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Weekend spotlight: Adrian Younge at Bayboro Brewing
Composer, musician and bandleader Adrian Younge is in St. Petersburg Friday, performing with a 10-piece band (including strings).
The Bayboro Brewing show marks a rare local appearance for the L.A.-born polymath. Younge has a law degree and was a practicing attorney for years, and as a self-taught musician began scoring films and TV shows in the 1990s. He also composes for media with Ali Shaheed Muhammad (A Tribe Called Quest).
His score for the 2011 Blaxploitation homage Black Dynamite brought him national attention; Younge has succeeded in creating an idiosyncratic blend of hip hop, R&B, Brazilian music and jazz, with orchestral touches. He has produced for Snoop Dogg, Kendrick Lamar and Wu-Tang Clan. His music has been called “psychedelic soul.”
The Emmy winner (for scoring the Apple+ docuseries Home) is touring behind his latest project, Something About April III.
Tickets for Friday’s 7 p.m. performance (with Soft Cuff) are here.
“Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill” at Stageworks Theatre says goodbye Sunday. Image: Noa Michele Photography.
So what else is going on?
Theater: It’s the final weekend to catch the extraordinary Desiree Montes as Billie Holiday in Stageworks Theatre’s production of Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill. There are four performances left between Friday and Sunday. Showtimes and tickets are at this link.
Music: St. Pete jazz guitarist Nate Najar is onstage tonight at the Side Door Cabaret, inside the Palladium Theater. It’s electric Nate, with Patrick Bettison (keyboards), Tim George (bass), Dave Reinhardt (drums) and special guest Jeff Kashiwa on sax. Look for tickets (showtime is 7:30) here.
Comedy: “Dirty” John Huls and his naughty sketch comedy troupe are at it again, at their home base, The Studio @620. Dirty John’s Dirty Disco (“Join their disco fairies as they carry you through your journey!” rolls out tonight, Friday and Saturday (8 p.m. daily). Tickets are at this link.
Music and theater: Larry Alexander’s show (My Year With Liza!) tonight at freeFall Theatre is sold out. Alexander is part of the cast for the company’s current show, The House of Future Memory, which continues Wednesdays through Sundays (tonight excepted) through July 13. Find tickets at this link.
Music: Singer and rapper Durand Bernarr, who performs Friday in a Pride-sponsored concert at Jannus Live, has been a backup vocalist for Erykah Badu, a runner-up on BET’s competition show The Next Big Thing, and received a 2025 Grammy nomination (Best Progressive R&B album) for En Route. Tickets for the show (6 p.m. showtime) are at this link.
Music: The reggae rock band Slightly Stoopid, a regular at the annual Rise Up Festival, has a date at the BayCare Sound amphitheater Friday, along with fellow festheads Iration and Little Stranger as support acts. 6 p.m. showtime; tickets are here.
Music: Athens’ own Drivin N Cryin, with singer, songwriter and frontman Kevin Kinney, returns to Skipper’s Smokehouse tonight. Find tickets right here.
Music: Ferg’s Sports Bar continues its transformation into an entertainment complex with Saturday’s “Totally ‘80s” concert in the back yard, with Big Country, Bow Wow Wow and Tommy Tutone. Tickets are available at this link; read about the bands in our Tuesday story.
Saturday brings another edition of Burlynathan’s A Night of Classic Burlesque to the Palladium’s Sidfe Door. It’s designed like old-fashioned vaudeville, with an emcee, live music, comedy skits and striptease performers. Tickets for the 8 p.m. show are at this link.
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