The last Saturday of Sing Out Loud costs nothing at the door in eight rooms. A Flagler men’s soccer match against the second ranked side in the country costs nothing at the gate at 1 p.m., and the movie in the Ripley’s parking lot costs a dollar a head. The bus that reaches any of it is $2.00 each way, or $1.00 with a student ID. That last number comes with a time attached to it, and the time is what decides how much of the rest of this list is actually reachable without a car.
The bus stops before the night does
The Sunshine Bus Company publishes nine route timetables, and its schedules page says they “operate Monday through Saturday, except for certain holidays.” Saturday is a service day, and what the nine timetables show is that the service day ends well before the music does.
On the Red Line, which stops at the Visitor Information Center, the last inbound trip of the day leaves that stop at 7:12 p.m. and reaches the depot at 7:40. On the Blue Line, the last inbound trip leaves Granada Street at the Flagler Auditorium at 7:10 p.m. and West King Street at 7:15. The Green and Orange lines also finish at the depot at 7:40. The latest arrival published anywhere in the system is on Conn-Ex #2, which reaches the church stop on State Road 206 at 8:30 p.m.
Every 9 o’clock set listed further down this page begins after the last bus of the day has already finished its run. The 6 o’clock sets do not, which is the difference worth planning around.
Fares are printed on the company’s own page. A one-way trip is $2.00 at the regular rate and $1.00 discounted, and students are on the list of who qualifies, alongside seniors over 60, people with disabilities and Medicare or Medicaid card holders. A daily pass is $4.00, or $2.00 discounted, which is what two one-way trips cost at the same rate. Children six and under ride free, and a monthly pass is $30.00, or $15.00 discounted. Passes are sold by the driver on boarding, or in advance in person at the transit office at 2595 Old Moultrie Road. Fares are paid on entering, and the page says drivers “are unable to make change.”
The timetables are published as pictures of tables rather than as text, and they name stops rather than street addresses, so the walk from a stop to a door is not on them. The customer service line that could answer that question is open Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Eight rooms, no cover
Each of these is headed “Local Artist Showcases - FREE EVENT!” on the festival’s own venue page, and each page carries the line that artists, dates and times are subject to change.
Hornski’s Brewing Co., 100 Anastasia Blvd. Pocket Knife Dance Party 5:30 to 6:30, Chemtrails 7:15 to 8:15, The Jump Cuts 9 to 10, which makes this the earliest start of the evening.
Colonial Oak Music Park, 21 St George St. Freddie Caicos & The Sunburns 6 to 7, Jordan Burchel 7:30 to 8:30, Annie Dukes 9 to 10.
Dog Rose Brewing Co., 77 Bridge St. Alex Willow 6 to 7, The Honest Liars 7:30 to 8:30, The Pemberwicks 9 to 10.
Spinster Abbott’s, 61 San Marco Ave. Treis & Friends 6 to 7, Fox Creek 7:30 to 8:30, Patrick Hagerman & His Band 9 to 10.
Casa de Vino 57, 57 Treasury St. Sparrow Smith 6 to 7, Ben Haley 7:30 to 8:30, which is two sets here rather than the three most of the other rooms carry.
Ink & Barley, 201 W King St. A comedy showcase with Marcus Crespo, Will Blaylock, Dan Venti, Joey Nickel, Delisia Nicholas and Chris Buck. The page says “This showcase is 18+” and gives two different times for it: the header reads 6 p.m. and the Saturday block reads 7 to 9.
Sarbez!, 115 Anastasia Blvd. Ghost Tropic 8 to 8:45, Carrabelle 9 to 9:45, For2itous 10 to 10:45.
Shanghai Nobby’s, 10 Anastasia Blvd. Meatwound 9 to 9:45, The Dismissives 10 to 10:45, Tides 11 to 11:45, Too Many Daves from midnight to 12:45 a.m.
The festival’s weekend index links two more venue pages, for Prohibition Kitchen and Bin 39 Wine Bar, and both of those addresses return a 404, so neither room’s Saturday lineup is published where the index says it is.
Free at the door is not the same thing as open to everyone. Ink & Barley carries the only age restriction the festival prints, and it prints it on the page. The rest of these are bars and breweries that publish no age policy on the festival’s listing, which is a question worth asking at the door rather than after the walk.
Free at 1 o’clock, on Old Moultrie Road
Flagler’s men’s team hosts North Georgia at 1 p.m. at Saints Field, and the school’s schedule page ranks the visitors second. Flagler’s own Season Records block reads 3-0-3 overall, 3-0 in the conference, and a three-match winning streak, with a 1-0-1 record at home.
Admission costs nothing, and the athletics department’s ticket page is where that is written down. It says tickets “can only be purchased at the gate and apply to Basketball home contests only,” and that “All remaining regular season sports feature free admission to the general public.”
Saints Field is not on the downtown campus, and the school gives its address as the Flagler College Athletics Complex, 1655 Old Moultrie Road, and says the entrance is next to the Humane Society. The Green Line runs out that way: it arrives at Publix (Moultrie) at 11:50 a.m. and 2:15 p.m., and comes back from there at 12:10, 2:35 and 4:45. The timetable does not say how far that stop is from the gate.
Bring nothing to eat, because outside food, drink and pets are all prohibited inside the complex, and the same page says the concession areas are open, which is how a free ticket turns into an afternoon that costs something.
The women’s side is not at home on Saturday, and is listed instead at Georgia College in Milledgeville, also at 1 p.m.
Before noon, and after dark
The Amphitheatre farmers market runs 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and prints “Free Admission.” Sept. 19 is the third Saturday of the month, which is the one that matters here: donation-based yoga and donation-based bike repair both run on the first and third Saturday only, the yoga from Yoga Collective and Anastasia Fitness and the repairs at the bike racks from the Old Beach Bike Riders Association. Anyone shopping with SNAP or EBT gets free Florida-grown produce under the market’s match program. The market asks for no pets and keeps bike racks at the entrance.
The Southeast Branch library at 6670 US 1 South runs a drop-in craft session in its teen area from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., free, for ages 12 to 17, sponsored by the Friends of the Southeast Branch Library. The Green Line’s outbound timetable names a stop called Library & US-1 South, reached at 11:30 a.m. and 1:55 p.m.
Movie Night at the Castle turns the Ripley’s parking lot into a screen for Minions & Monsters. Gates at 6:30 p.m., film at 8, one dollar a person, online or in person, non-refundable. Bring a chair or a blanket, because seating is not provided.
The showcases run one more day. Sunday’s rooms are Colonial Oak from 5 p.m., Spinster Abbott’s from 6 and Jimmy Hula’s on South Ponce de Leon Boulevard from 3, and after that the free music this month is down to the record fair at the Amphitheatre on Sept. 27, which starts at 11 a.m. and is also free.
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