80th Annual Strawberry Festival, Plant City, Florida
PLANT CITY – This year marks the 80th Anniversary of the Florida Strawberry Festival in Plantcity,FL, where you can get strawberries just about any way imaginable. Along with the 11 day festival comes a wide variety of entertainment like Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest, Midway rides and Live Music.
American Idol’s season 10 Winner , Scotty McCreery took the stage Friday night and sang hit song like “I Love You This 
Big” and “The Trouble With Girls”. A highlight is when he got off stage during “Write My Number On Your Hand” and actually wrote his phone number on the hands of his fans.
Sunday was a fun filled Music day with “Don’t Ya” artist Brett Eldredge rockin’ the stage in the afternoon. With a pumped crowd ready for some fun Brett Eldredge certainly delivered a high-energy performance, singing “One Mississippi” and “On and On”. The evening kept getting better with 5-time Grammy Nominated artist Hunter Hayes’ performance. With a guitar change just about every song the crowd went wild when he played one hit after another. The “Wanted” artist didn’t waste anytime jumping around on stage and singing his hit songs: “Storm Warning”, “I Want Crazy”, and “Somebody’s Heartbeak”. Be sure to catch Hunter Hayes this summer during Lady Antebellum’s Wheels Up Tour.
The Florida Strawberry Festival runs through March 8th with more musical performances by Boyz II Men, John Legend and REBA. Check out www.flstrawberryfestival.com for more information.
Article and Photos by: Rachel Sykes
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