FEBRUARY
28 Christabel & The Jons w/The Two Gentlemen Band/Rebekah Pulley New World Brewery
28 Candy Bars w/Trés Bien/Stavros Push Ultra Lounge
29 Pat Green Dallas Bull
29 People Noise w/The Beauvilles/Kingsbury New World Brewery
29 Deejay Young Blake High School
29 Jon Cleary w/Billy Norris Group Skipper's Smokehouse
29 City of Ships w/Red Room Cinema/Guiltmaker Crowbar
MARCH
1 Dan Penn and Bobby Emmons Palladium Theatre
1 Rudresh Mahanthappa Quartet Music Center, St. Petersburg College
1 Sir James and Lady Jeanne Galway Ruth Eckerd Hall
2 Rosanne Cash Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center
2 Paul Potts Tampa Theatre
2 Clay Walker Busch Gardens
3 k.d. lang Ruth Eckerd Hall
3 Travis Tritt Florida Strawberry Festival
4 Glen Campbell Florida Strawberry Festival
4 Three Days Grace w/Breaking Benjamin/Seether Ford Amphitheatre
4 Silverstein Jannus Landing
4 Gypsy Kings Ruth Eckerd Hall
4 Johnny Rawls Skipper's Smokehouse
5 Tom Jones Florida Strawberry Festival
5 Dark Star Orchestra Jannus Landing
6 Built to Spill w/Meat Puppets State Theatre
6 Justice/DJ Mehdi Club Firestone (Orlando)
6 Charlie Daniels Florida Strawberry Festival
6 Velveteen w/Giddy-Up, Helicopter!/Crate Brothers Push Ultra Lounge
6 Lonely H New World Brewery
7 Alejandro Escovedo Palladium Theatre
7 Foreigner PAL Sailor Circus Arena
7 Johnny Mathis Ruth Eckerd Hall
7 The Claire Lynch Band Pinellas Park Performing Arts Center
7 Trace Adkins Florida Strawberry Festival
7 Sean Chambers Group w/Slider Trax
7 The English Beat and RX Bandits w/Fall on Purpose The Honey Pot (formerly The Rubb)
7 Damon Fowler Group Skipper's Smokehouse
8 Wild Splash w/Wyclef Jean/Pitbull/Beenie Man/Trina/Rick Ross/Baby Bash/J. Holiday/Grind Mode/Treal Ford Amphitheatre
8 Ryan Shaw Skipper's Smokehouse
8 Jonas Brothers w/Rooney St. Pete Times Forum
8 Flogging Molly Jannus Landing
8 Matt Pond New World Brewery
8 Billy Ray Cyrus Florida Strawberry Festival
9 Blue Man Group St. Pete Times Forum
9 Black Cobra w/Mountain Ov Dawn Transitions Art Gallery at Skatepark of Tampa
10 Pat Metheny Tampa Theatre
11 Ani DiFranco Tampa Theatre
11 Chicago Mahaffey Theater
11 They Might Be Giants w/Oppenheimer Jannus Landing
12 Every Time I Die Jannus Landing
13 Tribal Style w/Poetry N' Lotion Push Ultra Lounge
14 Dierks Bentley w/Bucky Covington/Luke Bryan St. Pete Times Forum
14 All Time Low w/Mayday Parade State Theatre
14 Devil Driver w/Napalm Death/Walls of Jericho/36 Crazy Fists Boomerz Boiler Room
14 Dive Bar Stalkers Skipper's Smokehouse
15 The Prodigals Skipper's Smokehouse
16 Toby Mac w/Jeremy Camp/Matthew West Ford Amphitheatre
16 Steve Forbert Skipper's Smokehouse
19 Chuck Brodsky The Craftsman House
20 George Thorogood & The Destroyers Tampa Theatre
20 Whiskey & Co. w/Heather Lee/Jordan Winn Push Ultra Lounge
21 Modern Skirts w/Brass Bed New World Brewery
21 Brother Ali Orpheum
22 Donna Jean & the Tricksters Skipper's Smokehouse
22 Whiskey & Co. w/The Takers/The Enablers Push Ultra Lounge
24 Yellowcard (acoustic) w/Secondhand Serenade/Play Radio Play/Treaty of Paris State Theatre
24 Kenny G Ruth Eckerd Hall
25 Avenged Sevenfold w/Atreyu/Bullet For My Valentine/Bless the Fall/Idiot Pilot//Mucc/D'Espairspray/The Underneath USF Sun Dome
27 Moody Blues Ruth Eckerd Hall
28 Connie West The Craftsman House
28 Soulphonics New World Brewery
28 Zoroaster w/Minsk/Mountain Ov Dawn Brass Mug
28 Sam Rivers Quartet w/Infinite Groove Orchestra Palladium
28 Sick Puppies State Theatre
28 Chris McCarty Band Skipper's Smokehouse
28-29 Ultra Music Festival w/Underworld/Tiesto/Paul Van Dyke/Justice/Carl Cox/Moby Bicentennial Park (Miami)
28-30 St. Petersburg Jazz Festival w/Sam Rivers Quartet/Infinite Groove Orchestra/John Allred Quintet/ Manigua & O Som Do Jazz Palladium Theater
29 John Allred Quintet Palladium
29 Tony Bennett Ruth Eckerd Hall
30 David Dondero w/Have Gun, Will Travel New World Brewery
APRIL
3 Tribute to Lionel Hampton w/Ricky Lyons/Stan Hunter/John Lamb/Ron Gregg Palladium Theatre
4 Bruce Hornsby and Ricky Skaggs Ruth Eckerd Hall
4 Garaj Mahal Skipper's Smokehouse
5 Itzhak Perlman Ruth Eckerd Hall
6 Caribou w/F*ck Buttons Crowbar
6 Say Anything w/Manchester Orchestra/Eli "Paper Boy" Reed/The True Lovers/Weatherbox State Theatre
9 Joan Baez Tampa Theatre
11 Lost Bayou Ramblers Skipper's Smokehouse
11-12 Wanee Festival w/Allman Brothers Band/Gov't Mule/Bob Weir & Rat Dog/Levon Helm/Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi Soul Stew Revival/moe./Oteil & the Peacemakers/JJ Grey & Mofro/Larry McCray Band/Scrapomatic/Little Brown Peach/The Frequency/Inca Maya Spirit of Suwannee Music Park (Live Oak)
11-13 Tampa Bay Blues Festival w/Los Lonely Boys/Robert Cray/Trombone Shorty/Tab Benoit/Walter Trout/Robben Ford Vinoy Park
11 Craig Morgan Dallas Bull
15 Rush Amway Arena (Orlando)
15 Steel Train Jannus Landing
16 Saves the Day w/Armor for Sleep/Set Your Goals/Metro Station/Lydia State Theatre
18 The Sauce Boss Skipper's Smokehouse
19 Avril Lavigne w/Boys Like Girls Ford Amphitheatre
19 Shooter Jennings Cypress Gardens
21 Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band St. Pete Times Forum
22 Panic at the Disco w/Motion City Soundtrack/The Hush Sound/Phantom Planet Ruth Eckerd Hall
23 Ministry Jannus Landing
25 Bill Staines The Craftsman House
27 Bon Jovi St. Pete Times Forum
27 Santana w/Derek Trucks Band Ford Amphitheatre
30 Today Is The Day w/Rwake/Light Yourself on Fire Brass Mug
MAY
1 Chicago Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center
2 B.B. King w/Damon Fowler Ruth Eckerd Hall
7 Mindless Self Indulgence Jannus Landing
12 The Spencer Davis Group Largo Cultural Center
19 Tim McGraw w/Jason Aldean/Halfway to Hazard Ford Amphitheatre
24 Alicia Keys St. Pete Times Forum
JUNE
11 Ladytron Czar
28 Toby Keith w/Montgomery Gentry Ford Amphitheatre
JULY
16 Tom Petty St. Pete Times Forum
25 Brooks & Dunn w/Rodney Atkins Ford Amphitheatre
29 Slipknot/Disturbed/Mastodon/DragonForce/Sevendust/Five Finger Death Punch/Macfine Head Ford Amphitheatre
AUGUST
16 Rascal Flatts w/Taylor Swift Ford Amphitheatre
29 Kenny Chesney w/LeAnn Rimes Ford Amphitheatre
SEPTEmber
19 Brad Paisley Ford Amphitheatre
OCTOBER
10 Martina McBride Ford Amphitheatre
This article appears in Feb 20-26, 2008.
