Credit: Photo via Craftsman House Gallery/Facebook
Roser Park has Porchfest, and it’s not the only St. Petersburg neighborhood that lets musicians sing on stoops.

This weekend Historic Kenwood gets up somewhat early to take part in worldwide “Play Music On The Porch Day” which has a mission and purpose that is pretty self-explanatory.

The full day of tunes kicks off at folkie stronghold Caftsman House where the Florida Folk Show—formerly on WMNF but now a two-year staple on 96.7-FM RadioStPete—happens from 10 a.m.-noon before the music moves to six nearby porches hosting 22 different artists playing everything from Americana (Ernstine Black, Mercy McCoy), jazz standards (Blue Island Group), fingerstyle (Sam Shube) and more.

There’s no cover for Historic Kenwood’s Play Music On The Porch Day on Saturday, Aug. 26, but that tip jar is there for a reason.

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UPDATED: 08/25/23 9:11 a.m. Updated because the Florida Folk Show is on RadioStPete Now.

This article appears in Aug 17-23, 2023.

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...