SHAMcGiving: The Grandest Opening Ever w/Bing Futch/Urban Gypsies of Florida/Aimee/Kurt/Brooke Ramel/Callaghan/Daphne Willis/Dave Herrero/Emily Kopp/Gareth Asher/Geri X/Hailey Steele/Joshua Reilly featuring Flycatcher & TJ Weger/Kip Kelly/Ryan Montbleau/Victor and Penny Friday is a potluck where folks are encouraged to bring “artful” leftover dishes, and it only gets quirkier from there as Safety Harbor invites the greater Bay area to help with community mural painting and mosaics while poets and musicians comes together for three days of blues, rock, folk and gypsy music all in benefit of the town’s new art & music center. This event runs all weekend, and details are available at safetyharborartandmusiccenter.com. (Safety Harbor Art and Music Center, Safety Harbor) INFO

Thanksgiving Bluegrass Festival w/Larry Sparks and the Lonesome Ramblers/Kenny & Amanda Smith/Lonesome River Band/Trinity River Band/The Boxcars/The Farm Hands/Junior Sisk and Rambler’s Choice/Barbwire Bluegrass/The Beaumonts/more This three-day festival on a 62 acre property in Brooksville invites folks to bring a covered dish for their Thursday Thanksgiving dinner and then stay for the music and outfits from around the state unite in twang to benefit the site, which aims to give young boys and girls — regardless of physical and mental ability — a chance to enjoy the great outdoors. (Sertoma Youth Ranch, Brooksville) INFO

The Cadillac Bombers Shows at Ella’s are a sure thing. A show from The Cadillac Bombers is another story. Guitarist Teddy Boy Aston and singer Kalamity Kat Rooney will lead this Bay area western swing/rockabilly quartet through a rare, high energy Seminole Heights set that combines blues and country into a dance floor ready boogie. The band have played much bigger rooms opening for acts like The Reverend Horton Heat, Royal Crown Review, Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys, The Chop Tops and Wayne the Train Hancock, and we’re wondering if there will be any room on the dance floor for this post-Thanksgiving gig. (Ella's Americana Folk Art Café, Tampa) INFO

Permanent Makeup/Leviathan Cross/Wax Tongue/Eliot Mayo And so it begins. After a successful mid-September test run featuring Tampa post-punk outfits Career and Drug, the Springs Theatre is starting to experiment a bit more in the live music realm. This one welcomes St. Pete proto-punks Permanent Makeup (whose frontman just penned a CL column about crossing the literal and figurative bridges in our lives when shows like this one emerge) into the headlining slot while Tampa doom metal four-piece Leviathan Cross, pop punk outfit Wax Tongue and comedian Eliot Mayo play support. This show will also feature a pop-up record store from Ybor City shop Salvaged Sounds. Vegan snacks will be on hand, and you cannot drink alcohol here, so hit a bar up before you get there if you need the booze to move through the night. (Springs Theatre Arts & Recording, Tampa) INFO

Final Friday w/Old Bones/Fr33dback/Rogerthomas/Mouth Council Three of the Tampa Bay area's best electronic acts join a bill headlined by Tampa indie-rock five-piece Old Bones. This show is free if you get there before 10 p.m. (The Loft, St. Petersburg) INFO

Flotsam & Jetsam w/Helstar/Hatchet/The DooD/Arkasia With names like those, you’d think the headliner was Swedish, but nah, this quintet is straight out of Arizona where they hone their thrashy, progressive approach to metal, which may or may not be an ode to villainous eels from Disney’s 1989 classic The Little Mermaid. (State Theatre, St. Petersburg) INFO

Christmas Carillon Concerts Normally a show all the way over in Lake Wales does not make the Music Week listings. And while we’re not exactly endorsing a 62-mile drive to Bok Tower Gardens, readers should be aware that the fine-tuned, 23 cast bronze bells will be singing their hearts out over the course of several days as the garden their in glows in its holiday outfittings. The Carillon is one of the largest instruments in the world, and hearing them played in an unforgettable experience. (Bok Tower Gardens, Lake Wales) INFO

Trae Pierce & The T-Stones Is it us, or are Trae Pierce and the T-Stone band playing a whole heck of a lot around here lately? No matter though since the central Florida funk outfit are hard to get sick of thanks to Pierce’s charismatic stage presence and mastery of that talkbox. They’ve brought their mix of blues, hip hop and rock to many stages opening for acts like George Clinton, Parliament Funkadelic, The Revivalists, Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band and The Dirty Dozen Brass Band to name a few, and it’ll be interesting to see what to do with the extra time and space at this Hard Rock gig. (Hard Rock Café, Tampa) INFO

Applebutter Express CD Release Party w/Uncle John’s Band/Dennis Stadelman Over a decade of being in love has led ukulele player Kyle Biss and his now-wife vocalist Shannon back to Skipper’s Smokehouse where their adopted musical family (Joe Trivette on fiddle and Zach Rogers on bass) will help welcome a long-awaited new album of strummy, feel-good swamp pop to fans who overwhelmingly support the band at their countless live gigs throughout the year. Uncle John’s Band makes up for taking Thanksgiving off by opening this show. (Skipper’s Smokehouse, Tampa) INFO

Nervo Models who DJ, DJs who model. It’s hard to tell the difference these days, and it’ll be extra hard to tell the distinction when Nervo come to the Ritz as part of Amphitheatre’s continued takeover of the venue. The group is comprised of twin sisters Miriam and Olivia Nervo who modeled in their native Australia before deciding to focus their time and talent on songwriting and production. The practice paid off as the girls were nominated for a Best Dance Recording Grammy in 2009 thanks to David Guetta and Kelly Rowland's “When Love Takes Over,” which they co-wrote. Credits also include collaborations with Kylie Minogue, Ke$ha, The Pussycat Dolls, Afrojack, Steve Aoki and Miley Cyrus, so expect nothing but the hits with the sisters — along with local openers Blunts & Blondes and Winta — give the Pound Friday faithful a reason to rise from their tryptophan comas. (The Ritz, Ybor City) INFO

Stevie B In what amounts to the strangest show in the whole of this week’s Music Week previews, Stevie B (yeah, the guy who just played Amalie Arena in September as part of the Freestyle Explosion tour) heads out to east Hillsborough county for a set at Oldsmar country music stronghold The Round Up. We’re not sure what the ratio of country to old school 80s and 90s jams the DJ will end up being at this one, but it’s safe to say that you can leave the ten gallon hat and chaps at home if you’d like to wear your Jordaches, velour jackets and dookie chains out instead. (The Round Up, Tampa) INFO

Steve Vai Even after nearly four decades in the game, Steve Vai is still thirsty. The 56-year-old guitarist with nine-solo LPs under his belt still tells himself to “savor every note” and chase new sounds every day, which cannot be easy for a guy widely regarded as one of the most technically gifted instrumentalists on Earth. Vai as worked with Frank Zappa, David Lee Roth and Whitesnake during the course of his iconic career, and this particular tour marks the 25th anniversary of his 1990 release, Passion and Warfare, which peaked at no. 18 on the Billboard 200. It’s tops for countless guitar nerds, and Vai promises to play the album in full at this show while throwing in a few extra surprises. (Palladium Theater, Tampa) INFO

Michael Ray Michael Ray is pretty. He’s pretty good, too, and in a pop country market that is oversaturated with a homogenous sound and look (blame Nashville or blame The Voice?), the 28-year-old from Eustis, Florida (who coincidentally won the CW network’s talent show, The Next: Fame Is At Your Doorstep four years ago) still stands out from the pack of posers thanks to his grassroots following and songs like “Think A Little Less” and “Kiss You In The Morning.” Expect the loyal fans to pack this show, then wait and see if Ray eventually outgrows rooms like the Bull in the future. (The Dallas Bull, Tampa) INFO

Fusik Funk from Florida at one of the state’s oldest microbreweries. What could go wrong, right? Fusik formed at a house party over ten years ago, and the South Florida sextet has held on to those vibes as they’ve evolved their sound to include tenets of psych-rock, blues and soul. (Dunedin Brewery, Dunedin) INFO

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