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Grammy-nominated pop band OneRepublic is coming to Tampa this fall with fellow genre heavyweight Needtobreathe (stylized “NEEDTOBREATHE”) in tow.

Tickets to see OneRepublic and Needtobreathe play Tampa’s MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre on Friday, Sept. 2 go on sale next Friday, March 4 at 10 a.m. Ticket prices have yet to be announced, and other Florida stops include West Palm Beach (Sept. 3) and Jacksonville (Sept. 4).

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In 2009, OneRepublic’s “Apologize” was nominated for a “Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal Grammy, and while the Colorado band has never won a golden gramophone, its frontman Ryan Tedder has taken home Grammys for songwriting he did with Adele and Taylor Swift. The band just released a new single, “West Coast,” today.

Needtobreathe is in the same only-been-Grammy-nominated-but-never-won bucket as their tourmate, but the band is a perennial favorite at the GMF Dove Awards where Christian rock fans and critics have dished the outfit more than a dozen wins.

This article appears in Feb 24 – Mar 2, 2022.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...