Suwannee Avenue Marching Band, which plays Independent Bar & Cafe in Tampa on Sept. 17, 2023. Credit: Photo via Matt Radeck/YouTube (screenshot by Creative Loafing Tampa Bay)
Oktoberfest season is here, and Seminole Heights’ Indie bar gets in on the action this weekend by tapping a keg of Weihenstephaner Festbier, but not before a ceremonial marching band leads a contingent from Hillsborough High School (meet at W Wilder and Central Avenues) to the beer hall 0.7 miles away.

Lederhosen encouraged, obviously, and the band has plans to play all night.

There’s no cover to see the Suwannee Avenue Marching Band play Independent Bar & Cafe in Tampa on Sunday, Sept. 17.

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This article appears in Sep 7-13, 2023.

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...