Who wants to wait for Memorial Day weekend to get into summer? Sure, when it rains, it pours, and Saturday, it poured. Unfazed, the Island drank with gratitude. The long-awaited rain fed the late spring blooms, and the long-awaited music poured out of Long Beach Island’s biggest venues in an unofficial pregame for summer – rain or shine.
Reggaefest brought a taste of the tropics to this little sandbar on Saturday, with local reggae-jam outfit Catchafish kicking off the festivity.
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