Pierre Kendrick is a gifted saxophone player from Jacksonville, Florida who’s sound is a mix of smooth jazz, gospel, soul, and R&B.
From Jacksonville, Florida, Pierre Kendrick has been performing for over twenty years with numerous local and national musicians. Kendrick draws from his very spirit and soul and his audience can feel the heart of his music.
Hailing from Jacksonville, Florida, Clay Benjamin is a fusion of jazz, blues, gospel, and rock.
Clay Benjamin discovered his love of music when he first heard a cassette tape of The Yellow Jackets. Clay Benjamin grew up listening solely to gospel music, but when he heard the sounds of contemporary fusion jazz he was introduced to a whole new world of music he had never heard before.
A three-piece cover band from the ancient city of St. Augustine.
Paper City Hustlers is a trio specializing in entertainment by playing renditions of everyone's favorite hits with their own musical twist. They cover any top tunes from reggae, country, classic rock and more. The band can be booked for weddings and other private events. They compose specific playlists for their performances and go through great lengths to ensure that their service is impeccable and memorable for anyone's special day.
Award-winning songwriter, musician, and music producer Lucio Rubino brings a contemporary and soulful piece to St. Augustine’s musical puzzle.
Lucio Rubino is St. Augustine, Florida's coat of many colors, bearing the titles of award-winning songwriter, award-winning musician, music producer, and music engineer. Lucio is certainly a center block in the foundation of the musical platform of St. Augustine. He played bass guitar on Paramore's All We Know is Falling and was lead singer of Christian rock group StorySide:B, an act that earned him BMI's "Top 5 Most Played Songs on Christian Radio" in 2008. He also owns and operates his own music studio, Fish Tank Studios, which produced Manic Drive's latest record.
Dubbed by locals as St. Augustine’s “entertainer of entertainers,” Henry Joe Solo will be greatly missed.
It is with great sadness that we report that Henry Joe Solo Murphy passed away in December of 2020, at the age of 57. Henry had a great career in music, including years performing with Henry and the Seahawks. Here in St. Augustine, he was billed as "Henry Joe Solo". Henry leaves behind mom, sisters, his beloved daughters, and Banjo, his dog — plus fans from Nashville to Atlanta to St. Augustine and well beyond.
The two loves of TJ Brown's life are writing songs and performing live.
Bouncing around North Florida from coast to coast, TJ Brown gets to do the two things he loves most: write songs and perform live. Music took over his interest in sports while still in school, and he never looked back. By the age of 20, TJ had recorded his first studio CD, and he did the find-yourself-in-California thing only to come back to the Sunshine State to put together his poetry writing and song composition to bring his joy to listeners across the state.
TJ plays every month at the Cellar Upstairs in St. Augustine.
St. Augustine’s Gary Douglas Campbell, an original troubadour of the music scene, carries the torch of decades of classic rock, folk, Americana, pop, blues, and his own original body of work.
An acoustic alchemist, Gary Douglas Campbell is St. Augustine's shape-shifting troubadour, capable of morphing into any genre acoustically and vocally. There is no "try" when it comes Gary Douglas Campbell. He just does; and does it well. From classic rock and rock and roll to folk, Americana, blues, pop, and his own original material, Gary Douglas Campbell leaves no door closed in terms of genre. His live performance is ever-changing as Gary is consistently learning and writing new material.
Innovative and inspiring, St. Augustine’s Beautiful Bobby Blackmon is a guitar-wielding, note-shredding, torch-carrying local blues legend with a sultry, warm, voice that could warm a winter day and beckon the sun during storms.
St. Augustine's Beautiful Bobby Blackmon has such a handle on his instrument it's a wonder he has stayed a local secret for this long. Showcasing a variety of rock and roll and rhythm and blues paired up with electric, Southern, soul, gospel, delta, Memphis, and Chicago blues, Bobby has mastered both his instrument and genre. The way Bobby is able to precisely pinpoint which particular variety of blues he is playing showcases the different styles that encompass the genre.
St. Augustine’s Ancient City Keepers is a trio of tasteful funk, rhythm and blues, soul, pop, and good old-fashioned rock and roll. Electrifying and honest, the ensemble ranges from a dance band to a master of ballads.
Ask any local about Ancient City Keepers and the response will be the same: this ensemble will make you laugh and cry. The trio has an uncanny ability to bring crowds in St. Augustine, Florida to dance out their demons while at the same time connecting you with their vulnerability. In short, diversity is the name of the game. Using funk, rhythm and blues, soul, pop, Americana, folk, and rock and roll, The Ancient City Keepers are all over the map, seemingly circling the states thrice around in one evening of music. This trio is an experience.
A husband and wife jazz duo that incorporates a range of other genres.
Using raw emotion to create an atmosphere of spiritual and emotional divinity, St. Augustine's The Skinny is the epitome of a 1920 no-holding-backs jazz duet with a wholehearted performance style. The duo blends swing and jazz with Americana, gypsy, folk, country, and traditional genres to create a style that sounds old and new, simultaneously. This married duo, Taylor and Pamela Fausset, equally contribute their own writing style to the project, musically and lyrically.
