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✔️= Critic's Pick
UPDATED 9:55 a.m. 12/9
✔️ Uptown Songwriter Fest w/Mountain Holler/Geri X/Kerry Courtney/J.T. Brown/Alex Borst/Joshua Reilly/Willie Jones Cocktail Hour/Caleb Medrano A mini-market and pop-up eatery provides the auxiliary entertainment at this ambitious singer-songwriter centric showcase bookended by sets from the Willie Jones Cocktail Hour, which plays at 2 p.m. and again at 9 p.m. A handful of CL’s favorite songsmiths fill in the middle hours, and Caleb Medrano will entertain on Paper Crane’s small bar stage during the in-between. (Paper Crane, St. Petersburg) INFO
✔️ Plastic Ivy w/Speaking Parts/Apocalypse Siren A menagerie of cold, dark and devastating synth-pop is in your future should you choose to head to Seminole Heights’ American Legion on Sunday. It’s where Philadelphia’s Lira Marie Landes brings a solo project — Plastic Ivy — to play a set in support of a long sold-out cassette, No Easter Morning, which celebrated its year anniversary last weekend. Another Philly band, Speaking Parts, will support alongside Bay area experimental act Apocalypse Siren. (American Legion Seminole Post 111, Tampa) INFO
✔️ Lambda Celsius w/Ortrotasce/Justin Depth/Project Natrix Can one neighborhood support two electro-leaning, way-left-of-safe concerts on the same night? We’ll find out on Sunday when Athens and Nashville-based experimental-pop project Lambda Celsius joins three Bay area acts who’ll play support before Lambda Celsius performs songs from a September microcassette, Ana Echo and the Beauty of Indifference. That Plastic Ivy show at American Legion actually doesn’t start until this early show (5 p.m. doors) is over, so you can totally make it to both if you’re into the tunes. (Microgroove, Tampa) CANCELED
ALSO PLAYING
Classical/Chorale/Jazz/World
Pandit Suman Ghosh w/Shankh Lahiri/Surabhi (UU Dome at Unitarian Universalist Church, Tampa) INFO
Peter White (Capitol Theatre, Clearwater) INFO
The Florida Orchestra: Mozart & Sibelius (Hough Hall at Palladium Theater, St. Petersburg) INFO
Handel's Messiah (Christmas Portion) (Palma Ceia Presbyterian Church. Tampa) INFO
Big Band Christmas (Central Park Performing Arts Center, Largo) INFO
Rock/Pop/Folk
Gino Capone (Mermaid Tavern, Tampa) INFO
Leftover Crack w/Negative Approach/Crazy and the Brains/Cool Grandma/Nunhex (Crowbar, Ybor City) INFO
Tony Farris w/Mitchel Evan/Stephanie D'Angelo (Neptune Lounge, Tarpon Springs) INFO
Songs From the Road Band (Ella's Folk Art Café, Tampa) INFO
Deb Ruby w/Nick Roberts/Marielle Kraft/Heartwood Lane (The Blue Note, Tampa) INFO
Stormbringer (3 Daughters Brewing, St. Petersburg) INFO
Betty Fox Band (The Ale & the Witch, St. Petersburg) INFO
PBX Live: Aftermath w/The Horribles/Moral Decline/The Scurvy/Pig Pen(Brass Mug, Tampa) INFO
Damon Fowler w/Selwyn Birchwood/Kenny Neal (Hideaway Cafe, St. Petersburg) INFO
Kung Fu (Dunedin Brewery, Dunedin) INFO
Jack Williams (Craftsman House Gallery, St. Petersburg) INFO
Misc.
Pop Up Vinyl Market (Green Bench Brewing Co., St. Petersburg) INFO
Playback Music Concert and Artist Business Expo (The Westshore Grand, Tampa) INFO
This article appears in Dec 6-13, 2018.