Newry, ME – Following an unprecedented late season snowmaking push to ensure that there’s enough snow to last into April, Maine’s Sunday River Resort is in store for another cheeseburger in paradise as it presents its annual Parrothead Festival this weekend with Jimmy Buffet-inspired outdoor parties complete with margaritas, fun contests, pond skimming, and live entertainment—all for a good cause.

The 2012 Parrothead Festival has activities happening across the entire resort, spanning all three of the ski resort’s base lodges over the course of the weekend. A portion of proceeds from the weekend will be donated to the New England Organ Bank, in conjunction with the Parrot Head Club of the Northern Tropics.

The weekend will kick off Friday night with live music at the Foggy Goggle in South Ridge Base Lodge with Velorasorus as well as the reggae band Hammer Dub. Saturday at the White Cap base area includes live music from Cocabanana, PanNeubean Steel, and Parrotbeach, as well as a Spam-carving contest, a costume contest, and a margarita mix-off, the highly anticipated competition between local restaurants and their bartenders where they go head-to-head for favorite margarita.

On Saturday night, the festivities move back to South Ridge for Nikki Hunt Band at Foggy Goggle with fireworks over the South Ridge base area. After Sunday River’s annual Easter Egg hunt at South Ridge on Sunday morning, folks will head over to Barker Basin for the annual pond-skimming contest. Normally held at White Cap, this year Sunday River will make the event bigger this year with a deeper, wider pond. Watch skiers and riders of all ages take a chance at skimming the water back onto the snow.

Sunday afternoon, Parrotbeach plays an encore performance slopeside at White Cap Base Lodge before Sunday River’s Key Lime pie-eating contest, with pies fresh from Valley View Orchard, a family-owned business in Hebron, Maine.