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✔️ = Critic's Pick
✔️ Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit w/Amanda Shires/Richard Thompson It’s been just three months since Amanda Shires was on the Ruth Eckerd stage opening for John Prine and telling stories about her hubby Jason Isbell (“Vampires” are real y’all). Shires will be a welcome sight on Tuesday when she opens for (and then joins) Isbell and the 400 Unit onstage in support of his masterful, Grammy-winning 2017 album The Nashville Sound. Isbell sold out the very same room in 2016, and the addition of English guitar god Richard Thompson means this show’ll probably sell out, too. (Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater) INFO
SANTA PRINE IS COMING TO TOWN
Review: John Prine, Amanda Shires and Sturgill Simpson turn Clearwater's Ruth Eckerd Hall into an Americana paradise
Glen Phillips w/Jonathan Kingham Nine years ago, Glen Phillips played one of the first ticketed shows at St. Pete listening room. The 47-year-old leader of Toad the Wet Sprocket songwriter returns tonight on the same week Hideaway celebrates its anniversary. Opening the show is Nashville songwriter Jonathan Kingham. (Hideaway Café, St. Petersburg) INFO
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ALSO PLAYING
Danielle Mohr (The Ale & the Witch, St. Petersburg) INFO
Chris Walker (Ringside Café, St. Petersburg) INFO
Sylvie Simmons (House Show, Tampa) INFO
Melody Artisans of the Crooked Thumb – Whiskey Songs (Crooked Thumb Brewery, St. Petersburg) INFO
Fig. 6: w/Klimchak [ATL] (ART/ifact, Lakeland) INFO
USF Symphonic Band: Heroes and Mentors (Barness Hall at University of South Florida, Tampa) INFO
UT Alumni Composers Concert (Sykes Chapel at University of Tampa, Tampa) INFO
This article appears in Apr 12-19, 2018.