Credit: Photo by Dave Decker
Heat Fest might be the most appropriately-named music festival in Tampa Bay, and it goes down this weekend at St. Petersburg’s Cage Brewing.

Starting at 2 p.m. on Saturday, July 2 and going into the night on Sunday, Cage welcomes 16 local bands playing everything from blues (King Bee), jazz (In the Pocket), pop (The Jackettes), ethereal folk (Kerry Courtney, pictured) and more.

Heat Fest, a no-cover, two-day festival happens at Cage Brewing (2001 1st Ave. S, St. Petersburg) on Saturday-Sunday, July 2-3, with bands starting at 2 p.m. daily.

See the full Heat Fest lineup and schedule below.

This article appears in Jun 30 – Jul 6, 2022.

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...