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Looking forward: September in the arts

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August 31, 2024

Bill DeYoung

Singer, rapper, actor Donald Glover (aka Childish Gambino) will perform Sept. 4 at Amalie Arena. Video screengrab.

Now we’re talking.

After a long, stultifying summer of too much heat, humidity and a lack of entertainment choices, Tampa Bay comes roaring back in September with one of the most densely-packed concert calendars of the year.

The Florida Orchestra and St. Pete Opera return this month, too. Let’s start with the concerts, shall we?

Melissa Etheridge has a Sept. 26 date at the Baycare Sound, with Jewel. Photo by Bridge Burke.

Sept. 1

Psychedelic Furs at Jannus Live

Imagine Dragons at the Mid-Florida Credit Union Amphitheatre

Sept. 2

Meghan Trainor at the Seminole Hard Rock Event Center

Sept. 3

Incubus with Coheed and Cambria at Amalie Arena

Bandits on the Run at freeFall Theatre

Sept. 4

Childish Gambino at Amalie Arena

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse in Concert, film with orchestra at Ruth Eckerd Hall

Sept. 6

Front 242 at Jannus Live

Sept. 7

Laura Jane Grace at Floridian Social

Cody Jinks at Yuengling Center

Sept. 8

Gilbey Clarke (ex-Guns N Roses) at OCC Roadhouse & Museum

Sept. 10

Midge Ure at Bayboro Brewing

Sept. 12

Korn at Mid-Florida Credit Union Amphitheatre

Sept. 13

Eric D’Alessandro at Straz Center/Jaeb Theatre

Sept. 14

Buddy Guy at Ruth Eckerd Hall

Luke Bryan at Mid-Florida Credit Union Amphitheater

Herbie Hancock plays the Mahaffey Theater Sept. 15. Publicity photo.

Sept. 15

Herbie Hancock at Mahaffey Theater

Maxwell at Amalie Arena.

AKON at Seminole Hard Rock Event Center

Sept. 20

Squeeze, Boy George at the Baycare Sound

Creed at Mid-Florida Credit Union Amphitheater

Chase Padgett at freeFall Theatre (also Sept. 21)

Sept. 21

Yung Gravy at Yuengling Center

Sept. 22

Warren Haynes Band at Mahaffey Theater

Sep. 25

Staind, Breaking Benjamin, Daughtry at Mid-Florida Credit Union Amphitheatre

Sept. 26

Ray LaMontagne at Mahaffey Theater

Hootie & the Blowfish at Mid-Florida Credit Union Amphitheatre

Melissa Etheridge, Jewel at the Baycare Sound

Sept. 27

Yngwie Malmsteen at Capitol Theatre

Marlon Wayans at Ruth Eckerd Hall

Graham Bonnet at Central Park Performing Arts Center

Sept. 28

BEAT (Adrian Belew, Tony Levin, Steve Vai, Danny Carey) at Ruth Eckerd Hall

Violent Femmes at Jannus Live

Sept. 29

Tango Lovers (dance) at Mahaffey Theater

Sept. 30

Buena Vista Orchestra at Mahaffey Theater

The classics redefined

The new Florida Orchestra new season doesn’t “officially” begin until early October, but there are a couple of exceptional teasers this month: They’ll play the music from How to Train Your Dragon as the animated family film screens in HD Sept. 14, interpret the music of Fleetwood Mac Sept. 21, and perform an evening of classic and contemporary country songs Sept. 28. All at the Mahaffey Theater.

The TFO chamber concert The Intimate Mahler is performed Sept. 24 at the Church of the Ascension in Clearwater, Sept 25 at St. Mary’s Church, St. Petersburg, and Sept. 26 at the New Tampa Performing Arts Center

St. Petersburg Opera Company comes back with a new one (at the Palladium Theater): Saint-Saëns’ Samson and Delilah at the Palladium Theater, Sept. 27 and 28, and Oct. 1

On theater stages

The Off-Central (St. Pete) produces the drama Blackbird Sept. 5-15; LAB Theatre Project (Ybor City) ups the dramatic ante with the psychological thriller PER (Sept. 5-22), and Jobsite Theatre (Tampa) has the political comedy POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive, Sept. 4-29.

The every month disclaimer: Events will be canceled, events will be added. Such is the way of the entertainment business. Watch this space for updates.