NDO Credit: Photo via NDO/YouTube
Downtown Tampa’s nearly 12-year free, outdoor and family-friendly concert series is back next week when Rock the Park Tampa happens on Thursday, June 2 at Curtis Hixon Park.

Headlining is a familiar face (indie-rock band House of I, a favorite of the CL team) plus one that’s new to us (Bradenton alt-rock band In Transit).

Most exciting, however, is NDO, an R&B and future soul songwriter who’s almost always joined by boundary-pushing Bay area bass guitar savant Rugawd.

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This article appears in May 26 – Jun 1, 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...