Credit: By US Senate [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Credit: By US Senate [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Can’t afford to see Hamilton at the Straz Center? Here's the next best, free, thing, we guess. northwest Tampa’s Jimmie B. Keel library will press play on instrumentals, project the lyrics and invite Broadway supernerds to sing along at this event officially sanctioned by the production. Costumes are… wait for it… encouraged, but you already knew that, right, Aaron Burr?

Hamiltunes. Sat. 1 p.m. Jimmie B. Keel Regional Library, 2902 West Bearss Aven. Tampa. eventbrite.com.

See even more of the Tampa Bay live music lineup by visiting cltampa.com/musicweek every Thursday morning.

This article appears in Jul 26 – Aug 2, 2018.

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...