97 Craft Experience: Giovannie & the Hired Guns Credit: Photo via gioandtheguns/Facebook
Get ready to two-step because Giovannie & the Hired Guns have sandwiched a Tampa Bay stop in between appearances at Jacksonville’s Welcome to Rockville and Chicago’s Lollapalooza.

The Tejano five-piece plays a country-fied brand of rock and roll with just some headbanging sprinkled in, which it will bring to St. Petersburg’s Mahaffey Theatre on 22 as part of 97X WSUN-FM’s “Craft Experience”
craft beer and cocktail event where tickets start at $45.

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Natives of Stephenville, Texas, the band—led by Giovannie Yanez—is touring in advance of a new album, Tejano Punk Boys, due in July.

This article appears in May 5-11, 2022.

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...