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Tampa Bay's best live music happening April 18-25

Including Nation of Language, Record Store Day, Kenny Chesney and more.

By Ray Roa and Josh Bradley

Apr 18, 2024

It's yet another jam-packed week of live music in the Bay area, this time with stadium shows (hi, Kenny Chesney), perhaps the best synth-pop band touring right now (Nation of Language), a whole heck of a lot of great jazz (Simon Lasky's album release), plus Record Store Day concerts, too. This listing of the best live music happening in Tampa Bay between April 18-25 is compiled by Creative Loafing Tampa Bay staffers and contributors, then supplemented with select gigs from CL's events calendar, which is driven by user-submissions...

Nation of Language, which plays Orpheum in Tampa, Florida on April 19, 2024.

Tampa professors will teach a class that explores the literary side of Taylor Swift

By Ray Roa

Taylor Swift plays Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida on April 13, 2023.

New cheesesteak spot Little Philly opens in downtown St. Pete

The Grand Central District’s newest addition soft opened earlier this week.

By Kyla Fields

New cheesesteak spot Little Philly opens in downtown St. Pete

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Bobby Rush

@ Safety Harbor Art and Music Center

Thu., April 18, 7 p.m.

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Floridania Fest returns to Gulfport for another year of kitschy collecting

By Suzanne Townsend

Floridania Fest vendors sell and swap funky Florida memorabilia.

Florida Gov. DeSantis signs public school chaplains bill, says satanists need not apply

By Michael Moline and Florida Phoenix

Florida Gov. DeSantis signs public school chaplains bill, says satanists need not apply

President Joe Biden is coming to Tampa next week

By News Service of Florida

President Joe Biden is coming to Tampa next week

Former Florida Gov. Graham remembered as ‘a friend and a consummate public servant’

By Jim Turner, Dara Kam and News Service of Florida

Former Florida Gov. Graham remembered as ‘a friend and a consummate public servant’

'In The Trees,' truth pours from the lips of Tampa poet Kennedy Engasser

By Kennedy Engasser

Kennedy Engasser

Historian Gary Mormino led St. Petersburg poet Thomas Hallock to 'This Curious World: 1937'

By Thomas Hallock

Thomas Hallock

St. Petersburg writer Tyler Gillespie has a poem for people who are dating after a long-term relationship

By Tyler Gillespie

Tyler Gillespie

Three trees helped Tampa Bay poet Edmarie Aponte write 'Ode to the Dryads'

By Edmarie Aponte (Peqchy)

Edmarie Aponte (Peqchy)

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Taylor Swift plays Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida on April 13, 2023.

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Red Mesa Restaurant
4912 4th St. N, St. Petersburg

Street Tacos: Chicken, Brisket or Sirloin. Chile guajillo, encurtido, pickled red onion, cilantro, corn tortillas. $16

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The Trivium

Castle in the woods: What's left of Florida's utopian Nautilus Foundation is now for sale

Pro-choice activists in Orlando, Florida on April 13, 2024.

Photos: Thousands rally in Orlando to support Florida’s abortion rights ballot amendment

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