{"id":128817,"date":"2026-01-23T05:45:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T05:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/128817\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T05:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T05:45:14","slug":"ludacris-to-headline-the-players-military-appreciation-concert-at-tpc-sawgrass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/128817\/","title":{"rendered":"Ludacris to headline THE PLAYERS&#8217; Military Appreciation Concert at TPC Sawgrass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE PLAYERS says that Ludacris was chosen to preform due to his &#8220;long history of supporting charitable causes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 You better get out of his way, he&#8217;s &#8217;bout to roll out onto the green!<\/p>\n<p>The Players Championship announced Thursday that three-time Grammy Award-winning artist Ludacris will take the stage during their annual Military Appreciation Day on the Island Green.<\/p>\n<p>Each year, THE PLAYERS designates the Tuesday of tournament week as Military Appreciation Day, complete with a ceremony of nationally-ranked dignitaries, military pageantry and a culminating concert. This year, the event will be held on Tuesday, March 10.<\/p>\n<p>THE PLAYERS says that Ludacris was selected as a performer due to his &#8220;long history of supporting charitable causes, aligning with the event\u2019s focus on community and service.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m ready to stand up on the iconic 17th hole\u2014the stage will be epic and the energy will be electric,&#8221; Ludacris said. &#8220;Join me to kick off the best week of the year in Ponte Vedra Beach.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Military Appreciation Day Ceremony will begin at 4:30 p.m., with Ludacris taking the stage right after.<\/p>\n<p>Admission to the concert is free with the purchase of March 10 tickets.<\/p>\n<p>Complimentary and discounted tickets for service members <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theplayers.com\/military\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">will be available to claim<\/a> in early February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE PLAYERS says that Ludacris was chosen to preform due to his &#8220;long history of supporting charitable causes.&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-128817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}