Rum Runners Opening July 1st

Rum Runners USA announces it’s newest location at The Wharf in Orange Beach, Alabama will open the first week in July.

“We are very excited to be adding this new store to our growing family of locations that feature Great Food, Great Music and Great Fun for customers of all ages,” said James Auerbach, Vice President of Rum Runners USA. “With the new Conference Center opening on The Wharf property and the rapidly growing area, we are confident that the new Rum Runners store will be extremely successful,” Auerbach said.

The new location is scheduled to open on July 1, 2009. Including the new location in Orange Beach, Rum Runners USA will have 6 nationwide locations in five states open (NC, FL, MI, IN, AL). The new location in Orange Beach will further strengthen the Rum Runners brand name throughout the Southeast region. Auerbach attributes the growth to the fact that interest in the company and concept has never been higher.

“One of the key components to all of our locations is the customer interaction in the nightly live entertainment and musical show. This adds to the high levels of “fun” experienced by all,” Michael Scozzafave, Rum Runners founder added. “Especially in our current economic times we feel that it is very important that our customers enjoy a wide variety of delicious food and live entertainment all at a comfortable price point,” Scozzafave said.

About Rum Runners:
The Rum Runners theme consists of a Caribbean style with palm trees, thatched roof tiki huts, island style shacks, full wall tropical murals, lush foliage, and award winning lunch, dinner, and late night menus. The facilities are designed to take customers on a trip to a far away place where the sand is as white as the snow, the water is as blue as the sky and the sun is always shinning. The goal is to provide the customers with a "close to home" get away that proves to be a guaranteed good time. Basically - the ULTIMATE destination entertainment night spot!

The great food, interactive entertainment and world famous dueling pianos, and unmatched atmosphere are the main attractions at Rum Runners. The dueling piano concept consists of two entertainers playing baby grand pianos simultaneously. They play a variety of hit songs from the 60's, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and through today. The show focuses heavily on audience participation. It is very common to hear the crowd singing the chorus of a song while the entertainers lead them on. The staff (known as "The Staff That Rocks") performs with the entertainers live on stage once per hour in what is called SHOWTIME! This is audience interaction at its finest where the staff leads the guests in song and dance routines. The wide variety of music, audience participation, high energy level, and sheer FUN make Rum Runners the place to be with family and friends! Typically open 5-7 days a week, Rum Runners regularly attracts between 300-600+ people per day and always promotes its motto of Great Food, Great Music, Great Fun!

Rum Runners is based corporately in Raleigh, NC. All media inquiries should be directed to James Auerbach, Vice President at (919) 844-5959, ext 102 or via email at jauerbach@rumrunnersusa.com .
Company website: http://www.rumrunnersusa.com

Summer Solstice Concerts at The Wharf

Check out this article in the Mullet Wrapper about our Summer Solstice Concerts this weekend, June 18 with STYX/ REO SPEEDWAGON with 38 SPECIAL and June 19th with STEELY DAN!

http://mulletwrapper.com/article.cfm?ID=1115

WHARF WELCOMES STUDENT LIFE

STUDENT LIFE BRINGS THOUSANDS OF TEENS TO THE WHARF

The Wharf welcomes the Student Life 2009 Summer Mission Camp to Orange Beach. Student Life, Inc., a national organization of Christian youth, is holding its 2009 Summer Mission Camp for the first time ever at The Wharf Orange Beach, Alabama.


Students are registered for nine separate Summer Mission Camp sessions during the months of June and July. A total of approximately 2000 Christian youths, from ages 13 to 18, have registered for this exciting event at The Wharf. The largest meeting facility on the Alabama Gulf Coast -- the new Conference Center at The Wharf, will serve as "base camp" for Student Life groups, with spacious accommodation for meetings, Bible study sessions, and climate-controlled space for indoor activities and games. The Wharf community hopes the Student Life members will return home with great memories of fun experiences during their Summer Mission Camp at Orange Beach, Alabama.

The Conference Center's 27,000 square feet of interior space houses meeting room areas, a Green Room, and state-of-the-art audio and visual technology available for hosting a wide variety of exhibits and functions, including association and group meetings, trade shows, special events, weddings, and sporting events. The exhibition hall is comprised of 18,600 square feet of floor space, accommodating more than 2,000 guests for reception or theater style seating and more than 1,500 for banquet style seating.

Professional groups and organized clubs are drawn to the Alabama Gulf Coast for its beautiful beaches and area attractions that offer, not only recreational options for members during conference downtime, but a relaxing, scenic environment and pleasant, tropical climate.

For more information on group events and meetings at The Wharf, contact Leigh Roberts at (908) 625-0563 or email LRoberts@ShowtimeEvents.net.

Three Dog Night and America This Weekend!

Tickets are only $10, and children 13 and under get in FREE for the Three Dog Night and America concert this Sunday night, May 24th at The Amphitheater at The Wharf! Don't miss this great show this weekend! It will be fun for the entire family, and a great way to kick off the summer season!

Get your tickets now through ticketmaster.com, charge by phone at 1-800-745-3000, The Ferris Wheel Booth at The Wharf, The Marina Dock Store or The Amphitheater Box Office.

The Fishing Corner with Captain Robby Walker

May is a great time to be inshore fishing in Orange Beach. The warmer water conditions and lack of heavy rain have really helped the speckled trout fishing. We have been catching plenty of big trout the last couple of weeks along with some really nice flounder. The flounder are making their way back in the bays from the Gulf, and we’ve been catching most of the flounder on small mullet and bull minnows.

May is one of the best times to get the kids out fishing. Other than the trout and flounder, we are catching several different species that are fun and easy for kids to catch. The bluefish, Spanish mackerel, ladyfish, and mangrove snapper are showing up around the pass and will be around most of the summer. For the fly fisherman out there, we have caught several large trout on fly this past week including a 28 inch fish that weighed 7 pounds! There are lots of great opportunities for fish on fly, from redfish, and trout to bonitos and jack crevelle. As we get near the end of May the shark fishing will getting hot. And we target black tips, spinners, bull sharks, and hammerheads just to name a few.

Come book a trip with us today 251-233-3017

311 CONCERT - FRIDAY - $20 TICKETS!

311 with Hinder at Theory of a Deadman
Friday, May 8th at 7:30 pm
Click above to buy tickets NOW!

With 8.3 million units sold in the U.S. and 5 albums to reach the Top 10 on Billboard’s Top 200 Sales Chart, 311 will bring their unique sound, mixing rock, reggae & hip-hop, and balance of hard rocking songs and melodic gems to The Amphitheater at The Wharf on Friday May 8th as part of the Pepsi Star series.

After years of consistent touring, 311 has developed a reputation as one of the most influential and most entertaining live bands in the U.S. 311 has had 7 singles reach the Top 10 on Billboard’s Modern Rock Chart including the #1 singles “Down,” “Love Song” & “Don’t Tread On Me” along with “Amber,” “All Mixed Up,” “Come Original” and “Creatures For A While.”

Joining 311 on the stage Friday night is two wildly popular bands, Hinder and Theory of a Dead Man. Hinder, who combines raw riffs with big hooks and vocal harmonies and claim a triple platinum debut album Extreme Behavior. Theory of a Dead Man’s “Bad Girlfriend” is still climbing the rock and top 100 charts in the US and Canada, and their new single “Hate My Life” has showed tremendous popularity.

Tickets for this concert are on sale now online at Ticketmaster.com, charge by phone at 1-800-745-3000, or at The Amphitheater Box Office Monday through Friday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. or at The Dock Store at The Marina. Tickets purchased at The Wharf outlets will incur no Ticketmaster fees.

Summer Solstice at The Wharf

The Wharf announces the lineup for its 2nd Annual Summer Solstice Festival with performances from REO Speedwagon, STYX, 38 Special and Steely Dan all in one weekend. To kick off this year’s Summer Solstice Festival, the CAN’T STOP ROCKIN’ 2009 Tour, featuring REO Speedwagon, STYX and 38 Special, will perform at The Amphitheater at The Wharf on Thursday, June 18th as part of the Pepsi Star Series.

Since REO Speedwagon’s first record release in 1971, the band has produced 17 critically acclaimed albums including the monumental 10 million album seller, Hi Infidelity, and scored 13 Top 40 singles, including Number One hits “Can’t Fight This Feeling,” “Keep On Loving You,” and “Time For Me To Fly,” and timeless classics "Roll With The Changes", "Ridin' The Storm Out", "Take It On The Run", "Don't Let Him Go" and "Keep Pushin." The band’s latest album, Find Your Own Way Home, features the radio favorites “Needed To Fall” and “Smilin’ In The End.” REO Speedwagon has sold more than 40 million albums to date.

STYX continues be at the top of its game with two Super-Bowl appearances, Pollstar Box Office chart-topping tours, two recent studio albums and no end in sight. Every STYX album release throughout the late '70s earned at least platinum certification (1976's Crystal Ball, 1977's The Grand Illusion, 1978's Pieces of Eight, and 1979's Cornerstone), and spawned such hit singles and classic rock radio standards as "Renegade," "Blue Collar Man" and "Fooling Yourself.” Paradise Theater became Styx's biggest hit album of its career, selling over three million copies in a three-year period and marked the first time in history that a band released four consecutive triple-platinum albums. Big hit singles such as "Too Much Time on My Hands" placed them in the top rock acts in the U.S.

38 Special built its reputation with its brand of Southern boogie and blues-rock before transforming into a more arena-rock-friendly style, selling millions of albums and bringing in new fans worldwide. Since 1975, the band has released more than 15 albums, almost all of which reached gold or platinum status. Among 38 Special's best-known songs are "Hold on Loosely," "Caught Up in You", "Second Chance", and "Rockin' into the Night". Tickets for this concert are on sale now for $69.50, 59.50, 39.50 or 20.00.

The Summer Solstice Festival continues the following night as Steely Dan performs at The Amphitheater at The Wharf on Friday, June 19th. Selling more than 30 million albums worldwide, Steely Dan helped define the soundtrack of the '70s with hits including “F.M.,” “Bodhisattva,” “Reelin’ in the Years,” “Rikki Don't Lose That Number,” “Deacon Blues,” “Peg,” “Babylon Sisters,” and “Hey Nineteen,” from their seven platinum albums issued between 1972 and 1980. They On tour since reuniting in the early '90s, they have released multi-Grammy winner Two Against Nature in 2000 and acclaimed follow-up Everything Must Go in 2003. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001.
Tickets to see Steely Dan live in concert at The Amphitheater at The Wharf are on sale now for $94.00, 73.00, 52.00, or 32.00.

Tickets for the Summer Solstice concerts are available online through Ticketmaster.com, charge by phone at 1-800-745-3000, or at The Amphitheater Box Office Monday through Friday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., or at The Dock Store at The Marina. Tickets purchased at The Wharf outlets will incur no Ticketmaster fees.

Concert vacation packages for this weekend are also available. Concert goers who book a 3 night, 4 day stay at a condominium in Levin’s Bend Condominium at The Wharf, will receive 2 free tickets to Styx and REO Speedwagon and Steely Dan (two tickets per unit). To learn more about this special package, interested parties should contact a reservation specialist by calling 251-224-1500.