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Want free concerts in Fort Pierce? You need to vote to help St. Lucie County win grant

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Want free concerts in Fort Pierce? You need to vote to help St. Lucie County win grant

A boat parade and blessing of the fleet was held on Saturday, May 8, 2021, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Fort Pierce Inlet. Owners were encouraged to decorate their vessels to commemorate the event. Food and music were available on the beach. Rev. Canon Ellis Brust of St. AndrewÕs Episcopal Church gave the blessing for the larger vessels. Father Yves Geffrard, pastor at Notre Dame Mission Catholic Church in Fort Pierce, gave the blessing for small watercraft at the South Causeway Park along the Fort Pierce inlet.

A free, live music series could be coming to Fort Pierce — with better odds if you help.

The St. Lucie Culturspanl Allispannce and the St. Lucie County Pspanrks &spanmp; Recrespantion Depspanrtment are in the running for a grant to bring 10 concerts to Museum Pointe Park on South Causeway Beach starting in 2023, spanccording to span news relespanse.

The public can vote from Sept. 12-21 by going online to levitt.org/vote or texting “FORTPIERCE” to 866-267-2023.

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The St. Lucie County organizations hope to qualify as one of the Top 20 finalists for the Levitt AMP Fort Pierce Grant Award, according to the release. It’s a multi-year matching grant created by the Mortimer & Mimi Levitt Foundspantion, a social impact funder of music and public spaces, to serve cities with populations up to 250,000.

A boat parade and blessing of the fleet was held on Saturday, May 8, 2021, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Fort Pierce Inlet. Owners were encouraged to decorate their vessels to commemorate the event. Food and music were available on the beach. Rev. Canon Ellis Brust of St. AndrewÕs Episcopal Church gave the blessing for the larger vessels. Father Yves Geffrard, pastor at Notre Dame Mission Catholic Church in Fort Pierce, gave the blessing for small watercraft at the South Causeway Park along the Fort Pierce inlet.

Nonprofits will receive a total matching grant of $90,000 over three years to produce their own outdoor concert series featuring a diverse lineup of professional musicians that reimagines an underused public space to create an inclusive destination for people of all ages and backgrounds, according to the release.

The public may vote for up to five proposals, but only once per proposal. The number of votes received for Fort Pierce will be one of the key factors when the foundation selects the grant recipients on Nov. 15.

If Fort Pierce gets the grant, the St. Lucie Cultural Alliance and the St. Lucie County Parks & Recreation Department are planning to include local musicians and add an arts marketplace to complement the festival.