Ashley Smith & the Random Occurrence / Photo by Kelsey Walker Credit: Kelsey Walker / Gasparilla Music Festival
After dominating stages at Gasparilla Music Festival and Rock the Park Tampa, Ashley Smith is taking her band to its biggest downtown Tampa stage yet. Online, Smith called the gig where Kristopher James and Josh Higgins open, the band’s “most monumental” show to date.

For the last half-decade, Smith and her band have been steadfast and forceful purveyors of soulful Americana where the songwriter’s powerhouse vocal steals the show.

Tickets to see Ashley Smith & the Random Occurrence play Ferguson Hall at the David A. Straz Center on Saturday, Jan. 21 are still available and start at $46.75.

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This article appears in Jan 19-25, 2023.

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...