, collectibles, regional and local music, parades, pirates and shrimp and seafood dishes.
Santa Rosa Beach - White sands, beautiful water and smooth jazz make up the Seabreeze Jazz Festival, held in mid-April, on the Emerald Coast. Performing artists have included Spryo Gyra, Rick Braun, Norman Brown, Peter White, Chris Botti, Richard Elliot, Brian Culbertson, Jonathan Butler, Kim Waters, Down To The Bone, Marion Meadows, Jeff Kashiwa, and Urban Jazz Coalition.
Melbourne - Get in touch with your nature-loving side at the Brevard Zoo Butterfly Connection as it provides a temporary home for hundreds of butterflies from late-May to early-August. Guests can stroll through a butterfly house inhabited by more than 20 different species, various host plants and waterfalls or watch the beautiful creatures break free from their cocoons in an emergence box. This exhibit is included in the regular zoo admission.
