Long weekend forecast: May the Fourth be with you

Let’s recap of the Fourth of July fireworks celebrations in Pinellas County, today (July 3) and Thursday (the actual holiday), plus one on Friday:

Tonight

Live music at 7, fireworks at 9 at the Madeira Beach Recreation Complex, 200 Rex Place.

Live music, movie screening (The Little Rascals) starting at 6:30, fireworks at 9:15 at TD Ballpark, 373 Douglas Ave., Dunedin.

Thursday

On the St. Pete Pier, family activities start at 4 p.m., with food vendors and live music at Spa Beach Park. Fireworks at 8 p.m.

At the Baycare Sound amphitheater at Coachman Park, “Clearwater Celebrates America” from 4 to 11 p.m. Family-friendly activities, with fireworks at 9:30; silent disco party on the Coachman Park Promenade Pier until 11.

Boom By the Bay, the big Tampa Independence Day blowout, is 4-9 p.m. at Julian B. Lane Riverfront Park, 1001 North Boulevard. Live music, vendors, family fun, fireworks at dusk.

Gulfport has daylong festival on the Fourth. A kids’ fishing derby from 8-10:30 a.m., a family sand sculpting contest from 10 a.m.-noon on Gulfport Beach. The Beach Boulevard parade steps off at 6 p.m.; fireworks scheduled for 9.

Largo’s Central Park complex, at the intersection of Ulmerton Road and Seminole Boulevard has 6-9 p.m. family-style celebration with food vendors activities and live music from the 727 Band. Fireworks at 9. On-site parking is $10.

St. Pete Beach. Horan Park (7701 Boca Ciega Dr.) is where you’ll find food vendors and more starting at 6 p.m. The Smokin’ Renegades perform at 7, followed by a fireworks show at 9. Another recommended fireworks viewing site is the 300 Block of Corey Avenue.

Safety Harbor. Family fun 5-9 p.m. at the Safety Harbor Marina, 110 Veterans Memorial Lane. Live music, games, vendors.

Friday

Lealman’s Raymond H. Neri Community Park, 3875 54th Ave. N., St. Pete. The district’s second annual Indy Day event sponsored by the Lealman Fire District and the Lealman Engagement Committee, from 5 to 8 p.m. The food is free, beverages (including beer) will be available, there’s live music, and fun kid stuff includes a bounce house, games and a water slide. No fireworks, however.

Concerts

Saturday’s Capitol Theatre concert from Welsh band The Alarm has been postponed. Singer, songwriter and guitarist Mike Peters, 65, recently announced that he was diagnosed with lymphatic cancer. “I am now engaged in the biggest challenge of my life,” he said.

The entire American tour, with co-headliners Jay Ashton’s Gene Loves Jezebel and Belouis Some, has been put on hold.

A band that emerged around the same time as Ireland’s U2, with similarly loud, proud and brash anthemic post-punk music, The Alarm never quite reached the same commercial heights, but retained a global cult following.

“Cancer has been chasing me for 29 years now, and in all that time, I have managed to outrun the disease and stay alive,” Peters wrote on the Alarm’s website.” My focus and resolve remain the same, and I’m determined to keep running even harder to stay one step ahead and resume my life as a husband, father, and musician as soon as possible.”

The band’s next scheduled appearance is Aug. 11 at the Northern Kin Festival in Durham, U.K.

Bay area-born comedian Bert Kreischer begins a seven-concert run tonight at the Mahaffey Theater in St. Petersburg, one of which will be filmed for his sixth Netflix special. Tickets.

The South Korean boy band A.C.E. is onstage tonight at Ferguson Hall, in the Straz Center for the Performing Arts in Tampa. This tour is a reunion of the original five K-poppers- Lee Donghun, Wow, Park Junhee, Kim Byeongkwan and Kang Yuchan – as all A.C.E. members have completed their mandatory military service. Find tickets here.

Screamo band Hawthorne Heights headlines Saturday’s bleak-is-beautiful 20 Years of Tears Tour show at the Baycare Sound amphitheater in Clearwater. Also on the bill: Amberlin, I See Stars, Armor for Sleep, Emery and This Wild Life. Tickets can be found here.

Harry Wayne Casey, a.k.a. KC, is still leading the party charge for Florida’s platinum-selling disco veterans KC & the Sunshine Band. Get down tonight – sorry, get down Sunday night – at the Seminole Hard Rock Event Center, Tampa. Tickets.

The weekend in visual art

Artist Jabari Reed-Diop, a.k.a. iBOMS, is unveiling a new project Saturday at FloridaRAMA, the creative funhouse formerly known as Fairgrounds St. Pete. Son Sign debuts with a public reception from 5 to 8 p.m. According to the event space, the art exhibit is “a representation of the metaphorical and spiritual journey that symbolizes his own perception of what it means to be a man of God.”

Pet Skunk Advocates and Rescue is bringing live animals to Bayboro Brewing Sunday for Possums and Prosecco, 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. Local artists will sketch, paint, sculpt et cetera the opossums, skunks and raccoons. Bayboro Brewing will donate $1 from every mimosa sold to the rescue organization.

Your weekend arts forecast normally appears every Thursday in the Catalyst. 

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