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 programs. 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 reside 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 Artwork Garfunkel, Ziggy Marley and Ani DiFranco have performed the venue.
The ability “was exhibiting numerous success for cultural impression and the higher good of our group,” over the previous decade, Pellicer says. “St John’s County has lots of people that love reside 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 desirous to unveil the following part of this true ardour mission.”
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. General capability will broaden 25% — up from about 900 to roughly 1,100 attendees — as a part of the renovation, which additionally contains modernized restrooms, a multi-use room for particular occasions and conferences and expanded backstage choices for artists.
Ponte Vedra can 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 personalized for a compact efficiency house.
The full price of renovation is $12.9 million, with a lot of it spearheaded by the non-profit Associates of the Ponte Vedra Live performance Corridor, which was instrumental in launching the “Elevate” marketing campaign, the driving power 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 mission.
“It’s thrilling as a result of it cements our status 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 every time they want a date in Florida and they’re in search of a spot they may belief to deal with the artist the appropriate manner.”
The venue now has 4 visitor dressing rooms for touring exhibits, three showers and two laundry amenities — uncommon facilities for a venue its dimension, mentioned Pellicer.
“To be in a room for 12 years and to learn each single Google assessment and acknowledge each single factor you wish 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 needed it’s a particular expertise,” Pellicer says. “We’re going to utterly crush it as soon as we open.”
