5 days of free and cheap music

The Key West Songwriters Festival starts Wednesday, April 29, bringing five days filled with music, a lot of it free and the rest of it cheap.
Check the schedule to pick out your favorite performers. Or just listen to much all day, every day through Sunday, May 3.
Some Keys hotels are also offering special deals.

Free Arby’s Fruitea with coupon

Print out this coupon to receive a free iced Fruitea whenever you buy a sandwich at Arby’s. Fruiteas are available in four flavors: mandarin peach, diet blackberry, passion fruit, and diet peach. The coupon is good until May 5.

Free KFC grilled chicken

I think it’s safe to say that I’m the only South Florida blogger whose family actually used to eat at Colonel Sanders’ original restaurant in Corbin, Ky. My mother used to stop there on her way to college in the 1940s, and my aunt actually spent her wedding night in the Colonel’s motel behind the [...]

Free Earth Day bag coupon at Publix

Publix Supermarkets is offering a free reusable bag plus $1 off if you buy a two-pack of GE Energy Smart 10, 13, 20 or 26-watt compact fluorescent light bulbs. Unlike most Publix deals, this one requires a coupon. This Earth Day special is good through Wednesday, April 22.
While you’re at Publix, check out this week’s [...]

Hawks Cay Resort from $125

The Hawks Cay Resort in the Middle Keys is offering a 60 percent off special through TravelZoo, offering rooms for as little as $125 per night through June 30.
With this deal, an Island View Room, normally $325, is $125 per night. A two-bedroom Preferred Villa, normally $545 per night, is $245. Add $50 a night [...]

Free CLF lightbulb at Home Depot

Home Depot is giving away 1 million CFL bulbs in support of the environment on Earth Day 2009.
You can receive a free EcoSmart 14w CFL bulb from participating Home Depot stores Sunday, April 19. Limit one per customer while quantities last. No purchase necessary. Offer cannot be combined with any other promotional offer or discount. [...]

Join free ‘Bread & Puppet’ show

Several artists from Vermont’s Bread & Puppet Theatre are bringing their Lubberland Dance Project to Key West this weekend, through The Studios of Key West.
Residents and visitors are invited to become performers in the free show, which will be rehearsed at 1 p.m. Friday, April 17, and Saturday, April 18, with the free performance of [...]

1-cent appetizers, $1 entrees

Penny appetizers? Dollar entrées? I know. You think I’ve got to be joking. Not so. All you have to do is sign up with T.G.I. Friday’s “Give me more stripes” program BEFORE April 30, 2009. Their website promises that within 24-hours of signing up, T.G.I. Friday’s will email you a coupon for 1¢ appetizers with the purchase of any beverage at the bar and $1 [...]

Free month of fitness at Curves

Be one of the first 50 women to sign up at a participating Curves for Women location for the new massive Curves/Avon Fitness Study. Pay $30 for 30 days and get the following benefits: free start and finish fitness evaluations, 30 days free on curves.com and supervised workout with a Curves trainer. Call your Curves [...]

Buy Denny’s Grand Slam, get Slamwich

Here’s another chance to get a free breakfast at Denny’s:
From 6 a.m. to 2 p.m Wednesday, April 8, if you buyone Grand Slam breakfast, you’ll get a Slamwich (a new breakfast sandwich) free.
The Slamwich, which comes with hash browns, normally costs $4.99. It’s a sandwich on grilled potato bread with scrambled eggs, sausage, bacon, ham, [...]