Free Brazilian music, ‘Footvolley’
Daniela Mercury will perform a free concert Saturday night on Hollywood Beach.
You can spend the weekend in Brazil without leaving Florida as Brazil on the Beach comes to Hollywood Beach Friday, March 20, through Sunday, March 22, for a free celebration of Brazilian music and sports.
Brazilian superstar Daniela Mercury, an international pop star and Grammy winner, will share the rhythms of her native Bahia in a free concert at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 21, on the beach east of Connecticut Street. There are a limited number of VIP tickets available for $40; click here for details.
The concert will climax an exciting weekend of world-class Footvolley competition, compliments of the Second Annual Pro Footvolley Tour Hollywood Beach Open, featuring many of the demanding sport’s greatest competitors. Footvolley combines elements of beach volleyball and soccer. This new professional tour, launched on Hollywood Beach in 2008, features the best players in the United States competing against international guests. Matches will be all three days on the beach between Polk and Buchanan.
Free music will fill several stages Friday night, Saturday and Sunday.
Category: Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood
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Teresa Mears is a publisher, writer and editor who was raised to be frugal. She was downsized last summer after nearly 30 years as an editor at newspapers ranging in size from the Portland (Tenn.) Leader to The Los Angeles Times and The Miami Herald, where she worked most recently. She moved to Florida in 1980 because it was the only place she could get a job during that recession and has lived in South Florida since 1985, in Miami, Hollywood and Fort Pierce. She also has lived on Florida’s Gulf Coast, in St. Petersburg and Inverness.Subscribe
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