Dru Hill, famous for its 1996 self-titled debut, headlines Saturday, after sets from genre-bending Bay area songwriter Siobhan Monique and Whodini’s DJ Grandmaster Dee.
Tickets to the 2023 Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival on Friday-Saturday, Jan. 14-15 at Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park are on sale now and start at $12 for single day admission.
Headliners for Sunday include Jazz Funk Soul, a smooth jazz supergroup featuring Jeff Lorber, Everette Harp, and Paul Jackson, Jr., plus Best of the Bay-winning vocalist Nathan Mitchell, plus WMNF’s DJ Spaceship.
The two-music festival is just part of Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival’s 10-day celebration featuring music, speakers, artists, poets and more.
Also happening on Saturday at the festival is the 10 a.m. departure of Candy Lowe’s Black Business Bus Tour, which will take participants to four local businesses and come back to the festival by 2 p.m. Staging happens outside Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival on Ashley Drive, and it costs $20 to get on the bus.
“We’ll be at each business for about 45 minutes,” tour founder Candy Lowe told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. “People can sign up online, and we always take walk ups.” 
This article appears in Jan 5-11, 2023.