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Three free nights at the roller rink, and the Amp shuttle quits early

Flipturn starts at 7:30 tonight and the after-party door at the rink is at 11, and the Amp does not publish a time for the bit in between. Three free all-ages nights at Ponce De Le Rollin, a free Jejune show at Sarbez on Saturday, a free record fair Sunday, and a high rip current risk through late Saturday night.

By Dez March September 25, 2026

Start with the bus, because the bus is what will strand you.

Parking free at the Amp means parking at Anastasia State Park or the soccer field at R.B. Hunt and riding the shuttle in. That is a real free, run by Old Town Trolley, both lots inside a mile. It starts an hour before gates and it stops an hour after the event ends.

The Amp does not publish an end time.

Flipturn goes on at 7:30 tonight. The after-party door up the road is at 11. Between those two numbers there is a shuttle whose last run is pinned to something nobody printed, so if you are doing both, do not plan on being driven back to your car.

Drive to the rink. Or walk it. Or park once, on Anastasia, and stay between the two.

Paid parking on site is Beaver Toyota Premium Parking, it is very limited, it sells out, and you buy it ahead at the box office or on axs.com. That lot opens two hours before gates.

One time to get right tonight. The Old City calendar has Flipturn at 8 and the Amp’s own events list says 7:30. Go by the venue.

The rink, and all three nights are free

The Amp After Parties are at Ponce De Le Rollin, 201 Anastasia Boulevard, tonight through Sunday. Free. All ages. No skating, and the festival says so in capital letters.

Friday and Saturday the doors are at 11 p.m. and the show runs 11:30 to 2 a.m. Sunday it moves up: doors 7:30, show 8 to 10.

Who is playing it

Friday. Armadillo Operator and Pocket Knife Dance Party. Both local. They go on after Flipturn.

Saturday. The Smiths (Robert), a Cure cover band from Northeast Florida. That is the festival’s own description of them and nobody typed it wrong. Dan Andriano of Alkaline Trio DJs it, and Alkaline Trio is on the Amp bill the same night.

Sunday. Sasha Bloom on the decks, Teresa Rose solo acoustic, and Slippers headlining out of Brooklyn. Done by ten.

The other free one, and it is the show of the weekend

Jejune and Pohgoh at Sarbez, 115 Anastasia Boulevard, Saturday. Doors 7, show 8. Free, all ages, no ticket. Get there for the doors.

Jejune formed at Berklee in 1996 and broke up in 2000. Two records on Big Wheel Recreation, a split with Jimmy Eat World, a run through Japan on the Sakura Nights tour, reissues from the Numero Group, and all three original members are in the band that plays Anastasia Boulevard on Saturday. The festival says twenty-seven years apart and calls this the first Florida show in nearly three decades.

If you were not born yet, that is the reason to go.

Sarbez runs to 2 a.m. Friday and Saturday and is kid friendly until eight. Over thirty-five arcade games, all of them on quarters and dollar bills, and there is a change machine so you do not have to ask.

Sunday, records

The record fair is at the Amp, 11 to 5, free, put on by Tonevendor. DJ Josh Aaron opens at 11, Toxic Cats go on at noon, Bears and Lions at 1:30, and Josh Aaron comes back from 3 to 5.

Dozens of vendors, screen printing on site, food trucks. Six hours of it. The page says times can change.

If you want one with a cover on it

Flipturn with Winyah, the Amp, 7:30 tonight. Rise Against with Alkaline Trio and Teen Mortgage, the Amp, 7 p.m. Saturday.

Both ticketed. Neither price is printed on the events list, so that is a trip to axs.com before you know what you are spending.

Prohibition Kitchen has two sets a night all weekend and no cover on the door in any of this. The Collective at 6 and Paper City Hustlers at 10 tonight. Good Pluck Trio at 6 and Marhsall Horn at 10 Saturday. Pili Pili at 6 Sunday.

Football, and one of the three is here

Ponte Vedra at Bartram Trail, 7 p.m., Bear Stadium. The schools’ own calendars put that one in St. Johns and it is the only one of the three that is.

Creekside is at Sandalwood, 6:30, Dennis Bartley Field on John Prom Boulevard in Jacksonville. Menendez is at Wolfson, 6:30, Wolfpack Stadium.

Mostly clear tonight, 67, north wind gusting to 24.

Saturday, which is where everybody ends up

Sunny, and a high near 79. Go.

Then read this part before you get in the water. The National Weather Service has a high rip current risk in force for coastal St. Johns through late Saturday night, and a high surf advisory until 2 a.m. Saturday with breakers of six to nine feet. The advisory’s own words are dangerous swimming and surfing conditions and localized beach erosion, and its instruction is that inexperienced swimmers stay out.

So it is a beach day and not a swimming day. Skip the water.

Sunny has nothing to do with it.

Free Saturday morning if you are up for it: the Amphitheatre farmers market at 8:30 and the GTM beach cleanup at 9, out at the research reserve. Both listed free.

Documents this story is built on

Sing Out Loud Festival, Amp After Parties event page , Retrieved Sept. 25, 2026. Source of the venue Ponce De Le Rollin, the dates September 25 to 27, the FREE EVENT label, and each night's lineup and times as the festival prints them: Friday, local acts Armadillo Operator and Pocket Knife Dance Party, doors at 11:00 PM, show 11:30 PM to 2:00 AM; Saturday, The Smiths (Robert), described as Northeast Florida's The Cure cover band, joined by a DJ set from Alkaline Trio's Dan Andriano, doors at 11:00 PM, show 11:30 PM to 2:00 AM; Sunday, a DJ set from Sasha Bloom, a solo acoustic set from local artist Teresa Rose and a headlining performance from Brooklyn indie rock band Slippers, doors at 7:30 PM, show 8:00 to 10:00 PM. Also the source of the lines reading that all three nights are free and open to all ages, and that there will be no roller skating during the After Parties
Sing Out Loud Festival, Jejune and Pohgoh event page , Retrieved Sept. 25, 2026. Source of the venue Sarbez at 115 Anastasia Blvd, the date Saturday Sept. 26, the 8:00 PM start and 7:00 PM doors, the free and open to all ages line, and the festival's own statement that the band is reunited after 27 years apart and brings its first Florida show in nearly three decades. Also the source of the 1996 formation at Berklee and the 2000 break-up
Sing Out Loud Festival, St. Augustine Record Fair event page , Retrieved Sept. 25, 2026. Source of the date Sept. 27, the 11:00 AM start, the free event ticket-price line, the presenter Tonevendor Records, the line about dozens of vendors, onsite screen-printing and food trucks, and the printed set times: 11:00AM to 12:00PM DJ Josh Aaron, 12:00PM to 1:00PM Toxic Cats, 1:30PM to 2:30PM Bears and Lions, 3:00PM to 5:00PM DJ Josh Aaron, with the page's own note that artists, dates and times are subject to change
St. Augustine Amphitheatre, upcoming events , Retrieved Sept. 25, 2026. Source of the venue's own start times, which are the ones used here: Friday Sept. 25, Flipturn with special guest Winyah, event starts 7:30 PM; Saturday Sept. 26, Rise Against with special guests Alkaline Trio and Teen Mortgage, event starts 7:00 PM; Sunday Sept. 27, St. Augustine Record Fair, marked Free Event, event starts 11:00 AM. No ticket price is printed on the events list for either concert
St. Augustine Amphitheatre, Directions and Parking , Retrieved Sept. 25, 2026. Source of the on-site Beaver Toyota Premium Parking being very limited, sold in advance at the box office or on axs.com and opening two hours before gates, and of the free satellite parking and shuttle at Anastasia State Park and the R.B. Hunt Elementary School Soccer Field, courtesy of Old Town Trolley Tours of St. Augustine, each located within one mile of the venue, with the shuttle beginning 60 minutes before gate time and running for up to 60 minutes after the event ends
National Weather Service Jacksonville, active alerts, coastal St. Johns County , Retrieved 2026-09-25T06:01Z. The alerts in force name Northeast Coastal St. Johns and Southeast Coastal St. Johns in their area description. The High Rip Current Risk runs through late Saturday night. The High Surf Advisory runs until 2 AM EDT Saturday and the alert text gives large breaking waves of 6 to 9 feet. The alert's IMPACTS text reads dangerous swimming and surfing conditions and localized beach erosion, and its instruction text reads that inexperienced swimmers should remain out of the water due to dangerous surf conditions
National Weather Service Jacksonville, St. Augustine gridpoint forecast , Issued 2026-09-25T04:51:30Z. Source of Friday Night, mostly clear with a low around 67 and north wind 8 to 16 mph gusting to 24 and a 0 percent chance of precipitation, and of Saturday, sunny with a high near 79 falling to around 77 in the afternoon
Sarbez, the bar's own site , Retrieved Sept. 25, 2026. Source of the address 115 Anastasia Blvd, the hours 12P to 12A Sunday through Thursday and 12P to 2A Friday and Saturday, the line reading kid friendly until 8P, and the lines reading that the arcade has over 35 games, that all of the games take quarters and dollar bills, and that there is an ATM and a quarter machine
Prohibition Kitchen live music calendar subscription , Retrieved Sept. 25, 2026. An ICS feed whose DTSTART values are UTC and carry a Z, converted to Eastern here. Source of The Collective at 6 p.m. and Paper City Hustlers at 10 p.m. Friday, Good Pluck Trio at 6 p.m. and Marhsall Horn at 10 p.m. Saturday, and Pili Pili at 6 p.m. Sunday. The room's own spelling of each name is kept
Old City events calendar , Retrieved Sept. 25, 2026. Source of the Amphitheatre Farmers Market on Saturday at 8:30 a.m., listed free to attend, and the GTM Beach Cleanup on Saturday at 9 a.m., listed free, at the GTM Research Reserve. Also the source of the Ponce De Le Rollin street address, 201 Anastasia Blvd., of the after-party start and end windows on each of the three dates as that calendar carries them, and of this calendar's own start time of 20:00 for Flipturn, which is the 8 p.m. the copy sets against the venue's 7:30
FloridaHSFootball.com statewide scoreboard, Week 6, 2026 season , Retrieved Sept. 25, 2026. Source of tonight's three county kickoffs, their 6:30, 6:30 and 7:00 PM start times, the venues Dennis Bartley Field, Wolfpack Stadium and Bear Stadium, and the Dennis Bartley Field address at 2750 John Prom Blvd. in Jacksonville

Dez March

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