It’s easy to find something fun to do on your spring getaway to Florida’s Space Coast. This season you’ll find exhilarating boat races and surf competitions on the beach; food, craft, and music festivals in our parks and historic districts; races and other sporting events in our world-class complexes, and of course an air show you won’t soon forget. It’s a wonderful time to travel to the Space Coast, find your favorite event, and book your spring getaway today!
Major Events
Floridans look forward to these major events every year. Be a part of an annual tradition and check out some of the Spring events that define the Space Coast experience.
Cocoa Beach Air Show
April 15-16 / Time Start: 9 am
Lori Wilson Park | Cocoa Beach
You can’t say spring on the Space Coast without an epic air show. This year the action takes place at Lori Wilson Park in beautiful Cocoa Beach. In 2023, the Air Force Thunderbirds, Douglas C-47 Tico Bell, and the aerial acrobatics of Mike Bell will have you on the edge of your beach chair!
Food and Beverage Festivals on the Space Coast
Cocoa Village Brewer’s Bash
Feb 4 – 1 pm – 5 pm
Cocoa Riverfront Park | Cocoa Village
The Cocoa Village Brewer’s Bash®️ overlooks the beautiful Indian River in Cocoa Village and has invited 65+ breweries for you to enjoy this year. As always this is a family and pet-friendly open event with 6 food trucks offering a variety of delicious cuisine. Tickets are $50 and get you unlimited tastings of local beer & cider along with a commemorative sample glass to drink them out of.
321 Food Fest
Feb 11 & 12 12- 8 & 11 – 6 pm
Wickham Park | Melbourne
Loosen those belts for the 321 Food Fest! $7 single-day entry & $10 for the whole weekend/ Kids 10 & Younger get FREE ENTRY! Enjoy Brevard County’s largest Food Festival and the opportunity to sample a vast variety of all the best from the Space Coast in one place! At this Family-Friendly event, you’ll find local restaurants, bakeries, food trucks, and other eateries serving a Tasting Menu with items priced at only $1-$5. Taste your way through a sampling of all the best eateries up and down the Space Coast!
Grant Seafood Festival
March 4 – 5
Grant-Valkryia Fairgrounds | 4580 1st Street, Grant, FL 32949
Fresh seafood is what the Grant Seafood Festival is all about! Enjoy fresh seafood around every corner! Each food booth you’ll belly up to is unique and steeped in tradition; many have several generations working side by side using time-honored recipes. Free admission, free parking, over 125 crafters exhibiting, live continuous entertainment, along with a vast menu of delicious seafood makes this a weekend no one wants to miss!
Grant BBQ Festival
April 14 – 16
Grant-Valkryia Fairgrounds | 4580 1st Street, Grant, FL 32949
Experience the best Brevard barbeque scene as backyard teams compete with top-rated pitmasters! Come for the Barbeque competition and stay for the live entertainment, marketplace, and classic car show!
FRIDAY, April 14 from 3:00 PM to 8:00 PM
SATURDAY, April 15, from 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM
SUNDAY, April 16, from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
• Live Entertainment — All 3 Days!
• Market Place with Arts. Crafts and Local Vendors
• People’s Choice Contest
• Classic Car and Motorcycle Show
• Free Admission — Free Parking
Sporting Events on the Space Coast
Florida Marathon
February 11 – 12
Front Street Park | Melbourne
The Florida Marathon includes up to 20 musical acts along the course of the half and full marathon and half a dozen on the routes of the 5k. It is a walker and headphones-friendly event with a seven-hour time limit on the Marathon course. Half Marathoners have 5 hours to complete the event. A very scenic route awaits and includes four bridge crossings for the full and two for the half-marathon. The course twice takes marathoners to the beach side barrier island and back to the mainland before concluding at the riverfront Front Street Park in downtown Melbourne. Register Here.
Beach ‘N Boards Fest
March 8 – 12
Alan Shepard Park | Cocoa Beach
Ron Jon Beach ‘N Boards Fest is the nation’s premiere active lifestyle Spring Break destination since 2013. With almost every type of boarding sport under the sun, Cocoa Beach and the Ron Jon Beach ‘N Boards Fest will be the place to be March 8-12, 2023! Surfing, wakeboarding, skateboarding, paddle boarding, a Kayak, and SUP fishing tournament, Foil racing, incredible music and vendors, and OH so much more, this event is the ONLY way to start Spring Break on the Space Coast!
Arts and Cultural Events on the Space Coast
Black Box Blackout
February 1 – 26
Various Venues | Eau Gallie Arts District
Check this year’s schedule of events for this year’s lineup of concerts, comedy shows, live art, opera, film and so much more.
Black Box Blackout was born in 2022 to fulfill jazz singer Kristen Warren’s vision to impact her community. Warren, a native of Melbourne, Florida, desired to put forth a production that sheds light on the dynamic contribution of black creatives while giving back to the most vulnerable in her community. This year, Black Box Blackout will serve an audience of 900+, feature 85 black creatives, and raise a minimum of $1000 for The Children’s Hunger Project. At its inception, Black Box Blackout impacted over 300 visitors from within the Space Coast. It provided an opportunity to a total of 60 black artists to display their creative work. The events successfully increased diversity exposure in Melbourne, FL, while raising money to support Ways of Brevard.
Melbourne Art Festival
April 22-23, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Wickham Park | Melbourne
Melbourne Art Festival offers FREE admission, FREE parking, FREE children’s art projects, and FREE live entertainment throughout the weekend. The 38th Annual Melbourne Art Festival will be held among the trees and lakes at beautiful Wickham Park in Melbourne, FL April 22 & 23, 2023. The annual festival, which draws tens of thousands of art and music lovers, is a vibrant family-friendly event that promotes and encourages artistic endeavors, education, and appreciation of the arts in Brevard County.