Music
Actual country music outlaw Maren Morris is coming to St. Pete this summer
Betty Who opens at Mahaffey Theater.
Some people think throwing chairs off balconies or drunkenly shouting slurs makes an artist an outlaw, but we’re willing to bet that Waylon and Willie have more in common with the Maren Morris’ of the world than they do with someone like Morgan Wallen. Morris—who won the Changemaker of the Year Award at Variety’s Hitmakers event last year—loves country music, but famously bucked against it in 2023 when she vocally denounced the toxic elements of the genre (read: an ongoing lack of diversity on radio playlists, the celebration of veiled racist dog whistles, more).
