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Tampa Heights’ premier block party returns this Friday, March 24, with none other than songwriter Shelby Sol headlining and bringing warmer weather with her, too.

Perception, whose style of hip-hop evokes new jack swing and old-school East coast flow, rounds out the lineup along with 7/27 Day founder and DJ Donnie Luv.

The party is free to attend, and encompasses several venues on the Oceanic Market block—donations are encouraged.

Bloom on Franklin describes itself as “a monthly ceremony of creative talent and innovation in the Tampa Bay Area; built on unity, love, and growth along the first paved street in Downtown Tampa.”

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...