Iron & Wine which plays Tampa Theatre on November 15, 2018. Credit: D. Bowen

Iron & Wine which plays Tampa Theatre on November 15, 2018. Credit: D. Bowen

Does your streaming service constantly suggest the coffeehouse playlist? Yeah?

Well it's time to get offline and into a real life concert, friend, because on Tuesday, both Iron & Wine announced separate Tampa shows.

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Iron & Wine — the folk project of former Floridian Sam Beam — will play Tampa Theatre on November 15. The appearance comes a year after Beam brought  his latest album, Beast Epic, to Orlando, and it's Iron & Wine's first show in the Bay area since a 2014 set at the Straz Center. Tickets for the Iron & wine show go on sale Friday, May 11 at 10 a.m. and will cost fans $34.50-$62.50. More information is available via tampatheatre.org.

Shawn Mendes, who plays Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida on July27, 2019. Credit: Kamran Malik

In other strummy news, a much younger, and much more pop-oriented songwriter, Shawn Mendes, told fans that he'll return to Tampa's Amalie Arena on July 27 — which is almost one year to the day he headlined Amalie in 2017 and nearly three years after Taylor Swift brought Mendes to play Raymond James Stadium.

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Tickets for Mendes' show go on sale Saturday, May 19 at 10 a.m. and will cost fans $25.75-$85.75. More information on Mendes' concert will be available via amaliearena.com.

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...