The Holy Terror playing Ella’s Americana Folk Art Cafe in Tampa, Florida in September 2019. Credit: Marlo Miller

Smashing pumpkins happens this weekend.

Not the band, but a celebration where folks can throw pumpkins off of Ella’s Americana Folk Art Cafe’s second balcony onto a target below (not surprising as the place gets covered in raw eggs annually at its anniversary party).

Tiny Terror, a downsized version of John Nowicki’s freak-folk project The Holy Terror, provides the sounds for this free concert happening in Tampa on Friday, Oct. 29 at 9 p.m.

As usual at Ella’s Americana Folk Art Cafe, there’s no cover.

This article appears in Oct 27 – Nov 2, 2022.

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...