A medium-shot portrait of country singer-songwriter Sunny Sweeney. They have long, wavy, blonde hair with bangs framing their face and are smiling warmly while looking slightly off-camera to the right. They are wearing a black leather jacket adorned with prominent metallic studs along the lapels and sleeves. The background is a clean, minimalist, light gray studio backdrop that keeps the focus entirely on the subject.
Sunny Sweeney Credit: c/o Odyssey Touring

A Rhinestone Requiem is coming to the Skipperdome, thanks to Sunny Sweeney. The 49-year-old songwriter, emergent Sirius XM DJ (“Sunny Side Up”‘” on Willie’s Roadhouse), and Trisha Yearwood collaborator is on the road supporting her 2025 outing, razzling and dazzling fans of honky-tonking country music with soul.

Tickets to see Sunny Sweeney at Skipper’s Smokehouse in Tampa on Thursday, June 11 are still available and start at $23.97.

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This article appears in May 28 – June 03, 2026.

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...