{"id":9265,"date":"2019-03-20T03:40:50","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T03:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jacksonvillejazzfest.com\/?p=9265"},"modified":"2021-07-20T03:46:38","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T03:46:38","slug":"big-names-bigger-sounds-coming-to-jacksonville-jazz-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jacksonvillejazzfest.com\/_ARC\/2019\/03\/big-names-bigger-sounds-coming-to-jacksonville-jazz-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Big names, bigger sounds coming to Jacksonville Jazz Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-bdVaJa indexes__TextBase-klv0wy-2 dQOwWF\"><strong>JACKSONVILLE, Fla.<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Empress of Soul will be swinging into the River City in May as part of the 2019 Jacksonville Jazz Festival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-bdVaJa indexes__TextBase-klv0wy-2 dQOwWF\">Gladys Knight will be part of the lineup for what&#8217;s billed as one of the largest free jazz festivals in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-bdVaJa indexes__TextBase-klv0wy-2 dQOwWF\">Jacksonville Jazz Fest will be May 23-26 covering 10 blocks of\u00a0Downtown Jacksonville.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-bdVaJa indexes__TextBase-klv0wy-2 dQOwWF\">Two stages of live music will feature jazz greats and modern favorites. The festival also includes an epic street party with local food, drinks, shopping and entertainment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-bdVaJa indexes__TextBase-klv0wy-2 dQOwWF\">The festival began in 1981 as the Mayport and All That Jazz Festival and is now held every Memorial Day weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-bdVaJa indexes__TextBase-klv0wy-2 dQOwWF\">So far, the musical lineup includes:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"sc-bdVaJa hVpZrt font_openSans articleList\">\n<li class=\"sc-bdVaJa indexes__StackBase-klv0wy-5 cchqGS\">\n<div class=\"sc-bdVaJa indexes__StackBase-klv0wy-5 cwWTrQ\"><span class=\"sc-bdVaJa indexes__TextBase-klv0wy-2 cBnqRV\">Gladys Knight<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-bdVaJa indexes__StackBase-klv0wy-5 cchqGS\">\n<div class=\"sc-bdVaJa indexes__StackBase-klv0wy-5 cwWTrQ\"><span class=\"sc-bdVaJa indexes__TextBase-klv0wy-2 cBnqRV\">Brian Culbertson<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-bdVaJa indexes__StackBase-klv0wy-5 cchqGS\">\n<div class=\"sc-bdVaJa indexes__StackBase-klv0wy-5 cwWTrQ\"><span class=\"sc-bdVaJa indexes__TextBase-klv0wy-2 cBnqRV\">Monty Alexander<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-bdVaJa indexes__StackBase-klv0wy-5 cchqGS\">\n<div class=\"sc-bdVaJa indexes__StackBase-klv0wy-5 cwWTrQ\"><span class=\"sc-bdVaJa indexes__TextBase-klv0wy-2 cBnqRV\">Alfredo Rodriguez Trio<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-bdVaJa indexes__StackBase-klv0wy-5 cchqGS\">\n<div class=\"sc-bdVaJa indexes__StackBase-klv0wy-5 cwWTrQ\"><span class=\"sc-bdVaJa indexes__TextBase-klv0wy-2 cBnqRV\">Greg Adams &amp; East Bay Soul<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-bdVaJa indexes__StackBase-klv0wy-5 cchqGS\">\n<div class=\"sc-bdVaJa indexes__StackBase-klv0wy-5 cwWTrQ\"><span class=\"sc-bdVaJa indexes__TextBase-klv0wy-2 cBnqRV\">Avery*Sunshine<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-bdVaJa indexes__StackBase-klv0wy-5 cchqGS\">\n<div class=\"sc-bdVaJa indexes__StackBase-klv0wy-5 cwWTrQ\"><span class=\"sc-bdVaJa indexes__TextBase-klv0wy-2 cBnqRV\">Moonchild<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-bdVaJa indexes__StackBase-klv0wy-5 cchqGS\">\n<div class=\"sc-bdVaJa indexes__StackBase-klv0wy-5 cwWTrQ\"><span class=\"sc-bdVaJa indexes__TextBase-klv0wy-2 cBnqRV\">Amina Scott<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-bdVaJa indexes__StackBase-klv0wy-5 cchqGS\">\n<div class=\"sc-bdVaJa indexes__StackBase-klv0wy-5 cwWTrQ\"><span class=\"sc-bdVaJa indexes__TextBase-klv0wy-2 cBnqRV\">Brass-A-Holics<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-bdVaJa indexes__StackBase-klv0wy-5 cchqGS\">\n<div class=\"sc-bdVaJa indexes__StackBase-klv0wy-5 cwWTrQ\"><span class=\"sc-bdVaJa indexes__TextBase-klv0wy-2 cBnqRV\">LPT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"sc-bdVaJa indexes__TextBase-klv0wy-2 dQOwWF\">Follow\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JacksonvilleJazzFestival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jacksonville Jazz Festival on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0for updates and announcements on the lineup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-bdVaJa indexes__TextBase-klv0wy-2 dQOwWF\">For more information and tickets, go to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jacksonvillejazzfest.com\/_ARC\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">JacksonvilleJazzFest.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/entertainment\/2019\/03\/20\/big-names-bigger-sounds-coming-to-jacksonville-jazz-festival\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SOURCE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JACKSONVILLE, Fla.\u00a0\u2013 The Empress of Soul will be swinging into the River City in May as part of the 2019&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksonvillejazzfest.com\/_ARC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9265","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=9265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jacksonvillejazzfest.com\/_ARC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksonvillejazzfest.com\/_ARC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksonvillejazzfest.com\/_ARC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksonvillejazzfest.com\/_ARC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksonvillejazzfest.com\/_ARC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}