St. Augustine Amphitheatre Grand Opening
By Drift on Aug 20, 2007 in Events
The St. Augustine Amphitheatre is pleased to announce its Grand Opening with Blackwater Sol Revue a one day music festival on Sunday, September 2nd.
Blackwater Sol Revue brings together the best performers in rock, blues, jazz, Americana, Latin, soul, and funk. JJ Grey and Mofro headline the festival with three time Grammy Award winners- Los Lobos, swamp funk legend Tony Joe White, The Legendary JC’s, Lee Boys and acoustic tweeners Willie Green and Will Connor.
Tickets go on sale Friday, July 20th at the early bird price of $35.00. After July 27th, ticket prices will increase to $40.00 and day of show cost will be $45.00. Tickets can be purchased through www.ticketmaster.com or by visiting the St. Augustine Amphitheatre website, www.staugamphitheatre.com.
The St. Augustine Amphitheatre is North Florida’s brand new outdoor concert venue. Located a short distance from historic downtown St. Augustine on 16 acres of beautiful maritime coastal hammock, the Amphitheatre offers an amazing concert going experience. Four concession areas, beautiful nature trails, VIP amenities, and a stunning plaza are a few of the features. A unique tensile canopy covers the seating bowl.
Blackwater Sol Revue and St. Augustine’s new facility will make for a great way to spend a holiday weekend. Doors open at 1p.m. Sunday September 2nd. For further information please visit www.staugamphitheatre.com. The St. Augustine Amphitheatre is located at 1340C A1A South, St. Augustine, FL 32080.
JJ GREY & MOFRO
From gritty funk to juke joint romps to contemplative country soul to blistering rockers, JJ Grey & MOFRO occupy a distinctive space in the music world. And, like the best of the great Southern novelists, JJ Grey fills his stories and songs with details that are at once vivid and personal, political and universal. Grey’s songs have been connected to his ancestral Florida homestead, growing up just outside of St. Augustine.
MP3 - JJ GREY & MOFRO - The Sun Is Shining Down
LOS LOBOS
This triple-Grammy winning group of consummate musicians and songwriters out of East L.A. began their career interpreting Mexican folk music and went on to be a globally renowned purveyor of a diverse and adventurous repertoire of roots-flavored masterpieces. Drawing from rock, country, blues, folk, R&B, Americana, and traditional Spanish and Latin American idioms, Los Lobos continually pushed the boundaries of their sound, while remaining magnificently gritty and graceful throughout.
TONY JOE WHITE
In 1969, Tony Joe White brought his brand of Swampy Blues into a Top 10 hit with his song “Polk Salad Annie.” This was followed very shortly in 1970, by Brook Benton’s soulful rendition of White’s timeless “Rainy Night In Georgia.” Throughout the 1970s and 1980s White toured in support of artists including Creedence Clearwater Revival and James Taylor. In the 1990s Tina Turner recorded four of his songs for her multi-platinum selling album Foreign Affairs, including the world-wide hit “Steamy Windows”. With the advent of that project, White formed an alliance with Turner’s manager, Roger Davies and his career began to soar. Tony Joe White is now considered a legend, he often records and collaborates with Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, J. J. Cale, Waylon Jennings, Shelby Lynne, Lucinda Williams and Emmylou Harris.
LEE BOYS
The Lee Boys sacred steel style is rooted in gospel, but is infused with rhythm and blues, jazz, rock, funk, and world music genres in a powerfully jamming mix. When the Lee Boys bring their joyous spiritual sound to the stage, audiences instantly recognize that this is not “sitting and listening” music: dancing, shouting out, and having fun are considered essential parts of their tradition. Their style of music is unique and different from any other music that’s ever been heard before. It features the pedal steel guitar as the central instrument.
LEGENDARY JC’S
Take Sam Cooke with hints of James Brown and Sammy Davis Jr. and put some rockin southern guitars, a rock solid rhythm section and a tight horn section behind him. Mix it all up and you get The Legendary JC’s! This band is on the rise and will soon be a household name.
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By Rose Fieldhouse on Feb 4, 2008 | Reply
Hey! If u check out this aslexpo.com and scroll down to the “ASL Comedy TV with Tom Neville” and if u google Tom Neville u can see that he is a “star” in the deaf community for his asl clips (see nominations for 2007 at http://www.deafread.com/blog/?author=5). I think that it would make a good article to help raise awareness for the deaf community that we live with here in this city, after all live entertainment isnt just for the hearing.
Also Tom will be touring with the ASLEXPO this year (if you look at that web site and click on the diff dates and see ). Any way, just an idea (oh yeah, I’m partial cuz he’s my brother).
By your Bro on Feb 9, 2008 | Reply
Sonrisa!