Credit: EMPKT PR

Credit: EMPKT PR

Italian operatic pop trio Il Volo is in the big room at Straz Center on Monday, but NPR Tiny Desk favorite Gina Chavez is in the venue’s much smaller Jaeb Theater for a set featuring the captivating bilingual Latin folk-pop that landed her a gig touring the world as a cultural ambassador with the U.S. State Department.

Gina Chavez. Mon. Feb. 24, 7:30 p.m. $10.50 & up. Jaeb Theater at David A. Straz Center for the Performing Arts, Tampa. strazcenter.org

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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...