Kirk Franklin brings loaded gospel music lineup to Tampa

GP are you with me?

By Ray Roa on Thu, Oct 3, 2024 at 12:51 pm

Photo via KirkFranklin/Facebook

Kirk Franklin (second from right), who plays Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida on Oct. 10, 2024.

GP are you with me?

Kirk Franklin is a bonafide pioneer of gospel music, but lately, the 19-time-Grammy-winner has made way for artists he calls “the future” (Maverick City Music, which plays Tampa on Halloween among them).

The 54-year-old recently made a Grammy-winning album with that group during a 2022 visit to the Everglades Correctional Institution in Miami, and he continues to look outside of himself for this “Reunion” tour alongside gospel music icons Yolanda Adams, Fred Hammond, Marvin Sapp, and The Clark Sisters and Kierra Sheard-Kell.

Tickets to see Kirk Franklin play Tampa's Amalie Arena on Thursday, Oct. 10 are still available and start at $45.25.

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Ray Roa

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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