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.
