Let’s start with the weekend’s sold-out shows: Tonight’s collegiate piano concert at the Dali Museum; Saturday’s Theo Valentin/Fred Johnson swing music performance at freeFall Theatre; the...
Summer is upon us, in all its humid, sweltering glory. Naturally, Floridians’ thoughts turn to … standing outdoors, jammed together with thousands of other people. It’s...
Here’s the thing about theater productions: Something is either coming or going, on either side of the bay, pretty much all the time. This weekend, for...
It’s an indelible screenshot from music’s “new wave” period, the early to mid 1980s: Sultry singer Martha Davis, frontwoman of the Motels, in moody, noirish video...
Know your legacy rock acts, Part 1,116 … In the 1970s, Foghat was a great British band that played boogie-blues with ferocity. The quartet was anchored...
June is another concert-heavy month – there are 20 or so major shows between now and the 30th, in Tampa, Clearwater and even Largo. A number...
Bringing an end to Season 56, The Florida Orchestra goes out with a Hollywood bang, as this weekend’s concerts partially mirror the recent movie Maestro, a...
Comedy supernova Kevin Hart has shows (the opening performances of his cross-country “Acting My Age” tour) Saturday and Sunday in the Straz Center’s Ferguson Hall. The...
Irish singer/songwriter Hozier, who’ll be onstage Saturday at the Mid-Florida Credit Union Amphitheatre, recently had a No. 1 hit with “Too Sweet.” His eponymous first album...
Country’s all-time top hitmaking duo, Brooks & Dunn, called it quits in 2010, after selling (and breaking) all kinds of records. Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn...