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Springing the Blues

Jacksonville Beach, FL · Music

When

April 2–4, 2027

Where

Seawalk Pavilion · Jacksonville Beach · FL

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet

A free three-day blues festival on the oceanfront Seawalk Pavilion stage in Jacksonville Beach, drawing an estimated 125,000 fans over the weekend. It began in 1990 and is Florida's longest-running blues festival. (2027 dates approximate, based on the usual first weekend of April.)

The history within reach

• 26.2 with Donna Marathon Weekendsame spot

  The only marathon in the country dedicated to raising money for metastatic breast cancer research, run along Florida's coastal A1A through Jacksonville's beach communities each February.

• Springing the Bluessame spot

  A free three-day blues festival on the oceanfront Seawalk Pavilion stage in Jacksonville Beach, drawing an estimated 125,000 fans over the weekend.

• The Casa Marina, the first fireproof building on the beach0.2 mi

  Hoteliers Gene Zapf and Francis Spinner opened the Casa Marina in 1925 at the top of the Florida land boom, to a Spanish Mediterranean design by the firm Marsh and Saxelbye.

• Freebird Live, the Van Zant family's music room at the beach0.4 mi

  Judy and Melody Van Zant opened the Freebird Cafe one block off the ocean in September 1999, named for the Lynyrd Skynyrd song Ronnie Van Zant sang.

• The Volunteer Life Saving Corps, first of its kind in the country0.4 mi

  A drowning in 1912 pushed Dr.