Geri X, who plays Palladium Theater in St. Petersburg, Florida on Nov. 6, 2020. Credit: Yvonne Gougelet c/o Lost Creations

Geri X, who plays Palladium Theater in St. Petersburg, Florida on Nov. 6, 2020. Credit: Yvonne Gougelet c/o Lost Creations

On Election Day, Florida added 4,637 coronavirus cases, bringing the new average of cases added to “about 4,341 infections recorded per day.”

Tampa Bay is responsible for 667 of those new cases, plus 12 deaths.

“The number of people hospitalized due to COVID-19 has increased over the last week,” the Tampa Bay Times wrote, adding that locally about 24% of hospital beds and 20% of ICU beds were available in Tampa Bay.

Still, live music is a thing, and venues have instituted social distancing and COVID-19 safety measures as they ask you to come out and help the local music scene survive.

Here are four Tampa Bay concerts happening, in-person, over the next week—plus one that’s online only.

Click through for more information.

UPDATED: 11/05/20 11:35 a.m. It's fucking November, not October. Woof.

Tampa Bay venues and promoters need you to bug Marco Rubio about saving the live music scene.

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This article appears in Nov 5-11, 2020.

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...