Fortune telling is addition to fun at Fall Back Festival on Saturday

Make plans to spend an evening under the stars sampling wine, tasting samples of Port Aransas cuisine, snapping your fingers to blues and guessing who's behind the mask.

The occasion is the Fall Back and Ain't Nothin' But the Blues Music Festival. It's happening Saturday, Nov. 3, at the Port A USA Center anchored by Pelican's Landing restaurant.

The festival, from 7 to 10 p.m., is a celebration of the end of Daylight Saving Time and a benefit for the Port Aransas Community Theater (PACT).

Admission is $30 at the door. Tickets also are on sale at the Gratitude Gift Shop, 316 N. Station St. next to the Crazy Cajun restaurant.

A new feature of the festival will be a fortune telling booth with Madame Lu reading palms or looking into her crystal ball for $2 a reading.

The centerpiece of the celebration is a wine-tasting, as well as the sampling of food from various Port Aransas restaurants, blues concert, a Chinese auction and a costume contest.

Although Halloween will be history the night of the festival because of the extension of Daylight Saving Time, the tradition of the costume contest will go on.

Fun lovers are encouraged to "dust off your costumes or put on your thinking caps and create new personas" for the contest.

The auction features gift certifi- cates, merchandise and services from various Port Aransas businesses. Tickets are $1 each.

Dicky Neely, a musician whose blues career spans 30 years in the Coastal Bend, orchestrates the Ain't Nothin' But the Blues portion of the evening.

Headlining the entertainment will be Dawn and Rich Segura of Austin's Sweet Potato Pie. Rich Segura is a guitarist and Dawn Segura is a vocalist.

The Dicky Neely Blues Band, with Neely on harmonica, Fred Jarmon, Antone Perez and Franz Schlievert, will open the show.

Participating restaurants will be Hooks, Trout Street Bar and Grill, Port A Pizzeria, La Playa Mexican Grill, Castaways, Venetian Hot Plate, Fins Grill and Ice House, Island Café and Smokehouse, Family Center IGA and Deli, Wharf Restaurant, Zama's Dangerous Kitchen, Pelican's Landing Restaurant and Quiznos. Tacqueria San Juan is unable to participate this year as far as offering food, but has lent monetary support to the event and promises to return next year.

A $50 prize will go to the restaurant with the best-decorated table.

Distributors providing wine for the tasting will be Glazer's Liquor and Wine Distributors and Republic Beverage Company, Inc.