Mai Sweet Basil, which plays Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park in Tampa, Florida on March 7, 2024. Credit: Photo via Mai Sweet Basil/Facebook
For more than a dozen years now, Rock The Park has been a great place to let loose and dance—Mai Sweet Basil is the perfect band for that sentiment.

The indie funk and jazz duo has a new album, Why Be A Wallflower?, that is a wall-to-wall collection of almost unbearably sweet, so-often-soulful and string-laden pop that blends the earnestness of The Weepies with the kinds of harmonies and melodies you might hear at a 1950s homecoming dance.

The group kicks off the latest installment of the no-cover, family-and-pet-friendly concert series.

There’s no cover for Rock The Park Tampa at Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park on Thursday, March 7.

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Rock the Park Tampa

First Thursday of every month, 6:30-9:45 p.m.

Location: Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park, 600 N Ashley Dr., Tampa

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This article appears in Feb 22-28, 2024.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...