Busch Gardens Food & Wine Festival w/Michael Bolton When a man loves a woman, he brings her to Busch Gardens’ Food & Wine Festival for an afternoon of noms, nuzzly-wuzzlies and fuzzy navels. Sometimes, if he’s lucky, Michael Bolton will be there to play soul provider. That’s exactly the case on Sunday when the 65-year-old soft-rock crooner headlines a concert included with admission (it’s extra for VIP seating). You can go the distance after the show, lovers, so resist the urge to take Bolton literally when he sings “Can I Touch You There.” (Busch Gardens Food & Wine Festival, Tampa) INFO
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The Fray gets a little rain over its head at Busch Gardens' Food & Wine Festival — 03.10.18 (PHOTOS)
Backyard Rock Show with Funky D/Elliott Dickinson/Chris Barbosa Tampa Bay’s rich house show tradition continues with this backyard gig featuring Funky D (Darryl Quesenberry from LinkedIn, duh) who’ll be rocking with Boxcar Hollow’s Chris Barbosa and Elliott Dickinson. It’s BYOB and customary to bring food to share with the crowd. If you’re feeling extra proper, then bring $15 as suggested donation for the band and a little more scratch to spend at Hello Darlin’ Records. The travelling record store is helmed by CL contributor (and former Food & Drink editor) Arielle Stevenson), who will DJ and sell vintage vinyl at the gig. We’d normally tell you to ask a punk about the exact address of this St. Pete show, but you might have to seek out a Deadhead friend for this particular one. (House Show, St. Pete)
ALSO PLAYING
Festival, etc.
March 22-25, 2nd Annual Suwannee Spring Reunion (Spirit of the Suwanee Music Park, Live Oak) INFO
March 23-25, Ultra Music Festival (Bayfront Park, Miami) INFO
Pop
Shoeless Soul (3 Daughters Brewing, St. Petersburg) INFO
Tribute/Cover
Hotel California: A Salute to the Eagles (Hough Hall at Palladium Theater, St. Petersburg) SOLD OUT
One Night in Memphis (Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater) INFO
Blues
8 Ball Aitken (Independent Bar and Cafe, Tampa) INFO
Singer-songwiter
Dar Williams (Capitol Theatre, Clearwater) INFO
Amy Helm (The Attic at Rock Brothers Brewing, Ybor City) INFO
Kasey Williams w/Carrie Welling (Hideaway Café, St. Petersburg) INFO
Someday Honey (The Ale & the Witch, St. Petersburg) INFO
Rock
Skallop & Dunedin Lyricist Society/Ike Stubblefield/Joe Marcinek (Dunedin Brewing, Dunedin) INFO
Entheos w/Allegaeon/Rings of Saturn/Nekrogoblikon (Crowbar, Ybor City) INFO
Operation Coexist Benefit w/Chris Walker/Geri X/Betty Fox/Ted Bowne/John Holt/Jeremy Thomas/Amber Nicol/Danielle Mohr/Joran Oppelt/Dan DeGregory/more (Noisemakers, St. Petersburg) INFO
The Contortionist (Orpheum, Ybor City) INFO
Southern Rumble w/Dirty Soul Revival/Comin’ Home (Skipper’s Smokehouse, Tampa) INFO
Jazz
The Sunday Jazz Project w/James Suggs (The Independent, St. Petersburg) INFO
Alexis Cole (Firehouse Cultural Center, Ruskin) INFO
Classical/Chorale
Tampa Oratorio Singers: Brahms Requiem (Palma Ceia Presbyterian Church, Tampa) POSTPONED
Franco Corso (Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater) INFO
Chorus Angelorum w/Chancel Choir of St. Thomas Episcopal Church (St. Thomas Episcopal Church, St. Petersburg) INFO
The Florida Orchestra Masterworks: A Little Night Music (Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater) INFO
Tin Pan Alley Productions presents Mario Rocco (Columbian Event Center, Port Richey) INFO
Country
Georgette Jones (Central Park Performing Arts Center, Largo) INFO
World/Reggae
Kajira Maestro Selva Ganesh, Rajib Karmakar on Sitar, Shankh Lahir on Tabla and Wahh World Fusion Band (Hindu Temple Auditorium, Tampa) INFO
Juanjamon Reggae Jam (Ringside Café, St. Petersburg) INFO
Yggdrasil w/Real Eyes Band reunion show (Hideaway Café, St. Petersburg) INFO
Americana
Stangled Darlings (Ella's Americana Folk Art Café, Tampa) INFO
DJ
Ol' Dirty Sundays w/ Deejay Theory (San Francisco) (Ol’ Dirty Sundays at Crowbar, Ybor City) INFO
Subterranean Sundays w/DJ Cub/Cat Mat (Hampton Station, Tampa) INFO
This article appears in Mar 22-29, 2018.