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✔️= Critic's Pick
✔️ Dawes Dawes has always sounded like a band much older than the bodies doing the singing, and its new album (Passwords) finally addresses what it’s like to grow up in the internet age where relationships are often framed within the context of an era so often defined by politics, divisiveness and the wins and losses that give shape to the seemingly endless string of days and nights we call our lives. This post Camayo Cruise gig is a Sunday night treat, for sure. (Capitol Theatre, Clearwater) INFO
✔️ Rick Lewis Benefit w/Selwyn Birchwood/Damon Fowler/Doug Deming/Betty Fox/Josh Nelms/Lauren Mitchell/TC Carr A beloved photographer has been diagnosed with cancer, so many of the artists that’ve found themselves on the other end of Rick Lewis’ lens are giving their talents to a show where proceeds will go toward helping the photographer’s family deal with the challenging financial obstacles that come with fighting the disease. (Skipper’s Smokehouse, Tampa) INFO
A New Generation of Jazz w/La Lucha A CL favorite, La Lucha, plays cuts from its latest album, Pa’ Lante, and taps other local musicians — including saxophonists Cathy Lopez and Dylan McHann, keyboardist Adolfo Mendonca and drummer Meaghan Lock — to help it work through jazz standards and reimagined pop songs at this Sunday matinee. (Hillsborough Community College, Ybor City) INFO
✔️ Murder By Death w/J. Roddy Walston and the Business/Jonny Fritz Murder By Death has been crafting literary and brooding Americana and indie-rock for the better part of the last two decades, and on Sunday the band brings it to Orpheum for a show alongside the rollicking, piano-driven bop of J. Roddy Walston and introspective, deeply empathetic folk songs of Los Angeles songwriter Jonny Fritz. Read CL’s interview with Fritz here. (Orpheum, Ybor City) INFO
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ALSO PLAYING
Rock/Pop/Hip-Hop
Todd Rundgren Spirit of Harmony Foundation Instrument Drive (Seminole Elk's Lodge, St. Petersburg) INFO
Sunday School for Sinners w/Frank & Allie Lee/Wandering Hours(Independent Bar and Cafe, Tampa) INFO
Lobo Marino w/Mouth Council (Mermaid Tavern, Tampa) INFO
Dick Fox’s The Golden Boys (Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater) INFO
Glokk9 (Whiskey North, Tampa) INFO
Dirty Cello (Ella's Americana Folk Art Café, Tampa) INFO
Ol' Dirty Sundays w/DJ Balance/Double Helix (Crowbar, Ybor City) INFO
Agent Orange (Brass Mug, Tampa) INFO
Somatic (Ka’ Tiki, Treasure Island) INFO
Art & Seafood on the Waterfront Festival w/Acme Jazz Trio/more (Waterfront Park, Safety Harbor) INFO
Somatic (Mandarin Hide, St. Petersburg) INFO
Impulse (Sparkman Wharf, Tampa) INFO
IRSY (Dunedin Brewery, Dunedin) INFO
Billy Kemp (Safety Harbor Library, Safety Harbor) INFO
Cruisin' at the Capitol w/Sail On/Kayla Ember (Cleveland Street District, Clearwater) INFO
Stephen Pigman (Pinellas Ale Works, St. Petersburg) INFO
Silly Sam’s Instrument Explosion (Carrollwood Cultural Center, Tampa) INFO
Someday Honey (The Ale & the Witch, St. Petersburg) INFO
Classical/Jazz
Opera Tampa Singers (Saint Mary, Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church, St. Petersburg) INFO
Damron Concert Artist Series w/Felix Hell, Organist (Sykes Chapel at University of Tampa, Tampa) INFO
One City Chorus w/Roy Zimmerman (Palladium Theater, St. Petersburg) INFO
USF Symphony Orchestra (School of Music Concert Hall at The University of South Florida, Tampa) INFO
The Florida Orchestra Masterworks: The Planets (Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater) INFO
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Below is a list of clubs and restaurants that either regularly book both original music acts as well as tribute and cover bands or feature a concert calendar stocked with higher-quality residents. Follow the links to see more.
Residencies
c. 1949 Florida Beer Garden 6905 N Orleans Ave., Tampa
Hideaway Café 1756 Central Ave., St. Petersburg
Jazz House Supper Club 9331 East Adamo Dr., Tampa
The Landing at Jannus 200 First Ave N., St. Petersburg
The Living Room 487 Main St., Dunedin
The Mandarin Hide 231 Central Ave., St. Petersburg
Ringside Café 16 2nd St N., St. Petersburg
Ruby's Elixir 15 3rd St. N., St. Petersburg
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino 5223 Orient Rd, Tampa
Tampa Armature Works 1910 N Ola Ave., Tampa
The Vinoy Renaissance 501 5th Ave NE, St. Petersburg
Tribute/Cover/Open Mics
3 Daughters Brewing 222 22nd St., St. Petersburg
Barefoot Billy's Friendly Tavern 3120 W. Gandy Blvd, Tampa
Buckets Grill & Tap 4535 Gunn Hwy., Tampa
Captain Jack’s On The Water 21 Oscar Hill Rd., Tarpon Springs
Caddy's On The Beach 9000 W Gulf Blvd, Treasure Island
Café Hey 1540 N Franklin St., Tampa
Gator's 12754 Kingfish Dr., Treasure Island
Green Iguana 4029 S. Westshore Blvd., Tampa
Ferg's Live 490 Channelside Dr., Tampa
JD's Restaurant & Lounge 125 Gulf Blvd., Indian Rocks Beach
Hula Bay Club 5210 W Tyson Ave., Tampa
O'Briens Irish Pub Multiple Locations, Tampa
Rick's On The River 2305 N Willow Ave., Tampa
Smokin' 19 3080-3090 34th St N., St. Petersburg
Two Buks 1915 N. Hercules Ave., Clearwater
Yeoman Cask & Lion (two locations: 202 N. Morgan St., Tampa; 200 1st Ave. S., St. Petersburg)
This article appears in Feb 14-21, 2019.