Events

The Center offers a variety of events throughout the year. The Bradenton Gulf Island Concert series that has included Marshall Tucker Band, The Grass Roots, and more. A family favorite, Lester Family Fun Day, is a holiday-themed event featuring Santa, crafts, games and performances for all ages. The annual Murder Mystery play is always entertaining for the Center’s adult audience. The annual Tour of Homes provides an inside look into homes around the island, attracting many people on the island and from surrounding areas. The Center also offer member socials, which provide a chance for our community to get together for an evening of food and fun! Stay tuned for upcoming events, scheduling details and information!

Bradenton Gulf Island Concert Series

Scheduled concerts:

Dec. 11th: The Wailers (outside concert)
Jan. 22nd: Lou Gramm (outside concert)
Feb. 20th: Don Felder (outside concert)
Mar. 23rd: Richard Marx (inside concert)
Apr. 2nd: Felix Cavaliere’s Rascals (inside concert)

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The Center of Anna Maria Island is proud to bring back live music to The Center.
• Outside Concerts will require you to bring your own chair
• No outside food or drinks allowed
• The Sandbar Restaurant will have a cash bar on site
• No smoking or vaping on Center property
• Gates open at 6:00 – Show begins at 7:00
• The entrance is on located on 407 Magnolia Ave
• Printed Ticket or Ticket from app must be presented at gate
• Free valet parking available on Magnolia Ave by the main entrance of The Center
• Street parking is available. Must park going with the flow of traffic and with all wheels off the pavement

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Lester Family Fun Day

Lester Family Fun Day

Saturday, December 4th

10:30am-2pm

Join us at The Center for the 19th Annual Lester Family Fun Day, sponsored by Chuck and Joey Lester. This year will include entertainment from MHS Marching Band and DJ Freeze. Hamburgers from Duffy’s, Ice Cream from Small Town Creamy, and Hotdogs from Anna Maria Oyster bar will be a few of the food available. Santa will arrive at noon! There will be a Rock Climbing Wall, a Slide, Face Painting, Crafts, Pony Rides, and more! Entertainment and Santa will take place on Center fields! Tickets are only $0.25 per ticket! The Center is located at 407 Magnolia Ave in Anna Maria.

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The Wailers

December 11, 2021

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Not many bands can claim genuine legend status. The Wailers comfortably claim their place in essential music history. Their music was, and is, culture-defining: rebel hearts with brave souls embodying the spirit of 70s era-defining reggae.

The band play a special set featuring incredible cuts from Bob Marley’s formidable back catalogue along with a string of their greatest, classic hits. The Wailers are giving you a chance to be part of the legacy. Aston Barrett Jr, himself reggae royalty as son of the irrepressible ‘Familyman’, carries the flame for The Wailers in a show that is simply not to be missed.

In late 2020, The Wailers released their first single off the album, “One World, One Prayer”, a powerful piece focused on unity, love and inclusion beyond cultural differences. Produced and written by Emilio Estefan, “One World, One Prayer”, mixes Jamaican reggae with the sounds of the urban Latin genre. The track features international titan Farruko, Jamaican superstar Shaggy, and continues the legacy of Bob Marley alongside the great man’s daughter, Cedella Marley, and her son Skip Marley.

One World, the album that marks the Wailers’ return to the recording studios and the band’s first album for 25 years, was nominated for a 2021 Grammy® Award in the Best Reggae Album category.

The essence of 70s rebellion, the true spirit of reggae performed by the people who helped forge the era-defining sound and by those raised under their tutelage. Living Legends, Reggae Royalty carrying the flame – now you can be a part of the legacy. When The Wailers come calling, you listen.

The Center of Anna Maria Island is proud to bring back live music to The Center.

• Outside Concerts will require you to bring your own chair
• No outside food or drinks allowed
• The Sandbar Restaurant will have a cash bar on site
• No smoking or vaping on Center property
• Gates open at 6:00 – Show begins at 7:00
• The entrance is on located on 407 Magnolia Ave
• Printed Ticket or Ticket from app must be presented at gate
• Free valet parking available on Magnolia Ave by the main entrance of The Center
• Street parking is available. Must park going with the flow of traffic and with all wheels off the pavement

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Lou Gramm - The Voice of Foreigner

Lou Gramm

January 22, 2022

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Lou Gramm was the lead vocalist on all of Foreigner’s hit songs, including “Feels Like the First Time”, “Cold as Ice”, “Long, Long Way from Home”, “Hot Blooded”, “Double Vision”, “Blue Morning, Blue Day”, “Head Games”, “Dirty White Boy”, “Urgent”, “Juke Box Hero”, “Break It Up” and “Say You Will”.

He co-wrote most of the songs for the band, which achieved two of its biggest hits with the ballads “Waiting for a Girl Like You”, which spent ten weeks at #2 on the 1981-82 American Hot 100, and “I Want to Know What Love Is”, which was a #1 hit internationally (US & UK) in 1985. Their first 8 singles cracked the Billboard Top 20,(4 went Top 10) making them the first group since the Beatles to achieve this in 1980.

Gramm left Foreigner in 2003, and has been touring the U.S., Canada, and Mexico (as well as performing occasional dates off the continent) steadily since January 2004. As of 2013, Lou Gramm continues to tour with his band, performing many of his old Foreigner hits.

The Center of Anna Maria Island is proud to bring back live music to The Center.

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Murder Mystery

Save The Date: February 18th & 19th

For our 21+ audience, enjoy a night of food, fun, and who done it with The Center’s annual Murder Mystery.

Don Felder - Former Lead Guitarist For The Eagles

Don Felder

February 20, 2022

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Don Felder is a legendary singer-songwriter, a 1998 inductee into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with the Eagles, a New York Times best-selling author, and a true American rock and roll guitar hero. Felder spent 27 years with the Eagles who own the fine distinction of recording the top-selling album of all time – Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975) – which has sold over 38 million copies (and counting).

He co-wrote some of the band’s biggest hits, including “Hotel California” and “Victim of Love,” and became a New York Times Best Selling author with his autobiography Heaven and Hell: My Life in The Eagles (1974-2001) . His iconic double necked guitar was featured in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Play it Loud exhibit in May 2019 – the first major exhibition in an art museum dedicated entirely to the iconic instruments of rock and roll – and is currently on display in the Rock & Roll.

Hall of Fame’s exhibit of the same name. He was inaugurated into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville in 2016, and the Florida Artists Hall of Fame in 2017. His most recent solo album American Rock ‘N’ Roll (BMG) was released on April 5, 2019

The Center of Anna Maria Island is proud to bring back live music to The Center.

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Richard Marx

March 23, 2022

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Richard has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide, starting with his self-titled debut which went to No. 8 on the Billboard Top 200 chart. The album spawned four Top 5 singles, including “Hold on to the Nights” and “Don’t Mean Nothing,” which earned him a Grammy nomination for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance. His follow-up, 1989’s Repeat Offender, was even more successful, hitting No. 1 and going quadruple-platinum with two No. 1 singles, “Satisfied” and “Right Here Waiting.” He has sincemade history as the only male artist whose first seven singles reached the Top 5 on the Billboard charts.

Richard has also written on a No. 1 single in each of the last four decades, an accolade previously only reached by Michael Jackson. He has written with numerous artists, including “To Where You Are,” the first hit single from Josh Groban’s debut album, and the NSYNC smash, “This I Promise You.” He went on to earn a 2004 Song of the Year Grammy for co-authoring Luther Vandross’ “Dance with My Father.” Overall, he has scored 14 No. 1 singles (including Keith Urban’s No. 1 smash “Long Hot Summer”), both as a performer and as a songwriter/producer, revealing him a true multi-talented performer who continues to challenge himself and his fans.

The Center of Anna Maria Island is proud to bring back live music to The Center.

• Concert will be inside
• No outside food or drinks allowed
• The Sandbar Restaurant will have a cash bar on site
• No smoking or vaping on Center property
• Gates open at 6:00 – Show begins at 7:00
• The entrance is on located on 407 Magnolia Ave
• Printed Ticket or Ticket from app must be presented at gate
• Free valet parking available on Magnolia Ave by the main entrance of The Center
• Street parking is available. Must park going with the flow of traffic and with all wheels off the pavement

Presented by:

The Wailers

December 11, 2021

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Lou Gramm

January 22, 2022

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Don Felder

February 20, 2022

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Richard Marx

March 23, 2022

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