For eight years now, Roger Peterson (Pretty Voices, Crippled Masters) has organized the annual Rock and Roll Swap meet — a kind of hipster flea market where artists, craftspeople, musicians, off-duty bartenders and more can buy a table, hawk their wares and nurse a bloody Mary or a PBR from behind a good pair of shades. The event consistently features two (yes, two) stages of solid local musical talent and has moved to new (and sometimes strange) locations every year, including Jannus, The ACL Club, Shackleton’s Folly and the St. Pete Shuffleboard Courts.
This article appears in Sep 22-28, 2011.