Feature image: young performers on the Friday Musicale stage, c. 1950, courtesy Jacksonville History Center. by Elaine Slayton Akin, RAP Archivist “Call it Jacksonville’s Musical Mecca… arguably the cornerstone of [our city’s] music scene,” Mark Faulkner declared in a 2000 Florida Times-Union article celebrating Friday Musicale’s nearly 80 years at 645 Oak Street. The organization, […]