Hector Mayoral, who joins Ray Olan at Ella's Americana Folk Art Café on May 5, 2019. Credit: Ysanne Taylor c/o Gasparilla Music Festival

Hector Mayoral, who joins Ray Olan at Ella’s Americana Folk Art Café on May 5, 2019. Credit: Ysanne Taylor c/o Gasparilla Music Festival

Ray Olan and Hector Mayoral know how to throw a party in small spaces. The pair did it during a BOTB-winning set at The Hub where an 11-piece band turned the downtown dive into a salsa and merengue-flavored Rock the Park rainout for the ages. The joyous composer/bandleader and Tampa songwriter do it again on Sunday when they bring a smaller ensemble (a quintet) to Seminole Heights’ Ella’s Americana Folk Art Cafe for a party soundtracked by old Latin sounds and other crossover dance flavors. Free to attend, bring money for food & drink.

Sun. May 5. Ella’s Americana Folk Art Cafe, 5119 N. Nebraska Ave., Tampa. 4-7 p.m. ellasfolkartcafe.com.

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This article appears in Apr 25 – May 2, 2019.

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...