A live performance photograph of songwriter SUNDE singing into a microphone while playing a seafoam green electric guitar. Captured in a medium profile shot from the right, SUNDE wears eyeglasses, dark curly hair tied up, and a high-collared light-colored top with sheer lace sleeves and a prominent neck bow. The indoor venue is brightly lit with warm stage lights and lens flares, with artwork on white walls and onlookers visible in the background.
Sunde Credit: ladysunde / Instagram

First Thursdays in downtown Tampa have been a sweet treat for 16 years now, thanks to Rock the Park. The locally-grown concert series at Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park is a bonafide staple of life in the 813 (even if you have a 656 number).

This week it is locked on the future (new band Maryn Alyse), ready to rock (Saints of Saturn), and tapping in with one of the most soulful songwriters in the Bay area (Sunde). There’s no cover, so bring your kids, pets, and blankets. We’re sure there’ll be cake.

There’s no cover to see Saints of Saturn, Sunde, and Maryn Alyse at Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park in Tampa on Thursday, Sept. 3.

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This article appears in Aug. 27 – Sept. 02, 2026.

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...