The Sound Café & Enlightened Studios
The Sound Café & Enlightened Studios, Downtown Fort Walton Beach
The vision of Enlightened Studios began out of the dining room. At his home in Santa Rosa Beach, our owner and founder, Cole Huffer, built a small studio and used his newly found love of videography to capture intimate performances from some of our local artists.
In 2018, we moved to our physical location on Miracle Strip Parkway in the downtown Fort Walton Beach. Since the move, Enlightened Studios has expanded to include The Sound Café where you’ll find ample atmosphere for coffee, wine, and even paninis!
The Sound Café hosts our local art gallery which spans the walls of the entire place. Many of our solo and acoustic acts perform on the café side for a stripped down, friends-and-family kind of vibe. During the day, The Sound Café is the perfect get away for all our local entrepreneurs, small-business owners, and freelancers to gather together, meet a client for coffee, or get some work done outside of the house.
On a Wednesday night, you can wander into The Sound Café for our weekly Open Mic Night or stop by on Sunday for bottomless mimosas and live music. You can connect to find their most up to date events list on their Facebook page.
Enlightened Studios is also known for our productions. The studio side is where we host our live music scene and we welcome all voices and genres. We’ve had the fortune of showcasing local and national acts on our big stage. What makes performing at Enlightened so unique is our artist exchange program. We offer any band, any artist, any musician who wants to play a show at Enlightened a mixed, recorded, and produced live video of the song of their choice.
Our team knows how invaluable the right kind of marketing content can be hugely beneficial and long-lasting, especially for creatives and artists. The videos we offer give our artists the chance to showcase their talents time and time again through the most engaging type of content.
And it’s not just music videos!
Here at Enlightened Studios, although the three main types of videos we film and produce are wedding, business, and music videos, we have the ability to bring ANY vision to life. We have also filmed short films and documentaries, along with contest entries and television spots. Let Enlightened Studios bring YOUR vision to life!
Our whole vision of Enlightened Studios is to offer any artists, any creator, anyone with a passion to come by and know that there is a team here ready to support them in making that vision a reality.
All in all, you probably won’t get it until you get here.
