Oliver Tree Credit: Photo by Jimmy Fontaine
If you thought wardrobe changes and wigs were for divas only, then let Oliver Tree—who’s headed for Jannus Live in St. Petersburg on Wednesday, Aug, 31—change your mind.

The 29-year-old comedian-musician swears his hair is real, which I’ll only believe if I get to pull it, but his appeal to festival goers and tweens is undeniable.

Tree’s latest, February’s Cowboy Tears, puts a Stetson on more of the meme-powered schtick that’s made Tree popular, and you need not go to this show if you take yourself too seriously.

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This article appears in Aug 25-31, 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...