The concerts on this list listing of the best Tampa Bay live music happenings from April 4-11 are curated by Creative Loafing Tampa Bay staffers and contributors, then supplemented with select gigs from CL's user-submitted Tampa Bay concert calendar.
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Thursday, April 4
- Hello In There Benefit Concert (North End Taphouse & Kitchen, Gulfport)
- Tampa Jazz Club: Jack Wilkins album release (New Tampa Performing Arts Center, Tampa)
- Madonna (Amalie Arena, Tampa)
- Rock The Park: Domino Pink w/Aych & Friends/MPM (Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park, Tampa)
- Alabama w/Diamond Rio (The BayCare Sound, Clearwater)
- The Concert Grand: Ghadeer Abaido w/Pablo Arencibia/Svetozar Ivanov/Simon Lasky/Jane West/Grigorios Zamparas (New Tampa Performing Arts Center, Tampa)
- Dunedin Highland Games & Festival: Byrne Brothers w/Lucid Druid (Highlander Park, Dunedin)
- The Guess Who (Duke Energy Center at Mahaffey Theater, St. Petersburg)
- Jazz with Jim: Themes from the Movies (Carrollwood Cultural Center, Tampa)
- John Prine tribute & Hello In There benefit concert (Noisemakers, St. Petersburg)
- Live Dead & Brothers: An All-Star Celebration of Grateful Dead & Allman Brothers (Jannus Live, St. Petersburg)
- #Pound Friday: Borgore (The Ritz, Ybor City)
- Signal Fire (Oscura, Bradenton)
- Quaint Delusions w/Teen Cobra/Navin Ave./Andy Brey (Music hall at New World Brewery, Tampa)
- St. Petersburg Jazz Festival: O Som Do Jazz w/Rafael Pereira & Jose Valentino Ruiz (ArtsXchange Stage at Warehouse Arts District, St. Petersburg)
- Tampa Pro: Ray Barbee (The Bricks, Ybor City)
- Al Jardine and his Endless Summer Band (The Center of Anna Maria Island, Anna Maria)
- Beastplague w/Migrant Fury/Withpaperwings/Plague Spitter/more (Deviant Libation, Tampa)
- Blue Dogs (Skipper’s Smokehouse, Tampa)
- Busch Gardens Food & Wine Festival: Owl City (Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, Tampa)
- Corner Club three-year anniversary: Suwanee Ave. Marching Band (Corner Club, Tampa)
- Intergalactic Solar Eclipse Party with music by Divine AF and Cassie Jean & the Fireflies (Bayboro Brewing Co., St. Petersburg)
- Inzo w/Tape B/Hayz/Blookah (Jannus Live, St. Petersburg)
- Josiah and the Bonnevilles w/Mon Rovîa/Abby Cates/Sydney Rose (Crowbar, Ybor City)
- Lovesong: The Cure Tribute w/Depeche Mode/First Wave (Music hall at New World Brewery, Tampa)
- Rhythm N’ BAYFest: Next w/Wayne Wonder/more (Spa Beach at St. Pete Pier, St. Petersburg)
- Shiba San (WTR Pool at Godfrey Hotel & Cabanas, Tampa)
- Tampa Pro: Scowl w/Bad Shit!/Heaven's Gate (Skatepark of Tampa, Tampa)
- Tampa Punk Rock Karaoke: 3Dot Dash fifth anniversary w/Bad, Bad Things (3 Dot Dash, Tampa)
- The Tilt Orchestra (video shoot) (Oscura, Bradenton)
- Tribe Fest (1920, Ybor City)
- Vs Self w/Party Hats/Knumears (Hooch and Hive, Tampa)
- 4th Annual A Crooked Piece of Time: Have Gun, Will Travel/more (Crooked Thumb Brewery, Safety Harbor)
- Busch Gardens Food & Wine Festival: Grupo Niche (Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, Tampa)
- Dombresky (WTR Pool at Godfrey Hotel & Cabanas, Tampa)
- Fil Pate (Ybor Bungalow, Ybor City)
- Flatland Cavalry (Jannus Live, St. Petersburg)
- L8 Night Flights: Side Trip w/Beach Terror/Earthgirl/Curtis James/Jason Kitchen/more (Bayboro Brewing Co., St. Petersburg)
- Ol' Dirty Sundays (Crowbar, Ybor City)
- Pinellas Park Civic Orchestra Concert Cycle No. 3 (Pinellas Park Performing Arts Center, Pinellas Park)
- Wind Rose w/Xandria (Orpheum, Tampa)
- Abstract Citizen w/La Lucha (The Far Forest, Tampa)
- Fastball w/FayRoy (Floridian Social, St. Petersburg)
- Melissa Etheridge (Hard Rock Event Center at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Tampa)
Also playing
The Buko Boys w/Operation Acoustic Kitty/Copyright Claim Friday, April 5. 8 p.m. $12-$15. Hooch and Hive, Tampa
The Florida Orchestra: Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony Friday, April 5. 8 p.m. $25.75 & up. Ferguson Hall at David A. Straz Center for the Performing Arts, Tampa
Neverless w/Moon Show/Johnny Boy and the Corduroy Boys Friday, April 5. 7 p.m. $10. The Nest at St. Pete Brewing Co., St. Petersburg
The Rhapsody Suite Friday, April, 5. 7 p.m. $25. 7th + Grove, Ybor City
Boiler House 360 Experience: Sunset Saturdays w/Sam Wolfe Saturday, April 6. 10:30 p.m. $10 (free before 11:30 p.m.) The Ritz, Ybor City
First Saturday Jazz: ARConnection Saturday, April 6. 8 p.m. No cover. Independent Bar & Cafe, Tampa
The Florida Orchestra: Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony Saturday, April 6. 8 p.m. $26 & up. Duke Energy Center for the Arts at Mahaffey Theater, St. Petersburg
Gregorian Saturday, April 6. 8 p.m. $40 & up. Bilheimer Capitol Theatre, Clearwater
Left Of The Dial: An Afternoon of Music from the ‘80s w/Scott Imrich Saturday, April 6. Noon. Hooch and Hive, Tampa
St. Petersburg Jazz Festival Hot Club SRQ Saturday, April 6. 7:30 p.m. $25. Museum of American Arts and Crafts Movement, St. Petersburg
The Florida Orchestra: Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony Sunday, April 7. 7:30 p.m. $23 & up. Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater
Israel & NewBreed Sunday, April 7. 7 p.m. $33.50 & up. Mahaffey Theater, St. Petersburg
Sunday Live Music Series: Kurt Reifler and The Watchdogs Sunday, April 7. 6:30 p.m. Independent Bar & Cafe, Tampa
Tampa Bay Symphony: International Composition Competition Finals Sunday, April 7. 2 p.m. No cover. Palladium Theater, St. Petersburg
Wu-Tang and Biscuits: DJ Wally Rios Sunday, April 7. Noon-6 p.m. No cover. Shuffle. Tampa
The Remix: Open Mic Tuesday, April 9. 8 p.m. No cover. Shuffle. Tampa
Butcher Brown and Son Little Wednesday, April 10. 8 p.m. $25 & up. Bilheimer Capitol Theatre, Clearwater
Taylor Acorn w/World’s First Cinema Thursday, April 11. 7 p.m. $20. Crowbar, Ybor City
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