BITTER TRUTHS: Nowicki and his homemade bitters. Credit: Photo by Ray Roa
It’s always going to get weird when John Nowicki is onstage.

The long-running Bay area musical polymath and leader of the Holy Terror is an enigmatic figure in the local scene, and his Sculpted Air improvisation set welcomes Steven Richards, part of steel-drum-banging ensemble Pangea Plus, to the hot seat where musicians have no idea what they’ll play until they show up.

There’s no cover for Sculpted Air happening Saturday, Feb. 8 at The Hub in Tampa.

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This article appears in Jan 30 – Feb 5, 2025.

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...