Noan Partly, who plays Ella’s Americana Folk Art Cafe in Tampa, Florida on May 3, 2024. Credit: Photo via freelanceamericana/Facebook
A recent profile from WMNF Tampa 88.5-FM explains why songwriter Noan Partly doesn’t like to put her music in a box.

“People want to name things to feel like they understand it, and that kind of just causes more division,” she told the Bay area community radio station. Partly, who studied jazz in college, also shared plans to release a debut album before the fall, and you might get a taste of it when she plays this free show in Seminole Heights.

There’s no cover to see Noan Partly play Ella’s Americana Folk Art Cafe in Tampa on Friday, May 3.

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This article appears in May 2-8, 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...