Hurricane Matthew Postpones the Amelia Island Jazz Festival
Please note that due to the potential impact of Hurricane Matthew, the Amelia Island Jazz Festival has been postponed for November 2-6 in Fernandina Beach,
Festivals
Save the Date – Shrimp Festival 2017
The 2017 Isle of Eight Flags Shrimp Festival begins on Thursday, May 4th, with the popular Pirate Parade that starts promptly at 6:00 p.m.
2016 Amelia Island Jazz Festival Kicks-Off
Amelia Island Jazz Festival headliners, Houston Person and Bria Skonberg, are both coming from New York. Here is the line up for 2016:
Les DeMerle Hosting Let’s Talk Jazz
Drummer and bandleader extraordinaire Les DeMerle, the Amelia Island Jazz Festival’s Artistic Director, will host “Let’s Talk Jazz,” a lively discussion of the music he loves, at Nassau Health Foods
New Literary Award for Exhibiting Authors at 2017 Book Festival
Coming from all over the country, some of the authors already had achieved bestseller fame, while others were new names just making their mark in the literary world.
Violinist Itzhak Perlman Opens 2017 Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival
Internationally Renowned Violinist Itzhak Perlman Opens 2017 Season of Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival in February
Learn How to Participate in Dickens on Centre 2016
Dickens on Centre transforms downtown Fernandina into a classic English village, sure to enliven your Christmas spirit. Think chestnuts roasting, carolers strolling, and readings of ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas.
FSCJ Now Accepting Applications for 2016 JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival
JaxbyJax aims to showcase our community’s thriving writing scene by sharing with the city its own literary voice through local writers, including FSCJ faculty and staff.
Book Festival Announces Dream Team of Bestselling Authors
Mark your calendars for the “dream team” of literary superstars headed to Amelia Island, February 16 – 18, 2017, as the area celebrates the 16th Annual Amelia Island Book Festival
Amelia Island Jazz Festival Names 216 Scholarship Winner
18 year old Thomas Milovac, a gifted bassist from Clermont, Florida, will be honored with a college scholarship from the Amelia Island Jazz Festival
Amelia Island Book Festival Brings R.L. Stine to Amelia Island
Mark your calendars for the “dream team” of literary superstars headed to Amelia Island, February 16 – 18, 2017 as the area celebrates the 16th Annual Amelia Island Book Festival (AIBF).
Shrimp Festival 2016 Slide Show
If you missed the 2016 Isle of Eight Flags Shrimp Festival, or just want to relive some of the wonderful moments, check out this fantastic slide show by Peggy and Helmut Albrecht.
Tim Driscoll brings The Lengths to Rendezvous Festival
The Film Festival Awards are piling up for this coming of age, hipster road trip, co-written by Joel Russo and Tim Driscoll.
Bounty Momma Always Gets Her Man
This reality parody brings the viewer inside the day to day of a dysfunctional family business that turns otherwise mundane bounty escapades into mayhem and madness.
2016 Rendezvous Film Festival
Rendezvous Film Festival is excited to host RJ Cyler who has starred in “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl,” “War Machine,” and the upcoming Power Rangers movie, where he will play Billy, the Blue Ranger!