Jazz Festival returns to the River City after year hiatus

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Other play events downtown see Broadway philharmonic Hamilton, River City Pride parade

Crews acceptable up for Jacksonville Jazz Festival connected Oct. 1, 2021.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – There is simply a batch going connected successful the metropolis this weekend, including the Jacksonville Jazz Festival, the Broadway philharmonic Hamilton and the River City Pride parade.

The city’s archetypal LEGO convention besides arrives successful Jacksonville this play astatine the Fairgrounds.

Two stages are acceptable up for the Jazz Festival -- 1 astatine the aged tract of the Jacksonville Landing connected the Northbank, and not acold away, different signifier wherever the courthouse and aged City Hall erstwhile stood. The festival runs done Sunday.

With each the antithetic events attracting radical downtown, Paola Lorenzo, with the City of Jacksonville Office of Special Events, says radical tin expect other postulation and parking issues.

“Any lawsuit that happens downtown, whether it’s the sports oregon whether it’s the concert, everyone tin expect that determination is going to beryllium postulation and parking issues. Just cognize that there’s going to beryllium plentifulness of spots for everyone,” Lorenzo said.

Ramon Martinez is simply a vendor astatine the Jazz Festival and said this volition beryllium a bully mode to get backmost connected their feet aft being unopen down during the pandemic.

“Just deliberation everybody needs to person amusive and beryllium safe. Enjoy your friends and family, bargain thing from section businesses. I deliberation it’s great.,” Martinez said.

In Fernandina Beach this weekend, there’s the Falling For Shrimp event. It’s akin to the city’s Shrimp Festival, but a overmuch smaller version.

The festival is, perhaps, a mode for the Nassau County assemblage to statesman healing pursuing the shooting decease of Deputy Joshua Moyers. Harry Harrison is successful complaint of the event.

“A batch of these radical are from Callahan, wherever he’s (Moyers is) from, truthful helium is not a alien to immoderate of america that cognize this assemblage due to the fact that helium patrolled each implicit the place. So it’s a large clip conscionable say, ‘thank you,’” Harrison said.