SATURDAY & SUNDAY: Two music festivals with grassroots appeal serenade audiences this weekend. Safety Harbor SongFest — a fundraiser for the still-not-open-yet Safety Harbor Arts and Music Center, aka SHAMc — celebrates its third year with an exciting 20-act lineup on two stages situated in the city’s waterfront park. Cheap Trick frontman Robin Zander and multi-instrumental Chicago bluesman Otis Taylor headline on Saturday, while folk-rock singer-songwriter Shawn Mullins, country music duo Love and Theft and cellist/composer Ben Sollee lead Sunday’s festivities.
SongFestApril 2-3, 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Sat., 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Sun., Safety Harbor Waterfront Park, $25 each day/$40 weekend pass, safetyharborsongfest.com.
LRF Main ShowcaseSun., April 3, 7 p.m., Palladium Theater, St. Petersburg, $20 general ($35 VIP), listeningroomfestival.com.
In St. Pete, the fifth annual Listening Room Festival closes five days of intimate living room concerts with its main showcase at the Palladium. Roots-rockabilly troubadour Antsy McClain leads a bill that also features Ryanhood, Suzie Vinnick, Peppino D’Agostino, Tim & Myles Thompson, and Dan Frechette & Laurel Thomsen.
This article appears in Mar 24-30, 2016.