Hunter Hayes plays Busch Gardens Food & Wine Festival in Tampa, Florida on April 8, 2017. Credit: Kamran Malik
Mr. “Invisible.” Hunter Hayes, seems to be taking the Taylor Swift route, veering further and further away from country music—while remaining an avid lover of it—and ascending into a more mainstream pop sound.

The 31-year-old’s new album Red Sky is loaded with airy backing vocals, songwriting collaborators that have previously worked with Beyonce and BTS, and love songs worthy of soon rocking arenas and stadiums.

This gig—Hayes’ first in Tampa since a 2019 stop at Busch Gardens—is the only Florida date on a three-stop east coast tour, with the other two having already taken place in New York.

Tickets to see Hunter Hayes play Hard Rock Event Center in Tampa on Thursday, July 27 are still available and start at $55.

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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...