Go | Here’s who’s playing in Jax this week

There’s lots of great live music on this week’s concert calendar. Here’s a list of what JME contributors want to see and hear in and around Jacksonville this week.

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Soul 

Gladys Knight – Wednesday, February 3 

Florida Theatre | Downtown Jax 

Seven-time GRAMMY winner and undisputed “Empress of Soul” Gladys Knight (sans The Pips) will bring her songbook of chart-smashing hits, including “Midnight Train to Georgia” to the Florida Theatre on Wednesday. 

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Alt-Country 

The Kernal – Saturday, February 5 

Jack Rabbits | San Marco 

Tennessee musician The Kernal describes his sound as diet country. Certainly his fairly raucous variety of twang doesn’t fit neatly into the confines of alt-country. Whatever it is, it’s worth seeing and hearing when The Kernal visits Jack Rabbits on Saturday. 

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Folk

Billy Prine – Sunday, February 6

Ponte Vedra Concert Hall | Ponte Vedra

Brother of the late John Prine, Billy Prine will tell stories and play songs from his sibling’s catalog at the Ponte Vedra Concert Hall on Sunday. 

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Punk 

The Queers – Sunday, February 6 

Jack Rabbits | San Marco 

Enduring Portsmouth pop-punk pioneers, The Queers, visit Jack Rabbits on Sunday as part of their 40-year anniversary tour, celebrating four decades of cranking out thrashy Ramones-style bops. 

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