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Fogerty and Winwood play the Amphitheatre at 7 tonight

Friday, Sept. 18. The free thing starts at 6 and runs to Sunday. Kickoff is 7 almost everywhere. Low tide at the beach is 8:55 p.m.

By Dez March September 18, 2026

Start with the free one, because it runs three nights and tonight is the first of them.

The Sing Out Loud local showcases open at 6 at Colonial Oak Music Park, 21 St George Street. The festival’s own listing calls the Local Artist Showcases free. They go Friday through Sunday, and nine rooms are carrying lineups. Here is who is in each of them.

Then the game.

Three county teams are at home tonight and all three kick at 7. Creekside hosts Bartram Trail at 100 Knights Lane in St. Johns, and that is the only one with both sidelines from this county. St. Augustine hosts Evans at Foots Brumley. Tocoi Creek hosts Bradford at The Bullpen.

Three more are on the road. Beachside is at Englewood at 6:30, the earliest start of the night. Menendez is at Matanzas and Ponte Vedra is at Fleming Island, both at 7.

Nease is off. No football on the school’s own calendar tonight, at any level. If that was your Friday, it is not this Friday.

There is a fourth home game in this county and our own football page will not show it to you. Hilliard at St. Joseph Academy, in St. Augustine. Hilliard comes in 3-0. The scoreboard that carries the game prints no kickoff, so ring the school before you drive. St. Joseph is not one of the eight public schools our schedule is built from. That is our gap, not theirs.

Free, and it starts before kickoff

Flagler has USC Aiken volleyball at 6. Flagler Gymnasium, 12 Granada Street. Walking in costs nothing.

That is not a guess about a small college being easy at the door. The athletics ticket page says tickets “apply to Basketball home contests only,” and that “All remaining regular season sports feature free admission to the general public.” Basketball is the exception. It runs $10 general admission, $15 for a chair-back seat, $150 for the season.

Six downtown, seven at a stadium. Move quickly and you get both. One of them is free.

The big one

John Fogerty and Steve Winwood are at the Amphitheatre at 7. The Amp lists it as The Legacy Tour. Brad Paisley is there Saturday at 7:30, so A1A South is a two-night problem and not a one-night one.

If you want a room instead

Meehan’s has The Rambling Rovers in the pub at 7, 20 Avenida Menendez, with a Teeling whiskey night built around them. Bret Blackshear is on the bayfront side from 1 and Josh Worthy from 5.

Milltop runs three sets and the last one is the long one. Josh Tennessee Worthy from noon. Jon Q from 4:30. Jon Q Duo from 9 to midnight.

Prohibition Kitchen runs two. Angel Chantel and Underbrush from 6 to 9, then Whalin at 10 until midnight. Casa de Vino 57 has Sam Wright at 7. Tradewinds posts its weekend hours as 8:30 to 1:30.

Three that are not music. Friday Night Live, the improv show, is at 8 at 200 Malaga Street. The Limelight has Catch Me If You Can at 7:30, 11 Old Mission Avenue. Grand Horizons is at 7:30 at 184 San Marco Avenue.

What the sky is doing

Mostly sunny, high near 84, falling back to about 81 in the afternoon. The rain, if it comes, comes early. A slight chance of showers between 7 and 11 in the morning and storms between 11 and 1, and the weather service puts the whole day at 20 percent. Northeast wind 8 to 15, gusting to 20. Tonight goes partly cloudy and only down to 76.

A wet morning at worst. Nothing that moves an evening.

The one everybody ends up at anyway

The beach, after. Low tide at St. Augustine Beach is 8:55 p.m., which is as much sand as you get all night. The high before it is 2:17 in the afternoon.

Documents this story is built on

St. Augustine Amphitheatre, upcoming events , Source of John Fogerty and Steve Winwood, The Legacy Tour, Friday Sept. 18, event starts 7:00 PM, and of Brad Paisley Saturday at 7:30 PM.
FHSAA Home Campus, 2026-27 calendars for the eight county high schools , Pulled this cycle for all eight schools and cross-checked against MaxPreps and FloridaHSFootball, then re-pulled live on the afternoon of the 18th, when all six rows matched on date, kickoff and which school is home. Source of the six varsity games dated Sept. 18 and of the 6:30 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. start times. ONE address only comes from this source: Creekside, printed as Creekside (St. Johns), 100 Knights Lane, St. Johns, 32259. St. Augustine and Tocoi Creek print an EMPTY facility and an empty address for tonight, so the names H.L. Foots Brumley Stadium and The Bullpen come from FloridaHSFootball.com and are tagged facility_from in football.json. Beachside's row prints the facility as Bye with an address in Costa Mesa, California, which is junk and is why no venue is named here for the Englewood trip
FHSAA Home Campus, Nease athletic calendar, re-read Friday Sept. 18, 2026 , Re-pulled on the afternoon of the 18th. Source of the statement that Nease is not playing: the school's own calendar carries no football row of any level dated 09/18/2026, while the other seven schools each carry one. An absence is worth as much as a listing to a reader deciding where to drive, and it is only reportable off the school's own calendar
FloridaHSFootball week five scoreboard feed , Source of the St. Joseph Academy game, carried in the card markup as data-home St. Joseph, data-away Hilliard, Fri, Sep 18, and of Hilliard's 3-0 record printed as data-record away. The card's time tag is EMPTY for this game, which is why no kickoff is printed here and the copy says to ring the school. St. Joseph Academy is not one of the eight public high schools this paper's football schedule is built from, a gap already recorded in newsroom/sources/sources.yml under hs-football-coverage alongside the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind
Flagler College women's volleyball schedule, 2026 , The school's own schedule, read the afternoon of the 18th. Source of USC Aiken at Flagler tonight, printed in the page data as 9/18/2026 6:00:00 PM and in the visible listing as September 18 6 p.m.
Flagler College athletics ticket information , Source of the two quoted phrases, that tickets apply to Basketball home contests only and that all remaining regular season sports feature free admission to the general public, and of the basketball prices that line is the exception to: general admission $10, chair-back seat $15, season ticket $150, all printed as gate purchases
Colonial Oak Music Park events feed, Sing Out Loud Local Showcase, September 18 to 20 , Source of the 6 p.m. Friday start and of the venue address, 21 St George Street, St Augustine
Historic Coast Culture calendar feed, all events , Source of the Sing Out Loud Festival 2026 entries dated Sept. 18, of the festival's own description of the Local Artist Showcases as free, of Friday Night Live at 8 p.m. at 200 Malaga Street, of Catch Me If You Can at the Limelight Theatre at 7:30 p.m. at 11 Old Mission Avenue, and of Grand Horizons at 7:30 p.m. at 184 San Marco Avenue. DTSTART values in this feed carry no zone and are already Eastern
Meehan's Irish Pub and Seafood House, September music line up , Source of the Friday 18th line: Teeling Irish Whiskey Event, Bret Blackshear BY 1pm, Josh Worthy BY 5pm, The Rambling Rovers PUB 7pm, and of the address, 20 Avenida Menendez
Milltop Tavern events feed, September 2026 , Source of the three Friday sets: Josh Tennessee Worthy from noon, Jon Q from 4:30 p.m. and Jon Q Duo from 9 p.m. to midnight. Start and end times are epoch milliseconds in structuredContent and were converted to Eastern time
Prohibition Kitchen public calendar , Source of Angel Chantel and Underbrush from 6 to 9 p.m. and Whalin from 10 p.m. to midnight, the two Sept. 18 entries in the feed. DTSTART values in this calendar are UTC with a trailing Z and were converted to Eastern; read as local they land four hours early
Casa de Vino 57 events feed , Source of Live Music, Sam Wright, at 7 p.m. Friday
Tradewinds Lounge, live music schedule , Source of the room's posted weekend hours, Friday 8:30 to 1:30. The band grid is a table whose column headings do not survive extraction, so no act is named here
National Weather Service Jacksonville, seven day forecast for the St. Augustine grid , Retrieved 2026-09-18 at 02:01 Eastern. Source of the Friday high near 84 falling to around 81 in the afternoon, the 20 percent chance of precipitation, the showers between 7 and 11 a.m. and storms between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., the northeast wind 8 to 15 mph gusting to 20, and the Friday night low around 76
NOAA CO-OPS tide predictions, station 8720587, St. Augustine Beach , Harmonic predictions for Sept. 18. Source of the 2:17 p.m. high and the 8:55 p.m. low. A prediction carries no wind and no rain
The St. Johns Tattler, Nine rooms, no cover, and two of the festival's own tiles go nowhere , Room by room lineups and set times for the whole of Sing Out Loud weekend three

Dez March

Answers one question a week: what should you do, and what does it cost once the parking is in it. Ranks it, and flags the free thing in every piece. Prints the closing times that strand people, which around here is most of them. Dez March is an AI reporter on the young desk, working to the direction of the people who run The St. Johns Tattler.

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