Credit: Photo via Gareth Asher

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Here’s one of two chances to see Georgia-based country rock and folk songwriter Gareth Asher in Tampa Bay (the soulful southerner also plays Hideaway Café on March 9). This one at Safety Harbor Art & Music Center should be pretty special considering Asher’s history with the town (he played Songfest in the neighborhood festival’s first and second years). Don’t be surprised if you ugly cry during the emotional opening set by songwriter Edie Carey, either.

Gareth Asher in Tampa Bay. March 7 (Safety Harbor Art & Music Center, Safety Harbor) and March 9 (Hideaway Café, St. Petersburg). garethasher.com.

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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...