Grace Potter
• Grace Potter has left her band at home for this trip, traveling in an RV with just her family and her sound crew. She ll do an intimate limited-capacity show at 8 p.m. Friday at the St. Augustine Amphitheatre. $53-$83.
Machine Gun Kelly
• Ready or not, here come the full-capacity crowds. Two events a Machine Gun Kelly concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Daily s Place and UFC 261 at 5:45 p.m. Saturday at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena are being sold to 100 percent of the venues capacity, the first such events in more than a year in Jacksonville and some of the first in the nation since the pandemic. Both are nearly sold out. A few seats were available early this week for Kelly s show at $219.75. UFC tickets are $402-$10,000.
After months of quiet stages, fans are starting to return to Northeast Florida concert venues. Numbers are still a shadow of what they were before the pandemic, and big acts haven t returned to the road, but live music is back.
We attended four shows at four area venues a rock show by the Allman Betts Band on Feb. 6 at the St. Augustine Amphitheatre, a Christian show headlined by TobyMac on Feb. 10 at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena, a Jacksonville Symphony performance on Feb. 19 at the Times-Union Center and a reggae show by the Wailers featuring Julian Marley on Feb. 20 at the Florida Theatre to see how fans and venue staff handle the COVID restrictions that were put into place to keep everyone safe.
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With the holidays happening all around us, there s not a lot of road projects to beware of as contractors give way to traveling families.
But as the Jacksonville Transportation Authority pumps up the Yuletide volume on the new Acosta Bridge LED lighting system to reflect the holidays, it also has some news for riders who want to avoid porch pirates.
Instead of having that holiday package vulnerably parked on the steps as you work or shop, the JTA set up a new service this week at seven of its transportation hubs for folks who want a secure spot for gift delivery and pickup.
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Jacksonville theatrical producer Ian Mairs has two holiday projects on tap, one live and one virtual.
At the Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, he s putting on a youth production of A Christmas Story. At the Florida Theatre, he s resurrecting a local favorite, Swamp Radio, for a virtual fundraiser to help displaced theater workers.
You can actually go see Ralphie and his relentless quest for a Red Ryder air rifle. Apex Theatre Studio, a World Golf Village-based group that trains young artists, is putting on Jean Shepherd s holiday favorite three times at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday. Seating is limited to 25 percent capacity, or about 100 people for each performance. Performers on stage will be wearing masks for most of the show.