Brett Staska Credit: Photo by Nothing Negative Company via brettstaska/Facebook
Environmentalists say the Sunshine State’s swamps are the key to saving ourselves from annihilation.

Listen to the music of coastal cowboy Brett Staska—who’s playing Ella’s Americana Folk Art Cafe in Tampa on Sunday, Aug. 28—and you’ll be get closer to becoming a believer.

The songwriter crawled out from the wetlands of Loxahatchee and arrives at this 3 p.m. brunch get down in Seminole Heights with a full band to help him play a one-of-a-kind brand of “sunburnt folk-rock.”

Zack Hoag of fellow sunkissed, but noir-ish, Florida surf-rock band Fayroy, opens.

This article appears in Aug 18-24, 2022.

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...