Please note… event details can change at the last minute, so please confirm all information before attending.
Also.. for any event that did not supply an end time, the end times are defaulted to 2 hours after the event begins. The actual event may last longer, so please plan accordingly.
Plan a day trip to Pine Island to stroll our quaint event grounds to see artists, artisans, crafters and more at the Pine Island Arts & Crafts Fair, Saturday, March 23rd from 9am to 4pm. Free event & Free Parking.
Wild Turkey Strand Preserve – Free Guided Nature Walks
11901 Rod and Gun Club Road, Fort Myers, FL
Saturday, January 26th, 2019
Saturday February 23rd, 2019
Saturday, March 23rd, 2019
9:00 AM to 10:30 AM
Trail length: 1.8 mies
Degree of difficulty: Moderate
This seasonal wetland preserve also includes remnant structures of the former Buckingham Army Air Field military base.
All walks are free. No registration is required. Walks are led by trained volunteers and interpretive naturalists, Meeting location is the preserve parking area. Parking is free. Suggested items to being include water, hat, sunglasses, sunscreen, and camera. Please wear closed-toe shoes – no sandals.
Questions? Call (239) 204-1125.
⚡Fort Myers BIKEFEST sponsored by Associates & Bruce L. Scheiner and presented by Rockstar Harley-Davidson is BACK, Baby… and 2019 is going to be BIGGER and BADDER than ever before!⚡ rockstarharley.com/bikefest
FREE Admission, FREE Concerts, FREE Parking!
🍻 Vendor Village, Food Trucks, Cheap Beer, 🎪 MASSIVE RockstarHD Used Harley Sale & More on site all weekend!
***ALL WEEKEND***
Enter to Win $500 Rockstar Harley Gift Cards*
$2 Bud Light, Michelob Ultra, & Budweiser
Food Trucks: Pig In or Pig Out, Outreach Treats, Shake Rattle & Roll, and Dave’s Cosmic Subs
Play Bucket Pong, Cornhole, and Giant Jenga
ALL TIMES ARE APPROXIMATE!
***FRI, MAR 22ND 6-9pm: BIKEFEST BIKE NIGHT***
Enter to Win a 2019 Harley-Davidson Iron 883 Motorcycle or a $500 Rockstar Harley Gift Card*
Love Alive – Heart Tribute Hand
$1 50/50 Raffle Tickets-drawings every 2hrs-must be present to win!
7:30PM BURNOUT CONTEST
8:00PM Last 50/50 Drawing-must be present to win!
8:30PM $500 GIFT CARD DRAWING*
***SAT, MAR 23RD 10am-9pm***
ALL DAY $1 50/50 Raffle Tickets-drawings every 2hrs-must be present to win!
10AM-12:30PM Stolen Fruit Band
12:30PM 🏍️ Busted Knuckles Stunt Tour
1:00PM 👙 Bikini Coast International BIKINI CONTEST
3:00PM Red Hannah – LOCAL BAND!
4:30PM 🏍️ Busted Knuckles Stunt Tour
5:00PM BURNOUT CONTEST
6-9PM 👅🤘 KISS America Tribute <–DON’T MISS THIS ONE 🔥
7:30PM 🏍️ Busted Knuckles Stunt Tour
8:00PM Last 50/50 Drawing-must be present to win!
***SUN, MAR 24TH 11pm-5pm***
ALL DAY 👙 FREE RockstarHD Angels’ Bikini Bike Wash
$1 50/50 Raffle Tickets-drawings at 1PM & 3PM-must be present to win!
11:00AM 🎵 The Electric Mud Band
12:30PM 🏍️ Busted Knuckles Stunt Tour
1:00PM 🎸 The Verge – Classic Rock Band
4:00PM 🏍️ Busted Knuckles Stunt Tour
📧 Interested in being a VENDOR or SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES? Visit RockstarHarley.com/Bikefest/Vendors or email Kaley at: marketing@rockstarharley.com.
*Gift cards not valid on the purchase of a motorcycle.
The story of the unlikely romance between Miss Sarah Brown, a pure-at-heart urban missionary, and a slick Broadway gambler, Sky Masterson. The show’s second romantic storyline involves Nathan Detroit, the consummate gambling man and the operator of “The World’s Largest Floating Crap Game”, and Miss Adelaide, the main attraction at the Hot Box nightclub, who have been engaged for fourteen years. Frank Loesser’s score features classic songs such as Luck Be a Lady, I’ve Never Been in Love Before, Sue Me, A Bushel and a Peck and the wonderful title song Guys and Dolls.
A race against the clock begins when Savannah Sprunt Fairchild Honeycutt agrees to get her feisty mother all the way from Alabama to California in time for her brother’s wedding. Savannah’s problem: MAMA WON’T FLY. So three generations embark on a hilarious road trip where they meet family, friends, strangers and each other along the way. This ferociously funny comedy is by the writers of The Savannah Sipping Society and The Hallelujah Girls!
Choose your favorite option and come help us raise money for the American Cancer Society!!!! This is a BYOB event and 50% of the proceeds go to charity!
The SW FL Military Museum & Library presents “Mural Walk & Wine Tasting” on March 23rd, 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm featuring local artist Mary Anne Passatore who has 16 military murals currently exhibited at the museum. The event is $10.00 to pre-register or $15.00 at the door. Price includes wine tastings and appetizers. Cash bar available. Come see Mary Anne’s murals, take part in remembering the sacrifice our American military has made, and enjoy libations with us.
The story of the unlikely romance between Miss Sarah Brown, a pure-at-heart urban missionary, and a slick Broadway gambler, Sky Masterson. The show’s second romantic storyline involves Nathan Detroit, the consummate gambling man and the operator of “The World’s Largest Floating Crap Game”, and Miss Adelaide, the main attraction at the Hot Box nightclub, who have been engaged for fourteen years. Frank Loesser’s score features classic songs such as Luck Be a Lady, I’ve Never Been in Love Before, Sue Me, A Bushel and a Peck and the wonderful title song Guys and Dolls.
A race against the clock begins when Savannah Sprunt Fairchild Honeycutt agrees to get her feisty mother all the way from Alabama to California in time for her brother’s wedding. Savannah’s problem: MAMA WON’T FLY. So three generations embark on a hilarious road trip where they meet family, friends, strangers and each other along the way. This ferociously funny comedy is by the writers of The Savannah Sipping Society and The Hallelujah Girls!
Sam Galloway Ford Concert Series
Chris Lane – Doors Open at 7:00 PM
Showtime approx: 9:00 PM
Presented by Gator Country 101.9
Tickets
$20.00 in Advance
$25.00 at the Door
18 and Up show – Additional $5.00 at the Door
Online tickets at http://www.TheRanchFortMyers.com and TicketFly.com
No other online affiliates
Chris Lane Bio:
True artists don’t just arrive on the scene fully formed, they have to find themselves. Even with a few hits in the bag, the search takes time, and it might be a few laps around the sun before things get dialed in – but when that happens it’s like a switch is flipped.
Heading into his second album for Big Loud Records, aptly titled Laps Around the Sun, that quest for self discovery was heavy on Chris Lane’s mind. Two whirlwind years of chart toppers and jam-packed shows had gone by for the breakout country talent, but the North Carolina native still felt restless. He found himself looking back to his early days, and back to the reasons he fell in love with music in the first place.
“I had a moment where I played a show with Kenny Chesney,” the lifelong country fan explains. “It was a festival right on the beach, and I watched him do his thing and I watched the crowd, and there was just something special about that night. I hadn’t seen him in a long time, and the way people connected to what he was doing … I had one of those moments like ‘Man, I really want my music to do that.'”
With Girl Problems, the 2016 album that launched Lane as one of Nashville’s most exciting new artists, the singer-songwriter got a taste of that connection. Its red hot romantic edge led to back-to-back, Gold-certified singles (“Fix” and “For Her”) and the first Country Radio #1 of his career, propelling the set to a Top 10 debut and sending Lane on tour with superstars like Florida Georgia Line, Tim McGraw and Faith Hill – all while helping him rack up 400 million digital streams worldwide, network TV appearances, and more.
But with Laps Around the Sun, this rising star had a bigger, bolder picture in mind, aiming for tunes “everybody can love, and everybody can feel.”
“There’s a certain vibe to this album,” Lane says, describing the serene confidence behind his new brand of modern country. Romance is still a big part of the equation, but now his stories dig deeper – somehow feeling both personal and universal at the same time. And instead of being lit by streetlights and neon, each song basks in the golden rays of a summer afternoon. “It’s a change for me this time around,” Lane says. “But this is what I truly love.”
Produced once again by studio ace Joey Moi (FGL), Laps Around the Sun feels more organic, building off the sandy arrangements of artists like Chesney and Billy Currington with an added touch of newschool cool. Lane and Moi recorded with a live band for the first time, fleshed out melodies on guitars rather than computer screens, and eased Lane’s vocal into its timeless natural register.
Fourteen tracks written by hitmakers like Rhett Akins, Ashley Gorley, Hillary Lindsey and The Warren Brothers made the cut – and in an important lesson learned while Lane put his “laps” in on tour, they were all chosen based on meaning and personal connection, not purely on energy or feel.
The album’s first single, “Take Back Home Girl” (featuring Tori Kelly) marks Lane’s coming of age. It builds on the sultry swagger of Girl Problems, but he and the Grammy-nominee aren’t singing about a steamy downtown hookup. Instead, the track reveals who Lane really is – a true country boy with deeply rooted family values – becoming Lane’s third Gold-certified single in a row.
The patient “I Don’t Know About You” charts a similar course – a hard-crushing, swollen-hearts anthem sure to inspire stadium wide sing alongs – while “Number One” takes a soulful look at regret, and “Without You” adds Danielle Bradbery for some sun-kissed romantic harmony.
On “Drunk People,” Lane’s good-natured sense of humor shines bright. The grinning mid-tempo is just smooth enough to not aggravate a hangover headache, but edgy enough to admit that drunk people do dumb things … like get back together. “That song is me to a ‘T,'” Lane says with a laugh. “Every time I have one to many tequila drinks, I think I’ve gotta FaceTime every girlfriend I’ve ever had.”
He throws some sunny shade on “New Phone, Who’s This,” a sly, smile-inducing strutter. And likewise, “Fishin'” feels as fun and refreshing as a secret honey hole on a hot day. Country to the core, its lyrics recall the innocence of young love – and the nostalgia of the genre’s most iconic hits. “I feel like it’s a great little summer song,” Lane says. “And for some reason, it lives in that same place that ‘Mayberry’ by Rascal Flatts does for me.”
Meanwhile, “Hero” reveals the man Lane has always been, and the artist he’s become. A slow, heartfelt ballad with an openly religious theme of personal conviction, Lane says he knew recording it could be risky, “but at the same time, there has never been a song that is more true to me.”
“I really prayed that I would get the song,” he explains. “And I don’t know if it will ever be a single or anything like that, but it speaks to my heart.”
Still, Lane named the album Laps Around the Sun for a reason, and the title track reflects how he feels about his journey to the here and now. Supremely relaxed, soulful, and full of mature optimism, it describes a hand-in-hand adventure which could be about Lane and the girl of his dreams … or it could be about Lane and country fans. Either way, he promises to keep on moving forward, together.
“Don’t you know we’ll never be done / Taking laps around the sun,” goes the chorus.
“I’ve learned a lot,” Lane admits. “With my first record, I was trying to figure out exactly what kind of sound I wanted to have, and now I know. I know what I truly love and what kind of artist I want to be. My goal was to make sure anyone who hears this album finds a song they can relate to. I hope I accomplished that.”