In the ”Underwater Music Festival,” a pre-selected radio playlist of ocean-themed songs are played from underwater speakers while divers and snorkelers enjoy the music. Aside from the Little Mermaid OST, songs including the Beatles’ “Octopus Garden,” Donovan’s “Atlantis,” and Jimmy Buffet’s “Fins.” Live bands are also invited to play on a barge as the audience lounge around in their boats in the West Coast’s only on-water music festival.
Created to arise awareness for coral preservation, the Underwater Music Festival invites beach-goers to enjoy the ethereal sound of music while being submerged underwater. Musician-divers and mermaids go into the underwater realm in full costume while playing whimsical instruments such as the “trom-bonefish,” “sea-phan flute” and a “Fluke-a-Lele.”
Past festival themes including an ”EEL-ection Antics” festival with “Barackuda Obama,” “Hillary Clin-Tuna” and “John McClam,” a Yellow Submarine reunion with “Paul McCarpney,” “Ringo Starfish,” “George Herring-son,” and “John Lemon-shark,” and a “Reef-ality Show” round-up with contestants and judges from ”Underwater Idol,” “Dancing with the Starfish” and “Subsea Survivor,” including judge “Simon Coral,” judge “J. Lo Tide” or previous “Survivor” winner “Richard Hatchery.”
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