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Lalah Hathaway Versatile. That’s a good place to start when talking about R&B goddess Lalah Hathaway who’s been dropping jaws with her grasp on jazz, pop and gospel since she dropped a self-titled debut almost 30 years ago. The 48-year-old Chicago-born singer (and offspring of the wondrous Donny Hathaway) disappeared in the mid-’90s, but she’s been on a tear since a ‘99 comeback record with Joe Sample. A recent collaboration with jazz wiz-kids Snarky Puppy earned Hathaway a Grammy for Best R&B Performance in 2014, and she scored more golden Gramophones in 2015 and 2016 for work with Robert Glasper and Malcolm-Jamal Warner plus a cover of her dad’s 1972 hit “Little Ghetto Boy.” Getting to see soul music royalty up close and personal in one of the country’s most beautiful theatres is an opportunity no one should pass up. (Tampa Theatre, Tampa) INFO
Left Lane Ent. Presents:WLCM2KNXVLL Birthday Edition w/DJ Ku/King Knoxygen/DJ Heist/DJ Fivevenoms Two of the Bay area’s most-respected and sought-after DJs (Red Bull Thre3style finalist DJ Ku, Rolling Loud fest alum DJ Knox) are celebrating born days, so the folks at Left Lane Entertainment are turning their monthly WLCM2KNXVLL event at The Bends into an all out birthday party. (The Bends, St. Petersburg) INFO
Kap G w/J.R. Donato/Paper Paulk It’s been just four months since Kap G opened for Chris Brown at Tampa’s Amalie Arena, but the 23-year-old Georgia rapper born George Ramirez is already headed back to the Bay area. This time finds ol’ KapGdinero headlining a room just two miles away, and the Orpheum should be good and packed for the XXL freshman class emcee as he celebrates a new, just-gone-gold single, “Girlfriend,” where a catchy beat provides a vehicle for the Mexican-American rhyme-maker to joke about take your significant other away. Cleveland’s Paper Paulk anchors an opening slate that includes Taylor Gang collective member J.R. Donato. (Orpheum, Ybor City) INFO
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Grateful Dead Night w/Dead Set Florida Skipper’s Smokehouse in Tampa has had the Thursday Grateful Dead thing on lock for a while thanks to long-running tribute act Uncle John’s Band, but it looks like a St. Pete-based collection of Deadheads (St. Pete’s Dead Set Florida) wants to have its turn ringing that bell in “Franklin’s Tower.” Free show; looks like hula hoops are allowed, too. (Cage Brewing, St. Petersburg) INFO
MIRAA Hip Hop Night w/Ty Walker/Sam E Hues/Gat & Cris/Asher/Audio Artwork/Young 40/Mike Mass/Wally Clark Young 40 wants to bring hip-hop to the neighborhood he grew up in, so a slew of his friends are taking a mini-road trip to bring their sonic wares to a brewery almost 30 miles away from the Ybor city clubs where some of Tampa’s most exciting emcees (Mike Mass, Asher, Audio Artwork) usually make noise. (de Bine Brewing Co., Palm Harbor) INFO
ALSO PLAYING
Brass Roots Band (Hard Rock Café at Seminole Hard Rock Casino, Tampa) INFO
Kyle and Shannon Biss (The Ale & the Witch, St. Petersburg) INFO
Grateful Dead Night w/Uncle John’s Band(Skipper’s Smokehouse, Tampa) INFO
Come Back Alice (Ringside Café, St. Petersburg) INFO
This article appears in Aug 24-31, 2017.
