A person performing stand-up comedy at a microphone in a bookstore, gesturing with their hand in front of a bookshelf featuring titles like 'If You Love Let Kill' and 'The Great Good.'
Sierra Layko Credit: sierra.layko / Facebook

MAGA snowflakes might want to stay away from Ybor City tonight. Inside Crowbar, Bay area musicians and comedians come together and take over two stages to raise funds for Immigrant Defense Project, a nearly 30-year-old project providing legal support for some of the country’s most vulnerable people.

Lauren Gray and Hugh Carey—two of the weirdest, unholy comedians in the Bay—will roast MAGA while fellow comics like John J Murray and Tampa News Force’s Clark Brooks, and the ever neurotic Sierra Layko (pictured).

Tampa punk band Gnats is pitching in along with appropriately-named St. Pete quartet Dissentors. Pinellas experimental artist Sissie Trash, and jazz-punk outfit No Context round out the music.

Organizations working on immigration and community-related issues will also be on site.

A $10 donation is suggested for the Pretti Good Trouble benefit happening Thursday, March 5 at Crowbar in Ybor City.


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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...