The concerts below are selected by Creative Loafing Tampa Bay staffers and contributors, then supplemented with select shows from CL’s user-submitted Tampa Bay calendar. Don’t see your gig here? Please submit it yourself.
Friday, Dec. 22
- Adventure Club w/Ryan Nevis/Friendzone (The Ritz, Ybor City)
- Brokenmold Holiday Party: Night Child w/Raquel Lily & The Buko Boys/Urbane Cowboys (Hooch and Hive)
- Future Joy (Blueberry Patch, Gulfport)
- Taylor Reed (Riverwalk Stage at Straz Center, Tampa)
- A Very Crowbar Christmas: Have Gun, Will Travel w/Kristopher James/Camille Trust/Perception/Mountain Holler (Crowbar, Ybor City)
- Bad Santa Xmas Party: Pusha Preme w/Legend Tribe/more (Hooch and Hive, Tampa)
- The Dialogue (Oscura, Bradenton)
- The Groves w/Mountain Holler and the New Dawn/Blake Daniels (Crowbar, Ybor City)
- Jarryd Dollard (Riverwalk Stage at Straz Center, Tampa)
- Sermons Fest by Beatsnchill: Taylor Moon w/Young 40/Lafayette (Music hall at New World Brewery, Tampa)
- Trans-Siberian Orchestra (Amalie Arena, Tampa)
- New Granada’s Sorta-Annual Xmas Night Extravaganza: Meatwound w/Rahim Samad/Slap of Reality/American Dreaming (Hooch and Hive, Tampa)
- The Elovaters w/Shwayze/Surfer Girl (Jannus Live, St. Petersburg)
Choking On the Revelry w/Unruly Industry/Home Is West Thursday, Dec. 21, 7 p.m. No cover Hooch and Hive, Tampa
BeatleBeat (Beatles tribute) Friday, Dec. 22, 7 p.m. $10-$25. Floridian Social, St. Petersburg
Dean Johanesen Friday, Dec. 22, 7 p.m. No cover. Stirling Wine, Dunedin
Light the Wire Friday, Dec. 22, 9 p.m. No cover. Ella’s Americana Folk Art Cafe, Tampa
Nadya Friday-Saturday, Dec. 22-23. 6 p.m. No cover. The Dan, Tampa
A Very Prairie Christmas: DJ Cub Saturday, Dec. 23, 8 p.m. No cover. Independent Bar & Cafe, Tampa
Aubrey Wollett Saturday, Dec. 23. 6 p.m. No cover. Sponge City Brewing, Tarpon Springs
Mau P Saturday, Dec. 23, 10 p.m. $35. The Ritz, Ybor City
Procrastinator’s Ball: Florida Folk Show Saturday, 10 a.m. No cover. Craftsman House Gallery, St. Petersburg
Abortion Twins w/Captive Frame/Pig Pen/Killed By Florida/Mommy’s Little Monsters Saturday, Dec. 23. $10 Deviant Libation, Tampa
Stick & Ditty’s Christmas Miracle Saturday, Dec. 23, 8 p.m. No cover. Dunedin Brewery, Dunedin
Speakeazie w/Angela Hellcat Wednesday, Dec. 27. 7 p.m. No cover. Hooch and Hive, Tampa
The Brainiacs w/Undercover Rasta/DJ Interceder Thursday, Dec. 28. 7 p.m. $10. Hooch and Hive, Tampa
Dark Heart Disco: Karl Jams w/Brian Busto/Rat Galactic Thursday, Dec. 28, 7 p.m. $8-$12. The Catacombs, Ybor City
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This article appears in Dec 14-20, 2023.