A musician from the band Tribal Style performs on a keyboard, wearing a dark cap and a tank top, on an outdoor stage at the Gasparilla Music Festival.
Tribal Style plays Gasparilla Music Festival in Curtis Hixon Park Tampa, Florida on March 10, 2019. Credit: Ysanne Taylor / c/o Gasparilla Music Festival

It’s been three weeks since Hurricane Melissa laid waste to much of Jamaica, and while the news cycle has abandoned the Caribbean nation, locals with deep ties to the island have not.

Tribal Style is one of Tampa’s longest-running roots-reggae acts and saw their families on the border of Westmoreland and St. Elizabeth lose everything but their own lives in the category five storm.

Helicopters recently airdropped supplies in the mountains, and there’s an ongoing GoFundMe to help, but the band is also playing this benefit concert where a $10 donation gets one raffle ticket (with additional tickets running $1 each).

Donations will be accepted when Tribal Style plays Tampa Shuffle on Sunday, Nov. 23.

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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...