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Jonathan Peyton is a singer/songwriter from North, GA. He writes emotion-evoking songs that tell a story and captivate listeners by their honesty and relatability. With a rocky upbringing Jonathan found
himself gravitating towards music to help process his life experiences. He soon started writing music to tell his stories. Jonathan has recently teamed up with Sadler Vaden of Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit to produce his newest album, Nothing Here’s the Same, that just released on March 1st.
Open every day dawn to 6pm except on Thanksgiving and Christmas Day. The market closes early on Christmas Eve, New Year’s Eve, and New Year’s Day.
With a wide variety of fresh produce, seafood and other culinary delights, Jacksonville Farmers Market offers a unique shopping experience for any age. Enjoy the open air and festive market atmosphere as you stroll each of the outdoor bays. The Jacksonville Farmers Market is known best for its featured ethnic and imported specialty items that are not only unique but sometimes also rare and typically hard to find. If you’re looking strictly for locally-grown food, be sure to inquire with vendors at this market. Some offerings are not grown by local farmers.
The St. Augustine Amphitheatre Farmers Market takes place each Saturday from 8:30am to 12:30pm. Enhanced health and safety measures have been implemented and personal protection equipment, such as face masks, are encouraged.
Farmers Market
Join us every Saturday under the oaks for local, fresh food, produce straight from the farm, handmade arts and crafts, and live entertainment! Special events and features take place each week, check the individual event listings to see what’s coming up!
Every Saturday, 8:30am to 12:30pm
Every Saturday from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. enjoy farm-fresh produce, artists, artisans, and more! Free Admission & Free Parking.
Under the Fuller Warren Bridge and along the St. Johns River, you’ll find a place where our community comes together! During the week, the space is a parking lot, on Saturdays, the space houses hundreds of artists, farmers, artisans, nonprofits, and other community organizations and small businesses!
Parking is always free at the Fidelity/Black Knight Financial building next to the market. Make the trip a day’s worth of fun by visiting our neighbors at The Cummer Museum or the 5 Points Shopping District just a few blocks away.
Vendors at the market sell a wide selection of in-season, local and organic produce, local all-natural meats, free-range eggs, cut flowers, locally roasted organic coffees, edible plants and trees, orchids, handcrafted teas, gluten-free and vegan foods, handcrafted cheeses, locally made desserts, freshly baked breads, local honey and other seasonal delights.
The Palm Valley Farmers Market is located in the heart of Palm Valley in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. It is held every Tuesday from 1 pm to 5:30 pm at the Palm Valley Community Center. The market features local vendors who provide products such as farm-fresh produce, eggs, milk, fresh-baked breads, pies,cookies, fresh seafood, direct-trade, grade-A coffee, artisan jams, cheeses, and homemade biscotti.
Regular vendors include: The Harvest Basket (produce, eggs, milk, cheese, bread), Fish Chic Seafood, Café Llano Bonito (coffee & biscotti), and the Little Black Box Baked Goods (jams, pies, cookies). Directly across the street from the market is also GYO Greens, an aquaponics farm that provides locally grown micro-greens and other produce to local restaurants. They open their farm to the public every Tuesday from 2-5pm so market guests can purchase directly from them and see their operation in action.
First Wednesday Art Walk
The First Wednesday of Each Month from 5-9 p.m. in Downtown Jacksonville
Downtown Vision has proudly hosted the First Wednesday Art Walk since 2003 to welcome people to DTJax and celebrate the community’s deep pool of creative talent.
Art Walk has returned after a break due to the pandemic and now takes place monthly! We invite you to bring your family, friends and coworkers for a self-guided tour of Downtown’s northbank core on the first Wednesday of every month. Explore three major hubs: James Weldon Johnson Park, The Jessie (duPont Center) and Vagabond Flea at The Breezeway at Vystar Tower, and all the businesses and public art between. Art Walk runs 5-9 p.m., rain or shine. Masks encouraged.
We’re a group of poets celebrating 20 years together using a critique format with one aim: to be better writers.
No dues, no long-term obligations, but sympathetic writing assistance, and lots of laughter. Anyone who wants to write well is invited to come to our meetings on the first and third Thursdays of each month at 2 p.m. at the Ponte Vedra Library.
Read our first collective book, A Gathering of Poets, listed on Amazon Books. Contact accidentals@comcast.net to get on our notification list.
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It all started with a question published in a local newspaper: would anyone like to form a poetry group? Ten of us met at the Ponte Vedra Library and have been meeting at 2 p.m. on the first and third Thursdays of each month ever since. Some of us have died, but nobody’s ever quit. We have 15 loyal writers with the single aim of making our writing the best it can be. We’re a critique group in the best sense of that term. Sympathetic, encouraging, laughing at our goofs and celebrating our victories. We’ve published a collection of our writings and are about to debut a second anthology. We are open to anyone who is serious about writing well and will consider starting an evening group for working folks.
Contact us at accidentals@comcast.net.
Free Jax River Jams Presented by VyStar Credit Union Returns to #DTJax this Spring!
Returning this April, enjoy a free, four-week concert series in Downtown Jacksonville, featuring national headliners and local and regional openers. Enjoy onsite food trucks and bars with local craft beer and spirits. Camp chairs and picnic blankets encouraged.
Thursdays in April
April 4, 11, 18 & 25
Ford on Bay | 288 E. Bay Street
Gates: 4:30 p.m.
Music Starts at 5 p.m.
PAStA Fine Art Gallery will be hosting an artist’s reception for member artist Tracy Lavely on Friday, April 5 from 5 pm to 9 pm. The gallery will feature Tracy’s acrylic paintings in our main gallery, along with refreshments and live music. The reception is free and open to all.
Tracy is a self-taught artist who uses a palette knife to bring the vibrant colors of beach life to the canvas. Her work evokes, breezy days under the palm trees, smooth sailing under bright skies, and living the best life on the coast. Her work will be on display and for sale in the main gallery for the entire month of April.
The Springing The Blues presented by Sawgrass Asset Management is one of the world’s finest blues music events, located at the Seawalk Pavilion in downtown Jacksonville Beach. Please join us on April 5th-7th, 2024 for three great days of blues on the beach! Be sure to get your VIP passes now!
The Springing The Blues presented by Sawgrass Asset Management is a free, outdoor blues music festival that celebrates America’s indigenous musical form. The three-day oceanfront event features national, regional and local blues artists on two stages. Springing the Blues is held at Jacksonville Beach’s SeaWalk Pavilion every April.
Rita Dove
Rita Dove, former US Poet Laureate (1993–1995), won the Pulitzer Prize for her third book of poetry, Thomas and Beulah, in 1987; her latest poetry collection, Playlist for the Apocalypse, was published in 2021. She received the 1996 National Humanities Medal from President Clinton and the 2011 National Medal of Arts from President Obama. Recent honors include the 2019 Wallace Stevens Award, the American Academy of Arts & Letters’ 2021 Gold Medal in poetry, a 2022 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a 2022 Bobbitt Prize from the Library of Congress and the 2023 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation. Her song cycle Seven for Luck, with composer John Williams, premiered at Tanglewood in 1998, and her 2021 song cycle A Standing Witness, with music by Richard Danielpour, has been performed at the Kennedy Center and other venues. She also collaborated repeatedly with Cuban-American composer Tania Leon. A 2023 recipient of the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, Rita Dove teaches creative writing at the University of Virginia.
The Art Galleries of St. Augustine (AGOSA) makes up the diverse art galleries and museums located in St. Augustine, Florida. Each one showcases outstanding collections of local, regional, national & international artists.
Every First Friday of the Month | 5:00pm – 9:00pm
As of January 1, 2022, AGOSA is now part of the St. Augustine Art Association a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1924. The mission of the Art Association is to promote and enhance the arts in the area through exhibits, involvement in community projects, publicity, networking and other opportunities for artists.
Our events have cultivated a reputation for St. Augustine as an “Art Destination” among both locals and visitors.
FAQs
Q; HOW DO I GET STARTED ON THE ARTWALK?
A: You can start the free, self-guided Artwalk tour at any AGOSA Member Gallery, and see as few or as many as you’d like between 5-9PM on First Fridays. Most galleries feature changing monthly exhibits, refreshments and live music. Or tour our fine galleries throughout the month using our brochure and Artwalk map!
Monthly on the first and third Saturday of the month, starting from Jan 20, 2024, 11 am to 3 pm.
Arlington’s century-old Norman Studios, now a museum dedicated to silent film history, is ready for public tours after major renovations. Tours will be held on the first and third Saturday of each month between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. The former silent film studio opened in 1916 is now a National Historic Landmark. Admission is free.
Wild Wonders presents ”The Reptile Show”, a 45-minute program that includes stories, music, and humor. Come join us for the entertaining and educational program that will have your children scrambling for the nearest reptile book.
1 pm April 6 and 20
11 am May 4 and 18
Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate of the United States, Rita Dove reads from her award-winning true tale of the volatile and dramatic relationship between the black violinist George Bridgetower and Beethoven which resulted in the composer’s iconic “Kreutzer” Sonata. Violinist Njioma Grevious, recent winner of both the Concert Artists Guild and Sphinx competitions, performs the Beethoven with pianist William Ransom.
The market is located on the busy corner of US17 and Kingsley Ave. 2042 Park Ave, Orange Park, FL 32073. This is an outdoor market and sometimes due to inclement weather the market may be closed. Just look for the large yellow signs!
Created in 2012, the Orange Park Farmers’ and Arts’ Market runs from 10 am – 3 pm on the first and third Sundays of each month, September – June. The market is run by The Town of Orange Park Events and Recreation Division, with over 100 vendors on a regular basis that offer a variety of homemade and homegrown products from local merchants, live entertainment, food on site, and a great family atmosphere! You can find nearly anything your heart desires from locally grown produce, local honey, cupcakes, pies, salsa, granola, plants, produce, raw milk, eggs, cheeses, hand crafted jewelry, bird houses, pottery pieces, didgeridoos, soaps, and many many more handcrafted items!
Suggested parking is at CVS/Winn Dixie, then use the pedestrian crosswalks to enter the market. There is also parking at Town Hall off of US 17 and Smith St and Kingsley Ave- both of these areas offer limited parking.
Enjoy the original sounds by local talent in Gulliford Hall at the Adele Grage Cultural Center.
Whether you write, sing, play or simply enjoy listening to good music, plan on being with us. Hosted by Roy Peak, local performers transform Gulliford Hall from 6-8 pm with original music creations. Doors open at 5:45 p.m.
Seating is first come first served for this admission-free, alcohol-free event. Performers should contact host Roy Peak at atlanticbeachmusic@gmail.com for more information.
1st Saturday of every month.
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