Tampa Bay musician Ken Apperson in a radio studio, wearing small round sunglasses and headphones while speaking or singing into a professional broadcast microphone. The warm-toned studio background features acoustic foam and a gold-colored sound panel.
Ken Apperson at WMNF in Tampa, Florida Credit: Chandler Culotta / kwapperson/Facebook

For nearly six years, Ken Apperson was the voice driving the “Live Music Showcase” that airs Friday afternoons on WMNF Tampa 88.5-FM. Last week, Apperson, a songwriter himself, signed off the show for the last time—before announcing that he’ll stay on the community radio station as the host of the Monday morning show.

He kicks off downtown Tampa’s more than 15-years running no-cover concert series where Bay area rapper Monae Marleau and indie-pop outfit Mossheads round things out.

There’s never a cover for Rock The Park Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park in Tampa on the first Thursday of every month.

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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...