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People and organizations are constantly seeking ways to make Jacksonville a better city, whether it be through donating money to local causes, helping Jacksonville become more bike-friendly, raising fi nancial literacy, supporting local artists or even making Jacksonville a hotspot by booking the best acts at a local venue. Our selection committee considered a massive list of notable organizations and individuals that are striving to improve our community. After much discussion we quickly discovered there are far too many amazing stories to limit to one edition, so EU plans to continue this column to appear throughout the year. Our initial selections offer a variety of colorful and interesting people and projects that are clearly making signifi cant contributions toward improving Jacksonville. IMPROVING JACKSONVILLE JAC making the music scene better by kellie abrahamson TIM HALL The local music scene wouldn’t be what it is today without the would have to have another job,” Hall says. “There’s many times hard work of a lot of people, but we owe a lot to Tim Hall. Hall and where my outside shows float this place and vice versa... It kind of his wife Anne came to Jacksonville from San Diego in the late 90s all pools together and balances out.” and began booking concerts at a club called Fat Kat. At the time, Bringing big name acts to the River City is a feat, but Hall’s our scene was stagnant and the new blood proved to be just what impact on our music scene goes far beyond that. Jack Rabbits Jacksonville needed. Big acts were being booked and things were has seen its fair share of national acts, but local musicians looking looking up until the city closed down Fat Kat and Hall was forced for a place to play have also found a home on Hall’s stage. Nearly to cancel around 19 shows. Out thousands of dollars in deposits every concert that happens at one of his venues has a local band and without a stage to bring in more acts, the Halls had only one opening, giving aspiring rock stars exposure and experience. option. “If you’re a local band and you suck and you don’t have a “I was kind of like, well I need to have my own place so that tape or anything, we’ll still book you on a Monday night just to see if something ever happens and the entire world implodes, I can still if you can develop, because everybody sucked in the beginning,” control my own destiny,” he said. Hall says. “They need places to play and to develop and that’s So in 1999 Jack Rabbits was born. The San Marco venue what I see Jack Rabbits as. Obviously we do bigger acts that are stood out from the competition in that this club didn’t have dance established, but I want local bands to realize that if you want to nights or cover bands performing during the week to keep a steady play on a stage with a decent PA, email me and you can play Jack flow of patrons drinking at the bar. Rabbits. It’s not an untouchable thing.” “Our focus was its going to be all original live music,” Hall Recently, Hall and Planet Radio came up with a way to give explained. “[We said] if we don’t have a show, we’re not going to local acts even more exposure. In May the two began C.I.A. be open. We’re not going to be a bar; we’re going to be a music (“Certified Independent Artists”), a radio show that consists of venue.” nothing but unsigned Florida bands. The show is on every Sunday Though venues like this are common place now, at the time at 9 pm and past installments have included music from Tough people scoffed at the idea. “When we started Jack Rabbits people Junkie, Whole Wheat Bread, Marion Crane, Shangrala and many said, ‘No way, you’re not going to get people to go to see bands others who would not otherwise get airplay on an FM station and get them to pay a cover.’ That was really how the attitude was without the backing of a major label. towards it.” “I’m glad Planet Radio decided to do something like that In the end, the gamble paid off. This year Jack Rabbits because it helps,” says Hall. “It’s almost like a community service celebrated its tenth anniversary, no small feat for a scene that because they’re not making any more money by having us on the has seen clubs come and go within months of opening. Part of air on Sunday nights. But they’re willing to do it and I’m willing photo by daniel goncalves the reason for its longevity is Hall’s numerous other ventures. In to go in there and program it… I don’t get paid for that. I do that addition to owning and booking Jack Rabbits, he’s the concert because I want to help bands.” a lot more money [than I’m making] if they do one thing for 20 promoter for Freebird Live and occasionally brings musicians to For the past 20 years, Tim Hall has helped bands, first in years... I do it because I love doing it and I’m happy at the end of other venues like Plush or the St. Augustine Amphitheatre. Hall his hometown of San Diego, and for the past 11 years here in the day with what I do. There’s all kinds of stuff in the way, but also manages local singer/songwriter Shawn Fisher, who recently Jacksonville. Hall says that his hours are long and the jobs can be ultimately, if I can go watch a show tonight with Shawn Fisher signed with Universal, and produces the second stage at one of the stressful, but it’s worth it. and... hear him do ‘Radio’ again... [it] completely [sends] chills up area’s largest annual music events, Planet Fest. “I do it because I think it’s important,” Hall said. “I’ve been my spine and [I] just go ‘That’s why I do this, because it makes me “If I did just Jack Rabbits, if all I did was book this venue, I doing this 20 years. Most people that do a 20 year career make happy.’” eujacksonville.com | SEPTEMBER 2009 3 photo by daniel goncalves one foot after another, from feet to football by tom weppel WAYNE WEAVER In 1995, there was no Twitter, Facebook, or MySpace! The Regency Square Mall was THE Mall in the City. There was no 9A! (There was no NEED for a 9A!) And in 1995, the Jacksonville Jaguars began their inaugural season of professional football in the National Football League. And now here we are, in 2009, with the Jaguars starting their fi fteenth season of play. Certainly, much has changed since the Jaguars fi rst took to the fi eld in 1995. Without question, the team and the franchise have had a tremendous impact on the city, in multiple ways. “I think we’ve brought attention and media exposure the City would never have gotten without an NFL franchise and that may be the greatest infl uence.