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Ol’ Dirty Sundays w/Skratch Bastid Juno Award-nominated turntablist Paul Murphy is global ambassador for Red Bull’s excellent Thre3style DJ competition, but don’t let his reputation (or penchant for throwing killer “Bastid BBQ” block parties with cats like Z-Trip, Jazzy Jeff and DJ Premiere) be the reason you go to Crowbar to see the man they call Skratch Bastid. Just YouTube the 35-year-old’s ridiculous tribute to the late, great David Bowie to get your mind blown. (Crowbar, Ybor City) INFO
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A Q&A with of Montreal visionary frontman Kevin Barnes
✔️ of Montreal w/Christina Schneider’s Genius Grant/Pajamas The freak prince of indie-rock comes back to Ybor to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?, the Athens, Georgia composer’s boundary-breaking meditation on life changes (a new child, depression, marital problems). The grower of an LP is one of Polyvinyl Records’ best-selling titles, and Barnes — a borderline genius and alum of the envelope-pushing Elephant 6 collective, home to Apples in Stereo, Neutral Milk Hotel and Minders — is famous for psychedelic, sometimes shocking, live sets that bring his records to life. NYC composer Christina Schneider (who describes her own psych-pop as sounding “like if Katy Perry was laughing but she wasn’t popular”) opens the show along with Tampa Bay electro-pop maker Pajamas. (The Orpheum, Ybor City) INFO
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Interview: How Mouse Fire's Shane Schuch brings tireless energy to new project, Pajamas
✔️ New Music Masterworks w/Sarah Cahill Sarah Cahill is a young pianist the New York Times has described as “sterling…an intrepid illuminator of the classical avant-garde,” and she is used to performing in non-traditional spaces. (Cahill, who also has a weekly radio show on San Fran’s KALW 91.7 FM, recently played the music of Henry Cowell at San Quentin State Prison where he was imprisoned for four years.) Cahill will perform a solo piano program of “Lou Harrison and His Circle” in St. Pete featuring the Asia-loving American composer’s Range-Song and Jig, “Conductus” from the suite “The Changing Moment,” and “Summerfield Set,” alongside works by his friends and colleagues, including Cowell, John Cage, Johanna Beyer, James Cleghorn, and Frank Wigglesworth. Admission is free, but reservations are advised. (St. Petersburg Main Library) INFO
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ALSO PLAYING
Americana/Folk
The Desert Fathers w/Faraday/Cinema Within (Black Crow Coffee, St. Petersburg) INFO
Sara Rose Band (Ella's Americana Folk Art Cafe, Tampa) INFO
Ruby's Holiday Instrument Drive (Ruby’s Elixir, St. Petersburg) INFO
Ambient
Infinite Third w/Rissa Wray (Grassroots Kava House, St. Petersburg) INFO
Jazz/Chorale/Classical
Tampa Jazz Club Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley Tribute w/Whitney James/Jack Wilkins Ensemble (Hillsborough Community College Mainstage Theatre, Ybor City) INFO
Opera On Tap Ugly Xmas Sweater Party (Subcentral at Iberian Rooster, St. Petersburg) INFO
Sara Rose Band (Ella's Americana Folk Art Cafe, Tampa) INFO
Suncoast Barbershop Chorus Holiday Show (Largo Community Center, Largo) INFO
Duncan MacMillan (Fletcher Lounge at University of Tampa, Tampa) INFO
Carrollwood Winds Holiday Concert (Carrollwood Cultural Center, Tampa) INFO
December 10, Holiday Magic w/St. Pete Opera Company (Peace Memorial Presbyterian Church, Clearwater) INFO
A Gift of Music w/Matinee Opera Players/Matinee Opera Players (Pinellas Park Performing Arts Center, Pinellas Park) INFO
The Florida Orchestra Brass Quintet (Land O’ Lakes Community Center, Land O’ Lakes) INFO
Tampa Bay Flute Choir Christmas Concert (Allendale United Methodist Church, St. Petersburg) INFO
Heralds of Harmony (Palladium Theater, St. Petersburg) INFO
The Magic of Christmas w/Sun City Center Men’s Chorus (St. Andrew Presbyterian Church, Sun City Center) INFO
Singer-songwriter
Willie Porter w/Carmen Nickerson (Safety Harbor Arts & Music Center, Safety Harbor) INFO
Jack Williams & Pierce Pettis (Hideaway Café, St. Petersburg) INFO
Blues
Betty Fox Band (The Ale & the Witch, St. Petersburg) INFO
Nick Schnebelen Band (Skipper’s Smokehouse, Tampa) INFO
Rock
Serotonic (Independent Bar and Cafe, Tampa) INFO
Gin Blossoms (Capitol Theatre, Clearwater) INFO
Suicide Silence perform 'The Cleansing' w/UABBmore (Crowbar, Ybor City) INFO
DJ/EDM
Subterranean Sundays w/DJ Cub/DJ Catmat (Hampton Station, Tampa) INFO
Gospel
Sunday's Soulful Supper Dinner Show w/Derrick Williams/Jordan Denise Williams (Dulcet Restaurant and Lounge, New Port Richey) INFO
Tribute/Cover
Celebrating Sinatra (Murray Theater at Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater) INFO
This article appears in Dec 7-14, 2017.