What is Winterfest?
Our tours and performances light up beautiful Downtown Pensacola from Historic Seville to the Palafox Business District. This year, we're offering exciting holiday memory tours for the entire family, including a special Santa's Express Tour the week before Christmas that's great for young children. The beautiful horse and carriage are available for rides through the Historic Districts. Our flagship Performance Tour features 10 great scenes with your favorite holiday characters. Read more at www.pensacolawinterfest.orgWinterfest Around the Web
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Merry Christmas & Happy New Year
Thanks to our customers, staff, volunteers and sponsors, we had a wonderful Winterfest - better than ever. Our New Year's Resolutions: more snow, more singing, dancing and fun. (images by Cheryl Casey - cherylcaseyphotography.com)
Santa and Winterfest wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. We'll see you soon.
Winterfest in the News!
There have been great network affiliate news stories about Winterfest this year. Here are two examples. One is from our friends at WEAR TV, Channel 3 about the "Christmas Story" performance in Seville Square. The CBS video is a synopsis of the event. The Atlanta station was in Pensacola to promote tourism.
http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_19396.shtml
"A Christmas Story" at Winterfest
The Great Cookie Contest
The Pensacola News Journal and Pensacola Hardware are sponsoring a "Great Holiday Cookie Contest". Winterfest is participating by supplying some of the judges, including Santa who has sampled more cookies than anyone else in the world. Do you have a secret recipe for the perfect Christmas cookie? Here's your chance to show Santa that you have the right stuff. He'll be watching and checking for the tastiest sample. Your reward could be a $100 Pensacola Hardware gift certificate or a $50 certificate for the People's Choice Award. Along with Santa, lucky passengers on Saturday night, December 17th will be the judges. See contest details listed below.
Santa addresses Country Commission
Santa visited Escambia Country Commissioners at their final meeting before the holidays. He thanked Commissioners and staff for their invaluable support since 2004. The Winterfest Festival has been held at the restored County Courthouse building and in the adjacent plaza since 2009. In addition to providing Winterfest with a home, the County contributed funds and equipment, giving the project a head start. Frosty, Rudolph and Elf John passed out goodies to the assembled dignitaries.
Our Best Opening Night Ever!
Downtown Pensacola was full of elves, families, and holiday cheer last night. Santa and friends debuted the Winterfest snow blizzard made to a crowd of hundreds in Plaza Wonderland, and we even made the news! Gulf Breeze High School Drama, the Seville Quarter Phoggettes, and the Belmont Youth Band rang in the holidays with great performances. Thanks to nearly a hundred volunteers and over a thousand guests, Winterfest 2011 is off to a great start. See you next Saturday!
http://bit.ly/WEAR-Downtown-Christmas-2011
http://on.pnj.com/Downtown-Christmas-2011
Check out the Local section of the PNJ and the cover of the Escambia Sun-Press today, and pick up a Downtown Crowd for a complete guide to Winterfest.
Thanks! We'll see you at the Elf Parade!
We at Winterfest have so much to be thankful for: Our great guests and volunteers have made this year a tremendous success, from our new Halloween Tour to 21 adventurous performances with pirates and UFOs as Red Trolley Repertory Theatre. We've met so many great folks through our wedding charters and even met some couples who have memories of Winterfest's past.
It's not over yet! Tomorrow, a parade of elves will be joining us for the opening celebration and the best part of the year begins.
We have our own weather system thanks to the new Snow Blizzard machines designed and built by our crew, part of the Winterfest Holiday Collection.
Best of all we give thanks for our tireless team of performers and volunteers who support our activites year-round with over 10,000 hours of their time.
Happy Thanksgiving! We can't wait to see you all at Winterfest 2011.
Let it Snow!
Winterfest is set to unveil a new snow machine with a 55 gallon per hour capacity. That's quite a snowfall and unlike the real thing, our snow is not the icy variety. It leaves no residue and is not slippery or sticky. There's enough of the white stuff to throw and even build a fluffy Florida snow man.
Winterfest Dress Rehearsal
Players from all performances gathered at the Courthouse to practice their skills as singers and dancers. The annual class photo features a bevy of elves, famous Christmas characters and those not so famous, like Gaston who is Santa's escort through the swamps of Louisiana.
Winterfest Design Team
Preparations are underway for Winterfest at 221 Palafox Place. Our team of accomplished designers are fluffing, polishing and arranging Santa's Christmas Wonderland at the Escambia Country Courthouse. Bob Whittaker, crew chief reaches the very top of the plaza tree in a bucket truck while Charles Parker perches on a ladder on the front lawn. John Niemeyer assists with the tree wrapping.
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