Admission – $10 donation at the door

Jannus Live has just announced that anyone that eats at The Kitchen St. Pete before any Jannus show will be guaranteed vip entry (not access) to the show…no waiting in the GA line with ticket purchase! For more details on The Kitchen, including menu and reservation information, click here. 

Donavon Frankenreiter, everyone’s favorite surfer/pop-folkie, makes his much-anticipated return to the courtyard. His most recent appearance, last summer, was a major success, with the easygoing singer/songwriter bringing the good vibes throughout. (cont.)

When Donavon was 10 years old, he got his first surfboard. Six years later, he picked up his first guitar. It was the beginning of a wildly creative journey: His improvisational twin obsessions have carried him around the globe and into his fans’ hearts. The 37-year-old singer/songwriter/pro surfer admits he still thrives on simply taking the plunge. “We don’t have a set show, if we did, I would go crazy,” he says. “You never know what’s going to happen. I love that element of surprise with music and surfing — you never catch the same wave twice.”

The Jannus Live stage will be featuring some remarkable talent in support of this cause. The headlining band, The Hip Abduction, has performed at Jannus many times before, never failing to perfectly deliver their unique upbeat melodies and rhythms to inspire and infuse the crowd with a high-energy, positive vibe. A blend of world, rock, soul, afro-beat, and reggae – just to name a few, The Hip Abduction’s style features tight drumming coupled with a strong melodic groove structure at the core of each tune. Spiritual Rez, known for their high energy reggae horn dance parties, along with local acts Tahoe Fox and Automatic Heat will be gracing the stage before The Hip Abduction.

Doors are at 6pm with tickets $10 in advance and $15 at the door, proceeds benefiting the foundation. Please come enjoy the music and show your support. Your involvement in this event means giving Suzanne and other like her hope and immense help in their fight against brain cancer.

We’ll see you on Saturday!

Written by Eugenia M. Merkoulov

Gulfster.com, the widely visited Gulf Coast surf report site, is set to celebrate its 10th year in business on Saturday, August 11 at Jannus Live. The free, all-ages, concert will showcase five of the most popular Florida bands of the Reggae/Rock genre, feature the surf videography work of Tony Coleman, and offer giveaways to attendees both by Gulfster.com and local area surf shops. The band line up is as follows: Resinated, The Sheffield Crew, Kayavibe, Sidereal, and The Crazy Carls.

Gulfster.com began as the joint effort of local surfers Ryan Clapper and Dan Putnam – on July 17th, 2002, after a surf-friendly  winter season on the Gulf Coast. That same year the entire surf industry enjoyed a major boom after Hollywood released the surf-centric blockbuster “Blue Crush.”- Ryan recalls, “Everyone and their mother wanted to surf, everyone hit the shops to buy a board, get surf lessons, etc.” Then in the summer of 2005 the Gulf experienced a massive string of hurricanes, bringing widespread attention to the reports and photos that the site was publishing online. Ryan notes, “As the storms went off, so did the traffic. If there’s a hurricane in the Gulf, the whole world’s logging on.”

This past year the company has entered into a whole new chapter with Gulfster Presents, the concert and event production arm of Gulfster.com. Dedicated to bringing the Gulf Coast the best in concerts and events that celebrate surf culture, Gulfster Presents has already made a big splash in the local area with The Reggae Sunday Spring Concert Series at Jannus Live this past April. Along with Tommy Daniels’ dedication and consistency in managing the daily report from Anna Maria Island, the forecast is looking quite swell for Gulfster.

The 10th Year Party will be held at Jannus Live in downtown St. Petersburg on Saturday, August 11th, with doors opening at 7pm. For more information visit www.gulfster.com.

Touring with Beres Hammond is 9Tomorrows, an “alt-reggae-dance-rock” experiment sure to tease the musical tastes of many. The band consists of David Kellogg and Stephen Helvig on guitar, Dax Young with the vocals, and Jai Bowie on bass. Each has a unique and extensive musical history, allowing for a fusion of talent that produces a professionally complex yet laid back reggae-rock sound.

Positive vibrations are a guarantee this Sunday at the Jannus Live courtyard. Doors are at 7pm and the show is at 8pm. See you there!

For more info about the artists, check out the following links:
www.facebook.com/OneBeresHammond
www.9TomorrowsBand.com

Written by Eugenia Merkoulov

The Jannus Live stage will be featuring some remarkable talent in support of this cause. The headlining band, The Hip Abduction, has performed at Jannus many times before, never failing to perfectly deliver their unique upbeat melodies and rhythms to inspire and infuse the crowd with a high-energy, positive vibe. A blend of world, rock, soul, afro-beat, and reggae – just to name a few, The Hip Abduction’s style features tight drumming coupled with a strong melodic groove structure at the core of each tune. Spiritual Rez, known for their high energy reggae horn dance parties, along with local acts Tahoe Fox and Automatic Heat will be gracing the stage before The Hip Abduction.

Doors are at 6pm with tickets $10 in advance and $15 at the door, proceeds benefiting the foundation. Please come enjoy the music and show your support. Your involvement in this event means giving Suzanne and other like her hope and immense help in their fight against brain cancer.

We’ll see you on Saturday!

Written by Eugenia M. Merkoulov

The Saw Doctors, formed in 1986 in Tuam, County Galway, have achieved eighteen Top 30 singles in Ireland, including three number ones. Renowned for their live performances, the band has a cult following, especially in Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. They grace the Jannus courtyard Saturday, February 25th.

Opening support from The Ditchflowers.

Free Admission — No ticket necessary / Guitar Hero Tournament / Doors open at 7

Live Music: Paint the Town Red

Jannus Live presents a whole new and novel way to spend your summer Thursday nights. We call it, simply, the Hang. It’s a mixture of games, drink specials, live music, ballgames on a giant screen and more, all adding up to pure fun.

• A Guitar Hero Tournament that takes place on stage with a big-screen and heavy amplitude.

• Beer Pong (need we say more?)

• Cornhole, more

DRINK SPECIALS: $2 domestic drafts; $3 Bombay Sapphires; $4 Jager Bombs

w/Absolute Queen and just added: KISS America (opening)

FREE SHOW — No ticket needed, Gates open at 8 pm

Back a few months, we brought in this double bill of tribute bands and they crushed it, riling up the big crowd — even though it was like 40 degrees in the courtyard. For this encore performance on First Friday, we can expect a much more comfy night, and we can expect these bands to bring the heat just like the last time. Highway to Hell will be fresh off an appearance at an international AC/DC festival in Lima, Peru (June 25), so we can expect them to be even more inspired than usual!

Don’t miss the double bill of Highway To Hell: The Ultimate AC/DC Experience, and Absolute Queen: The Ultimate Tribute to Queen. It’sgonna be a heavy night combining ’70s crunch and glam, operatic high notes, skyscraper shrieks, monster beats and nasty guitar riffs. Nothing but hit after hit after hit.