Don't Miss A Beat Jazz Festival highlights this week's calendar
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Here’s a rundown of what JME contributors will see and hear this week.
Singer-Songwriters
Songwriter Spotlight – Wednesday, July 21
Rain Dogs. | Five Points
Original music, only. That’s the extent of the strictures put on performers who land on the Rain Dogs. stage for the Five Points venue’s weekly songwriter showcase. A kind of open-mic style event, each showcase carves out ample time for a featured songwriter––usually regional, always quite good. Past performers include Shawn Lightfoot, Millie Hudson and Jackie Stranger. Balladry commences at 9 p.m.
This is a free event
Trop Pop
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Summer Salt – Friday, July 23
1904 Music Hall | Downtown Jacksonville
Austin, Texas-based purveyors of trop pop Summer Salt bring their distinctive fusion to the 1904 Music Hall stage on Friday. The duo has amassed a mighty following on music streaming platforms and, with a new full-length Sequoia Moon, sound destined for greater notoriety. Motel Radio opens the show.
Jazz
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Don’t Miss A Beat Jazz Festival – Saturday, July 24
Woodstock Park | Westside
Jacksonville music nonprofit Don’t Miss A Beat, Inc presents a an eclectic lineup of heavy hitting jazz performances including purveyors of New Orleans jazz Let’s Ride Brass Band, mighty Afro Cuban salsa outfit LPT and drummer Ulysses Owens, Jr. playing alongside a handful of frequent collaborators from the region’s avant garde. The festival kicks off with participants in the recent DMAB Broadway Experience summer camp performing a production of Lin Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights at 11:30 a.m. Fest kicks off at 1 p.m.
This is a free event
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Jax Post-Punk Trio Glass Chapel Let Love Consume Them on “Alive”
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Song of the Day | “Tuesday” by Toro y Moi
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Electro Lounge Playlist | July 6
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Jacksonville Garage Rockers Seagate Chew on Rabid Punk Rock on Snarling New Single “Dog Bite”
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The Neighborhood Playlist | July 6
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Song of the Day | “No. 1 Headband” by Lupe Fiasco
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King Gizz Boogie Down and Pass the Mic on “Le Risque,” the First Single from New LP, ‘Flight b741’
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Bobby Weir, The String Cheese Incident to Co-Headline Hulaween 2024 as The Bobby Weir Incident
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Song of the Day | “Low Sun” by Hermanos Gutiérrez
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Song of the Day | “Humble Me” by Killer Mike
JME Live Music Calendar
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