Straz Center’s Riverwalk Stage (pictured above) is quickly becoming the go-to downtown Tampa venue for safe-as-possible outdoor shows, and it returns this weekend starting with another Friday installment of the nonprofit’s “Arts Legacy Remix” series. This one, dubbed “Bridges of Rhythm,” finds local musicians exploring the “vibrance of unique cultures from Central and South America, Spain and Portugal” for a free and ticketed 90-minute performance.
For the “Straz Jazz Project” on Saturday, the singing, dancing and drumming ensemble Cukiara Bomba Dance and Drumming Group stages an evening performance bomba—a dance with “West African roots and brought to the Caribbean islands with blended influences of European and the Indigenous cultures”—after the Straz Center’s Patel Conservatory offers a free Bomba dance workshop in the afternoon.
If you’re still not going out in real life, good for you, the world will be ready when you are no rush. The Straz Center, however, has something for you, too, thanks to a Thursday night “Voices of the Community” online town hall discussing Tampa Bay’s jazz history and female Civil Rights leaders.
All in-person performances at Straz Center’s Riverwalk stage have strict COVID-19 protocols including mask requirements, temperature checks plus socially distances seating and ticketing. More information on all these events is available via strazcenter.org.
See a list of Tampa “Safe & Sound” live music venues here.
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This article appears in Mar 18-24, 2021.