December 2018
RareSong Renaissance Music
11:00 am & 7:00 pm
Since 2014, the singers and players of RareSong have been immersing their audiences in the European background of the early days of Florida’s First Coast by means of their renditions of sophisticated madrigals, motets, fantasias, sea chanteys, dances, and more. Costuming, narration, and drama enhance the instrumental and vocal performances of these professionally trained musicians from the Jacksonville area, who play modern replicas of instruments such as the Cuban musician Pedro Menéndez would have brought with him to St. Augustine when he participated in Sir Francis Drake’s raid on St. Augustine in the late 16th century.
Find out more »Family Holiday Concert : Backtrack Vocals
Backtrack is an award-winning, five-person vocal group based in New York City that explores the power of the human voice through unique vocal arrangements, tight harmonies and world-class beatboxing. They infuse heart and humor into every performance and enhance their vocal-driven performances with guitar and vocal looping elements. Their repertoire includes covers of past and present pop music, original compositions and unexpected genres such as classical and electronic music.
Find out more »January 2019
2019 Outstanding Young Pianist Competition Applications Due
Applications only accepted through this website. Submit your entry HERE.
Find out more »Outstanding Young Pianists Concert
The Friday Musicale Outstanding Young Pianists Competition and Concert showcases the area’s best pre-college pianists. Students from all around the First Coast are nominated by their piano teachers to audition before a committee of judges. Those chosen to be winners perform at a public concert at Friday Musicale.
Find out more »February 2019
4th Annual Fundraising Event : South Seas Adventure
Friday Musicale presents South Seas Adventure. Our 4th Annual Fundraiser will be a musical South Pacific Adventure for the entire family. Enjoy our Blue Hawaiian Cocktail hour followed by a colorful fun filled Dinner Show featuring Prince Pele’s Polynesian Revue. Be amazed and entertained by Prince Pele and his family – His wife Bless, Children and Grandchildren. Prince Pele (Dad) is a true royal descendant of a Samoan Family. He is named after his uncle, a past high-talking chief of…
Find out more »March 2019
Billy Buchanan & Rock ‘n Soul Revue
Watch Billy put on a nonstop, no holds barred show that is an authentic, jaw dropping homage to The Pioneers. Buchanan channels soul greats like Ray Charles, The Drifters, Sam Cooke, James Brown, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jackie Wilson, Stax icons, Motown superstars, and many more with ease. His latest EP, “ShagShuffleShimmyShakeSwing Vol. 1”, was released in January 2018.
Find out more »Danilo Brito – mandolin wizard & master of Brazilian choro
11am & 7pm
Danilo Brito is a youthful voice for a music that is as old as Brazil's national identity. Born in the 19th century in Rio de Janeiro, choro is the child of the same cultural parents that gave rise to ragtime, blues, and jazz in the USA. European forms melded with African ideas to produce a family of fresh, new forms throughout the New World and among them is choro. The literal translation of the word is “to cry,” but its use in naming this music is figurative and points to its emotive power. More often bright than blue, it is marked by syncopation, counterpoint, improvisation, and virtuosity. Knowledge of the form has been passed aurally from generation to generation.
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