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Margarita Wars

Fri., May 17

The James Museum of Western & Wildlife Art

150 Central Avenue, St. Petersburg St. Pete

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$65

Festivals, Food & Drink

1 tequila. 2 tequila. 3 tequila... Fri., May 17th, 2024 The James Museum of Western Art 150 Central Ave., St. Pete, FL Your favorite tequila battle is back! Margarita Wars is a unique opportunity to sample margaritas created by over 21 of the Tampa Bay area's best mixologists and try your hand at tipsy judging as YOU help award Tampa Bay’s Ultimate Margarita! Plus, live entertainment, Mexican-inspired hors d'oeuvres, and other fun surprises. Ticket perk alert! New this year, all VIP & DD ticket holders will get to view the beautiful James Museum of Western Art's galleries from 6:00pm to… 727-892-4200
Tampa Riverfest 2024

Fri., May 3 and Sat., May 4

Multiple Locations

Free

Festivals, Live Music, Family and Kid Events, Market, Food & Drink

Mike Mullis (Vagabond) A lotta things to do Ask any hip-hop head in Milwaukee, and they’ll tell you that Todd Thomas knows a lot about community. Better known as Speech, the 55-year-old founder of Arrested Development put his stamp on the 414 not just through his band’s positive, soulful, Afrocentric brand of rap, but how he moved through his community. “It was not just, ‘OK, I rapped with him’ or ‘He produced a song for me,’” DJ Bizzon told Radio Milwaukee… “they knew him, they worked with him, they met with him, they just knew where he lived. He was… (813) 274-8615
Spanish Love Songs w/Oso Oso/Sydney Sprague/Worry Club

Fri., May 3, 6 p.m.

Orpheum

14802 N Nebraska Ave., Tampa Tampa

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$24

Live Music

Spanish Love Songs makes pop-punk that is just perfect for singing away the sadness.
Indigo Girls w/Kristy Lee

Fri., May 3, 6:30 p.m.

Ruth Eckerd Hall

1111 McMullen Booth Rd., Clearwater Clearwater

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$39.25-$84.25

Live Music

Amy Ray and Emily Sailers are having a pretty big year in terms of appearing on the silver screen. The folk-rock duo's catalog is the center of “Glitter and Doom,” a jukebox musical-slash-queer rom-com about two performers on different ends of the entertainment industry trying to make it as musicians. 727-791-7400
Waxahatchee w/Good Morning

Fri., May 3, 7 p.m.

Jannus Live

200 1st Ave. N, St. Petersburg St. Pete

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$27 & up

Live Music

Waxahatchee’s new album, Tigers Blood, is due March 22, and is the follow up to the band’s acclaimed 2020 album, Saint Cloud, which was released at the height of the pandemic and became something of a warm blanket for a country forced to stay away from their community. (727) 565-0550
Levitation Room

Fri., May 3, 8 p.m.

Hooch and Hive

1001 W Cass St., Tampa Tampa

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$17-$20

Live Music

St. Petersburg instrumental trio Soft Cuff (FFO: Daptone Records) and bedroom bop maker Peli Gene open. (813) 251-1234
A Night of Drum & Bass: Vixen Stylee and Subcult w/Jungle Rivers/Anodnb/more

Fri., May 3, 9 p.m.

Deviant Libation

3800 N Nebraska Ave., Tampa Tampa

$10

DJ & Dance

Ybor Heights brewery has found footing as a space for hardcore shows, but puts its EDM hat on this weekend with help from OGs of the drum and bass scene. Guests from Orlando (Vixen Stylee, Subcult) and Albuquerque (Jungle Rivers) join local legends like Footsouljash and Thee Joker on the bill. (727) 379-4677
Live & Local on the Tampa Riverwalk

First Friday of every month

Riverwalk stage at David A. Straz Center

1010 N Macinnes Pl., Tampa Tampa

Free

Live Music

Weather permitting, one of downtown Tampa's best curated free live, local music series, happening outside the David A. Straz Center for the Performing Arts.
Our Town

Fridays, 8 p.m., Saturdays, 3 p.m., Sundays, 3 p.m. and Saturdays, 7:30 p.m. Continues through May 11

Stageworks Theatre

1120 E Kennedy Blvd., Suite 151, Tampa Tampa

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$45

Theater

Downtown Tampa turns into Grover’s Corners when Stageworks performs a multicultural, multilingual (with supertitles) version of Thornton Wilder’s iconic, 1930s Pulitzer-winning three-act play about life in small-town America. 813-374-2416
'The Skinny' on WMNF 88.5-FM

Fridays, 11 a.m.-12 p.m.

Free

Civics

A nhour-long news radio show airing Fridays from 11 .m.-noon on WMNF Tampa 88.5-FM. Florida Phoenix reporter Mich Perry will be joined weekly by author and journalist Ben Montgomery plus CL’s Ray Roa, with appearances from guests who’ll discuss the news of the week.
Movies at Screen Door Microcinema

Thursdays, 7:30 p.m., Fridays, 7:30 p.m., Sundays, 3:30 p.m. and Saturdays, 7:30 p.m.

Screen Door Microcinema

1624 E 7th Ave., Tampa Ybor City

$8

Film

The 800-square-foot microcinema holds 38 seats, has theater quality sound and screen, Super 8-mm, 35-mm, and 16-mm projectors, and a vast collection of films. A large bulk of the cinema’s equipment was graciously loaned by the University of Tampa’s Department of Film, Animation, and New Media (FMX). Visit the website to see the schedule.
Sunflower Festival: Harvest Moon Fun Farm

First Saturday, Sunday of every month, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Continues through May 26

HarvestMoon Fun Farm

15990 Stur St, Brooksville Hernando County

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$13.95 & up

Live Music

In addition to the regular attractions (gem mining, pedal cars, petting farm, more), admission gets you access to maze-like paths lined with sunflowers and zinnias. 800-373-4811
Nollywood Dreams

Saturdays, Sundays, 2 p.m. and Fri., May 10, 7 p.m. Continues through May 12

Freefall Theatre

6099 Central Ave., St. Petersburg St. Pete

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$25-$45

Theater

The recent unveiling of Oscar nominations reminded us how silly Hollywood is, and this work from Jocelyn Bioh helps throw a little more shade on tinseltown. Two sisters dream of finding success in the Nigerian film industry in this heartfelt romantic comedy set in the early-’90s when Nollywood was still cutting its teeth. (727) 498-5205
Ol' Dirty Sundays

Sundays, 9 p.m.

Crowbar - Tampa

1812 17th Street North, Tampa Tampa

$5

DJ & Dance, Live Music

Ybor City's longest-running and foremost hip-hop, soul, funk and reggae weekly featuring residents DJ Casper and DJ Fader holding it down in the Crowbar courtyard where Clam Master Jay mans the grill while local artists, clothiers and B-boys add to the ambience. Yes, Mos Def and Talib Kweli did a pop up Blackstar performance year back in the day, so don't be surprised when a special guest pops up out of nowhere. (813) 241-8600
Jacob Collier w/Kimbra

Mon., May 6, 7 p.m.

Duke Energy Center for the Arts Mahaffey Theater

400 First Street South, St. Petersburg St. Pete

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$53 & up

Live Music

The 29-year-old played “Both Sides, Now” at the Grammys with Joni Mitchell three months ago, and his new album Djesse Vol. 4 sees his smooth baritone take on tracks fast enough to get you out of bed in the morning, and some that’ll keep you in the sheets all day. (727) 892-5721
Kurt Vile

Wed., May 8, 7 p.m.

Jannus Live

200 1st Ave. N, St. Petersburg St. Pete

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$29.50

Live Music

Vile—ranked no. 215 on Rolling Stone’s Greatest Guitarists of All-Time—was last in the Bay area seven years ago when he turned in a 90-minute guitar clinic in Ybor City. (727) 565-0550
Narrow Head

Wed., May 8, 7 p.m.

Crowbar - Tampa

1812 17th Street North, Tampa Tampa

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$20-$25

Live Music

Wishy, an Indiana band toting an ebullient brand of fuzzy dream-pop opens the show along with Virginia noise-pop outfit Dazy. (813) 241-8600
Sting w/The Florida Orchestra

Thu., May 9, 8 p.m. and Fri., May 10, 8 p.m.

Duke Energy Center for the Arts – Mahaffey Theater

400 1st St S, St. Petersburg, FL 33701, St. Petersburg St. Pete

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$100 & up

Live Music

UPDATE: The March 6 show has sold-out, so TFO added a second show on Friday, May 10.This gala event won't be the first time the King of Pain has performed with the decades-old ensemble. In 2017, under the baton of Michael Francis, he fronted the same exact show, which marked TFO’s 50th anniversary, raising $1.5 million for its free community programs, which, according to a press release, would go toward reaching “people in hospitals, schools, parks, museums and more, as well as artistic initiatives that bring top talent to Tampa Bay stages.” 7273002000
Second Saturday Art Walk

Second Saturday of every month, 5-9 p.m.

Free

Festivals

From 5 p.m.-9 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 14, the St. Pete Arts Alliance has coordinated a trolley that will connect riders to 40 different venues in a handful of districts as part of its monthly Second Saturday Artwalk. Service starts at stop No. 1 located at 2955 Central Ave. in St. Petersburg.
Melody Artisans of the Crooked Thumb

Every other Tuesday, 7 p.m.

Crooked Thumb Brewery

555 10th Ave. S, Safety Harbor Pinellas County

Free

Live Music

A now seven-years running open mic style songwriters night where Josh Reilly invites artists from across the country to not only write a new song based on a prompt, but perform it in the brewery courtyard. (727) 724-5953
Chops: A Live Jazz Evening w/Rod Alnord Quartet

Third Wednesday of every month, 8 p.m.

Ella’s Americana Folk Art Cafe

5119 N Nebraska Ave, Tampa Seminole Heights

Free

Live Music

Hosted by a quartet let by drummer Rod Alnord, which will kick off the night with a 90-minute set before opening up the jam. (813) 234-1000
Fastball w/FayRoy

Thu., May 16, 7 p.m.

Floridian Social

687 Central Ave. N, St. Petersburg St. Pete

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$25

Live Music

This show has been rescheduled for May 16.The Austin-based rock band hits downtown St. Pete with a career retrospective, and possibly even a few Patreon-exclusive tracks. A young and handsome staple of the Bay area surf-rock scene, Fayroy, opens the show. 727-322-4600
Margarita Wars

Fri., May 17

The James Museum of Western & Wildlife Art

150 Central Avenue, St. Petersburg St. Pete

Get Tickets
$65

Festivals, Food & Drink

1 tequila. 2 tequila. 3 tequila... Fri., May 17th, 2024 The James Museum of Western Art 150 Central Ave., St. Pete, FL Your favorite tequila battle is back! Margarita Wars is a unique opportunity to sample margaritas created by over 21 of the Tampa Bay area's best mixologists and try your hand at tipsy judging as YOU help award Tampa Bay’s Ultimate Margarita! Plus, live entertainment, Mexican-inspired hors d'oeuvres, and other fun surprises. Ticket perk alert! New this year, all VIP & DD ticket holders will get to view the beautiful James Museum of Western Art's galleries from 6:00pm to… 727-892-4200
Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears

Sun., May 19, 6:30 p.m.

New World Brewery

810 E Skagway Ave., Tampa Tampa

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$22

Live Music

Lewis,’ moniker is a nod to a Richard Pryor skit and something of a reclamation of Blackness from the songwriter Stephen Foster whose racist lyrics are widely regarded as an embarrassment of American music. His 2018 album, The Difference Between Me & You, is also making a comeback, which heads back to Tampa Bay this summer. 813-304-0460
Bad Bunny

Tue., May 21, 8 p.m.

Amalie Arena

401 Channelside Dr, Tampa Tampa

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$99.95 & up

Live Music

Last week, Bunny (real name Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio) saw his new album Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va A Pasar Mañana achieve more single-day Spotify streams than any other this year. (813) 301-6500
Mic Masters: Skyzoo

Fri., May 24, 9 p.m.

Crowbar

1812 North 17th Street, Tampa Seminole Heights

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$30-$100

Live Music

The 41-year-old New York emcee grew up a block away from Notorious B.I.G., and has released close to a couple dozen of albums and mixtapes since 2002, including last year’s The Mind of a Saint, a concept record built around Franklin Saint, a character from the FX crime drama “Snowfall.” Skyzoo is joined by Bay area rappers Khighness, Chase Bankery, and Pusha Preme who recently signed a distribution deal with Roc Nation’s Equity Distribution.
Rock the Park Tampa

First Thursday of every month, 6:30-9:45 p.m.

Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park

600 N Ashley Dr., Tampa Tampa

Free

Live Music

Downtown Tampa's 13-year-old free, family and pet-friendly showcase of the Bay area's best homegrown musicians, taking place the first Thursday of every month at Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park (with the occasional detour to Water Works Park when a special event takes over The Curt). (813) 274-8615
Megan Thee Stallion

Sat., June 8, 7 p.m.

Amalie Arena

401 Channelside Dr, Tampa Tampa

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Live Music

Memphis rapper Glo Rilla opens the show. (813) 301-6500
Justin Timberlake

Fri., June 14, 7:30 p.m.

Amalie Arena

401 Channelside Dr, Tampa Tampa

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$55 & up

Live Music

The 42-year-old Nsync frontman announced the Forget Tomorrow World Tour on “The Tonight Show,” and has already released a new single, “Selfish.” (813) 301-6500
Alanis Morissette w/Joan Jett and the Blackhearts

Wed., June 19, 7 p.m.

MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre

4802 N Us Highway 301, Tampa Hillsborough County

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Prices TBA

Live Music

Following the release of a meditative album last year (The Storm Before the Calm) and a Christmas EP last week—and of course, her jukebox musical “Jagged Little Pill” blowing up—Morissette’s “Triple Moon” tour will have Joan Jett and the Blackhearts in tow as a special guest opener. This will be Morissette’s first show in Tampa Bay since a 2021 stop at the same venue, as part of the relaunch of her Jagged Little Pill 25th anniversary tour, which was originally halted due to COVID-19.