Jinx, who is featured on a Rock The Park playlist curated by Symphonic Distribution. Credit: Anthony Martino c/o Gasparilla Music Festival
This weekend’s weather calls for temperatures in the low-to-mid-80s, plus virtually no chance of rain. In short, it’s going to be flawless outside, and this block party happening outside Tampa’s Straz Center on Sunday, Oct. 9  is a truly perfect opportunity to see the best of Tampa Bay music.

The lineup on the arrival plaza stage features a wife and husband (songwriter-singer Shelby Sol, rapper Jinx), a fast-rising glam-rock act (Roxx Revolt & the Velvets) and uke-strumming local treasure (Ari Chi) play.

On Straz Center’s Riverwalk stage, Opera Tampa takes over for performances featuring talent like Best Of The Bay-winning actor Matthew McGee and award-winning musician director Jeremy Douglass.

There’s even a “Kidchella” at the Patel Conservatory and silent disco. Oh, the whole event is free, too.

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This article appears in Sep 30 – Oct 5, 2022.

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...