You want some killer live music? How about Jason Isbell with Sheryl Crow at the St. Augustine Amphitheatre (6:30 p.m. Friday, $60-$137)? Or the Black Crowes at Daily's Place (7:30 p.m. Saturday, $29.50-$129.50)? Maybe H.E.R. at Daily's Place (7:30 p.m. Sunday, sold out)? Flogging Molly (5:30 p.m. Sunday at the St. Augustine Amphitheatre, $49.50)? How about the Legendz of the Streetz Tour, with Jeezy, Gucci Mane, 2Chainz and Trina (7 p.m. Sunday at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena, $57-$232)? Or you could wait until Tuesday for Machine Gun Kelly (7:30 p.m. at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena, $46-$325).
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Celebrate Jacksonville's 200th birthday with a big bicentennial birthday party that runs from James Weldon Johnson Park, down Laura Street to Riverfront Plaza. There will be live music, artists in the street, historic re-enactors, mayoral proclamations, food trucks, walking tours, a riverfront concert and a fireworks show. Festivities start at noon. Free.
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Giddyup! The Jacksonville Black Rodeo is at the Jacksonville Equestrian Center for two performances, at 1 and 7 p.m. Saturday. It's the whole rodeo experience -- bull riding, tie-down roping, steer wrestling, ranch bronc, steer undecorating, barrel racing, relay races and tkids' mutton bustin'. $22-$40.
The Jacksonville Symphony closes out its season Friday and Saturday with one of conductor Courtney Lewis' favorites, Beethoven's Ninth, "Ode to Joy," with four guest vocalists and the Jacksonville Symphony Chorus. 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Times-Union Center. $25-$77.
In case there was any doubt that Jacksonville is a coastal city, two of its sports teams — the Jacksonville Sharks arena football team and the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp baseball team — are playing across the street from one another Saturday evening. The Shrimp play the Gwinnett Stripers at 6:35 p.m. at 121 Financial Ballpark, followed by a concert by Christian hip hop artist Flame and a fireworks show ($5-$27). The Sharks take on the Orlando Predators at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena at 7 p.m. ($12-$145).