It is with great sadness that we report that the Mike Johnson & The Little Big Band has retired their name, in honor of their long-time bassist Steve Switkin who passed away in late 2020. The band has reformed as Live Stream, and can be seen twice every week at The Trade Winds Tropical Lounge.

With a voice as deep as a hollow and as smooth as glass, Craig Hand is St. Augustine, Florida's best kept secret, having opened for country superstars Montgomery Gentry, being signed to two major record companies, and even appearing on the cover of Playgirl Magazine. Combining alternative rock with traditional country, Craig also performs honky-tonk, commercial country, and outlaw country. He has long been in the music scene after a bull-riding accident pushed him in the direction of a full-time musical career.

The SandSpurs blends folk, jazz, bluegrass, Americana, and old-time traditional genres into a musically colorful performance of expertise and passion. The St. Augustine, Florida duo consists of acoustic guitar fingerstyle prodigy Charley Simmons with the "king of the low-end notes" and Bill Austin on upright bass. Together this pairing holds over five decades of performance experience beneath its belt. Lead vocalist and acoustic fingerstyle guitarist Charley Simmons made St.

Singer-songwriter Grant Peeples was born in Tallahassee and learned the words to every Roger Miller song by his 12th birthday.

He started writing his own songs a few years later. "All I cared about were the songs...As soon as I heard a song I liked, I took it apart, just like some dope kid who gets a new bike for his birthday and starts unbolting and unscrewing before he ever takes it for a ride."

Michael Lagasse is St. Augustine's leader of musical diversity. Adapting to each individual performance setting, Michael has a natural ability to listen intently to the energy of audiences, calling upon his intuition in song choice and delivery time and again. He sometimes even writes on-the-spot instrumentals on stage seemingly out of thin air. Blending folk, Americana, traditional, folk rock, and bluegrass, Michael is constantly turning the musical page, challenging himself to push beyond the norm.

Ask anyone in the music scene about St. Augustine's Bad Dog Mama and the answer will always be the same - they bring the house down. This female duo highlights the power of harmonies, percussive rhythm, and dynamic choice of song. Their body of original work seems as endless as their cover set list, which includes artists from The Talking Heads, Prince, and Nancy Sinatra to The Rolling Stones, Elvis, Amy Winehouse, and The Killers. The freight train of their rhythmic consistency is unmatched, as if the duo is playing to a metronome.

What can you say about a guy who picks up a guitar and two years later wins the Merle Watson Festival Flatpicking Championship?

Another young  North Florida singer songwriter, Savanna Leigh Bassett brings her feelings into her music, in a "playful, sexy and poppy" manner.  Savanna took a year to immerse herself in the music scene in Nashville, and brought her performing and songwriting skills back to her homeland of Jacksonville.