Aubrey Wollett, who plays Sponge City Brewing in Tarpon Springs, Florida on May 30, 2025. Credit: Photo via aubreywollett.com

No one in country music really embraces where they come from in their material the way Aubrey Wollett, a Bay area expat, does.

Most of the singer-songwriter’s material takes place on the beach (a setting she adores enough to cite as her reasoning for not staying in Nashville after attending Belmont University), and it makes you wonder what Jimmy Buffett would have sounded like had he gone country.

The 34-year-old (a Dunedin High graduate) started by pursuing a music business degree at Belmont and working with Luke Bryan songwriter, and has since opened for Tanya Tucker and Wynonna Judd, and sporadically releasing twangy singles and EPs.

There’s no cover to see Aubrey Wollett play Sponge City Brewing in Tarpon Springs on Friday, May 30.