Leon Majcen, who plays Jack Kerouac House in St. Petersburg on Jan. 11, 2025. Credit: Photo via leonmajcen/Facebook
After helping shut down six-year Tampa music venue Hooch and Hive late last year, Bay area expat Leon Majcen makes a quick swing back home to play a hyper intimate show that is the second installment of a songwriter series inside St. Pete’s Jack Kerouac House. (The shows are in the living room, with overflow seating on the screened patio—Dave Dondero kicked off the Songwriters Club series).

Bosnian by blood, Majcen’s music is pure Americana, inspired by Townes, Prine, Dylan and Guy Clark, then propelled by hammer-ons and a gruff-vocal that should be coming out of a man three-times his age.

Someday Honey frontwoman Kaleigh Baker plays support, and hosting is Shawn Kyle, frontman of rowdy Tampa rock and roll outfit The Beauvilles.

Tickets to see Leon Majcen play Jack Kerouac House in St. Petersburg on Saturday, Jan. 11 are still available and start at $15. Advance tickets are highly-recommended as there will be no day-of sales in the event of a sellout.

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This article appears in Jan 2-8, 2025.

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