Boggy Bayou Mullet Festival
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The Boggy Bayou Mullet Festival, an annual seafood and arts festival held in Niceville, Florida on the second-to-last weekend of every October. Visitors and booth openers come from as far away as Louisiana. The main attractions are music, food, especially fried mullet, and many kinds of arts and crafts. The festival used be known as a "Glorfied Fish Fry", but ask any native Nicevillian, and they'll tell you that any fish fry deserves to be glorified.
This festival is named after the mullet, a fish found in abundance in the local waters. While commonly seen at the festival, the mullet haircut is not the origin of the name. It was founded by Walter Francis Spence Jr. in 1976. It lasts three days, starting Friday afternoon and ending Sunday after dark. Alcohol is not served on Sunday. In recent years, the festival has typically had attendance over 100,000 for the weekend. "The Best, EVER" according to Carolyn Salter, Mullet aficionado.
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2006 - Travis Tritt, Lonestar, Trent Willmon, Blake Shelton
2005 - The Charlie Daniels Band, Terri Clark, Hot Apple Pie, Rockapella
2004 -
2003 - The Charlie Daniels Band, Dierks Bentley, Montgomery Gentry
2002 - Trick Pony, Emerson Drive, Daron Norwood, Mountain Heart, Little Big Town
2001 - Diamond Rio, Little River Band, Trick Pony
2000 - Rick Springfield, Rascal Flatts, Tracy Lawrence, Eric Heatherly
1999 -
1998 - Dixie Chicks, Rhett Akins, Ricochet, Exile
1997 - Neal McCoy, Exile
1996 - Lonestar, Ty Herndon, Mark Wills
1995 - Ty England
1994 - Daron Norwood
1993 - Daron Norwood
1992 - Billy Ray Cyrus, Mark Wills
1991 - The Temptations
1990 - The Drifters, The Platters
