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Looking forward: The month of February in the arts
The calendar: Who’ll be on what stages, and when?
It was Christmas week when Barry Manilow announced he was taking all the January concert dates off his calendar; the remainder of his “Farewell Tour” would have to wait while the 82-year-old pop legend underwent surgery for lung cancer. “Ironically,” Manilow said the time, “I feel great and have no symptoms. I’m thankful that my doctors were proactive and ran tests that typically wouldn’t be done. They caught it very, very early.”
A January concert at Tampa’s Benchmark Arena was among those postponed.
Apparently the news is all good for Mr. Copacabana, as the Benchmark date has been rescheduled for Feb. 27. In fact, it’s the very first show on the post-health scare leg of the tour.
Comedian Kathy Griffin is back at the Straz Center for the Performing Arts Feb. 13, her second appearance there since her career went down in flames because of a joke that backfired – she published a photo of herself brandishing the “severed head” of Donald Trump.
In a 2024 interview with the Catalyst, Griffin was still bitter: “I was in the middle of a 50-city tour; the second 25 cities got canceled because of bomb threats and death threats to me that were so intense that every theater just pulled the show. I wasn’t able to travel. I wasn’t able to make a living. It’s never happened in the history of comedy.”
Other welcome returns this month include blues guitar master Robert Cray, TV’s Jay Leno, Boy George & Culture Club, prog guitarist Steve Hackett, vocalist Andrea Bocelli, the electronic music artist INZO, Seals & Crofts 2, Amy Grant, Pat Travers, Grand Funk Railroad founder Mark Farner, Styx and Cheap Trick, Rascal Flatts, Don Was, Kathleen Edwards and St. Paul & the Broken Bones.
Add to that a concert by Broadway and opera star Audra McDonald, with The Florida Orchestra, and February’s looking like a month worth looking forward to.
Audra McDonald
The February calendar
All dates are subject to change.
Feb. 1 The Florida Orchestra “El Amor Brujo” at USF St. Pete Student Center Ballroom.
Feb. 1 Los Lonely Boys at the Capitol Theatre.
Feb. 1 & 3 St. Pete Opera “Julius Caesar in Egypt” at the Palladium Theater.
Feb. 3 & 4 Riverdance at Ruth Eckerd Hall.
Feb. 4 Wood Bros. at the Capitol Theatre.
Feb. 5 NeedToBreathe at the Seminole Hard Rock Event Center.
Feb. 5 Kathleen Edwards at Skipper’s Smokehouse.
Feb. 5 Matthew Morrison at the Capitol Theatre.
Feb. 5 Baroque Unbound/Immersive Opera with Nathan Felix at the Museum of Fine Arts.
Feb. 5 The Florida Orchestra “Inside Bruckner’s Symphony No. 46” at the Mahaffey Theater.
Feb. 6 Pavlo at the New Tampa Performing Arts Center.
Feb. 6-8 Shen Yun at the Mahaffey Theater.
Shen Yun
Feb. 6 Desoto Tiger’s Testimony at the Palladium Theater.
Feb. 6 LAB Theater Project The Trail to Oregon!, runs through Feb. 22.
Feb. 6 & 7 The Florida Orchestra Beethoven’s Triple Concerto at Straz Center, Morsani Hall.
Feb. 7 Mark Farner at Ferg’s.
Feb. 11 Jane Monheit at the Central Park Performing Arts Center.
Feb. 11 Chamber Music Series at the Palladium Theater.
Feb. 11 Young Original at freeFall Theatre.
Feb. 12 Seals & Crofts 2 at the Central Park Performing Arts Center.
Feb. 12 Digable Planets at Jannus Live.
Feb. 12 Don Was at the Capitol Theatre.
Feb. 12 American Stage Fairyland: A MidWinter Night’s Dream at Boyd Hill Nature Park through March 8.
Feb. 13 Rascal Flatts at Benchmark Arena.
Kathy Griffin
Feb. 13 Kathy Griffin at Ferguson Hall, Straz Center.
Feb. 13 Tampa Bay Symphony at New Tampa Performing Arts Center.
Feb. 13 Backtrack Blues Band at the Palladium Theater.
Feb. 14 Whitney James at the Side Door Cabaret.
Feb. 14 INZO at the Baycare Sound.
INZO
Feb. 14 Gipsy Kings at Ruth Eckerd Hall.
Feb. 14 Keb’ Mo at the Capitol Theatre.
Feb. 14 The Florida Orchestra “The Envelope Please” at the Mahaffey Theater.
Feb. 15 Tampa Bay Symphony at the Straz Center, Ferguson Hall.
Feb. 15 Afro Opera at the Side Door Cabaret.
Feb. 17 Tampa Bay Symphony at the St. Petersburg Coliseum.
Feb. 17 Robert Cray Band at the Capitol Theatre.
Feb. 17 Andrea Bocelli at Benchmark Arena.
Feb. 17 Helios Jazz Orchestra at the Side Door Cabaret.
Feb. 18 Boy George & Culture Club at the Seminole Hard Rock Event Center.
Feb. 18 Ariella & Nicolaas at the Side Door Cabaret.
Feb. 19 Willy Porter at the Side Door Cabaret.
Maddie & Tae
Feb. 19 Maddie & Tae at Jannus Live.
Feb. 19 & 20 Outlaws at the Capitol Theatre.
Feb. 20 David Foster & Katherine McPhee at the Mahaffey Theater.
Feb. 21 Allyson Briggs & Judy Carmichael with Nate Najar at the Palladium Theater.
Feb. 21 The Florida Orchestra Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 at Mahaffey Theater.
Feb. 21 Fantasia at Benchmark Arena.
Feb. 21 Pat Travers at Skipper’s Smokehouse.
Feb. 21 Dirty Dancing in Concert at Ruth Eckerd Hall.
Feb. 21-22 Jon Lehrer Dance Company at New Tampa Performing Arts Center.
Feb. 22 Il Divo at the Mahaffey Theater.
Feb. 22 Amy Grant at the Capitol Theatre.
Feb. 21 The Florida Orchestra Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 at Ruth Eckerd Hall.
Feb. 22 One City Chorus at the Palladium Theater.
Feb. 23 Big Bad Voodoo Daddy at the Capitol Theatre.
Feb. 24 Trombone Shorty at the Seminole Hard Rock Event Center.
Feb. 24 Garrison Keillor at the Capitol Theatre.
Feb. 25 Mafalda Minnozzi at the Side Door Cabaret.
Feb. 26 St. Paul & the Broken Bones at Jannus Live.
Feb. 26 Steve Hackett at Ruth Eckerd Hall.
Feb. 27 Styx and Cheap Trick at the Baycare Sound.
Feb. 27 Jay Leno at Ruth Eckerd Hall.
Jay Leno
Feb. 27 Vodkanauts at freeFall Theatre.
Feb. 27 Spyro Gyra at the Capitol Theatre.
Feb. 27 Barry Manilow at Benchmark Arena.
Feb. 28 Righteous Brothers at Ruth Eckerd Hall.
Feb. 28 The Florida Orchestra with Audra McDonald at the Straz Center, Morsani Hall.
Websites
Central Park Performing Arts Center
New Tampa Performing Arts Center
Palladium Theater/Side Door Cabaret
Safety Harbor Art & Music Center
Seminole Hard Rock Event Center
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