C-Rena Credit: Marlo Miller c/o Gasparilla Music Festival
Downtown Tampa’s free, monthly music series Rock the Park has become a clockwork example of how a municipality can show off cultural assets, but on Thursday, Oct. 6—to accommodate Oktoberfest Tampa—it makes a slight pivot, moves out of its home at Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park, and takes a short walk to Water Works Park in Tampa Heights.

Music happens care of a Tampa R&B queen (C-Renã), an Americana band with a literary streak (Navin Ave.) and the smooth, yacht-ready blue-eyed soul of Speakeasy.

As always, the show is no cover, plus family and pet-friendly.

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Rock the Park Tampa

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

Location: Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park, 600 N Ashley Dr., Tampa

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This article appears in Sep 30 – Oct 5, 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...