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People of all ages gathered at Heartwood Soundstage on Thursday for the second Sunshine Music & Arts Festival, an event that highlights local artists and businesses.

WUFT Morning Edition and WUFT Amplified host, Glenn Richards, gets a preview of the 2nd Annual Sunshine Music & Arts Festival from the organizer and one of the performers, PRIZILLA.

The University of Florida celebrates the anniversary of one of its longest-standing instruments: the centennial of the Andrew Anderson Memorial Pipe Organ

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, music stores nationwide have closed amid an increase in online retailers. But Leon Barrows has kept Music Junction in Alachua open through strategic decisions.

Gainesville's African American blues artists helped bridge the racial gap between communities in the 1960s and ’70s as the nation was strained with racial tensions.Charles Steadham, known at the time by his stage name Charlie Blade, witnessed this shift in the community firsthand. He was part of one of the first interracial blues bands in Gainesville.

Floridians can purchase a “Margaritaville” license plate for an additional $25 per year on top of their regular registration fees.

WUFT Morning Edition host, Glenn Richards, recently spoke with Southern Roots-rock vocalist and percussionist, Melody Trucks. Trucks is appearing at Heartwood Soundstage on Friday, February 2nd at 8:00 p.m.

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As the first Black, female mayor of Micanopy, Jiana Williams, 37, often thinks about what her late grandmother, Willie Mae Stokes who used to clean houses…