Kick-off parties Nov. 6 at Perdido Sports Bar & ‘Bama

Kick-off parties Nov. 6 at Perdido Sports Bar & ‘Bama

The Frank Brown Songwriters Festival kick-off party will be held Nov. 6 from 5 – 9 p.m. at the Perdido Sports Bar (the first hour will be dedicated to the late Rock Killough) on Perdido Key. The party will continue with a Dallas Moore hosted kick-off beginning at 10:15 p.m. in Flora-Bama’s Main Room
The FBISF kick-off was originally billed as a local songwriters appreciation night and was brought to the fest in the early 1990’s by then Characters owner Elaine Webster. Gale & Larry Book, songwriters themselves, continued the tradition when they bought and re-named the bistro Characters Songwriters Cafe in 1999. Characters, like most of Perdido Key, washed away during Hurricane Ivan in September of 2004.