Lorenzo Valdambrini of Surfer Joe, which plays Ella’s Americana Folk Art Cafe in Tampa, Florida on Feb. 4, 2024. Credit: Photo via surfmusic.net

From Sardinia to Liguria and even Tuscany, Italy has surf spots. So it only makes sense that it would have surf-rock, too.

Lorenzo Valdambrini, from the Tuscan port city of Livorno has been a purveyor of it since 1995 and he’s 5,000 miles from home this weekend for a no-cover, soul food matinee at Ella’s Americana Folk Art Cafe where his and his band Surfer Joe will regale the crowd with stories but even more of the Golden State-inspired saltwater rock that’s earned him the unofficial title of “international surf music ambassador.”

There’s no cover to see Surfer Joe play Ella’s Americana Folk Art Cafe in Tampa on Sunday, Feb. 4.

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This article appears in Jan 25-31, 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...