The street and music festival portion of the 450th commemoration is scheduled for Friday – Sunday, September 4-6. Over 80 separate acts will serve up more than 60 hours of free entertainment over three days, scattered over five stages throughout downtown St. Augustine.
The main festival stage home to the weekend headliners will be located facing the bayfront, with a viewing area spanning from the fort to the marina. Additional stages are located throughout downtown at the following locations as identified on the map below: Plaza Gazebo, Aviles Street, Hypolita Street, and Colonial Quarter.
ENTERTAINMENT SCHEDULE
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4
Bayfront Main Stage
6:00pm People Helping People Gospel Choir
6:45pm Mavis Staples
8:30pm Aaron Neville
Plaza Stage
3:00pm Jim Sloan, bagpiper, performing traditional jigs, reels, and marches
3:15pm “Eli” Grimes, singer/songwriter of “1565” performing his original composition
3:40pm Fort Mose Historical Society with a “Flight to Freedom” presentation
4:25pm West African Drum Circles of St Augustine sharing the beat of drum circles
4:55pm Stanley Alston
5:25pm El Conjunto Tropical
Hypolita Street Stage
3:00pm Ramona Quimby Band
3:50pm The Rubies
4:40pm Sea Floor Explosions
5:30pm Red River Band
7:00pm The Falling Bones
Colonial Quarter Stage
3:00pm T. Martin Band
3:40pm Shea Birney
4:20pm Rob Peck
5:00pm Dewey Via
5:40pm Michael Jordan
6:20pm Emma Moseley Band
7:15pm Trio of Boom
Aviles Street Festival
1:00pm The House Cats
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5
Bayfront Main Stage
5:30pm Nicki Bluhm & The Gramblers
6:30pm Justin Townes Earle
7:45pm JJ Grey & Mofro
9:30pm Emmylou Harris w/ Rodney Crowell
Plaza Stage
11:00am St. Johns County Public Schools’ combined school choral performance of “God Bless St. Augustine”
11:40am Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind’s dance troupe
12:20pm Renaissance Band’s pre-1750 instrumental music
12:50pm Greek Orthodox Shrine featuring traditional Greek dancers and musicians
1:30pm Brent Byrd
2:00pm Tejedor
3:00pm Alexandra in Grey
4:00pm The Morrigans
4:50pm Menorcan Cultural Society featuring traditional dancers and singers
Hypolita Street Stage
11:00am Harp of Hope, featuring Diane Schneider, harpist
11:30am The Gatorbone Band
12:20pm Aslyn & the Naysayers
1:10pm Amy Hendrickson
2:00pm Chelsea Saddler
2:50pm Addi & Jacq
3:40pm Billy Buchanan
4:30pm Laurel Lee & the Escapees
5:20pm Sam Pacetti
6:10pm The Springfields
7:00pm Paradox
Colonial Quarter Stage
11:00am Jeffrey Spear, author, “The First Coast Heritage Cookbook,” with a colonial cooking demonstration
11:50am Germaine Veronica
12:40am The Sand Fleas / Hunter Miller
1:30pm Kenny and the Jets
2:20pm Rivernecks
3:10pm The Wild Shiners
4:00pm The WillowWacks
4:50pm Lonesome Bert & the Skinny Lizards
5:40pm The Wobbly Toms
6:30pm Complicated Animals
7:20pm Ancient City Slickers
Aviles Street Festival
11:00am The Three Amigos of Ancient
11:40pm Fuego Flamenco
12:00pm Luis Mario Band
1:00pm Flamenco Dancers of the St. Augustine Dance Company
3:00pm Fiesta de Avilés
FIREWORKS ON THE BAY
10:30/11-ish pm
Remember those epic 4th of July Fireworks? Well they’re happening again as soon as the music ends on the main stage Saturday night. They will be launched along the bayfront so those watching main stage performances will have an up-close view.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 6
Plaza Stage
12:00pm A1A Blues Band
12:40pm St. Augustine Line Dancers perform dances with a bit of waltz, mambo, tango
1:20pm Island Duet
Hypolita Street Stage
12:00pm Gary Campbell
12:45pm Scott Sweet
1:30pm Colton McKenna
2:15pm Jim Johnston
Colonial Quarter Stage
12:00pm Collapsible B
12:50pm Salt Driven Ride
1:40pm Herd of Watts
2:30pm I-Vibes
3:30pm Love Chunk
Aviles Street Festival
11:00am Elizabeth Roth
11:40am Obscure Brothers
12:20pm Joe Schauer
1:00pm Latin Jazz
1:00pm Sangria Sunday
KIDZONE
Located in the heart of the festival on the west side of the Plaza de la Constitución in front of the Government House (on St. George Street between Cathedral Place and King Street). The area features include: face painting; sandbox; history touch boxes and archaeological dig boxes provided by the Fountain of Youth; dog station, for well behaved dogs on leashes to cool down; beach chairs; misters; family weekend giveaway.
Friday, September 4th from 3pm to 7pm
Saturday, September 5th from 11am to 7pm
Sunday, September 6th from 12pm to 2pm
For a look at more 450 happenings, check out our 450th guide online.
Illustrations by Andrew Scott Wilson. View our Unofficial Official Guide to the 450th, in our August/September 2015 print issue of St. Augustine Social Magazine.
