Photo by Tracy May
Japanese Breakfast, which plays day one of the Innings Festival in Tampa, Florida on March 18, 2023.
Events listed below are curated by Creative Loafing Tampa Bay staff and contributors, plus supplemented by select shows from CL's user-submitted concert calendar.
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Thursday, March 16
- Campground 23: New Music Festival (Tempus Projects, Ybor City)
- Goalkeeper w/Outatime/City Mouse/Caught Fire (Hooch and Hive, Tampa)
- Jariah Higgins w/Shevonne/Ashenelle (Music Hall at New World Brewery, Tampa)
- Reggae Rise Up: 311 w/Dispatch/Knex/Mikali (Vinoy Park, St. Petersburg)
- Bad Teeth w/Boney Fiend/Bat Katz/Fear The Spider (If I Brewed The World, St. Petersburg)
- Campground 23: New Music Festival (The Factory, St. Petersburg)
- Charlie (album release) w/Mtvh1n1/Flowers For Emily/Ortrotasce \(American Legion Seminole Post 111, Tampa)
- Crash Mitchell w/Navin Ave./Former Contenders (Hooch and Hive, Tampa)
- Greg Roy (Aspirations Winery, Clearwater)
- Ellis Paul (Craftsman House, St. Petersburg)
- Knuckle Puck w/Real Friends/Bearings (Orpheum, Tampa)
- Luzcid (The Ritz, Ybor City)
- Martin Sexton (Bilheimer Capitol Theatre, Clearwater)
- Reggae Rise Up: Rebelution w/Sublime with Rome/Dry Reef/The Elovaters/Iya Terra/more (Vinoy Park, St. Petersburg)
- Tropica Blvd. (The Blueberry Patch, Gulfport)
- Robert Jon & The Wreck (Murray Theatre at Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater)
- Acraze (The Ritz, Ybor City)
- Campground 23 (The Campground, Tampa)
- Borgeous (WTR Pool, Tampa)
- Blues & BBQ: George Pennington w/Electric Woodshed/more (Carrollwood Cultural Center, Tampa)
- Busch Gardens Food & Wine Festival: SWV (Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, Tampa)
- Campground 23: New Music Festival (The Factory, St. Petersburg)
- Capra w/Thirst/Star Of Khorala/Illuminate Me//Dead Mirrors (American Legion Seminole Post 111, Tampa)
- Chuck Brodsky (Craftsman House, St. Petersburg)
- Death To All w/Suffocation/Nukem (Orpheum, Tampa)
- Hellfire Hooch w/Unruly Industry/The Inhalers (Hooch and Hive, Tampa)
- Innings Festival: Imagine Dragons w/Weezer/Pitbull/Grouplove/Japanese Breakfast/more (Raymond James Stadium grounds, Tampa)
- Jazz Unplugged: Kim Waters (Center for the Arts, Wesley Chapel)
- Reggae Rise Up: Damian "Jr. Gong" Markley w/Koffee/Arise Roots/Collie Buddz/Denm/The Movement/more (Vinoy Park, St. Petersburg)
- Valspar Championship: Darius Rucker (Copperhead Course at Innisbrook, Palm Harbor)
- Busch Gardens Food & Wine Festival: Dustin Lynch (Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, Tampa)
- Innings Festival: Dave Matthews Band w/The Avett Brothers/Marcus Mumford/The Revivalists/Third Eye Blind/The Breeders/Faye Webster/more (Raymond James Stadium grounds, Tampa)
- Reggae Rise Up: Wiz Khalifa w/Dirty Heads/Alborosie/J Boog/Joe Samba/Neverless/more (Vinoy Park, St. Petersburg)
- Stoneburner w/Chimeric Drift (Music Hall at New World Brewery, Tampa)
- Tampa Jazz Club: LaRue Nickelson’s Centennial Tribute to Wes Montgomery (Mainstage Theatre at Hillsborough Community College, Ybor City)
- Zach Quinn w/Miski Dee Rodriguez/Dave Decker (The Nest at St. Pete Brewing Co., St. Petersburg)
- 97X Secret Sessions: David Shaw and Zack Feinberg (Floridian Social, St. Petersburg)
- Aaron Lewis (Hard Rock Event Center at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Tampa)
- George Pennington and the Odyssey (The Blueberry Patch, Gulfport)
- Sam E Hues (Arts Room at Tampa Edition, Tampa)
- Blood Brothers (Safety Harbor Art and Music Center, Safety Harbor)
- Lissie (The Attic at Rock Brothers Brewing, Ybor City)
- Michael Bolton Hard Rock Event Center at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Tampa)
- Nick Schnebelen Band (Skipper's Smokehouse, Tampa)
- Spring Beer Jam: Punkadelic w/Joe Marcinek/Steve Molitz/Jon Ditty/Row Jomah/Zero Context/Brain Emoji/more (Dunedin Brewery, Dunedin)
- Steve Miller Band w/Greg Billings Band (Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater)
Carol World Friday, March 17, 8 p.m. $10 & up. TK Lounge, Tampa
Chris Baker & Jason Parker Duo Saturday, March 18, 5 p.m. Free. Whiskey Joe's Bar & Grill, Tampa
DJ Blenda Friday, March 17, 7:30 p.m. Free. Biergarten at New World Brewery, Tampa
George Pennington and the Odyssey Friday, March 17, 8 p.m. Free. Shuffle, Tampa
Sabrina Carpenter w/spill tab Friday, March 17. 8 p.m. $40 & up. Jannus Live, St. Petersburg
Live & Local: Durik Saturday, March 18, 6 p.m. Free. Riverwalk Stage at David A. Straz Center for the Performing Arts, Tampa
Lovesong Cure Tribute w/Switch First Wave Saturday, March 18, 8 p.m. $15-$20. Music Hall at New World Brewery, Tampa
moe. Saturday, March 18. 8 p.m. $28.50. Jannus Live, St. Petersburg
Joanne Shaw Taylor Sunday, March 19. 8 p.m. $39. Bilheimer Capitol Theatre, Clearwater
Oak Hill Drifters Sunday, March 19, 3 p.m. Free. Ella's Americana Folk Art Cafe, Tampa
Wyatt Norton Sunday, March 19, 6:30 p.m. Independent Bar & Cafe, Tampa
Leo Sayer Tuesday, March 21. 7:30 p.m. $44.50 & up. Central Park Performing Arts Center, Largo
The Foreign Resort w/Sleeping Pills/more Wednesday, March 22. 7 p.m. $15. Music Hall at New World Brewery, Tampa
Riley Whittaker w/Growler/Samsara Thursday, March 23, 8 p.m. $8-$10. Hooch and Hive, Tampa
