The Ponte Vedra Live performance Corridor in Florida will reopen after a 15-month renovation that noticed the venue obtain a brand new second-floor balcony and expanded seating and efficiency areas, together with new best-in-class audio and lighting techniques. A number of Grammy Award-winning bluegrass artist Dan Tyminski will open the venue Friday (Aug. 1) and set the stage for a brand new season of dwell performances.
Led by Gabriel Pellicer, CEO/president of SJC Cultural Occasions, which additionally manages the famed St. Augustine Amphitheater, Ponte Vedra’s reopening traces again to February 2011 when St. John’s County acquired the previous church as a part of a land deal. Over time, artists together with Art Garfunkel, Ziggy Marley and Ani DiFranco have performed the venue.
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The ability “was exhibiting a whole lot of success for cultural influence and the better good of our group,” over the previous decade, Pellicer says. “St John’s County has lots of people that love dwell music and we took this previous church and constructed it right into a venue that individuals got here to really love. Now, after 12 years of pilot testing and making a critical long run funding, we’re wanting to unveil the following section of this true ardour undertaking.”
Designed by the structure and inside design agency Fisher Koppenhafer, the expanded Ponte Vedra Live performance Corridor features a new second-floor wrap-around balcony and an out of doors terrace. Total capability will broaden 25% — up from about 900 to roughly 1,100 attendees — as a part of the renovation, which additionally consists of modernized restrooms, a multi-use room for particular occasions and conferences and expanded backstage choices for artists.
Ponte Vedra can also be getting a critical sound improve with the set up of a L’Acoustics L2D 50K watt audio system, offering the venue with a best-in-class large-format sound system custom-made for a compact efficiency area.
The overall price of renovation is $12.9 million, with a lot of it spearheaded by the non-profit Pals of the Ponte Vedra Live performance Corridor, which was instrumental in launching the “Elevate” marketing campaign, the driving pressure behind increasing the venue with the addition of a second-floor balcony. In June 2022, the St. Johns County Board of County Commissioners awarded $5.4 million in funding for the renovation undertaking.
“It’s thrilling as a result of it cements our repute as a world class music and humanities presenter within the state of Florida,” says Pellicer. “We would like managers and brokers to learn about Ponte Vedra each time they want a date in Florida and they’re on the lookout for a spot they may belief to deal with the artist the proper means.”
The venue now has 4 visitor dressing rooms for touring reveals, three showers and two laundry services — uncommon facilities for a venue its measurement, mentioned Pellicer.
“To be in a room for 12 years and to learn each single Google overview and acknowledge each single factor you need to do higher and eventually get {the handcuffs} pulled off of you and be capable to sit down and design it the best way you wished it’s a particular expertise,” Pellicer says. “We’re going to utterly crush it as soon as we open.”