A large band performs on a brightly lit stage, with a vocalist at center wearing a shimmering coat and singing into a microphone while guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, and a horn section play behind them, framed by festive lights and holiday decorations.
St. Paul & the Broken Bones on ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’ on Dec. 8, 2025. Credit: Todd Owyoung/NBC / Q Prime

Get ready to go back to church because St. Paul & the Broken Bones is on its way back to the Tampa Bay area.

Known for its orchestral arrangements, emotional arcs, and intense performances that often feel like a cinematic sermon, the Birmingham-based band is returning to Jannus Live this spring.

Frontman Paul Janeway & co. are no strangers to the Bay area either, having played Jannus in 2017, and the Clearwater Jazz Holiday last fall. One of the band’s earliest shows in the area happened at Crowbar back in 2012.

St. Paul & the Broken Bones

Time Thu., Feb. 26, 7 p.m.

Location Jannus Live, 200 1st Ave. N, St. Petersburg

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After releasing two slower, more atmospheric albums, the most recent of which inspired by Janeway’s introduction to fatherhood, the Broken Bones are back with a classic feel-good soul sound.

Their self-titled album, St. Paul & the Broken Bones, released Oct. 10, may partly owe its swing to its recording location.

Cut at the legendary Fame (stylized in all-caps) studios is Muscle Shoals, Alabama, the record feels like a return to the band’s signature danceable style, with a pinch of late-’60s swamp grease mixed in. 

Tickets to see St. Paul & the Broken Bones perform at St. Petersburg’s Jannus Live on Thursday, Feb. 26 are available for $49.11.

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This article appears in Jan. 01 – 07, 2026.