A concert performance photograph showing Choking on the Revelry plays Coppertail Brewing in Tampa, Florida on Nov. 7, 2026. Captured from a low-angle medium shot, a female keyboardist with long dark wavy hair performs on stage behind a black Roland JUNO-DS synthesizer. She wears a black sleeveless top and looks forward with a focused expression, set against warm golden-orange backdrop lighting inside the brewery venue space.
Choking on the Revelry plays Coppertail Brewing in Tampa, Florida on Nov. 7, 2026. Credit: Dave Decker/Creative Loafing Tampa Bay

Coppertail Brewing’s loading dock has been regularly hosting concerts over the last few months, and last Saturday held a hootenanny of sorts when Americana favorites Have Gun, Will Traveled were joined by everyone’s favorite wide-smiling Florida folk singer, Lauris Vidal, and the inimitable Choking on the Revelry.

Tampa punk band Big Sad also played, but its photographer, Creative Loafing Tampa Bay senior photographer Dave Decker, plays guitar for that outfit and still hasn’t cracked the code on playing a show and taking the photos at the same time.

Credit: Dave Decker/Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Credit: Dave Decker/Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Credit: Dave Decker/Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Credit: Dave Decker/Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Credit: Dave Decker/Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Credit: Dave Decker/Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Credit: Dave Decker/Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Credit: Dave Decker/Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Credit: Dave Decker/Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Credit: Dave Decker/Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Credit: Dave Decker/Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Credit: Dave Decker/Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Credit: Dave Decker/Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Credit: Dave Decker/Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Credit: Dave Decker/Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Credit: Dave Decker/Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Credit: Dave Decker/Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Credit: Dave Decker/Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
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Credit: Dave Decker/Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Credit: Dave Decker/Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Credit: Dave Decker/Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Credit: Dave Decker/Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Credit: Dave Decker/Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Credit: Dave Decker/Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Credit: Dave Decker/Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
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Credit: Dave Decker/Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Credit: Dave Decker/Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Credit: Dave Decker/Creative Loafing Tampa Bay

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This article appears in Nov. 05 – 11, 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...

Dave Decker is a songwriter and photographer living in Tampa Bay.