April 1-2, Safety Harbor Songfest The quirkiest little town in Tampa Bay (sorry Dunedin) gets to shine as they welcome about two dozen songwriters to the waterside where they’ll perform for a nearly sold out crowd. Read our preview of the festival here. (Safety Harbor Art and Music Center, Safety Harbor) INFO
DieAlps! w/Expert Timing This one is a good excuse for Tampons (that’s what we sometimes call people who live in Tampa) to finally venture over to the new venue at St. Pete’s Iberian Rooster. Hometown indie rock homies DieAlps! Will continue their march towards a new LP, and Orlando pop punk duo Expert Timing show off a new EP, Selective Hearing, which you can listen to below. (SubCentral at Iberian Rooster, St. Petersburg) INFO
University of South Florida Gospel Choir You don’t have to dive into the frigid waters of Spring Bayou to get blessed at this one where the long running University of South Florida gospel choir will performing uplifting gospel favorites in the hopes of raising money that will help some of the neighborhood’s college students with some scholarships to help them along the way. (Tarpon Springs Performing Arts Center, Tarpon Springs) INFO
Dabron Kain Trial & Era Album Release Party w/Dynasty/more St. Pete emcee steps out of the shadows on a new LP, which he’ll celebrate at Fubar. Read our profile with Kain, and listen to a new single, “Be You” here. (Fubar, St. Petersburg) INFO
GMF Presents Streetcar Live w/The Young Parisians Gasparilla Music Festival’s streetcar concert experience is no stranger to members of the Young Parisians hip-hop collective, but an opportunity to see a crew of the Bay area’s best emcees spit rhymes on a rolling streetcar just doesn’t come around that often. Just 74 folks will fit on the TECO trolley car, and it’ll embark from Ybor City’s Centennial Park around 5 p.m. (TECO Streetcar Line System, Ybor City) INFO
Lil Uzi Vert He’s a member of XXL magazine’s controversial freshman class (it featured a few Lil’s — like Dicky and Yachty — alongside more promising guys like Anderson.Paak and Denzel Curry), but Lil’ Uzi Vert (real name Symere Woods) survived, and he brings all the hype to what could be a sold out Jannus Live where songs from his four mixtapes will have all the kids screaming about how they was right about that 2015 mixtape Luv Is Rage. (Jannus Live, St. Petersburg) INFO
DNCE Joe Jonas in the house. A few months after bringing his new band DNCE to the Jingle Ball at Amalie, the middle Jonas Brother is taking the show outside for Busch Gardens’ ongoing Food & Wine Festival. The concert is included in park admission, per usual, but special viewing areas and food & beverage packages are available for a few extra bones. You’re not allowed to feed the tigers, kids, and don’t touch the Joe Jonas either. (Busch Gardens Food & Wine Festival, Tampa) INFO
MattyB w/Haschak Sisters MattyB might be the purest example of Twee rap, and while he is rapidly aging (14 looks good on you, bro), you can bet that his most devoted fans (who’ve been obsessed since he became a YouTube sensation) will be there with ear piercing screams to let him know that Matty will always have their hearts. (Ferguson Hall at David A. Straz Center for Performing Arts, Tampa) INFO
Polyenso w/Fr33dback/Crimson/Mouth Council If you’d like to have a full on concert experience, then be at Paper Crane (just off I-275 in downtown St. Pete) when hometown genre-benders Polyenso celebrate the anniversary of Pure in the Plastic, which has taken the band to stages across the country. They’ll play brand new material at this warehouse show, and attendees are being encouraged to “wear white and bring glow sticks.” (Paper Crane, St. Petersburg) INFO
Indie/Americana/Rock/Folk
Darcy Malone & The Tangle (Skipper’s Smokehouse, Tampa) INFO
Big Kettle Drum (Hideaway Café, St. Petersburg) INFO
Donna Lu w/J Gilton/Shua Harrell (Green Bench Brewing Co., St. Petersburg) INFO
Bob Anthony w/Nate Blakely (Beer & Brownies, Tampa) INFO
Chuck Brodsky (Craftsman House Gallery, St. Petersburg) INFO
The BOLOS w/Giantology (The Bends, St. Petersburg) INFO
(He)art Presents: Fool’s Gold w/FayRoy/The Jackettes/Someday River/Ari Chi/Moonsovermysammy/Oprah Spinfrey (The Bricks, Ybor City) INFO
EDM/DJ/Tribute
Nobody’s Fool Art Show w/DJ Cub (New World Brewery, Ybor City) INFO
Ferry Corsten (The Ritz, Ybor City) INFO
April St. Pete Indie Market w/DJ Max Norton (Green Bench Brewing Co., St. Petersburg) INFO
CSN Songs (Central Park Performing Arts Center, Largo) INFO
Emo Nite w/Mike Poorman/Mes McDonald/Oprah Spinfrey (First Chance Last Chance, Ybor City) INFO
Classic Rock/Country/Blues
Chasco Fiesta w/Jefferson Starship (Sims Park Amphitheatre, New Port Richey) INFO
Charlie Daniels Band (England Brothers Bandshell, Pinellas Park) INFO
Steve Miller Band (Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater) INFO
Phil Fest w/Kevin Toon/That Pack/One Night Rodeo/Big Brother Band/The Black Honkeys (ROC Park, Madeira Beach) INFO
Laura McGhee and Steve Arvey (Firehouse Cultural Center, Ruskin) INFO
Jam/World
Come Back Alice (The Ale & the Witch, St. Petersburg) INFO
WMNF April Fools Party w/Bella’s Bartok/Kafkasso/Help Police (Crowbar, Ybor City) INFO
Jazz/Classical/Easy Listening
First Saturday Jazz w/Acme Jazz Garage (Independent Bar and Cafe, Tampa) INFO
TFO: Beethoven & Rachmaninoff w/Ignat Solzhenitsyn (Mahaffey Theater, St. Petersburg) INFO
Nicole Henry (Palladium Theater, St. Petersburg) INFO
Jim Brickman (Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater) INFO
This article appears in Mar 30 – Apr 6, 2017.
