Mikaela Benefit Show w/KatAnna/Cruz Brothers/Mad Theatre Company A concert with a cause! This Sunday at New World Brewery finds a trio of dine Tampa locals staging in benefit of Mikaela Arnold, who is aa junior studying digital media at UT. She’s a big time music lover and loves to sing, even attending weekly vocal lessons. Mikaela’s disability requires the use of a wheelchair, so this gig hopes to raise money that’ll go towards a wheelchair-accessible van that hopefully giving her more independence to get around and attend her voice lessons. (New World Brewery, Ybor City) INFO —LJH
Seasons After w/Gears Seasons After, the embattled quartet from Kansas, has taken the hard road to music relevance a decade after its inception. Lineup changes plus band and label disputes have shaped the way this now independent band works in support of Manifesto, which it released in late 2016. Gears from Miami, opens the show. (Pegasus Lounge, Tampa) INFO—LJH
James and James: At the Movies w/Whitney James/James Suggs/La Lucha Sometimes you can hear Whitney James playing DJ on WUSF’s All Night Jazz, but the vocalist is teaming up with trumpeter James Suggs for a silver-screen affair that pits arrangements composed for movies (think Round Midnight and Lush Life) against Miles Davis and Duke Ellington tunes from flicks like Ascenseur pour l’échafau and Anatomy of a Murder. Backing the pair for this sweet show? Best of the Bay winning jazz collective La Lucha. (Palladium Theater, St. Petersburg) INFO
Beach House Sundays w/3LAU It’s Sunday Fun-day, and you know where our summer intern LJ is going to be. There are only three events left as he nears the end of his run at CL, and this one features rising Vegas-based electro house producer 3LAU. (Shephard’s Beach Resort, Clearwater) INFO—LJH
Vesperteen w/DBMK After ten years of touring the world and recording with House of Heroes, Colin Rigsby thought he had enough of music. Upon leaving the band he realized that just wasn’t the case. Shortly thereafter, he began writing and performing songs on his own as an independent artist, eventually creating a self titled EP of pop-rock in the process. Hear it live, and see DBMK open the show, on Sunday. (Crowbar, Ybor City) INFO—LJH
ALSO PLAYING
Sunset Bridge Band (Ella's Americana Folk Art Cafe, Tampa) INFO
Cesar Lopez Band w/Gloria West (SubCentral at Iberian Rooster, St. Petersburg) INFO
Faces of Courage Benefit w/Soul Circus Cowboys/the Bearded Brother Band (Skipper’s Smokehouse, Tampa) INFO
Deb Callahan Band (Ace’s Live, Bradenton) INFO
Funk and Freedom w/Unrestricted (Dr. Carter G. Woodson African American Museum, St. Petersburg) INFO
This article appears in Jul 20-27, 2017.