Leanne McGroary, who plays Hooch and Hive in Tampa, Florida on Aug. 23, 2024. Credit: leanne_mcgroary/Instagram
A new series borne from the mind of Perception takes flight this weekend.

For the first installment of Vibe Vault, the Tampa rapper has tapped country-leaning songwriter Leanne McGroary to join Gen Z-soul songwriter April Showers and rapper-engineer The Black Ace on a bill that Perception hopes gives a platform to up-and-coming homegrown talent.

“I could perform almost every night,” he told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay about his come up years ago. With venues being a scarcity, there’s less opportunity for that, so he plans to slow-grow the Vault over the next year to give local artists the same shot.

Tickets for the Vibe Vault Vol. 1 at Hooch and Hive in Tampa on Friday, Aug. 23 are still available and start at $10.

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This article appears in Aug 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...