Tampa Bay gets a couple of chances to see Austin-based bluesman Eric Tessmer this week, and the two shows will be quite different from each other from an audience and cover charge standpoint.
The first opportunity to see the boisterous, hyper-posi guitarist and songwriter happens this Thursday at a Safety Harbor Art and Music Center gig where a room of paying fans (the show’s $20) will watch Tessmer work through his candid, and fiery, catalog after Amarillo-born country outlaw Cosy Jasper opens the show.
Tessmer then heads across the Howard Franklin on Friday for a “holy-crap-this-is-free?,” four-hour performance at Tampa’s Sparkman Wharf where many people, quite frankly, will be too busy talking to each other or Instagramming to fully realize the talent that’s onstage. Regardless, we hope Tessmer plays material from his EP 2 release (due in a month) and picks up some new Tampa Bay fans along the way. Info on the downtown Tampa show available via sparkmanwharf.com.
See more blues, funk and boogie shows below.
Eric Tessmer w/Cody Jasper. Thurs. May 16, Safety Harbor Art & Music Center, Safety Harbor. erictessmer.com.
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May 17, Ari & the Alibis (The Ale & the Witch, St. Petersburg)
May 17, Galbraith Group (Ella’s Americana Folk Art Café, Tampa)
May 18, Doug Deming and the Jewel Tones (The Ale & the Witch, St. Petersburg)
May 19, Shane Meade & the Sound (3 Daughters Brewing, St. Petersburg)
May 19, The Juketown Daddies (Ella’s Americana Folk Art Café, Tampa)
May 19, Betty Fox Band (The Ale & the Witch, St. Petersburg)
May 22, Betty Fox Band (Hideaway Café, St. Petersburg)
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This article appears in May 9-16, 2019.
