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Annual Parrot Head party comes to downtown Palm Harbor

Parrothead crowd in Old Palm Harbor

Somewhere around 15,000 Parrotheads turned out in downtown Palm Harbor Saturday to chill out, sip a few cold ones, and enjoy the style of music made famous by the likes of Jimmy Buffet.

Jimmy himself didn’t show up, but the Carribbean Chillers did, and the Jimmy Buffet tribune band put out a Buffet-style sound that had the crowd up and dancing in the street.

Florida Avenue, downtown Palm Harbor’s main drag, was blocked off for the day-long program, which started at around 2 p.m. amd went deep into the night.

As you might expect, there were plenty of loud shirts, parrot headresses and fat cigars. And the beer flowed, as you would expect from a crowd like this and an event sponsored in large part by Budweiser.

More than 30 vendors were on hand, selling everything from food items to t-shirts to parrot-themed products of one kind or another.

The event, officially known as the Palm Harbor Parrot Head Party, is the biggest fundraiser of the year for Old Palm Harbor Main Street, the group of downtown merchants and others who promote the historic district near Alt. 19.

It has grown every year for the past several years, which makes the sponsors happy in spite of the fact that sponsorship costs have gone up steeply as it becomes more difficult in a slow economy to find people to put up sponsorship dollars.

This was the eighth annual Parrot Head party in downtown Palm Harbor. See more pictures here.

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