Weekend spotlight: Caamp, TFO and Stormy Daniels

Onstage Saturday at the Mahaffey Theater, Caamp is an indie folk/pop band whose most recent album, 2025’s Copper Changes Color, debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Americana/Folk Albums chart.

According to allmusic.com, the album shows a tougher, more rock ‘n’ roll edge to the Ohio quintet, which debuted in 2016: “Copper Changes Color reveals a few of the band’s deeper shades, without abandoning the friendliness and familiarity that are their stock-in-trade.”

Tickets for Saturday’s 7:30 show are at this link.

Onscreen today

Today at 5:30 p.m. at the Dali Museum, there’s a screening and discussion of Luis Buñuel’s acclaimed 1962 surrealist film El ángel exterminador. Find tickets here. 

Suki tonight

British model, actress and pop singer Suki Waterhouse is onstage at Jannus Live tonight at 7. Find tickets here.

Stormy season

Former adult actress (and star of a well-worn national scandal) Stormy Daniels is now doing standup comedy; she’s at Snappers in Palm Harbor at 7:30 tonight (tickets and info here). We don’t normally include club listings in this column, but this one was just too … strange to ignore.

The Florida Orchestra returns

Season 59 officially gets underway for The Florida Orchestra with the first Masterworks concert. Headlined by Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture, the Mahaffey Theater concert (Friday 7:30 p.m., Sunday 2 p.m.) also includes Rossini’s William Tell Overture as well as Christopher Theofanidis’ The Gift and Wellington’s Victory from Herr Beethoven. With the Master Chorale of Tampa Bay and soloists. Find tickets at this link.

More concerts

Atsuko Okatsuka. Publicity photo.

Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka is onstage Friday at Ferguson Hall, in Tampa’s Straz Center. Her 2026 Hulu special, Father, was ranked No. 6 on the year’s best standup specials (by Vulture)  and named one of the year’s best by the Los Angeles Times. Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. show are at this link.

Dewey Bunnell, the sole remaining member of the folk/rock trio America, performs under that name Friday at Ruth Eckerd Hall. Find tickets here.

Americana rock ‘n’ roll band Treaty Oak Revival, from Texas, plays the Mid-Florida Credit Union Amphitheatre Saturday. Tickets.

Legendary singer/songwriter Janis Ian will be in attendance for a 2 p.m. screening of the documentary Janis Ian: Breaking Silence, Saturday at the Catherine Hickman Theatre, Gulfport. Afterwards, she’ll participate in a Q&A with the audience. Tickets for the Gulfport Public Library benefit – it’s not a musical performance – are at this link.

Reggae’s favorite son Ziggy Marley shares Sunday’s bill with blistering jam/rock guitarist Warren Haynes and his band Gov’t Mule at the BayCare Sound. The show’s at 5 p.m., and tickets are here.

Sunday (3 p.m.) at the New Tampa Performing Arts Center: The Stewart Tussing Band, a trio of Tampa Bay musicians who found success as Nashville studio and road players. The group includes cellist Gary Tussing (Rober Plant and Jimmy Page, Dolly Parton), singer/songwriter Kevin Stewart and drummer/pianist Tom Nordin. Tickets.

The Irish singing stage show Celtic Thunder returns to Ruth Eckerd Hall Sunday. It’s a “greatest hits” program in celebration of the group’s upcoming 20^th anniversary. Find tickets for the 7 p.m. concert here.

At freeFall Theatre, “What a Glorious Feeling!” completes its run this weekend. Image: Thee Photo Ninja.

On theater stages

All opening weekend tickets for the Kelundra Wash historical drama The Wash are sold out at The Studio@620; the show runs through Oct. 11 – find showtimes and tickets here).

Bidding farewell to two highly-recommended shows this weekend: What a Glorious Feeling! from freeFall Theatre, the singing, dancing story of how the movie Singin’ in the Rain got made (the theater has just added a final FINAL performance, at 7 p.m. Sunday); and the World War II psychological drama As We Like It at Lab Theater Project. For freeFall showtimes and tickets, click here; all LAB tickets and details are here.

Continuing at American Stage is A Night With Janis Joplin, onstage through Oct. 11 (showtimes and tickets here), and, at Stageworks Theatre, the fast-moving comedy Jane Austen in 89 Minutes (also through the 11^th, showtimes and tickets here).

Katherine Yacko, who portrays Jane Austen in the Stageworks farce, joins us for Friday’s Arts Alive! podcast, along with show director (and Stageworks Producing Artistic Director) Karla Hartley.

Coming soon

Oct. 6-11 Broadway Series: Buena Vista Social Club at Straz Center Morsani Hall

Oct. 8 Logic & G-Eazy at the Mid-Florida Credit Union Amphitheatre

Oct. 8 Dermot Kennedy at the Yuengling Center

Oct. 8 Boz Scaggs at Ruth Eckerd Hall

Oct. 8 Allison Nash/Alejandro Arenas at freeFall Theatre

Oct. 8 Classic Albums Live The Dark Side of the Moon at the Capitol Theatre

Oct. 9 Bryson Tiller at the Mid-Florida Credit Union Amphitheatre

Oct. 9 Karol G at Raymond James Stadium

Oct. 9 Nurse John (comedy) (two shows) at the Mahaffey Theater

Oct. 9 The Florida Orchestra Music of the Beatles at Straz Center Morsani Hall

Oct. 9 Ty Myers, Lanie Gardner & Benny G at the BayCare Sound

Oct. 9 Postmodern Jukebox at Ruth Eckerd Hall

Oct. 10 The Florida Orchestra Music of the Beatles at the Mahaffey Theater

Oct. 10 Aziz Ansari (comedy) at Straz Center/Ferguson Hall

Oct. 10 Jimmy Falla at the Capitol Theatre

Oct. 10 The Avett Brothers at the BayCare Sound

Oct. 10 Tom Jones at Ruth Eckerd Hall

Oct. 10 The Artimus Pyle Band at Central Park Performing Arts Center

Oct. 10 Five Finger Death Punch at the Mid-Florida Credit Union Amphitheatre

Oct. 11 38 Special, The Marshall Tucker Band and Don Felder at the BayCare Sound

Oct. 13 Black Violin with Braxton Cook at Straz Center Morsani Hall

Oct. 13 Tedeschi Trucks Band at the BayCare Sound

Oct. 13 Tampa Bay Symphony String Quartet at Peace Memorial Presbyterian Church

Oct. 14-Nov. 8 Jobsite Theater’s Misery at Straz Center Jaeb Theatre

Oct. 14 Weezer at Benchmark International Arena

Oct. 14 Rodrigo y Gabriela at the Capitol Theatre

Oct. 15 The Vampire Circus at Ruth Eckerd Hall

Oct. 15 The Florida Orchestra: Inside Scheherazade at the Mahaffey Theater

Oct. 16 Dan + Shay at the Mid-Florida Credit Union Amphitheatre

Oct. 16 Oz Noy Trio at Central Park Performing Arts Center

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