The Florida Orchestra is doing a free Mother's Day concert in Tampa

Chelsea Gallo conducts for this, first-come first-served picnic blanket show.

By Ray Roa on Wed, May 8, 2024 at 1:54 pm

Photo by Ray Roa

The Florida Orchestra plays Julian B. Lane Waterfront Park in Tampa, Florida on May 8, 2022.

One of the Bay area’s finest live music traditions is the free Mother’s Day concert from The Florida Orchestra.

his year’s program includes classics from Tchaikovsky, Sousa and Bernstein, but once again dips into cinema (“E.T.,” “Star Trek,” “Jurassic Park”), theater (“Phantom,” “West Side Story”) and also pop culture (Adele’s “Skyfall”).

Chelsea Gallo conducts for this, first-come first-served picnic blanket show which is also a food drive for Tampa Bay Harvest.

There's no cover for the The Florida Orchestra's Pops In The Park concert at Tampa's Julian B. Lane Riverfront Park on Sunday, May 12.

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Ray Roa

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 in August 2019. Past work can be seen at Suburban Apologist, Tampa Bay Times, Consequence of Sound and The...

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