Campus & Young Life

No bus stop serves tonight's free concert at the beach pier

Music and Art by the Sea closes its 2026 run with Jim Stafford and The Eclipse ALL STARS, 7 to 9, no ticket. No Sunshine Bus stop is on A1A Beach Boulevard and the last run east of the bridge leaves at 7:17. From Thursday the STAR Circulator adds fifteen stops out there and runs to 11 on a Saturday, and the city has not published where any of them are. Downtown tonight, a Flagler ID gets into The Children's Hour free and any other student pays $5.

By Tavi Okafor September 30, 2026

Music and Art by the Sea finishes its year tonight at the St. Augustine Beach Pier Park, and it costs nothing to walk into. Jim Stafford and The Eclipse ALL STARS play 7 to 9. The listing says no tickets are required, and the recurrence line on the same page ends the 2026 run at Sept. 30.

The rest of the evening is on a clock. Local art goes up at the Art Studio at 3, pavilion seating opens at 4, a DJ plays from 5:30, and the food truck serves from 5 until 8 or until the food runs out, whichever comes first. The concerts are weather permitting, which the page says plainly.

The address is 350 A1A Beach Blvd, and getting to that address without keys is the part of this that costs something.

Getting there without a car

No Sunshine Bus stop is on A1A Beach Boulevard. East of the Bridge of Lions the Green Line carries two stops, Publix at Anastasia and A1A at SR-206, and neither of them is the pier. How far either one is from the pavilion is a question the timetable does not answer, because it names stops and not addresses.

The times it does give settle it anyway. The last inbound run of the day leaves A1A and SR-206 at 7:17 and reaches the depot at 7:40. The band starts at 7, so the last bus out of that end of the county goes seventeen minutes into the first set.

The fare is $2.00 one way, or $1.00 if you qualify for the discount, which covers students along with seniors, Medicare and Medicaid cardholders and people with disabilities. Fares are paid on boarding and the driver cannot make change, so bring it exact. A daily pass is $4.00, or $2.00 discounted. A monthly is $30.00, or $15.00, and it is bought in person at the transit office on Old Moultrie Road.

There is a route deviation service, and the terms are worth knowing before you need them. The bus will come up to a quarter mile off route with 24 hours notice for a flat $4.00, which is not discounted and does not include your fare.

The STAR Circulator is free and tonight it is downtown only. It runs 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily, three stops on a 1.12 mile loop that takes about 15 minutes, and the last departure from the Visitor Information Center is at 10 p.m. Riders get one complete circuit and have to get off to reboard.

That changes tomorrow, and it is the answer to everything above. The city announced on Sept. 25 that from Thursday, Oct. 1 the same free shuttle adds fifteen stops along Anastasia Boulevard and A1A Beach Boulevard, and runs 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday. That is a free ride to the beach and back at 11 on a Saturday night.

The department page has not caught up. As of this morning it still prints the three downtown stops and the 10 to 10 hours, under a heading saying a new route is “coming in October 2026,” with no stop list under it. The fifteen stops have not been published anywhere yet.

What is on downtown tonight

The Children’s Hour, the Lillian Hellman play, opens at Lewis Auditorium at 7:30 and runs Wednesday through Saturday at 7:30 with a Sunday matinee at 2. General admission is $20.00 and a student who is not at Flagler pays $5.00. A Flagler student, staff member or faculty member gets in free, and faculty and staff can bring immediate family at no charge.

The St. Augustine Film Society screens One to One: John and Yoko at The Waterworks, 184 San Marco Avenue, doors at 5:30 and film at 6. It is $10.00 if you are not a member and free if you are.

Milltop Tavern has Nathan Allen from 4:30 to 8:30, after Jim Lamb from noon. The venue’s calendar publishes no cover for either.

The Crisp-Ellert Art Museum at 48 Sevilla Street is free and is showing Nicole Antebi’s Rebel Waters / Aguas Rebeldes through Nov. 7, but it closes at 4 on a weekday, so that one is a daytime plan and not a tonight plan.

What is left after tonight

The Wednesday Pier Farmers Market runs at that same Pier Park address from 8 a.m. to noon, free to walk through, and it is there every Wednesday rather than only this one. From November it runs an hour longer, to 1 p.m.

The Children’s Hour is the thing still on sale after tonight. It has four more performances and the $5.00 student price holds for all of them, through Sunday afternoon.

Documents this story is built on

Music and Art by the Sea 2026, event listing for Sept. 30, 2026, St. Augustine Beach Pier Park , Retrieved Sept. 30, 2026. Source of the cost line Free to Attend and the sentence that no tickets are required; of the recurrence line reading Wednesday, May 20-Jun 24 and Aug 19-Sep 30, which is where the end of the run comes from; of the printed concert schedule listing September 30 as Jim Stafford and The Eclipse ALL STARS; of the running order of 3 p.m. local art, 4 p.m. pavilion seating, 5 p.m. food truck service, 5:30 p.m. DJ Dan and 7 to 9 p.m. live music; of the note that a different food truck from The Village Garden Food Truck Park is on site each week from 5 to 8 p.m. or until food runs out; of the note that the concerts are weather permitting; and of the venue address, 350 A1A Beach Blvd.
Sunshine Bus Company, Green Line timetable, schedule-green-v20201012 , The timetable is published as an image with no text alternative, so it was read off the image and the read-off is filed as a text file beside it. Source of the inbound times: A1A and SR-206 at 7:17 and the depot at 7:40 on the last run of the day. Source of the finding that the only Green Line stops east of the Bridge of Lions are Publix (Anastasia) and A1A and SR-206, and that no stop on the line is on A1A Beach Boulevard. The timetable prints no a.m. or p.m.
Sunshine Bus Company, Fares and Passes , Source of the one-way fare of $2.00 regular and $1.00 discounted, of the note that fares are paid on entering and that drivers cannot make change, of the daily pass at $4.00 and $2.00 and the monthly at $30.00 and $15.00, of the list of who qualifies for the discount, which names students, and of the route deviation terms: 24 hours notice, up to one quarter of a mile, a flat $4.00 fee with no discount, and the note that the fee does not include the boarding fare.
City of St. Augustine, STAR Circulator , The department page as it stood at 2:40 a.m. Sept. 30, 2026. Source of the downtown service hours of 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily, of the final departure from the Visitor Information Center at 10 p.m., of the three stops and the 1.12 mile loop at about 15 minutes, of the one complete circuit rule, of the statement that the service is free and is funded by a Florida Department of Transportation grant and operated by Historic Tours of America's Old Town Trolley, and of the block headed New STAR Circulator Route Coming Soon, which reads that a new route will be coming in October 2026 and more information will be posted soon, and which carries no date and no stop list.
City of St. Augustine News Flash, STAR Circulator expanding route beyond downtown historic district, posted Sept. 25, 2026 , The city's own announcement. Source of the expansion starting Thursday, Oct. 1; of the additional fifteen stops along Anastasia Blvd. and A1A Beach Blvd. in St. Augustine Beach; of the hours 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday; of the three current downtown stops named as the Visitor Information Center, Avenida Menendez at Hypolita and Cathedral Place at Cordova Street; and of the route order, which goes to Anastasia Island after Cathedral Place and returns through it. The release names no individual stop on the fifteen.
The Children's Hour, Flagler College Lewis Auditorium, event listing for Sept. 30, 2026 , Retrieved Sept. 30, 2026. Source of the run, Wednesday through Saturday Sept. 30 to Oct. 3 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday Oct. 4 at 2 p.m.; of the ticket prices as the listing prints them, $20.00 general admission, $5.00 non-Flagler students and free for Flagler faculty, staff and students, with faculty and staff able to bring immediate family at no charge; of the play being by Lillian Hellman; of the venue address, 14 Granada St.; and of the organiser, the Flagler College Department of Visual and Performing Arts.
Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, Flagler College , The museum's own page, retrieved Sept. 30, 2026. Source of the exhibition, Nicole Antebi, Rebel Waters / Aguas Rebeldes, running Monday Aug. 31 to Saturday Nov. 7, 2026.
Rebel Waters / Aguas Rebeldes Exhibition, event listing for Sept. 30, 2026 , Retrieved Sept. 30, 2026. Source of the cost line Free, of the museum hours of Monday to Friday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday noon to 4 p.m. while classes are in session, and of the address, 48 Sevilla Street.
Film Screening at The Waterworks, St. Augustine Film Society, event listing for Sept. 30, 2026 , Retrieved Sept. 30, 2026. Source of the doors at 5:30 p.m. and the film at 6 p.m., of the cost line of $10.00 for non-members and free for members, of the title One to One: John and Yoko, and of the venue address, 184 San Marco Avenue.
Milltop Tavern and Listening Room, music calendar , The venue's own calendar, retrieved in this cycle's scene pull. Source of the two Sept. 30 sets, Jim Lamb from noon to 4 p.m. and Nathan Allen from 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. The calendar publishes no cover charge for either.
Wednesday Pier Farmers Market, event listing for Sept. 30, 2026 , Retrieved Sept. 30, 2026. Source of the hours, 8 a.m. to noon May through October and 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. November through April, of the cost line Free to Attend, and of the same Pier Park address.

Tavi Okafor

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