Nightlife & Local Music

Eight bands, three rooms, no cover Sunday, and no bus

Sing Out Loud's third weekend ends today at Jimmy Hula's, Colonial Oak and Spinster Abbott's, and every one of those sets is free. Six more rooms have music with no festival attached. The Sunshine Bus does not operate on a Sunday, so all of it is a drive or a walk.

By Remy Cole September 20, 2026

No cover at three rooms today, and that is the festival’s doing rather than the rooms’.

Sing Out Loud’s third weekend finishes Sunday and its pages are headed FREE EVENT at every venue. Ten rooms are tiled under Weekend Three. Only three of them booked a Sunday.

Jimmy Hula’s, 709 South Ponce de Leon Boulevard, goes first and goes early. St. Augustine Sandman plays 3 to 4. Purple Kloud follows at 4:30 and it is done by 5:30.

Colonial Oak Music Park, 21 St. George Street, picks up at 5 with Lane Drix. Sparks in the Garden at 6:30. Andria Shinn and The Loyal Souls at 8.

Spinster Abbott’s, 61 San Marco Avenue, runs latest. The Mermers at 6, The Kreepy Tikis at 7:30, Loose Touch at 9 and off at 10.

Three rooms, eight acts, and the whole thing is over by ten on a school night.

Those are start times for the sets, not door times. The festival publishes one and not the other, and at a free afternoon show the difference is usually nothing. Show up for the set.

Six more rooms, no festival

Milltop Tavern has Nathan Allen at noon and Jon Q at 4:30.

Meehan’s on the bayfront has three: Colin Kosco at 1 outside, Michael Hynes at 5 outside, The Rambling Rovers in the pub at 6, against a Jameson football night.

La Cocina at the Cellar Upstairs, 157 King Street, has Vinny Jacobs from 1 to 4 and then Mediterranean Nights from 5 to 8.

Casa de Vino 57 on Treasury Street has a 3:30 set listed under the single name Brian. The feed gives no second name and no cover.

Prohibition Kitchen has Lions of Jah at 6.

Not one of those five prints a cover on the page it prints the show on. Take cash anyway.

Before any of it

The St. Augustine Farmers Market runs 9 to 1 at the Classic Car Museum on US 1 South, free, every Sunday. It is not the Amphitheatre market, which is Saturday. Two markets, two days, two parking lots.

The Master Gardener Fall Plant Sale is at the county Agricultural Center, 9 to 2, second of two days.

And the thing nobody tells you until you are standing at the stop

There is no bus. The Sunshine Bus Company’s own schedules page says its routes “operate Monday through Saturday, except for certain holidays,” and Sunday is not Saturday. Every line is parked. Customer service is closed too, so there is nobody to ask.

That makes today a drive or a walk, and downtown parking on the last day of a festival weekend is the cost of the free show.

Cars and Coffee is back at the Classic Car Museum next Saturday, 8 to 10, free outside.

Documents this story is built on

Sing Out Loud Festival, Weekend Three at Jimmy Hula's , The festival's own venue page, headed Local Artist Showcases - FREE EVENT!, as it stood on Sept. 20, 2026. Source of the address 709 South Ponce De Leon Boulevard, of the header line Event Starts 3:00 PM, and of the Sunday, September 20 block giving 3:00PM - 4:00PM St. Augustine Sandman and 4:30PM - 5:30PM Purple Kloud. The page carries the line that artists, dates and times are subject to change
Sing Out Loud Festival, Weekend Three at Colonial Oak Music Park , The festival's own venue page, headed Local Artist Showcases - FREE EVENT!, as it stood on Sept. 20, 2026. Source of the address 21 St George St, of the date range September 18 - 20, 2026, and of the Sunday, September 20 block giving 5:00PM - 6:00PM Lane Drix, 6:30PM - 7:30PM Sparks in the Garden and 8:00PM - 9:00PM Andria Shinn and The Loyal Souls
Sing Out Loud Festival, Weekend Three at Spinster Abbott's , The festival's own venue page, headed Local Artist Showcases - FREE EVENT!, as it stood on Sept. 20, 2026. Source of the address 61 San Marco Avenue, of the date range September 18 - 20, 2026, and of the Sunday, September 20 block giving 6:00PM - 7:00PM The Mermers, 7:30PM - 8:30PM The Kreepy Tikis and 9:00PM - 10:00PM Loose Touch. Unlike the festival's Ink and Barley page, this page carries no age restriction line
Sing Out Loud Festival, Weekend Three index , The weekend index, as it stood on Sept. 20, 2026. Source of the finding that ten venues are tiled under Weekend Three and that only three of them, Jimmy Hula's, Colonial Oak Music Park and Spinster Abbott's, carry a Sunday block. The Prohibition Kitchen and Bin 39 Wine Bar tiles on this index both returned 404 when fetched
Milltop Tavern and Listening Room, September 2026 calendar , The venue's own calendar feed, as it stood on Sept. 20, 2026. Source of the two Sunday, Sept. 20 entries, Nathan Allen at 12:00 PM and Jon Q at 4:30 PM, converted from the feed's epoch milliseconds to America/New_York. The feed carries no cover charge field
Meehan's Irish Pub, events calendar, September 2026 , The pub's own published month, as it stood on Sept. 20, 2026. Source of the Sunday 20th line, which reads Jameson Football Event, Colin Kosco BY 1pm, Michael Hynes BY 5pm, The Rambling Rovers PUB 6pm. BY and PUB are the pub's own abbreviations for its bayfront and pub rooms
La Cocina at the Cellar Upstairs, events feed , The venue's own events feed, as it stood on Sept. 20, 2026. Source of the two Sept. 20 entries, Vinny Jacobs 1-4 PM, listed in the feed's own artist index under the genre Classic / New Rock / Beach, and Mediterranean Nights 5-8 PM, typed in the feed as a themed night
Casa de Vino 57, events feed , The venue's own events feed, as it stood on Sept. 20, 2026. Source of the entry Live Music: Brian starting 2026-09-20 15:30:00. The feed's cost field for this event is empty
Prohibition Kitchen, public calendar , The venue's own published calendar, as it stood on Sept. 20, 2026. Source of the Lions of Jah entry, DTSTART 20260920T220000Z, which is 6 p.m. Eastern on Sunday, Sept. 20
Classic Car Museum of St. Augustine, upcoming events , The museum's own events page, as it stood on Sept. 20, 2026. Source of the St. Augustine Farmer Market entry dated Sun, Sep 20 and of the quoted line that the market runs Every Sunday 9 AM - 1 PM at Classic Car Museum of St. Augustine. Also the source of Cars and Coffee on Sat, Sep 26, described as a free outdoor event, 8-10am, plus half-price museum admission, and of the Dixie Chapter Pontiac Club Fall Classic on Sat, Oct 10
The Sunshine Bus Company, Schedules , As it stood on Sept. 20, 2026. Source of the quoted line that Sunshine Bus schedules operate Monday through Saturday, except for certain holidays, and of the note that Customer Service is available Monday through Friday from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm
St. Johns County meeting calendar, community events , As it stood on Sept. 20, 2026. Source of the St. Johns County Master Gardener Fall Plant Sale listing at the St. Johns County Agricultural Center, 9:00am-2:00pm, dated Sep 19 and Sep 20, and of the three remaining Sing Out Loud Festival dates the county carries, Sept. 23, Sept. 24 and Sept. 27

Remy Cole

Covers the six nights the Amphitheatre is not the story: back rooms and ninety-capacity bars where the band is from here and the cover is eight dollars. Prints the cover and the first set time, and what the opener gets paid when a room will say it. Remy Cole 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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Six more rooms, no festival

Before any of it

And the thing nobody tells you until you are standing at the stop

Documents this story is built on

Remy Cole

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