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2017 Garden Rocks Concert Line-up Epcot International Flower and Garden Festival

cindy — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 11:00:11 +0000

In yesterday’s post about the 2017 Epcot International Flower and Garden Festival I told you I would go into more detail about this year’s Garden Rocks concerts. These concerts, featuring bands from the ’60s, ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s get the American Gardens Theater rocking every Friday-Monday evening during the festival.

2017 Garden Rocks Concert Line-up

March 3-4 – Jon Secada – “Just Another Day”
March 5-6 – Dennis DeYoung – The Music of STYX – “Grand Illusion”
March 10-13 – The Pointer Sisters – “I’m So Excited”
March 17-18 – Simple Plan – “Welcome to My Life” – NEW
March 19-20 – Plain White T’s – “Hey There Delilah”
March 24-27 – Night Ranger – “Sister Christian“
March 31-April 3 – Little River Band – “Reminiscing”
April 7-10 – Blood, Sweat & Tears featuring Bo Bice – “Spinning Wheel”
April 14-17 – Gin Blossoms – “Hey Jealousy”
April21-24 – The Orchestra starring former members of ELO – “Evil Woman”
April 28-29 – Exposé – “Point of No Return” – NEW
April 30-May 1 – Berlin featuring Terri Nunn – “Take My Breath Away” – NEW
May 5-8 – STARSHIP starring Mickey Thomas – “We Built This City”
May 12-15 – The Guess Who – “American Woman”
May 19-22 – Herman’s Hermits starring Peter Noone – “I’m Henry VIII, I Am”
May 26-29 – The Spinners – “Working My Way Back To You”

Garden Rocks concert performances are held each Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday of the Festival. Show times are at 5:30 p.m., 6:45 p.m. & 8 p.m. each night. Concerts are included with regular park admission to Epcot.

I am personally excited about the concerts being carried over to Monday nights since the festival weekends are so busy. I’ll probably only catch 1-2 concerts this year due to my crazy schedule, but I’d like to see Dennis DeYoung, Blood, Sweat & Tears, The Orchestra, and Starship. Make sure you are following along on Instagram to see which events I am able to attend.

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Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival 2014

cindy — Mon, 07 Apr 2014 10:06:17 +0000

The 2014 Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival runs from March 5-May 18. We finally made it over March 28-30th and I know I’ll be back at least one more time. I’m going to highlight some of my favorite things from this year’s festival, mostly in pictures.

Topiaries

One of the awesome things about every Epcot International Flower and Garden Festival are the topiaries. Disney has perfected this art form over the years.

Kermit the Frog & Miss Piggy are some of the “new for 2014” topiaries as is Soccer Goofy.

Tinker Bell’s Butterfly Garden

One of my favorite places to hang out is in Tinker Bell’s Butterfly Garden, which I featured during last year’s festival.

Interactive Kid’s Areas

I have always appreciated the play areas and interactive areas that are a part of the Flower & Garden Festival. This year kids can play in Mike & Sulley’s Monstrous Garden and in Mater’s Parts, Plants and Playin’ Garden.

The Festival Center

I love visiting the Festival Center. This is where you can buy cool festival merchandise, talk to gardening experts and even take some classes in different gardening techniques. My husband and I enjoyed our stop in the HGTV Theater where they have continuous showings of “The Making of the Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival”.

The Flowers

Of course, the flowers all take center stage during the Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival.

Not only is the park filled with vibrant colors but there are educational centers too. The Gardeners Palette teaches some basic color theory for planning your garden. At the Backyard Habitat you can learn how to provide landscaping that will encourage birds and other animals to visit your backyard.

Food!

Last year the Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival became what many of us are calling the Food & Wine Festival lite. Festival organizers added “outdoor kitchens” aka food kiosks to the countries of World Showcase. There was only one new treat that was on my radar so on Friday night, when we made our way to The Smokehouse at the American Pavilion I purchased a Piggylicious Bacon Cupcake.

This dense yet yummy cupcake with bacon crumples inside was topped with a delicious maple frosting and pretzel crunch. The cupcake was good but the frosting and pretzels were amazing!

I hope you enjoyed our tour of the 2014 Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival. I’d love to chat about the festival with you. Please leave me any comments or questions you might have.

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17th Annual Epcot Flower & Garden Festival

cindy — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:24:16 +0000

I have been attending the Epcot Flower & Garden Festival for about 10 years and it never ceases to amaze me. This year, the festival started earlier than ever on March 3 and we went on March 6. The vibrant colors of the flowers helped it finally feel like spring was arriving in Florida. We were finally emerging from the longest and coldest winter I can remember…in Florida.

At the entrance we were greeted by Donald Duck and his topiary pals set up camp in full floral color to celebrate the Great Outdoors at the Epcot front entrance. The elaborate topiary with a North American theme, live waterfall and pond features Goofy in a fly-fishing misadventure, Daisy Duck roasting marshmallows over a campfire and Pluto in his “pup tent.”
It was nice to have a relaxing day at Epcot with just my hubby. We did a lot of wandering and checked out all of the topiaries that were listed on the guide map! We also rode Soarin’, Journey Into Imagination with Figment and The Seas with Nemo and Friends…but today wasn’t about rides it was about flowers and friends!
We got to meet up with some of my Disney Twitter friends like @mefries, @amandatinney, @zannaland, @loumongello and others. We even got to be a part of Lou Mongello’s live webcast.

There are some great new additions to this year’s festival.

Newly Expanded Pixie Hollow Fairy Garden – Colorful topiaries of Tinker Bell and friends from Walt Disney Pictures’ latest DVD release “Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue” sprinkle pixie dust over this playful, expanded garden for kids. New characters on display with returning fairy favorites are fast-flying, sharp-tongued Vidia and charming Terence, dispenser of pixie dust.

Fawn’s Butterfly House at Pixie Hollow – Formerly known as Minnie’s Magnificent Butterfly House, the butterfly garden this year is part of the Expanded Pixie Hollow and named after fairy Fawn from the popular Tinker Bell films. Hundreds of butterflies flit among the lush foliage, and guests can wander and watch as winged beauties of multiple species light on flowers filled with nectar and as caterpillars emerge from their chrysalis in a special discovery exhibit.

Princess Tiana’s Wedding Bayou – This picturesque garden tucked into a corner of Future World near the Test Track walkway features full-size images of Tiana, Prince Naveen, Mama Odie, Louis the alligator and other animal friends gathered beneath a stand of trees. Disney gardeners created a pond with water lilies nearby, and bright bottles dangle from the trees as in the movie’s bayou scene. Coloring and rubbing stations are set up for children.

First-Ever American Gothic Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse – Topiary experts pull out all the stops to create an American Gothic Mickey and Minnie topiary scene based on the 1930 Grant Wood painting. At World Showcase Plaza.

The Flower Power concerts are back rocking the festival every weekend! Popular bands will rock the open-air America Gardens Theatre every Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 5:15, 6:30 and 7:45 p.m. Jose Feliciano kicked off the concert series March 5-7. The rest of the lineup is slated to feature pop favorites like Davy Jones; Chubby Checker & The Wildcats; Tony Orlando; Fran Cosmo, former singer of Boston, David Cassidy and other top acts.

The Epcot Flower & Garden Festival is running through May 16th so if you are visiting Central Florida plan to take a day and enjoy the beautiful flowers.

Created with flickr slideshow.

Disclosure-Disney provided 2 one day park hopper passes and a parking pass so that my husband and I could experience the 17th Annual Epcot Flower & Garden Festival. All opinions in this post are 100% mine.

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