Cliff Eberhardt, who plays Craftsman House Gallery in St. Petersburg, Florida on Dec. 6, 2024. Credit: Photo by Rodney Bursiel via Red House Records

Cliff Eberhardt knows a thing or two about folk scenes.

The 70-year-old more or less grew up in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania’s Main Point Coffee House, which was so famous that Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band and Jackson Browne played benefits to keep it open.

Eberhardt plays Craftsman House, a St. Pete bungalow show where he’s sure to pull from a nearly four-decade career that’s mostly been spent on Minneapolis’s revered Red House Records where the likes of Loudon Wainwright III, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Eliza Gilkyson and more.

Tickets to see Cliff Eberhardt play Craftsman House Gallery in St. Petersburg on Friday, Dec. 6 are still available for $25.

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This article appears in Nov 28 – Dec 4, 2024.

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...