For Saturday, August 22, I’d start at Bounce Beach if you want a casual bar setting with live music—not a formal music-hall show. It has live music on Fridays and Saturdays at 400 Quietwater Beach Rd., Pensacola Beach; call (850) 347-6068 to confirm tonight’s artist and set time. Details via Visit Pensacola

Also worth checking tonight:

• Five Sisters Blues Cafe — a local weekend-events listing shows the Josh Strickland Trio at 6 p.m. This is the better pick if you want dinner plus blues/jazz-adjacent live music downtown rather than a beach-bar atmosphere. Confirm the set before heading over because that listing is not the venue’s own calendar. Weekend listing

• Tippy’s Tavern — a local event post lists Paul Killough at 9 p.m. tonight. Good late-night, low-key bar choice if you want something more neighborhood-tavern than downtown venue. Event post

One correction to avoid a wasted trip: Paperchase at the Gulfside Pavilion was Tuesday, August 18, not tonight; it was part of the Bands on the Beach series. WKRG event coverage

My pick: Bounce Beach for beach drinks and an easy live-music night; Five Sisters if food matters as much as the band.

👉 Do you want a beach-bar vibe, downtown dinner-and-music, or a later neighborhood-bar set?