About Jazz Blues Florida - Updated 8/30/26

Founded: 2006
Founder/Owner: Charles R. Boyer
Operated by: Jazz Blues Florida LLC
Coverage: State of Florida
Focus: Live jazz and blues concerts, clubs and festivals
Website: JazzBluesFlorida.com

Jazz Blues Florida is a statewide paid digital promotion and information platform dedicated to Florida's live jazz and blues community. Since 2006, the operation has connected audiences with Florida artists, venues, concerts, festivals, performing arts organizations and cultural institutions while continually adapting to changes in publishing, marketing, technology and audience behavior. Today, Jazz Blues Florida operates entirely as a digital promotion service, combining verified event information with targeted distribution through email marketing, news coverage, website listings, search visibility, social media, online advertising and other digital channels.

20 Years of Florida Live Music Promotion

The operation began in 2006 when founder Charles R. Boyer took over Hot House Florida, an affiliated Florida edition of New York's Hot House jazz magazine. Three years later, the Florida operation moved away from print and developed into the fully online Jazz Blues Florida platform. From 2009 through December 2024, Jazz Blues Florida also published a monthly digital magazine covering upcoming jazz and blues performances throughout Florida. After more than 15 years of publication, the monthly magazine was retired so resources could be concentrated on digital promotion, audience development and distribution. Every issue of the Jazz Blues Florida magazine remains available through the online archive.

What Jazz Blues Florida Does

Jazz Blues Florida is more than an event calendar or a collection of self-published artist and venue listings. The platform actively promotes concerts, festivals, venues, artists and cultural organizations to audiences beyond the client's existing followers and supporters. Its promotional network includes a statewide website featuring detailed and verified concert and festival information; a news blog containing thousands of published posts and millions of cumulative reads and views; a personalized email subscription service delivering targeted live music information directly to subscribers; social media distribution through Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, YouTube and Bluesky; and search visibility and digital advertising designed to extend event awareness beyond established audiences.

Jazz Blues Florida's purpose is promotion, audience development, information distribution and documentation. It is not a booking agency, talent buyer, artist-management company or music-review publication. The editorial approach is positive and supportive. Jazz Blues Florida promotes live music rather than reviewing or criticizing performances or recordings.

Reaching Florida Residents and Florida Visitors

Jazz Blues Florida serves audiences throughout Florida while also reaching prospective visitors across the United States and internationally. That distinction is important. Many local event calendars primarily reach people who are already living in or visiting a destination. Jazz Blues Florida also reaches potential attendees before travel decisions are made, giving prospective visitors an opportunity to discover concerts, festivals, venues and other cultural experiences while planning their trips to Florida.

Through statewide coverage, email distribution, search visibility, social media, festival promotion and digital advertising, Jazz Blues Florida helps introduce Florida's live jazz and blues experiences to audiences well beyond the communities where individual events take place. This allows participating organizations to reach people they may not otherwise encounter through their own websites, mailing lists or social media followers.

Supporting Cultural Tourism, Event Development and Travel Planning

Live music is part of Florida's cultural tourism economy. Concerts, festivals and performing arts programs can influence travel decisions, extend visitor activity beyond traditional attractions and encourage spending in the communities where events take place. Jazz Blues Florida helps increase awareness of these opportunities among Florida residents, domestic travelers and international audiences.

Its statewide scope and broader distribution network can support the goals of tourism bureaus and destination marketing organizations; major tour operators and travel planners; festival producers and event organizers; performing arts centers and cultural organizations; sponsors and funding organizations; grant administrators; hotels; visitor-oriented businesses; and other organizations supporting cultural tourism.

For organizations evaluating marketing partnerships, sponsorships, grants or tourism-related programs, Jazz Blues Florida provides access to an established audience extending beyond individual local markets. The platform's role is not simply to tell people what is happening after they arrive. It helps make Florida's live jazz and blues experiences visible while travelers are still deciding where to go, when to visit and what to experience.

Measurable Reach and Public Reporting

Jazz Blues Florida regularly publishes actual audience and distribution statistics rather than relying solely on general promotional claims. Current platform activity includes thousands of published news posts, millions of cumulative blog reads and views, a substantial email distribution network, and tens of thousands of social media connections across multiple platforms.

Jazz Blues Florida publishes updated distribution and audience-performance reports throughout the year, generally quarterly or more frequently when significant milestones are reached. These reports provide current performance information for clients, prospective partners, sponsors, tourism organizations and funding entities evaluating the reach and value of Jazz Blues Florida promotional services.

View the latest Jazz Blues Florida Distribution Report:
https://jazz-bluesflorida.blogspot.com/2026/07/jazz-blues-florida-distribution-quick.html

Experience Behind the Operation

Founder and owner Charles R. Boyer brings experience extending beyond publishing and advertising. His background includes club management; service as a founding member and ten-year Board of Directors member of a Florida jazz society; consultation on festival lineups and music-series artist selection; marketing consultation beyond the normal scope of Jazz Blues Florida services; and extensive professional experience in financial services.

That combination of live-music, organizational, marketing, management and financial experience has helped shape Jazz Blues Florida's practical business approach and its ability to adapt and operate continuously for more than 20 years.

A Statewide and International Network

Built through two decades of continuous activity, the Jazz Blues Florida network includes artists, venues, festivals, jazz and blues societies, performing arts centers, concert halls, cultural organizations, promoters, public relations professionals, music travelers and live music enthusiasts. That network extends throughout Florida, across the United States and internationally.

By connecting these audiences with Florida's live jazz and blues community, Jazz Blues Florida helps increase event awareness, attendance, cultural participation, music-related travel and the continuing visibility of the organizations and artists presenting this music.

Preserving Florida Jazz and Blues History

Jazz Blues Florida also maintains one of the largest continuing digital archives devoted to Florida's live jazz and blues scene. The archive includes magazine issues, articles, photographs, videos, interviews, event information and other material documenting artists, venues, festivals and performances over many years.

The complete digital archive of every monthly Jazz Blues Florida magazine published from 2009 through December 2024 remains available online. In addition, years of news coverage, photography, video and event documentation provide an ongoing historical record of Florida's jazz and blues community.

Many artists appearing in these archives are no longer performing, and some have passed away. In many cases, photographs, videos and published material produced or preserved by Jazz Blues Florida have become part of the continuing public record of their work.

Editorial Coverage Policy

Artists, venues, festivals and organizations that promote their events through Jazz Blues Florida help support the continued operation of the platform and its ability to document Florida's live jazz and blues community. Editorial coverage itself is independent of paid promotional services and can never be promised or guaranteed.

Client support does, however, help make it possible for Jazz Blues Florida to attend performances, document events, maintain its archives and continue preserving the history of Florida's live jazz and blues community for future audiences.

Promotion Services & Pricing

Jazz Blues Florida provides paid promotional services for artists, venues, festivals, performing arts organizations, jazz and blues societies, concert promoters, cultural organizations and other presenters of live jazz and blues throughout Florida.

Current services and pricing are available at:
https://www.jazzbluesflorida.com/rate-sheet