{"id":171874,"date":"2026-02-27T19:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T19:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/171874\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T19:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T19:42:09","slug":"campground26-festival-brings-out-of-the-box-composition-to-tampa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/171874\/","title":{"rendered":"CAMPground26 festival brings out-of-the-box composition to Tampa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"766\" data-attachment-id=\"353271\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/parastoooshafiei\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ParastoooShafiei.webp?fit=2500%2C2455&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2500,2455\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" 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=\"Parastooo+Shafiei\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Parastoo Shafiei &lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ParastoooShafiei.webp?fit=300%2C295&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ParastoooShafiei.webp?fit=780%2C766&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ParastoooShafiei.webp.jpeg\" alt=\"Musician Parastoo Shafiei performs on the santur, a hammered dulcimer. She is wearing a white pinstripe shirt and round glasses, holding two delicate wooden mallets (mezrabs) over the strings of the traditional instrument in a brightly lit indoor setting.\" class=\"wp-image-353271\"  \/>Parastoo Shafiei  Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/674a49fd8f2ea01242df9ba8\/e5188c74-7abe-4a95-9fdf-5d37eafd8c6d\/Parastooo+Shafiei.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CAMPground<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The live music calendar presents so many comforting, familiar places to take your listening, but there are always opportunities to think outside of the box. For the better part of half-a-decade now, CAMPGround has been happy to play that role (the \u201cCAMP\u201d is short for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.contemporaryartmusicproject.org\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.contemporaryartmusicproject.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Contemporary Art Music Project<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Built around \u201cnew music,\u201d the festival is a composer\u2019s paradise dedicated to solo and ensemble arrangements, monodramas, and immersive sound installations featuring artists from around the world.<\/p>\n<p>The three-day festival kicks off in Ybor City () and travels to Seminole Heights (), the edge of West Tampa (), and a  before it wraps.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets to see CAMPGround26 happening across Tampa on  Thursday &amp; Friday, March 5 &amp; 6 are still available for $15 and up.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1772221329_765_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-26-mar-04-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Feb. 26 \u2013 Mar. 04, 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":"Parastoo Shafiei Credit: CAMPground The live music calendar presents so many comforting, familiar places to take your listening,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[81696,81697,1864,135,1865,137,136],"class_list":["post-171874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-campground","tag-contemporary-art-music-project","tag-live-music-in-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-concerts","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171874","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=171874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}