Petula Clark, who plays Central Park Performing Arts Center in Largo, Florida on December 12, 2017. Credit: Clement Schneider

Petula Clark, who plays Central Park Performing Arts Center in Largo, Florida on December 12, 2017. Credit: Clement Schneider


Petula Clark One show just wasn’t enough to British singer Petula Clark, so the 85-year-old Grammy winner will do it twice for Largo as part of her first U.S. tour in decades. It’s all support of a new album, Living For Today, which was released last month. “I grew up with music right from when I was a kid. I was singing from a very early age; In fact, the first time I sang in front of an audience it was in front of a congregation in Wales, and I guess I was hooked from there on,” Clark recently told Billboard. There are very few things that have that sort of kick, so I’m happy to still be doing it.” (Central Park Performing Arts Center, Largo) INFO

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Leon Majcen (c.1949 Florida Beer Garden, Tampa) INFO

Kirk Adams Band (Hideaway Café, St. Petersburg) INFO

This article appears in Dec 7-14, 2017.

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...