Name: Music and A Movie: Wharf Film Festival
Start: 2024-07-30T18:00:00-04:00
Location: Museum of the Albemarle

Join us at Mariners' Wharf on Tuesday, July 30th, starting at 6 pm, as we collaborate with Elizabeth City Downtown, Inc.’s Mariners' Wharf Film Festival 2024 at 200 South Water Street, Elizabeth City to highlight the museum’s newest exhibit Where the Waves Break: Surfing in Northeastern North Carolina.
Bring a chair or blanket and have dinner in one of the downtown restaurants or pubs or bring a picnic to the park to enjoy the evening of music and a movie. Starting at 6 p.m., enjoy live music provided by Lucky 757 of Portsmouth, Virginia. Take a trip back to the days of hot rods, drive-ins, sock hops, poodle skirts and pompadours with Lucky 757. You’ll be dancing and singing along to all the hits you know and love by Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, Bobby Darin, Sam Cooke, Dion, The Drifters, Smokey Robinson, The Surfaris and so many more! At 8:30 p.m. guests can enjoy the 60th anniversary of the classic surfing movie The Endless Summer. This Bruce Brown documentary highlights the adventures of two young American surfers, Robert August and Mike Hynson, who follow this everlasting summer around the world. Their unique expedition takes them to Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti, Hawaii, and California. Share their experiences as they search the world for that perfect wave which may be forming over the next horizon. MPAA rating: NR: run time: 95 minutes (1 hour, 35 minutes).
Weather in the form of wind and/or rain may affect the live music and movie screening at Mariners’ Wharf. MOA, ECDI and RCE Theaters may make last minute move to the portico of Museum of the Albemarle at 501 South Water Street, Elizabeth City, NC.
The event is made possible through Museum of the Albemarle, Friends of the Museum of the Albemarle, Inc., Elizabeth City Downtown, Inc., RCE Theaters, and GSN Global Surf Network.