{"id":161659,"date":"2026-02-19T20:32:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T20:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/161659\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T20:32:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T20:32:15","slug":"mountain-holler-and-billy-mays-iii-come-home-for-one-off-concert-in-st-pete-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/161659\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain Holler and Billy Mays III come home for one-off concert in St. Pete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"728\" height=\"464\" data-attachment-id=\"77109\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/music-2\/photos-from-crowbars-streaming-only-road-to-reopen-concerts-in-ybor-city-12386901\/attachment\/480a9400\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/480a9400.webp?fit=728%2C464&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"728,464\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"480a9400\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Mountain Holler&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/480a9400.webp?fit=300%2C191&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/480a9400.webp?fit=728%2C464&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771533134_182_480a9400.webp.jpeg\" alt=\"St. Petersburg musician Mountain Holler (Mark Etherington) singing passionately into a microphone while playing acoustic guitar during a live performance.\" class=\"wp-image-77109\"  \/>Mountain Holler Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/michaelmsinclair\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael M Sinclair \/ Creative Loafing Tampa Bay<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two longtime St. Pete musicians since moved away come home and play together for one-night only.<\/p>\n<p>Billy Mays III\u2014aka Infinite Third, son of the pitchman and a purveyor of ambient, looped guitar\u2014collides with the cosmic-folk of siren-voiced songwriter Mark Etherington (aka Mountain Holler).<\/p>\n<p>The venue invites guests to bring blankets, pillows, yoga mats and even camping chairs so they can settle in after an opening set by Wyatt Norton.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/community.cltampa.com\/event\/mountain-holler-and-infinite-third-21186042\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/community.cltampa.com\/event\/mountain-holler-and-infinite-third-21186042\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tickets to see Mountain Holler &amp; Infinite Third play Suite E Studios in St. Petersburg on Friday, Feb. 20 are still available for $15\u2013$20.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Etherington plays <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DUmNbmWEphU\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DUmNbmWEphU\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a few more shows while visiting home<\/a>, including gigs at Gasparilla Festival of the Arts (March 1), Tampa\u2019s Artist Tree Gardens series (Feb. 28), and tonight in New Port Richey at Ordinance One.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771509728_133_hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube video\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" nopin=\"nopin\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/altnewsfoundation.org\/cl-tampa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pitch in to help make the Tampa Bay Journalism Project a success.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/tampa\/NewsletterSignup\/Page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to Creative Loafing newsletters.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAiECLjru3gB6BLYKOKFLfkVZsqFAgKIhAi467t4AegS2CjihS35FWb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google News<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbreak.com\/@c\/1599764?s=01\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NewsBreak<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/CreativeLoafingTampa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reddit<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/cltampabay\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cltampabay\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/cltampabay.bsky.social\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BlueSky<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"collection-link has-small-font-size\">This article appears in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/collections\/feb-19-25-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Feb. 19 \u2013 25, 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRead his 2016 intro letter\u00a0and disclosures from 2022 and 2021.\u00a0Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief&#8230;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/author\/rroa\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Ray Roa\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mountain Holler Credit: Michael M Sinclair \/ Creative Loafing Tampa Bay Two longtime St. Pete musicians since moved&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[77177,77178,202,204,203,199,201,200,9118,1865],"class_list":["post-161659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-billy-mays-iii","tag-mountain-holler","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-suite-e-studios","tag-tampa-bay-concerts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}