This guide runs the Grand Strand's event calendar through the films that captured each date from inside the crowd.

The Beach Boys, Jelly Roll CCMF 10 Carolina Country Music Fest with Retro Myrtle Beach Guy 2025

Retro Myrtle Beach Guy

The Retro Myrtle Beach Guy finally gets inside Carolina Country Music Fest for its 10th edition, wristband borrowed and camera in hand. The film walks the downtown oceanfront grounds — Main Street USA, Myrtle Beach — through the crowds and the stages, and catches the Beach Boys' set on a weekend he calls a lifelong dream fulfilled.

Key takeaways
  • ["Filmed inside CCMF's 10th edition on the oceanfront downtown site","The Beach Boys performed at the anniversary festival","Grounds spill across the old Pavilion area of downtown Myrtle Beach"]

Bike Week 2026 Suck Bang Blow a beginners guide to Bike Week with Retro Myrtle Beach Guy

Retro Myrtle Beach Guy

The Retro Myrtle Beach Guy's beginner-friendly guide to Myrtle Beach Bike Week, filmed at Suck Bang Blow in Murrells Inlet — 'Bike Week headquarters' — during the spring rally on Mother's Day weekend. The film explains how the rally works for first-timers, from the Omar Shrine Bronco raffle to the parade, and why Bike Week ranks among the biggest events of the Myrtle Beach year.

Key takeaways
  • ["The spring rally centers on Murrells Inlet bars like Suck Bang Blow","Spring Bike Week runs over Mother's Day weekend in the film","The Omar Shrine raffles a Ford Bronco, winner announced on parade day","Framed as a first-timer's guide to the rally"]

Conway Riverfest 2026 near Myrtle Beach – Festival and Town Walking Tour

Beachin with the Boones

Beachin' with the Boones attends Conway's Riverfest, a festival the hosts note has run for 43 years as the town's kickoff to the Fourth of July. The film works the vendor rows — local makers, farm produce, food stalls — along the Waccamaw riverfront in downtown Conway on a hot summer Saturday.

Key takeaways
  • ["Riverfest has run for more than four decades in Conway","It is billed as the kickoff to the town's Fourth of July celebrations","Local vendors, farm goods and food line the riverfront"]

Spring and summer

Bike Week's beginner guide explains the spring rally from its Murrells Inlet headquarters. The Blue Crab Festival fills Little River's waterfront for two days each May — the Boones budget $50 each and total the day. Conway's Riverfest, running more than four decades, kicks off Fourth of July week on the Waccamaw riverfront. CCMF's 10th edition gets the inside film: the Beach Boys' set on the oceanfront grounds of the old Pavilion site.

The ballpark

A Pelicans game, per the team's president, is 'a four-hour show interrupted by 18 segments of baseball' — Slider the bat dog included, on a field where Heyward and Freeman started. Their currency, his closing line: 'paid in smiles.'

Nights of a Thousand Candles at Brookgreen Gardens 2020! A must see!

Travel with NJ Steve & Sue!

Travel with NJ Steve & Sue at Nights of a Thousand Candles 2020 — Brookgreen's December signature, when the sculpture gardens glow with hand-lit candles and the reflecting pools double every light. Their practical notes: tickets are bought online in advance, the event runs through December, and the drive is about 30 minutes south of Myrtle Beach on US-17.

Key takeaways
  • Nights of a Thousand Candles runs December evenings
  • Tickets are sold online in advance — it is a ticketed event
  • About 30 minutes south of Myrtle Beach via US-17

Myrtle Beach Pelicans: Why a Pelicans Game Is More Than Baseball | Myrtle Moments

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

Team president Ryan Moore makes the Pelicans' pitch in this Myrtle Moments interview, sitting in section 212: most people at a Pelicans game don't think of themselves as baseball fans, and that's the point — the front office jokes a game is a four-hour show interrupted by 18 segments of baseball. He talks Slider the bat dog, the roar he can hear from his office below the stands, the renovated ballpark's new things to see, and watching Jason Heyward and Freddie Freeman start their careers on this field. His closing line is the franchise in one sentence: 'Our currency is paid in smiles.'

Key takeaways
  • Team president Ryan Moore, interviewed in the stands at Pelicans Ballpark
  • The front-office joke: a four-hour show interrupted by 18 segments of baseball
  • Slider the bat dog is part of the act; Heyward and Freeman played here on their way up

The World-Famous Blue Crab Festival in Little River near Myrtle Beach

Beachin with the Boones

Beachin' with the Boones attends the 44th annual World Famous Blue Crab Festival in Little River, a two-day May festival that draws 20,000 to 30,000 people to the waterfront. Armed with $50 each, the hosts work the food vendors and crab dishes, the arts and crafts rows and the live music, and total up what a festival day costs.

Key takeaways
  • ["The Blue Crab Festival is a two-day May event in Little River","It draws an estimated 20,000-30,000 attendees a year","Admission was $5 a person in the film; food and vendors fill the waterfront"]

Fall and December

Georgetown's Wooden Boat Show previews its 37th edition on Front Street. Witches' Night turns the MarshWalk into an October charity costume party filmed from inside the crowd. And Nights of a Thousand Candles closes the year: Brookgreen's sculpture gardens under hand-lit candles, tickets online in advance, about 30 minutes south on US-17.

Sources: the 8 videos on this page.

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37th Annual Wooden Boat Show in Georgetown, SC | 2026

Mount Pleasant Magazine

Georgetown, the podcast previews the 37th annual Georgetown Wooden Boat Show with Hope McFaden, executive director of the South Carolina Maritime Museum on Front Street. The episode covers the museum — in its downtown building since 2011, by the Sampit River — and the October weekend when wooden boats take over the waterfront.

Key takeaways
  • ["The South Carolina Maritime Museum is on Front Street by the Sampit River","The museum has occupied its downtown building since 2011","The Wooden Boat Show is the museum's signature October event"]

Grand Strand Witches' Night- Near Myrtle Beach, SC! - Witches Walk Murrells Inlet Marsh Walk 2026

Beachin with the Boones

The Boones in costume for Witches' Night on the MarshWalk — the Grand Strand Witches Night Out, when hundreds of witches descend on Murrells Inlet's boardwalk for a charity night of live music, dancing and restaurant-hopping in full regalia. Windy, 60 degrees, and packed: the film is the event from inside the crowd.

Key takeaways
  • Witches' Night: an annual October charity costume night on the MarshWalk
  • Live bands at the restaurants, crowds in full witch dress
  • Filmed from inside the event, not from the sidelines

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