Bucky Montgomery

Bucky is celebrating his 23th year in Key West. He hosts and produces events all over Key West, including the Sister Season Fund’s Survivors Party and the weekly Vibrator Races for charity at Mary Ellen’s Bar, which has raised over $250,000 so far for local charities and locals in need. He runs the Key West TODAY Facebook events page with 67,000 followers, writes two columns a week for the Florida Weekly, and broadcasts daily on 104.9 the X Key West from his Fleming Street studio. He produces the Best of Key West CDs (three volumes so far) featuring the island’s best singer/songwriters, and is the author of the Amazon bestseller Key West TODAY: The Very Best 153 Things You MUST Do. His latest novel, Animal Kingdom Come: The Extinction Virus, a science thriller, will be published by the end of the year. He runs the Freshwater Conch Gala and Celebration each year during the Conch Republic Independence Celebration, hosts Key West’s best Kentucky Derby party each year at Aqua with Kimbal Ingram, and is also the 2017 Duke of Fantasy Fest.