Cozy In the Black, which plays Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park in Tampa, Florida on Jan. 2, 2025. Credit: Photo via cozyintheblack/Bandcamp

To kick off the new year, downtown Tampa’s free outdoor monthly music series is getting loud with Cozy In the Black. The duo plays a rocking style of punk and new wave, and if you need an appetizer, the show opens with a set from soft-rock songwriter Prabesh Khanal.

There’s never a cover for Rock The Park Tampa, which happens on the first Thursday of every month at Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park.

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Credit: Photo via rockthepark/Facebook

Rock the Park Tampa

First Thursday of every month, 6:30-9:45 p.m.

Location: Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park, 600 N Ashley Dr., Tampa

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This article appears in Dec 19-25, 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...