There’s lots of live music going on this weekend above and beyond the Tampa Bay Blues Festival (click the hyperlink to find out more about the fest). See a complete breakdown of live music happs from tonight through Sunday below, with featured highlights at the top and the rest of the weeks schedule at the bottom. For a complete list of concerts, click here to visit our Upcoming Concerts page.

Friday, April 8

w/Rasta Rafiki Pato Banton is a UK reggae singer and toaster who took a seven-year hiatus from music and returned in 2008 newly invigorated and with a 16th album in tow, Destination Paradise. Banton is a natural showman who brims with infectious exuberance and encourages his fans to sing along all throughout his sets. Hes also known for his tradition of inviting the most enthusiastic ones up to the stage to perform with him. 8 p.m., Skipper’s Smokehouse, Tampa, $15.

Jackyl The piercing wail of vocalist Jesse James Dupree is backed by multi-voiced rah-rah choruses in the AC/DC-influenced Southern boogie and heavy metal of Jackyl, the band responsible for such 1990s hard rock odes as Push Comes to Shove (which reached No. 7 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock charts in 1994) and the anthemic I Stand Alone, its video featuring real life footage of Jackyl playing an impromptu concert in a K-Mart parking lot after the store refused to sell their music because of its explicit content (and in particular, a song titled She Loves My Cock). Jackyl released a sixth album, When Moonshine and Dynamite Collide, in 2010. 7 p.m. doors, State Theatre, St. Petersburg, $15.

Harry Connick, Jr. The swinging, suave-crooning pop jazz vocalist returns to woo his Florida fans and move more copies of his new DVD/CD release, In Concert On Broadway, which spotlights select performances from Harry Connick Jr.s 15-day sold-out run on Broadway and has been hanging around the top of the Billboard Jazz charts since its release in March. 8 p.m., Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater, $50-$115.

This article appears in Apr 7-13, 2011.