CORTEZ \u2013 The Florida Institute for Saltwater Heritage (FISH) has released the entertainment schedule for the 44th annual Cortez Commercial Fishing Festival.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On Saturday, Feb. 14, the live music begins at 10 a.m. with the Shanty Singers, followed by Doug Demming & the Jewel Tones at 11:30.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 1 p.m. introduction and awards ceremony will be followed by the New College Singers and the Fishermen\u2019s Fashion Show. At 2 p.m., The Co-Pilots will perform, followed by Jason Haram from 4:30 to 6 p.m.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, Ron Floethe will host a book screening for his parents\u2019 Cortez-themed illustrated book, \u201cThe Fisherman and His Boat.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Sunday, Feb. 15, Sycamore Shade will perform from 10 to 11:30 a.m., followed by Soul-R-Coaster from noon to 1:30.\u00a0<\/p>\n
At 1:30, there will be a crab-eating contest, followed by the Eric Von Band from 2:30 to 4:30. From 5 to 6 p.m., MOB will perform.<\/p>\n
On both Saturday and Sunday, Dock Talks given by members of the Florida Sea Grant organization will be held at the Fulford Fish House. \u201cTales of Cortez,\u201d with Allen Garner, will be told at the Miller Dock. Photo contest entries will be on display at the A.P. Bell Fish Company.<\/p>\n
In addition to live music and educational exhibits, the festival features seafood, arts and crafts and children\u2019s activities. The theme of this year\u2019s festival is \u201cBoat to Market,\u201d reflecting the contributions of local fishermen.<\/p>\n
Known as a \u201cparty with a purpose,\u201d all proceeds from the festival will go back to the community and help support the restoration and conservation of the 98-acre FISH Preserve at the east end of Cortez village.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The festival will be held both days from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in front of Star Fish Company Market & Restaurant and the A.P. Bell Fish Company, between 123rd and 124th Street W. in Cortez. Admission is $5 and kids under 12 get in free.<\/p>\n
FESTIVAL SIGNS<\/strong><\/p>\n A team of volunteers gathered at the old Cortez firehouse on Saturday, Feb. 7, to paint the signs to be placed around the Cortez Commercial Fishing Festival. The signs, some whimsical, some inspirational and some featuring the festival theme, \u201cBoat to Market,\u201d are a tradition at the festival that this year will be held Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 14 and 15.<\/p>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source amisun.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" CORTEZ \u2013 The Florida Institute for Saltwater Heritage (FISH) has released the entertainment schedule for the 44th annual Cortez Commercial Fishing Festival.\u00a0 On Saturday, Feb. 14, the live music begins at 10 a.m. with the Shanty Singers, followed by Doug Demming & the Jewel Tones at 11:30.\u00a0 The 1 p.m. introduction and awards ceremony will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2277694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[441067,441068],"class_list":["post-2277693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-cortez-commercial-fishing-festival","tag-fish"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Cortez-Commercial-Fishing-Festival-entertainment-announced.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2277693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2277695,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277693\/revisions\/2277695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2277693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2277693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2277693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/amisun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/CZ-Festival-Signs-C-1-0211-LLW-960x1024.jpg\")
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