{"id":409702,"date":"2026-09-24T22:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T22:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/409702\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T22:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T22:26:11","slug":"blues-brews-and-bbq-fans-turn-out-to-support-historic-florida-theater-free-press-of-jacksonville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/409702\/","title":{"rendered":"Blues, Brews and BBQ Fans Turn Out to Support Historic Florida Theater \u2013 Free Press of Jacksonville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image000001-18-678x381.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image000001 (18)\"\/><br \/>\nAmong those enjoying the festivities were Blues, Brews &amp; Bourbon and BBQ Fans (L-R) Alacie Whigham and Chantell Mitchell.<\/p>\n<p>Good food, cold brews, bourbon and the blues brought supporters together for a cause as the 13th annual Blues, Brews, Bourbon &amp; BBQ raised more than $47,000 for the historic Florida Theatre.<\/p>\n<p>The fundraiser at Bowing Oaks. Bowing Oaks drew guests for an evening of live music, unlimited local barbeque, craft beer and a curated selection of bourbon. Entertainment included performances by The Beale Street Band and Neil Dixon &amp; Smokestack. The event marked the fourth year the fundraiser was held at Bowing Oaks.\u00a0 Proceeds supported the nonprofit Florida Theatre\u2019s work to preserve the historic venue and continue bringing entertainment to Jacksonville.\u00a0 Florida Theater Interim President\/VP of Programming Kevin Stone thanked sponsors, vendors, members and supporters, saying every contribution helped further the Theatre\u2019s mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Among those enjoying the festivities were Blues, Brews &amp; Bourbon and BBQ Fans (L-R) Alacie Whigham and Chantell&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-409702","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\/409702","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=409702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}