Four friends who met at a beach nightclub spent four years and nearly five million dollars turning a 1904 ship chandlery into downtown Jacksonville's missing venue. Decca Live at 323 East Bay Street, between Market and Liberty streets in the riverfront entertainment district known as The Elbow, opened with a sold-out Kaskade show on 31 January 2025. Owners Eric Fuller, Evan Rajita, Aleksander Lukaj and Shawn Rouf - who met at the former Jacksonville Beach club Freebird Live - bought the historic.....

The Rolling Stones opened it in 1995 before the Jaguars had ever kicked off a season there. EverBank Stadium at 1 EverBank Stadium Drive in downtown Jacksonville rose on the site of the old Gator Bowl stadium - a structure dating to 1927 that was almost entirely demolished and rebuilt in nineteen months, keeping only a portion of the 1948 west upper deck, in a 134-million-dollar sprint to be ready for the expansion Jaguars' 1995 debut. The name has churned with the banking industry - Jacksonvil.....

Florida heard its first talking picture in this building in 1927; now the same walls carry touring rock at 1,250 capacity. FIVE, at 1028 Park Street in Jacksonville's Five Points district, is the 2025 rebirth of the historic Riverside Theater - later the 5 Points Theatre and Sun-Ray Cinema - a room that has cycled through nearly a century of entertainment lives in the heart of the Riverside-Avondale neighbourhood. The theatre opened in March 1927 as the first in Florida equipped for talkies, an.....

A juvenile court judge sat in the audience with arrest warrants drafted, watching Elvis Presley's hips for anything too suggestive - the six sold-out shows of August 1956 remain the most famous nights this room has seen. The Florida Theatre at 128 East Forsyth Street in downtown Jacksonville opened on 8 April 1927, a Mediterranean Revival movie palace built on the site of an old police station and hailed by the next morning's paper as "a palace of dreams." Designed by R. E. Hall and Company wit.....

Paramore played this room on the way up; so did Jason Isbell - and 25 years on, the little San Marco club is still the stage where Jacksonville meets the next big thing. Jack Rabbits, at 1528 Hendricks Avenue in Jacksonville's San Marco district, opened in February 1999 and remains the city's essential 300-capacity independent venue. Anne and Tim Hall, transplants from San Diego, built the club on a simple formula: cold beer, quality live sound, and music most nights of the week. Anne owns the .....

Twelve-inch-thick walls, no curtains, no fly tower, no wings - nothing in this room exists except for the sound. Robert E. Jacoby Symphony Hall, inside the Jacksonville Center for the Performing Arts at 300 Water Street on the downtown riverfront, is northeast Florida's purpose-built orchestral hall and the home of the Jacksonville Symphony. The hall was the prize of the 1995-97 rebuild of Jacksonville's 1962 Civic Auditorium: a 35-million-dollar project under the city's River City Renaissance .....

Jacksonville's big stage has carried everything from Elvis to Hamilton: the Jim and Jan Moran Theater, the 2,910-seat mainstage of the Jacksonville Center for the Performing Arts at 300 West Water Street, is the First Coast's home for touring Broadway, headline concerts, opera and ballet. The bones date to 1962, when the Jacksonville Civic Auditorium opened on riverfront land bulkheaded out of the St. Johns; its 3,200-seat main hall spent three decades as the city's premier stage. The 1995-97 R.....

Operating from a central pickup point on the bustling Jacksonville Landing waterfront, Jacksonville City Tours is the principal narrated sightseeing tour operator covering the largest city by area in the contiguous United States. The company offers a thoughtfully curated programme of guided tours by both coach and on-foot, providing visitors with an accessible introduction to a sprawling and surprisingly varied destination on the St. Johns River in north-east Florida. The flagship Discover Jack.....

Fourteen Doric columns that once welcomed 20,000 rail passengers a day now front a convention hall. The Prime F. Osborn III Convention Center at 1000 Water Street in downtown Jacksonville is a 265,000-square-foot events complex built into the former Jacksonville Union Terminal, the Neoclassical Revival station that opened on 17 November 1919 as the largest railroad terminal in the American South. Architect Kenneth M. Murchison - who also designed Baltimore's Penn Station - gave the terminal a m.....

Duke Ellington and a young Ray Charles played this corner when the neighbourhood was called the Harlem of the South. The Ritz Theatre at 829 North Davis Street in Jacksonville's LaVilla district opened in September 1929, an Art Deco house by local architect Jefferson Powell that became the primary stage of one of the South's great Black entertainment quarters and a key stop on the Chitlin' Circuit. LaVilla thrived from the 1920s through the 1960s as a dense district of theatres, clubs and board.....