Icon of Southern hip-hop, Big Boi performs at this weekend's Jacksonville Taco & Tequila Festival | Concerttour, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Published on August 31, 2023 at 11:10 am
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Jacksonville Today Arts and Culture Editor Matt Shaw shares his arts and culture picks for the weekend.
Friday
Summer at the Cummer
Cummer Museum & Gardens | Riverside
Just two more chances to enjoy Summer at the Cummer. Every Friday of the summer, the Cummer offers a unique way to enjoy its historic gardens – and the exhibits currently on view within the museum – with drinks, live music, lawn games and special programming related to the art. This week’s event, which features musical performances by local singer-songwriter Claire Vandiver, represents a great opportunity to take in American Made, a survey of 200 years of creativity through the paintings and sculptures of U.S. artists – before the exhibit closes in late September. Admission is free from 4 p.m.-9 p.m. More info.
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Saturday
Free Family Day at MOCA
MOCA Jacksonville | Downtown Jacksonville
MOCA guests are encouraged to bring their families and enjoy free admission on Saturday. In addition to the museum’s current exhibitions – Hiromi Moneyhun’s Project Atrium installation, large-scale works by American realist painter Bo Bartlett and the permanent-collection-cribbed Contemporary Cartographies – guests can take part in family-friendly activities and art-making, plus live performances by Hello Mr. Joe. Worth the price of admission–which, again, is free. RSVP here. More info.
Saturday & Sunday
Jacksonville Taco & Tequila Festival
Metropolitan Park | Downtown Jacksonville
Not only is the latest iteration of the Jacksonville Taco & Tequila festival a celebration of Mexican fare (with 40 restaurants on hand) and agave-based alcohol (a sampling area offering 100 different tequilas). The two-day fest is also a fitting celebration of hip-hop on its 50th anniversary, as Southern-rap icon Big Boi, Chicago rapper Lupe Fiasco and local hip-hop collective L.O.V.E. Culture take the stage. The lineup also features rap-rockers Gym Class Heroes, reggae from Southern California (Iration) and Bermuda (Collie Buddz), and more. Music starts at noon both days. Tickets start at $35. Full music lineup and set times at jaxtacofest.com.
