Sugar Ray, which plays Hard Rock Event Center at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Tampa, Florida on Sept. 2, 2021. Credit: Bitner Group

Sugar Ray, which plays Hard Rock Event Center at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Tampa, Florida on Sept. 2, 2021. Credit: Bitner Group

Ask Mark McGrath to show you where his band’s been in the Tampa Bay area, and he’ll tell you about the Summer of Rum and even Busch Gardens.

But Sugar Ray plays a new venue on Sept. 2 when the California rock band plays Tampa’s Hard Rock Event Center at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino—tickets are on sale now and start at $45.

Honestly, I’m 36 years old, so my most prevalent memory of McGrath is from MTV’s “Say What? Karaoke.” I don’t know what else to say. Dance a little stranger, I guess.

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UPDATED: 06/25/21 4:47 p.m. Tickets are $45, not $5, dingus.

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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...