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 environmental workshops

The Green Living & Energy Education Expo will be 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, March 28, at Marathon High School. It includes free workshops and more than 50 exhibitors of services and products that save money and natural resources.
Environmental groups also will providing latest information, and thre will be 30 free workshops on topics ranging from solar photovoltaics to reducing energy bills, to organic [...]

Hotel deals for KW songwriters’ fest

The 14th annual Key West Songwriters’ Festival will be April 29–May 3, 2009. The is five days and nights of more than 20 free concerts at the island’s most popular drinking holes and hot spots.
The Key West Marriott Beachside Hotel is offering a “Songwriter’s Special” with rates starting at $139 per night for the week [...]

Marathon Seafood Festival for $5

This weekend, March 14 and 15, is the biggest party of the year in the Middle Keys: the Marathon Seafood Festival at Marathon Community Park, Mile Marker 49.
The event, which has celebrated the Keys’ fishing heritage for more than three decades, will feature fresh local seafood, including lobster tails, stone crab, fish, shrimp. Conch fritters, [...]

Rare plants at GardenFest in Key West

Experience and buy tropical plants, arts and crafts and garden supplies from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28, and Sunday, March 1, at Garden Fest in Key West at the Key West Tropical Forest & Botanical Garden, 5210 College Road (MM 4.5).
South Florida’s top nurseries be selling all kinds of plants, including bromeliads, [...]