Singer-songwriter Donavon Frankenreiter sits playing an acoustic guitar in front of a dense wall of bright orange flowers. He is wearing a wide-brimmed cream hat with a decorative band, tinted sunglasses, a denim jacket over an orange shirt, and has a prominent handlebar mustache.
Donavon Frankenreiter Credit: DonavonFrankenreiter / Facebook

Live music has a rich history at 1507 E 7th Ave. (read: The Rubb, Twilight), and Zodiac has an opportunity to write its own chapter in that story. The nightclub (last known as PTL) has been hosting well-received DJ nights and this week welcomes Jack Johnson pal Donavon Frankenreiter.

The 53-year-old surfer-songwriter arrives riding the wave of a 2024 album, Get Outta Your Mind, his first studio outing in a decade and one that will sound familiar to longtime fans of Frankenreiter’s beachy retro-rock.

Tickets to see Donavon Frankenreiter play Zodiac in Ybor City on Thursday, April 9 are still available for $46.66.

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This article appears in Mar. 26 – Apr. 1.

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...