Rock the Park has been Tampa's free monthly concert for 15 years running -- a local band plays Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park on the first Thursday of the month, right on the Riverwalk downtown, with food trucks and a genuine cross-section of Tampa turning out rather than a tourist crowd.Good to know: Curtis Hixon Waterfront ... Read more
Christone "Kingfish" Ingram is 27 and already a Grammy winner (Best Contemporary Blues Album, for "662") -- he started playing guitar at age 6 at the Delta Blues Museum and played the White House for Michelle Obama at 15. This isn't a nostalgia act; he's widely considered one of the most important young voices in ... Read more
Seminole Heights' monthly market fills the American Legion Post 111 grounds with local vendors, food, and a genuine neighborhood crowd -- a smaller, more residents-than-tourists version of a Tampa Sunday market. Second Sunday of every month.Good to know: American Legion Post 111, 6918 N Florida Ave, Tampa, FL 33604. Second Sunday monthly, 10am-2pm. Free to ... Read more
Victoria Monét won 2024's Grammy for Best New Artist and Best R&B Album in the same year -- a breakout that came after more than a decade writing hits for other artists first. The Frequency of Love Tour is a 27-city headline run built around her next album.An R&B arena show, broadly appropriate for teens ... Read more
This is Rush's first tour in eleven years -- and the first ever without drummer Neil Peart, who died in 2020. Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson are playing a 35-song rotating setlist across two different Tampa shows, with a tribute segment to Peart built into every night. For a band that famously stopped touring in ... Read more
A free weekly language exchange at Common Dialect Beerworks in Seminole Heights -- Spanish speakers and Spanish learners pull up chairs together over a beer and trade conversation practice, no class structure or fee involved. Good for any level -- a relaxed, no-pressure way to learn conversational Spanish if you're starting from scratch, or to ... Read more
This is Rush's first tour in eleven years -- and the first ever without drummer Neil Peart, who died in 2020. Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson are playing a 35-song rotating setlist across two different Tampa shows, with a tribute segment to Peart built into every night. For a band that famously stopped touring in ... Read more
USF hosts Memphis under the lights at Raymond James Stadium, in the Bulls' final season playing home games there before their new on-campus stadium opens in 2027. Good to know: Raymond James Stadium, 4201 N Dale Mabry Hwy, Tampa, FL 33607. Thursday, Nov. 12, 2026, 8pm. Tickets through Ticketmaster. More info: USF Bulls Football: Three ... Read more
David Koechner -- Champ Kind from "Anchorman," Todd Packer from "The Office" -- plays three nights of stand-up at Side Splitters, with multiple shows each night (7pm and 9:30pm on the 13th). Adults-leaning stand-up, not a kids' show. Club seating, two-item minimum typical for this venue. Good to know: Side Splitters Comedy Club, 12938 N ... Read more
Doja Cat brings the Tour Ma Vie World Tour to Tampa with Latto opening. She's a Grammy winner whose "Agora Hills" became her eighth No. 1 at Top 40 radio -- a run that puts her among the most consistent hitmakers in pop right now.This is genuinely not a kids' show -- the staging and ... Read more