Felly, who plays Crowbar in Ybor City, Florida on July 12, 2024. Credit: fellymusic/Facebook

Jesuit high schools aren’t famous for producing rappers, but Christian Robert Felner is an exception. The 28-year-old went to one in his hometown of Fairfield, Connecticut, and used his free time to earn money (and notoriety) selling beats.

While he opened for MadLib as a teenager, a move across the country for college at the University of Southern California opened up even more doors, and now Felner—better known as Felly—tours the country on the back of a catalog that’s evolved from rap into straight up pop music (he told Revolt that his sound is “modern tween tweak”).

Perception, a Tampa man that’s a bonafide lyrical emcee opens the show.

Tickets to see Felly play Crowbar in Ybor City on Friday, July 12 are still available and start at $22.

This article appears in Jul 11-17, 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...