24 live music concerts and events happening in Tampa Bay this weekend

The first live music weekend of 2023 is here, and it kicks off with tonight’s free concert in downtown Tampa featuring Ashley Smith & the Random Occurrence. Look below to see a mix of our critics’ picks for the best live music, mixed in with select shows from Creative Loafing Tampa Bay’s user submitted concert calendar.

Thursday, Jan. 5

• Mary Gauthier w/Jaimee Harris (Gram Parsons Derry Down, Winter Haven)
• Rock The Park: Ashley Smith & The Random Occurrence w/Josh Gluck/Slopfunkdust  (Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park, Tampa)

Friday, Jan. 6

• Chuck Owen & ReSurgence (Center for the Arts, Wesley Chapel)
• FGCU Coalition for Collegiate Musicians of Color: Dia De Los Reyes Concert (Pinellas Park Performing Arts Center, Pinellas Park)
• Goatwhore w/Caveman Cult/Herakleion/Must.Not.Kill/The Path (Orpheum, Tampa)
• Live & Local on the Tampa Riverwalk: Proud Miranda w/Hovercar (Riverwalk Stage at David A. Straz Center for the Performing Arts, Tampa)
• Steve Poltz w/Rebekah Pulley (Skipper’s Smokehouse, Tampa)
• Urbane Cowboys (Ella’s Americana Folk Art Cafe, Tampa)

Saturday, Jan. 7

• Boy’s Entrance (Jack’s London Grill, St. Petersburg)
• Emo Night Tampa: Intervention w/Menu/Spoiled Rat/P.M. Tiger (Crowbar, Ybor City)
• FYA IX: Life Of Agony w/Cold World/Fiddlehead/Drain/Mindforce/Anxious/Age Of Apocalypse/more  (Bryan Glazer Family JCC, Tampa) RR
• Slap of Reality w/Caught Fire/Arcane Arcade  (The Bends, St. Petersburg)
• Steve Poltz (Music4Life Living Arts Center, Clearwater)

Sunday, Jan. 8

• Adolfo Mendonça Quartet (Studio@620, St. Petersburg) RR
• Chuck Owen & ReSurgence w/Kate McGarry/John O’Leary, Simon Lasky, and Zach Bartholomew (Hough Hall at Palladium Theater, St. Petersburg)
• The Kingston Trio (Central Park Performing Arts Center, Largo)
• Liquid Pennies w/Chlorinefields/Razor and the Boogie Men/Blind Pass (Floridian Social, St. Petersburg)
• Too Many Daves w/Jesse Thorson & The Banned/Trash The Rental/more  (Hooch and Hive, Tampa)
• Webster’s Wheel (Biergarten at New World Brewery, Tampa)

Tuesday, Jan. 10

• Melody Artisans of the Crooked Thumb: Seven Year Anniversary (Crooked Thumb Brewery, Safety Harbor)

Wednesday, Jan. 11

• The Chuck Prophet Trio (Skipper’s Smokehouse, Tampa)
• Jasmine Cain  (Stirling Wine, Dunedin)
• Marc Broussard w/Kristopher James (Bilheimer Capitol Theatre, Clearwater)

Thursday, Jan. 12

• Jeremy Gloff and the Power Bottoms w/Navin Ave/Direwood/Jeff Brawer/Melissa Grady/Christopher Knolton/Deb Ruby/$tephmoney (Crowbar, Ybor City)

This article appears in Dec 29, 2022 – Jan 4, 2023.