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Tampa’s Gasparilla Music Festival will trade weekend passes for gently used musical instruments
Its first Recycled Tunes pop-up of the 2021 season happens next weekend in Riverview.
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Joe Bonamassa drops jaws with super trio at Clearwater’s Ruth Eckerd Hall
If you ask JoeBo the purpose of one of his solos, you, my friend, are at the wrong concert.
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Electric Daisy Carnival returns to Orlando this November
The festival, like all major American music fests, had to be postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Tampa’s Gasparilla Music Festival 2021 is rescheduled for October
An exact date is to be announced, but the fest is now three-days long.
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Tampa country bar Dallas Bull says it can’t ask you about your lack of a mask because of HIPAA
Most fact checks say that’s false.
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Sugar Ray, Phillip Phillips and Sister Hazel top concert lineup at Busch Gardens’ Food and Wine Festival
It all kicks off next weekend with Phillip Phillips.
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Keb’ Mo’ brought humor, coffee house vibes to Clearwater’s expansive Ruth Eckerd Hall
The guitar hero turns 70 in October.
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Downtown St. Petersburg music venue Floridian Social Club, formerly State Theatre, is now open
The venue is open six nights a week.
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Clearwater resident and jazz giant Chick Corea dead at 79
He passed on Feb. 9. from a rare form of cancer.
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Tampa musician says he made a guitar from his uncle’s skeleton
Prince Midnight should be no stranger to locals.
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Jim Messina’s Clearwater concert is now postponed
For what it’s worth, this was not a Super Bowl concert.
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Samantha Hval hired as WMNF’s new program director ahead of the retirement of Randy Wynne
Wynne, who’s been program director for 35 years, will assist in a transition until June.
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Jon Schaffer, from Tampa metal band Iced Earth, surrenders to FBI on charges related to Capitol insurrection
The FBI says he was among a group who used bear spray against Capitol police.
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Julian Marley joins Aston Barrett Jr.’s Wailers for Clearwater show next month
Tickets to see the limited-capacity acoustic gig at The Cap go on sale Friday, Jan. 15.
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‘You’re painting the whole scene in a bad light’: Tampa’s DJ Ku to local DJs who flout local mask mandates
“We’re a special breed of stupid here. Zero attempt to move responsibly and then complain about when venues are targeted and get shut down.”
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Jon Schaffer from Tampa metal band Iced Earth among those photographed storming U.S. Capitol
No one should be surprised that Schaffer participated in the insurrection.
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Tampa Bay’s live music scene poised for federal bailout that will allow venues to stay in business
The bill expressly excludes businesses that operate in more than 10 states and employ more than 500 people.
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Tampa Bay’s live music scene withstood the pandemic, but venues say the future is uncertain
Here’s the live music outlook, straight from operators of local venues large and small.
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Geoff Tate plays Queensrÿche classics in much-anticipated reopening of Ruth Eckerd Hall’s main room
He was the first act to play the space since March.
