April Showers Credit: Photo via Biishop the Artist/YouTube (screengrab by Creative Loafing Tampa Bay)
April Showers (aka Biishop The Artist) is a bright young star in Tampa’s songwriter scene and recently spent some time in California’s Topanga Canyon.

While there, Biishop and friends tracked the latest evolution of a sound that somehow blends the sensuality of Frank Ocean with the bombastic energy of jazz and jam of artists that might call the GroundUp Music collective home.

Biishop is joined by an expat of the modern Bay area folk movement, Liam Bauman, for this return to the ridiculously intimate and cozy climes of Seminole Heights’ Far Forest.

Tickets to see April Showers and Liam Bauman play Far Forest in Tampa on Thursday, April 18 are still available and start at $20. 

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This article appears in Jul 11-17, 2024.

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...