‘MercyMe Tour’ coming soon to JAX and your area

GRAMMY® nominated, multiple American Music Award, Billboard Music Award and Dove Award-winning band “MercyMe” has announced their fall 2021 inhale (exhale) tour. Hitting 30 cities across the U.S., the band is excited to hit the road with fellow Fair Trade Services artist Micah Tyler. For ticket information on all MercyMe tour dates, please visit www.mercyme.org.

MercyMe released their tenth studio project, inhale (exhale) on Friday, April 30, and the current single, "Say I Won't" has risen quickly across national radio charts, currently #4 on Billboard National Christian Audience, Mediabase Christian Audience and Billboard AC Indicator, as well as #5 on Billboard AC Monitored and Mediabase Christian AC.

“MercyMe inhale (exhale) tour w/ Micah Tyler” (*all dates subject to change):

THURS 9-30-21 Lubbock, TX; FRI 10-1-21 Tulsa, OK; SAT 10-2-21 Cedar Park, TX; SUN 10-3-21 Fort Worth, TX; FRI 10-8-21 Louisville, KY; SAT 10-9-21 Evansville, IN; SUN 10-10-21 Duluth, GA; THURS 10-14-21 Charlotte, NC; FRI 10-15-21 Columbia, SC; SAT 10-16-21 Greensboro, NC; SUN 10-17-21 Augusta, GA; THURS 10-21-21 Tampa, FL; FRI 10-22-21 Jacksonville, FL; SAT 10-23-21 Biloxi, MS; SUN 10-24-21 Pensacola, FL; THURS 10-28-21 Oklahoma City, OK; FRI 10-29-21 Wichita, KS; SAT 10-30-21 Kansas City, MO; THURS 11-4-21 Toledo, OH; FRI 11-5-21 Grand Rapids, MI; SAT 11-6-21 Champaign, IL; SUN 11-7-21Columbus, OH; THURS 11-11-21 Moline, IL; FRI 11-12-21 Ft. Wayne, IN; SAT 11-13-21 Cincinnati, OH; SUN 11-14-21 Nashville, TN; THURS 11-18-21 Greenville, SC; FRI 11-19-21 Norfolk, VA; SAT 11-20-21 Pittsburgh, PA; SUN 11-21-21Indianapolis, IN.*

About “MercyMe”: It continues to be a landmark time for the multi-platinum selling, GRAMMY® nominated, multiple American Music Award, Billboard Music Award and Dove Award winners MercyMe. They were recently named Billboard's Top Christian Artist of the 2010 decade, and in 2020 received their eighth American Music Award nomination. A major motion picture based on the life of frontman Bart Millard who wrote the mega-hit song "I Can Only Imagine” after the loss of his father, opened at a remarkable No. 3 at the box office on Mar. 16, 2018 (Lionsgate, Roadside Attractions). In conjunction with the movie release, Millard penned a memoir and the band released a collection of hits titled I Can Only Imagine – The Very Best Of MercyMe. In 2018 MercyMe was named Top Christian Artist at the Billboard Music Awards, was the top winner at the fan-fueled K-LOVE Fan Awards including a win for Artist of the Year, and was the GMA Dove Award Winner for Artist Of The Year. Since their debut in 2001, the band has sold more than 9 million units in CD, single and DVD sales, garnered more than 48 No. 1 multi-format radio singles, and had four consecutive mainstream radio hits.

MercyMe made history in 2014 as “I Can Only Imagine” surpassed 2 million digital downloads, making it the first song in Christian music to go platinum and double-platinum in the digital domain. The song has now gone has gone 4x platinum. In 2009, Billboard named MercyMe's " Word Of God Speak" the No. 1 Song of The Decade and the group the No. 1 Artist of the Decade in both the Christian Songs and Christian AC Songs categories, recognizing them as one of the industry's most notable talents.

They have sold out venues throughout the US and Canada, including Radio City Music Hall, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, and have appeared on the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, Good Morning America, GMA3, The Today Show, CBS This Morning, FOX New Channel's FOX & Friends, CNN, ABC News and in the pages of Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, USA Today and more. Their tenth album, inhale(exhale), is available now.

‘Jimmie Vaughan’ will be playing in JAX soon

UPDATE (Sept. 24, 2021): According to the Florida Theater, the "Jimmie Vaughan" engagement has been postponed to April 10, 2022. For further information, please contact the Florida Theatre.
  

The Florida Theatre, in partnership with WJCT, is pleased to announce blues legend Jimmie Vaughan at the WJCT Soundstage. In true Texas fashion, four-time Grammy-winner “Jimmie Vaughan” has helped breathe new life into the music that has been his lifeline all these decades, becoming a hero to those who cherish America's real gift to musical history.

"When I talk about country and blues, they're the same thing," Jimmie Vaughan says. "Muddy Waters and Hank Williams, Webb Pierce and Jimmy Reed. When I was a kid, I didn't understand the difference. Everybody was always asking me, 'Why do you want to play blues? Why don't you play country?' But I would listen to the country guys and they would be doing a Jimmy Reed song. They're playing the same lick. And Ray Charles, Little Milton, Guitar Junior, Lonnie Brooks, B.B. King--they all did country songs. Is Bob Wills country blues or jazz? And the answer is, it's American music. I'm tired of trying to pigeonhole everything. I want to bring it together; it comes from the same place."

When he first heard songs like Phil Upchurch's "You Can't Sit Down," The Nightcaps' "Wine, Wine, Wine" and B.B. King's many hit songs in the early 1960s, he knew he had found his music. And ever since then, it's been a constant quest to play the blues, whether it was in early 1970s Austin bands like Storm and then the Fabulous Thunderbirds, or later with brother Stevie Ray Vaughan on their FAMILY STYLE album, and on his own releases throughout the 1990s and in 2001.

Then the solo albums stopped, until in 2010, Vaughan had an idea to start recording The Great American Blues Songbook. He assembled the kind of band most musicians can only dream about, and began recording his dream set list at Top Hat and Wire Studios in Austin. Never one to back down from a great idea, in 2011 Vaughan and band went back into the same studio and recorded a second collection of some of his favorite songs, zeroing in on that music's ability to light a fuse wherever it was heard. 

Last fall, to help celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the first of the Blues, Ballads And Favourites albums, The Pleasure’s All Mine compiled both albums as a collection, and was released alongside a Vinyl reissue of 2016's Jimmie Vaughan Trio featuring Mike Flanigin Live At C-Boy's release, which featured songs recorded at the venerable Austin nightspot that Vaughan and crew call home when they are in town

In 2019, his newest release, Baby, Please Come Home brought him back into the spotlight with yet another Grammy nomination, and a Blues Foundation Award for Best Male Artist.

This year, he celebrates his life in the blues and on the road with The Jimmie Vaughan Story, a special limited-edition box set and book including over 200 photos covering his life and the breadth of his remarkable career. And yet, Vaughan still feels like he is just getting started, devoted to making sure he is able to give back to the music that has given him so much. The blues is in Jimmie Vaughan's blood, has been there since the start, and will stay there forever.

The historic, nonprofit Florida Theatre is sponsored by Community First Credit Union. For a complete list of upcoming events or to buy tickets visit the Theatre’s official website.

“Jimmie Vaughan”
DATE: Fri., Sept. 24, 2021
TIME: 8 p.m.
TICKETS: $69.50 – $79.50

LOCATION: WJCT Soundstage
      100 Festival Park Avenue
      Jacksonville, FL 32202
      (904) 355- ARTS (2787)

‘Celtic Woman’ brings new LIVE show to JAX

They’re back in Jacksonville, Florida for only one evening at The Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts.  “Celtic Woman”, the multi-platinum international music sensation, has a brand new live show for an extensive North American tour beginning Spring 2018.  The much-anticipated concert, ‘Homecoming,’ will play in more than 90 U.S. and Canadian cities from coast-to-coast.

Celebrating Ireland’s rich musical and cultural heritage, Celtic Woman combines finest musical talent with epic stage productions to present a unique, inspiring live experience. From the debut, Celtic Woman has touched the hearts of a huge global audience.  Now, with Homecoming, Celtic Woman brings the next chapter of an extraordinary musical journey. It’s a universal celebration of life. It’s traditional, it’s contemporary. It’s yesterday, today and tomorrow.

Continuing its remarkable legacy of introducing some of Ireland’s most talented singers and musicians onto the world stage, the Grammy winning group Celtic Woman — featuring the angelic voices of Susan McFadden, Mairéad Carlin, Éabha McMahon and the breathtaking Celtic violinist Tara McNeill, accompanied by a full ensemble of musicians and dancers — will embark on a four-month tour.  The 90-city trek will take Celtic Woman across the country before wrapping up on June 17 in Rosemont, IL.

About Celtic Woman: Following its debut on PBS in 2005, Celtic Woman has achieved massive success encompassing twelve chart-topping albums, nine DVDs and nine public television specials leading to sales of over ten million albums, with platinum success in nine countries. Each of the twelve CDs—including 2016’s Voices of Angels—has reached #1 on Billboard's World Albums chart.  The group has been named Billboard Magazine’s #1 World Albums Artist six times. Celtic Woman received its first-ever Grammy-nomination in the World Music category for its 2016 release Destiny.  As a touring powerhouse, the group has performed for over four million fans across 24 countries and six continents, with an especially devoted following in America. With a repertoire that encompasses traditional Irish classics, contemporary songs, classical favorites and originals, their shows are renowned as high-quality entertainment with exceptional musical performances and stunning visual productions, enthralling audiences of all ages.

“Celtic Woman”
 Homecoming
DATE: Tuesday March 13, 2018
TIME: 7:30 p.m.


LOCATION: Times Union Center Performing Arts
      Moran Theater
      300 West Water St.ime
      Jacksonville, FL 32202

TICKETS: start at $56.50 for, plus applicable fees.  They may be purchased at the box office, and also online 24/7 at FSCJ Artist Series ,or by calling (904) 632-5000 between 10 a.m. – 5 p.m., Monday – Friday.  Discounts for groups of 10 + may be available by calling (904) 632-5050.  This event is sponsored by VyStar Credit Union (the official presenter of the Jacksonville show).