LaBelle's Big Weekend Festival Feb 24-25

LABELLE, FL.-- The 2018 Swamp Cabbage Festival Parade kicked off Saturday morning to start the beginning of the annual festival in the park. Thousands lined Bridge Street this morning at 10 a.m. with the traditional parade, but  not so traditionally going in a reverse direction from decades of parades of the past.

This year featured among the usual politicians, elected officials, and floats, trucks, and swamp buggies from area businesses and organizations, the Budweiser 8-hitch team of Clydesdale horses.

Two days of food vending and musical acts continue this afternoon and Sunday in Barron Park along the banks of the Caloosahatchee River on Bridge Street in LaBelle.

Schedule of Events 

Saturday, February 24th
Mickey Foster – MC of Entertainment
6:00–7:15 am – Registration for Caloosa Humane Society’s 5K Swamp Stomp
7:30 am - Caloosa Humane Society's 5K Swamp Stomp 
8:00 am – Barron Park Opens for Vendors
9:00 am – Park opens to visitors
10:00 am – Parade starts
8:30 am – River Cruise Heritage Museum, Barron Park Riverfront
11:00 am – River Cruise Heritage Museum, Barron Park Riverfront
11:30 am – Opening Prayer & National Anthem
11:45 am – Grand Marshal, Pioneer Family Intro
12:00 pm – Showtime Cloggers
12:30 pm – Roger Jokela
1:15 pm –2018 Queen & Princess Intro / Performances & Parade Awards
1:30 pm – Unforgiven Band
1:30 pm – River Cruise Heritage Museum, Barron Park Riverfront
2:15 pm – Neon Summer
3:00 pm– Joe Mobley
3:30 pm – Chris MacArthur and the Florida Cracker Boys
4:00 pm – River Cruise Heritage Museum, Barron Park Riverfront
4:15 pm – Country Rhythm Cloggers
5:00 pm – Darryl Worley
Park Entertainment ends 6:30 pm
7-10:30 pm – Hendry County Cattlemen’s Rodeo-Rodeo Grounds
9:00 pm-1:00 a.m. – Cattlewomen’s Dance – LaBelle Civic Center

Sunday, February 25th8:30 am – River Cruise Heritage Museum, Barron Park Riverfront
9:00 am – Park opens to visitors
10:00 am – Press On
10:30 am – Roger Jokela
11:00 am – River Cruise Heritage Museum, Barron Park Riverfront
11:15 am – 2018 Queen and Princess Intro & Performances
11:30 am – Ayla Lynn
12:15 pm – Sugar Lime Blue
1:00 pm – Hendry County Cattlemen’s Youth Rodeo
Hendry County Rodeo Grounds
1:00 pm – The Dance Company
1:30 pm – River Cruise Heritage Museum, Barron Park Riverfront
2:00 pm – 64 to Grayson Gospel Band
2:45 pm – Athletic Ambitions
3:15 pm – Tru Country Band
4:00 pm – River Cruise Heritage Museum, Barron Park Riverfront