Mountain Holler, who plays The Ale & the Witch in St. Petersburg, Florida on Dec. 20, 2024. Credit:Michael M Sinclair
Friends, I’m here to tell you that there was a time when St. Petersburg’s 600 Block had multiple music venues on it. The spirit from that fruitful epoch of the Bay area music scene is revived in a Christmas miracle that sees expat cosmic-folk songwriter Mark Etherington come home to revive his Mountain Holler project.
To open the no-cover outdoor show, another revered songsmith, J.T. Brown—who plays in the Holler’s “New Dawn” configuration—once again finds himself fronting vaunted local Americana heavyweight The Groves.
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...
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