Organizers told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay photographer Phil DeSimone that Friday night’s crowd was the largest they’d seen for St. Petersburg’s new Rise Up concert series where Ludacris arrived to throw ‘bows and act a fool alongside a city that’s probably spending Saturday inside since the forecast calls for rain all day.
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... More by Ray Roa
