FAIRHOPE, Ala. — Earth Day Mobile Bay organizers are hoping to give festival goers something new and something familiar at Saturday’s annual event at the Fairhope Municipal Pier.

Event organizers are expecting thousands to come between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. to attend the state’s largest Earth Day festival, which will have live music, an Environmental Film Festival, art, educational activities, a “Blessing of the Animals,” and other family friendly activities.

“This is always a very special event in the spring,” Earth Day Mobile Bay spokesperson Carol Adams-Davis said. “Every year we have a new focus on an environmental issue, but we always have the goal of making life better through environmental stewardship. We want to help improve the standard of living here through a positive and sustainable way of life.”

This year’s event will observe the four-year anniversary of the BP oil disaster and will feature many of the organizations involved in the healthy and sustainable recovery on the Gulf Coast. The festival also features the Environmental Film Festival, with documentary films being shown throughout the day.

Live music will be performed by Rogerwood, Sassafrass, Hurricane Warning and the Ryan Balthrop Band and several hybrid and electric vehicles will be on display.

The city will also sponsor free onsite electronic recycling for old televisions, computers and cell phones.

Fairhope is the perfect place for the event because of the city’s environmental efforts, she said.

“Fairhope is one of the ‘greenest’ cities in the country, and definitely in the state,” she said. “It is a very unique city. I think it is appropriate to have it here because of the efforts the city makes to be good stewards of the environment.”

The event will feature more than 70 exhibitors this year with the 4-H Raptors and Reptiles exhibit, rescue dogs, an animal demonstration from 5 Rivers Delta Resource Center and a touch tank from the Dauphin Island Sea Lab.

A free shuttle bus will run throughout the day from the Big Lots parking lot on Greeno Road to the pier.