Blenda and Shafiq, godfathers of Tampa's DJ scene, get their turn on the Ol' Dirty Sundays farewell tour

click to enlarge DJ Blenda plays Ol' Dirty Sundays at Crowbar in Ybor City, Florida on August 6, 2017. - Brian Mahar
Brian Mahar
DJ Blenda plays Ol' Dirty Sundays at Crowbar in Ybor City, Florida on August 6, 2017.
The end of Ol’ Dirty Sundays’ weekly presence at Crowbar in Ybor CIty gets closer every weekend, and the farewell run continues with this slate of guests whose selections were part of the foundation that made ODS so strong.

DJ Blenda—co-founder of the Gwan Massive Collective, and a living encyclopedia of reggae and dub joints—is on the ones and twos alongside fellow Gwan-er DJ Shafiq Sokoo, founder of Vinyl Sounds On Patrol. Sokoo’s tastes were formed in Gordon Heights and Suffolk Country on Long Island, and marked by the rise of hip-hop luminaries like De La Soul, Rakim, Public Enemy, JVC Force, Grand Daddy IU, and more.

It's $5 at the door for Ol' Dirty Sundays at Crowbar in Ybor City on Sunday, Aug. 11. Readers are invited to submit their own events to Creative Loafing Tampa Bay’s things to do calendar.

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Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief in August 2019. Past work can be seen at Suburban Apologist, Tampa Bay Times, Consequence of Sound and The...
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