{"id":9225,"date":"2018-04-10T02:38:03","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T02:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jacksonvillejazzfest.com\/?p=9225"},"modified":"2021-07-20T02:39:38","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T02:39:38","slug":"2018-jacksonville-jazz-festival-lineup-announced-courthouse-location-added","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jacksonvillejazzfest.com\/_ARC\/2018\/04\/2018-jacksonville-jazz-festival-lineup-announced-courthouse-location-added\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 Jacksonville Jazz Festival Lineup Announced, Courthouse Location Added"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sheila E, Trombone Shorty &amp; Orleans Avenue and Big Bad VooDoo Daddy will be among the performers at the 2018 Jacksonville Jazz Festival.<\/p>\n<p>The annual festival will be held in downtown Jacksonville over the Memorial Day weekend, May 24-27.<\/p>\n<p>This year the Swingin\u2019 Stage is being relocated to the front lawn of the Duval County Courthouse while the Groovin\u2019 Stage will once again be at Hemming Park. The Breezin\u2019 Stage will be at the corner of Adams and Main Streets.<\/p>\n<p>The festival kicks off\u00a0Thursday, May 24, at The Florida Theatre with the Jacksonville\u00a0Jazz\u00a0Piano Competition and concludes Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Festival Schedule<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thursday, May 24 \u2013 Piano Competition, Florida Theatre, doors open at 6p.m., competition start at 7 p.m.<\/li>\n<li>Friday, May 25, 2 &#8211; 10 p.m, performances start at 3 p.m., various locations<\/li>\n<li>Saturday, May 26, 2 &#8211; 11 p.m, performances start at 3 p.m., various locations<\/li>\n<li>Sunday, May 27, 2 &#8211; 10 p.m., performances start at 3 p.m., various locations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Performers Announced As Of April 10<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trombone Shorty &amp; Orleans Avenue<\/li>\n<li>Big Bad Voodoo Daddy<\/li>\n<li>Sheila E.<\/li>\n<li>The Bad Plus<\/li>\n<li>Euge Groove<\/li>\n<li>The Pete Escovedo Orchestra with special guests Jimmy Bosch and Chembo Corneil<\/li>\n<li>Ulysses Owens, Jr.<\/li>\n<li>Trio<\/li>\n<li>The 4 Korners<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Grace Kelly<\/li>\n<li>Jane Bunnett &amp; Maqueque<\/li>\n<li>Lohai<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Local Performers Announced As Of April 10<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Chris Thomas Band<\/li>\n<li>UNF\u00a0Jazz\u00a0Ensemble<\/li>\n<li>The Douglas Anderson\u00a0Jazz\u00a0Ensemble 1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other festival activities include the Omni Sacred\u00a0Jazz\u00a0Brunch featuring the Noel Freidline Quartet with vocalist Maria Howell, \u00a0the Jazz\u00a0Clinic, the Second Line\u00a0Jazz\u00a0Parade, the\u00a0Jazz\u00a0Marketplace and the Official\u00a0Jazz\u00a0Store.<\/p>\n<p>Jazz\u00a0After Dark will also return Friday\u00a0and\u00a0Saturday\u00a0from\u00a09 p.m. to 1 a.m.\u00a0at numerous locations downtown.<\/p>\n<p>The festival is free and open to the public unless otherwise listed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.wjct.org\/post\/2018-jacksonville-jazz-festival-lineup-announced-courthouse-location-added\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SOURCE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheila E, Trombone Shorty &amp; Orleans Avenue and Big Bad VooDoo Daddy will be among the performers at the 2018&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksonvillejazzfest.com\/_ARC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksonvillejazzfest.com\/_ARC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksonvillejazzfest.com\/_ARC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksonvillejazzfest.com\/_ARC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksonvillejazzfest.com\/_ARC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jacksonvillejazzfest.com\/_ARC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksonvillejazzfest.com\/_ARC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksonvillejazzfest.com\/_ARC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksonvillejazzfest.com\/_ARC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}