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Summer Jazz Concert Series
Sunday, August 17, 2008Jacksonville, FL
SUMMER JAZZ CONCERT SERIES Cool Sounds of Hot Summer Nights Sundays during summer – 5 PM - 9 PM
Location: Sea Walk Pavilion
See website for updates
For more Info: (904) 247-6268
Summer Jazz Concert Series
Sunday, July 13, 2008Jacksonville, FL
SUMMER JAZZ CONCERT SERIES Cool Sounds of Hot Summer Nights Sundays during summer – 5 PM - 9 PM
Location: Sea Walk Pavilion
See website for updates
For more Info: (904) 247-6268
Concert on the Lawn
Sunday, June 22, 2008Jacksonville, FL
Pride - Classic Rock'n Roll
Location: Latham Plaza across from City Hall Jax Beach 7pm
Melissa Etheridge at the Florida Theatre
Wednesday, June 11, 2008Jacksonville, FL
Thursday, Jun 19, 2008
Show Time: 8 PM
All there is
Is atoms and space
Everything else is illusion
There's back to the beginning, and then there's back to the beginning. It doesn't get much more elemental than "All There Is," the brief, swirling invocation of the essence of the universe with which Melissa Etheridge opens The Awakening, the ninth studio album of her singular career.
The story she tells through this involving, colorful song-cycle, though, is completely her own, a tale that runs from her first uncertain steps through her well-chronicled rise to rock star, human rights activist, parent, cancer survivor and 2007 Academy Award winner for "I Need to Wake Up," featured in the Al Gore environmental documentary An Inconvenient Truth. It's a journey full of joys and tears, portrayed in songs that are at turns powerful and playful, at once confessional and engaging, personal and universal. In other words, Melissa Etheridge at her creative peak - and the most open she's ever been.
And it's Etheridge as we've never heard her before. "Message to Myself" rides an indelible pop hook that's sure to be the most buoyant sing-along she's ever led. The sly "Threesome" is a country-rocker that, well, it's unlikely you'll ever hear Carrie Underwood covering. "California," "An Unexpected Rain," "I've Loved You Before" and "The Universe Listened," among others, are poetically detailed chapters of her remarkable life and the epiphanies along the way. Co-produced by Etheridge and David Cole (whose extensive credits include Etheridge's two previous albums, 2004's Lucky and 2001's Skin) with sparkling play from her band (guitarist Philip Sayce, bassist Mark Browne and drummer Mauricio "Fritz" Lewak), the album embraces the music and emotions of an artist reaching a new peak.
As such it's nothing short of a gift to her legion of loyal fans, but even more a gift to herself.
"I hope people listen to it from beginning to end at least one time," she says. "That was my goal with this -- to make an album you could do that with. I remember listening John Lennon's Imagine, and it was like going to church for me. And I wanted to make one of those albums that artists make - What's Going On by Marvin Gaye, Innervisions by Stevie Wonder."
For Etheridge, though, the gift has already paid more dividends than she could have imagined.
"This is my ninth album and I wanted to get back to why I love music," she says. "It's already a success for me. I got to create it. That was the fun and joy."
What freed her to be so open?
"Cancer," she says, unhesitatingly. "The huge, big fireball that shoots you through fear. I ended up on the other side of that, and I thought, 'I did it! I went through chemotherapy! Look what I did.' And I didn't go through chemotherapy to not do what I love. So y'all can come with me or not. I'm having a blast."
Etheridge acknowledges that her 2004 breast cancer diagnosis and subsequent treatment, understandably, brought some perspective to her life and achievements.
"I had made Lucky, I was on tour and it was kind of, 'Is that it?' " she says. "And I thought, 'That's okay.' Musically and professionally I was okay with it. I'd been to the mountaintop. I'd sung with Bruce Springsteen! But some of the songs I'd been singing didn't really mean as much to me as they once did."
She found fresh inspiration, though, from some unlikely and diverse sources, including a voice from the past: Her own.
While undergoing treatment, Etheridge revisited her past records start to finish, in order, over a period of weeks.
"I would listen, stop and talk about it -- 'Gosh, I remember when I wrote that, when we recorded that, I remember why I wrote that.' "
From the later perspective, even such mainstays as "Come To My Window," the 1993 song from her multi-platinum album Yes I Am that rocketed her from star to superstar, were full of new revelations, as if the Etheridge of then was speaking to the Etheridge of now.
"So when I started writing this album, I thought, 'If I'm going to be speaking to my future self, some day driving in a car and hearing myself singing on the radio, what would I be telling myself? What message was I saying to myself?' So I wrote down the line, 'I'm sending out a message to myself / So that when I hear it on the radio / I'll know that I am fine / I'll know that I am loved.' And it was that simple!"
It was her own little artistic experiment in time travel, but other inspiration came from a growing interest in real matters of time and space. One day she strolled into a bookstore and in the philosophy section was drawn to Ken Wilber's "A Brief History of Everything," which explores the intersection of quantum physics and spirituality. That set her on a path of more reading, more thinking and a lot of writing, some of the results providing key elements for The Awakening, notably "The Universe Listened" and the closing "What Happens Tomorrow?"
"I told the universe I wanted fame and fortune and was given that," she says. "Then I wanted love and got that. The Awakening as an album is the spiritual side coming open."
The perspectives she gained also shed light on earlier episodes of her life, as explored in the portrait of a young woman on a different quest in "California" and the pained "An Unexpected Rain," as well as a first awakening to the superficial Hollywood mentality in the portrait "Map of the Stars."
The themes also are threaded through the album in the four short pieces ("All There Is," "God Is In the People," "All We Can Really Do," "A Simple Love"), somewhere between haikus and mantras, serving as prologues and interludes among the full songs.
"I spent about a year just reading and reading, writing and writing, pages and pages of things," she says. "Some of the things were not whole songs, just something of that moment."
The in-the-moment tone was preserved in the sessions. Recorded largely live in a burst of creativity at a studio set up in a Malibu locale overlooking the Pacific, The Awakening shows off the bond that's evolved between Etheridge and her band of recent years. Rami Jaffe (The Wallflowers) added organ to a few songs, while Bernie Barlow and Lily Wilson contributed background vocals.
"I've always loved my bands, but there was a very special energy between Fritz, Mark, Philip and myself," she says. "We really locked on stage, and personally all the stuff I've talked about, they've been very interested in. We had great talks on the bus."
She extended that family feel to the making of the album, not just working in the stunning, glass-enclosed ocean-view studio, but the whole band living there.
"I'd get up in the morning, go to the beach, go up to the studio and they'd all be waking up and we'd be living this album."
And The Awakening is - literally and figuratively -- the album of her life. Atoms, space and everything else. The universe listened to Melissa Etheridge.
Summer Jazz Concert Series
Sunday, June 08, 2008Jacksonville, FL
SUMMER JAZZ CONCERT SERIES Cool Sounds of Hot Summer Nights Sundays during summer – 5 PM - 9 PM
Location: Sea Walk Pavilion
See website for updates
For more Info: (904) 247-6268
Intermezzo: Sunday Concerts
Sunday, June 01, 2008Jacksonville, FL
Enjoy Huls Clark Duo (Max Huls, violin, and Christine Clark, piano)in concert. Part of the Intermezzo Free Sunday Concerts series, this program is open to the public and reservations are not required.
Showcasing the talents of prominent First Coast musicians, Intermezzo Free Sunday Concerts are open to the general public and reservations are not required. Post-concert receptions encourage audience members to meet and mingle with the artists.
Intermezzo concerts are presented in the Main Library's Hicks Auditorium, located on the Conference Level of the Library near the Main Street entrances.
Jun 1
2:30pm
Info: 630-BOOK
The Music Man
Saturday, May 31, 2008Jacksonville, FL
Morihiko Nakahara, conductor
Oh, we got trouble. Right here in River City! It’s the River City’s own Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra and Alhambra Dinner Theatre coming together to bring you one of the most popular musicals ever. The Music Man is a slice of Middle Americana, with an unforgettable hit parade of tunes such as “Till There Was You,” “Goodnight, My Someone,” “Marian The Librarian” and “Gary, Indiana.”
This concert version features a full cast of actors, singers, costumes and a roundup of 76 trombones to blow you away. This special production also celebrates Alhambra Dinner Theatre's 40th Anniversary.
May 31
2pm & 8pm
Info: 354-5547
Location: 300 Water St.
Jacksonville, FL 32202
Times Union Center for the Performing Arts
904.630.3900
Concert on the Lawn presents Navy Band Jacksonville
Sunday, May 18, 2008Jacksonville, FL
Navy Band Jacksonville plays a Salute to the Armed Forces
Location: Latham Plaza across from City Hall Jax Beach 7:00 PM
Drive By Truckers & Dexateens at the Freebird Live
Saturday, May 17, 2008Jacksonville, FL
Drive By Truckers & Dexateens come to the Freebird Live in Jax Beach! This is an all ages show.
Acoustic Nights
Sunday, April 20, 2008Jacksonville, FL
Sunday, April 20, 6-8 pm
Acoustic Nights returns for the Spring and Summer
Grab your blanket and chairs! Pack a picnic supper and come to Bull Park to enjoy our Sunday evening concerts outdoors. 6 - 8 p.m. twilight to night under the stars, this family friendly event continues through the summer.
Alpha Omega Benefit featuring Dr. Robert Moynihan, Speaker, & Eric Genuis, Composer @ Fla Theatre
Sunday, April 06, 2008Jacksonville, FL
Sunday, Apr 06, 2008
Show Time: 7:30 PM
Ticket Price(s): $100 (VIP), $35, $25 (Students)
You are invited to a Benefit Concert & Silent Auction, Sunday, April 6, at the Florida Theatre. Dr. Robert Moynihan, noted author and editor-in-chief of Inside the Vatican Magazine, will be speaking. Composer and virtuoso pianist, Eric Genuis will play a concert of his original works with other world-class musicians. Auction items include a movie poster of The Passion of the Christ, signed by Jim Caveizel, the lead actor, and a painting by local artist Peter O’Neill.
Doors open at 6:30pm for the silent auction. Program begins at 7:30pm. General Admission $35; Students $25; VIP $100. All proceeds benefit Alpha-Omega Miracle Home, a 501-(c)3 non-profit maternity home for unwed pregnant teenage mothers and their babies.
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To purchase tickets for this or any event, call our box office at (904) 355-2787
GATOR COUNTRY FALLCONCERT SERIES
Friday, September 21, 2007Jacksonville Landing
Jacksonville, FL
Free music on the river! This Friday, Chris Cagle (Capitol Records), Crossin Dixon (Broken Bow Records)
GATOR COUNTRY FALLCONCERT SERIES
Friday, September 14, 2007Jacksonville Landing
Jacksonville, FL
Free music on the river! This Friday, David Lee Murphy, Whiskey Falls (Midas Records)
Live Music @ Square One
Thursday, September 13, 20071974 San Marco Blvd
Jacksonville, FL
Live Music
Soul on the Square with Band of Destiny and DJ Dr. Doom at 8 p.m. every Mon.
El Toro Loco and The Wes Cobb Band alternate every Tue.
Boogie Freaks at 9 p.m. every Thur.
Live Music @ The Ocean Club
Wednesday, September 12, 2007401 N First Street Jax Beach
Jacksonville, FL
Open Wednesday to Sunday.
In the summer, there's no better place to be. The Ocean Club faces the beach, and there's a deck right on the sand. It's great because of that. There are two dance floors and a few bars. The crowd: This is where the college kids meet the grown-ups. The sound: DJs spin a variety of things: from old-school remixes of Eurythmics songs to Outkast. The downside: At times, it can either be dead or swamped. The upside The beach
Live Music
Acoustic reggae with Homemade Radio every Wed. " Riptide and Oceanwaves Band and Prince Pele & His Polynesian Revue from 7-10 p.m. every Fri. for The Friday Luau " Live reggae every Fri. " Crazy 88s Dueling Pianos every Fri. and Sat.
Little Green Men
Monday, September 03, 2007Jacksonville, FL
Little Green Men play every Monday 10-close at Lynch's Irish Pub Jax Beach
Nate Holley
Friday, August 31, 2007Jacksonville, FL
Nate Holley playes every Friday at the Mellow Mushroom in Tinsletown. To find where Nate is playing every night of the week check him out online at myspace.com/nathanholley
Roger That
Friday, August 31, 2007Jacksonville, FL
Roger That play every Friday and Saturday 10pm-Close at Lynch's Irish Pub Jax Beach
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