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    Treasure Island Drum Circle Info Directions & More
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    It's a huge open free style community drum circle right on the sandy white gulf coast beaches in St. Petersburg Florida. For some directions
    to get there, videos, photos, news articles, and history of this circle near St. Petersburg, please scroll down. Sometimes it is simply the
    most amazing experience ever, and other times it kinda sucks. Just keeping it real here. But that's part of the fun, you never know what's
    going to happen from week to week. It depends on who shows up, just like at most other open drum circles. Regardless of the musicality
    on a given week, it's always a good time to just be out there on the beach drumming and dancing to the sunset connected with nature.

    Bring a chair, towel, & fluids if you like, most everyone does. There are public restrooms near the parking lot. It's a family friendly
    drum circle, but adult beverages were allowed on weekends at this beach up until May 2011. (Apparently the city has just passed a new
    law prohibiting alcoholic beverages on the weekends at TI.) It will take a while until everyone realizes that the laws have changed.

    To get there if you have GPS, the circle is located right on the beach in front of a city public parking lot. Next to the lot is the
    Bilmar Beach Resort. The address is 10650 Gulf Blvd. Treasure Island, FL. 33706. A Yahoo map, and more specific directions are
    below. The city got around to installing parking meters in the public parking lot last year. So, no more free parkie.

    If you're visiting us, or in the area, be sure to check out this drum circle. It's pretty well known around here, & very popular. It's probably
    the biggest one around Pinellas County. There is sometimes over 100 drummers and dancers to have a good time with. Plus loads of
    beach going onlookers, & curious tourists. The latest information on the curfew is: Summer daylight savings the stop time is 10pm.
    In the winter it reverts back to the 9pm curfew. There are parking meters now. (Can't we lose this daylight savings time thing someday?)

    As far as places to eat, there are a number of good restaraunts nearby. The Bilmar Resort has a Sloppy Joe's beachside patio in it,
    (they has a great grouper sandwich by the way). Here's a little bit of history on how the drum circle began at Treasure Island:

    As the story goes, this 12 year old drum circle was started by Christine, & her friend Johanna, two local belly dancers. (Johanna once told
    me that it looks like her little child has grown up!) They invited a few friends out that first Sunday. Then the second week, they promoted
    it a little bit, spread the word around a little, hung a few fliers, it took off and grew up from there. That's how it got started. It has certainly
    had it's problems in the past, but somehow always managed to work through them. A few drummers had to go to city counsel meetings to
    try and save it in 2008. We owe them a big thank you. During that period, the drum circle got some pretty bad press, and nearly got
    shut down in. It was like a media feeding frenzy. Everything seems to be going fine now. Try Googling on it, and check it out.

    The fun starts several hours before sunset, and has to end at 10 PM. That, and the clean up of the tourist litter, was the compromise with
    the city that saved the drum circle from being shut down for good. It came very close. Anyway, Come on out and dance and drum!

    Directions from the north, or from the south to get the to Treasure Island Beach Drum Circle.

    From downtown St. Pete, go west on Central Avenue to the beach. (New info 2011 - no more Toll at the bridge.) When the road ends at Gulf Blvd.
    Turn left (south). It's a couple of blocks south of Central Avenue on Gulf Blvd. at 104th Ave. (You have to look for it because it comes up
    quick.) It's a small public parking lot on beach side across from Treasure Island Fun Center. It's crammed right in between two big hotels.
    You can park in the city parking lot, and walk about 50 yards out to the beach. It a bit of a hike with a heavy drum like a conga.
    You can hear them playing when you park, so just follow the beat.

    If you are coming from the northern part of the county, like Clearwater, you go south on Missouri Ave. which turns into Seminole Blvd.
    You continue south past Ulmerton to Park Blvd. Watch for the Beaches exit, and Go west, (right) towards the beach to Gulf Blvd.
    Then south (left) to the public parking lot at 104th Ave. It's 5 or 6 miles until you get to Treasure Island.

    For directions on a Yahoo map, current sunset time finder, videos, & etc. please scroll below the photos. Thanks to all who sent them!

    Want to hear a few drum circle jams while viewing? Just click on a track from the reverbnation player below.

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    These photos are from the Treasure Island Drum Circle. Just west of Tampa Florida. Every Sunday, 3-4 hours before Sunset.
    If it happens to rain most people split, but sometimes the drum circle moves to the pavillion at the park on 104th Avenue.
    It's across from The Fun Center. The location is Gulf Boulevard and 104th Avenue, Treasure Island. (Yahoo map below)

    Even though we have to pay to park now, the sunsets here are beautiful, and we almost always have a good time drumming.
    Especially when we are drumming with the dancers, hoopers, gadget spinners, and all the other fun stuff going on here.

    Here's a few short videos from the Treasure Island drum circle shortly before sundown. You can search YouTube for many more.

    Below is a Yahoo map showing the general location so you can find the drum circle a little easier.

    Map to the Treasure Island Drum Circle, FL

    If you want the actual time of the sunset, it's here at the U.S. Naval Observatory Astronomical Dept. site:

     Current Sunset Times

    A pretty nice news article about the Treasure Island drum circle by Sarah Lancaster - June 2009

     Treasure Island Drum Circle at examiner.com

    Here's a Googler to search for other Treasure Island drum circle articles, or videos. There's a bunch of them out there.

        Custom Search

    A bit more history on the drum circle location at Treasure island. As the story goes...

    Around 1986, the world's Largest Sandcastle "Atlantis" was built at Treasure Island drum circle spot, so this place has a bit of
    history behind it. This sand carving was a 50 foot high, 200 foot long sand sculpture was featured in National Geographic, and
    Smithsonian magazine. They still have month long displays of amazing sand carvings there now and then, near the bike trail
    by the hotel to the north. I saw one there last June that was incredible.

    Join the Treasure Island Drum Circle yahoo Group below, or just go to Yahoo groups, and enter Treasure Island Drum Circle.

      Click to join TreasureIslandDrumCircle

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