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Musician and actor Rick Springfield kicked off his “I Want My 80’s” tour at Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater for a Wednesday “hump day” show! He brought along some of his 80’s comrades to bring back the memories of those glorious MTV days to a live music show. For this show, John Cafferty, Wang Chung, […]
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The Mahaffey Theater is celebrating 60 years in St. Petersburg and they kicked it off with a birthday party and the best freakin’ American rock band around, Cheap Trick! Opening the doors early with a party room decorated in Trick checkerboard and memorabilia along with a DJ and photo booth for the concert ticket holders. […]
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The Florida Orchestra gave the Tampa Bay area a huge gift in bringing the mega-talented Cynthia Erivo to a SOLD-OUT St. Pete show to kick-off her series of tour dates across the U.S. over the summer months. Erivo is extremely busy; her new album, “I Forgive You” drops on June 6 and she is hosting […]
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In downtown St. Pete, at the Mahaffey Theatre, baby boomers were out in full force to hear the tunes of the great Burt Bacharach. Musician Todd Rundgren and a cast of stunning singers paid tribute to one of the greatest popular music songbooks of our time. The versatility of Rundgren over his nearly 60-year career […]
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Looks like musicians and artists are ready to get out of the winter freeze and bring their talents to the Suncoast and Tampa Bay areas. Starting with Sarasota at Van Wezel Performing Arts Center, the week of March 10th has the rock & blues of ZZ Top on March 13th and the comedy of Jay […]
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Famous trumpet player Chris Botti came to Florida over Valentine’s weekend to bring some romantic music to the Tampa Bay area. Chris and his four-piece band mixed it up with jazz and pop tunes along with a several special guests that we will talk about later. Of course with it being Valentine’s weekend, there were […]
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The new exhibition at Selby Gardens is George Harrison: A Gardner’s Life as part of the Jean & Alfred Goldstein Exhibition Series. It is on view from now until June 29th at the downtown Sarasota campus. For those who didn’t know, George loved music but he also loved gardening and spent much of his time […]
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The great rock voice from Canada, Burton Cummings, played Clearwater’s Ruth Eckerd Hall on Friday night! The lead vocalist of The Guess Who in the 60’s and 70’s, Cummings & company brought us some of the biggest hits of the era including “American Woman” and “These Eyes”. Burton is revered with every music award given […]
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May Pang, former girlfriend of musician John Lennon came to Tampa over the Gasparilla Pirate Festival weekend. May brought her candid photos of John taken over their 18th month relationship during the famous Lennon “Lost Weekend” period. The exhibition was showing at Tempus Projects Gallery in the heart of Ybor City. I arrived on Saturday […]
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‘Twas the week before Christmas and Rock & Roll Hall of Famers Cheap Trick flew into Tampa with their big bag of musical gifts! Appearing at the Seminole Hard Rock Event Center to an intimate audience of 1500, they rocked the night away. Opening the show with the Rick Nielsen penned 1979 hit “Dream Police” they […]
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Hurricane Milton blew through Sarasota’s Van Wezel Performing Arts Center and left destruction in its path and all shows were cancelled for 2024. One of those shows was the annual pilgrimage of the Allman Betts Band to their hometown Sarasota to pay tribute to the Allman Brothers Band. Devon Allman, son of Gregg and Duane […]