✔️ = Critic's Pick
✔️ Bonerama Funky, long-running New Orleans brass band Bonerama is anchored by trombone players Mark Mullins and Craig Klein (once members of Harry Connick Jr.’s Big Band), and on Wednesday the guys bring another boner (Greg Hicks) and a bass/sousaphone player (Matt Perrine), plus guitarist Bert Cotton and drummer Walt Lundy for a show in support of a new album — Hot Like Fire — which the band released last fall. (State Theatre, St. Petersburg) INFO
Phonogenics 101: Discussion of Bela Fleck’s Perpetual Motion Jeremy Gloff usually tackles older material in his album discussion series, but he’ll switch the gears for this 2001 release in which banjo savant Béla Fleck takes on works by Chopin, Bach and Italian composer Domenico Scarlatti. These things get started at 8 p.m. on the dot, so don’t be late. (Disco Dolls Studio, Tampa) INFO
ALSO PLAYING
The Drifters w/Cornell Gunter’s Coasters/The Platters (Mahaffey Theater, St. Petersburg) INFO
Frankie Raye (Orbit 19 Lounge, Holiday) INFO
TC Carr & Bolts of Blue (Hideaway Café, St. Petersburg) INFO
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This article appears in Jan 11-18, 2018.