Oak Hill Drifters, which plays New World Brewery in Tampa, Florida on March 1, 2025. Credit: Photo via oakhilldrifters.com

One of New World Brewery’s most beloved events celebrates a decade of knockout, rowdy roots rock-and-roll. Rev Billy C Wirtz will be in the biergarten playing keys in a no-cover set, but the action inside the venue’s music hall includes a set from Oak Hill Drifters, a purveyor of jump blues and classic R&B that is unafraid to get extremely-country, too.

Tickets for the Rockabilly Battle Royale happening Saturday, March 1 inside the music hall at New World Brewery in Tampa are still available and start at $20.

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This article appears in Feb 20-26, 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...