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<\/p>\nFor the first time since Taylor Swift\u2019s epic run in 2023, a popular artist is playing a three-night stand at Raymond James Stadium.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s K-pop\u2019s frontline heroes BTS, South Korea\u2019s top \u201cboy band,\u201d with 40 million albums sold. The seven-member singing, dancing phenom has been booked for April 25, 26 and 28 at the home of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.<\/p>\n
BTS has recorded six albums in the Korean language, and four in Japanese. The English-language singles \u201cDynamite,\u201d \u201cButter,\u201d \u201cPermission to Dance\u201d and \u201cMy Universe\u201d (with Coldplay) reached No. 1 in the United States; many others (in Korean or Japanese) went to the top of the Billboard World Digital Song Sales chart.<\/p>\n
Raymond James also plays host to the annual Breakaway Music Festival (EDM) April 17 and 18.<\/p>\n
The weekend of April 10-12 brings the Tampa Bay Blues Festival to Vinoy Park in St. Petersburg (with Kenny Wayne Shephard, Los Lobos, Taj Mahal, Jimmy Vaughn and others), while the Gasparilla Music Festival (with, among others, Mt. Joy, Shakey Graves, Two Friends, Jai Wolf, Gov\u2019t Mule and Drive-By Truckers) sets down at Tampa\u2019s Meridian Fields.<\/p>\n
Other outdoor concerts scheduled for the first full month of spring take place at the BayCare Sound (Dwight Yoakam, April 11; Goose, April 17; Foreigner, April 18; Joe Satriani and Steve Vai, April 24; Alabama Shakes, April 30).<\/p>\n
Want more great guitarists? Eric Johnson (who once played in G3 with Satriani and Vai) is at the Capitol Theatre April 17; Blues stalwart Rory Block plays the Safety Harbor Art & Music Center April 24; Americana picker Billy Strings is at Benchmark Arena April 8; Luther Dickinson leads the North Mississippi All-Stars at Skipper\u2019s Smokehouse April 25;<\/p>\n
Actor Bill Murray\u2019s \u201cother\u201d project, the blues band Bill Murray & His Blood Brothers, visits Ruth Eckerd Hall April 17. This band\u2019s guitarists are Mike Zito and Albert Castiglia.<\/p>\n
Singer and songwriter Lukas Nelson, who frequently performs with his dad, Willie Nelson, and fronts the band Promise of the Real (sometimes backing Neil Young), has a date and Jannus Live April 12.<\/p>\n
The annual Sunscreen Film Festival is all set for April 30-May; among the cinematic debuts will be Occupational Hazard, the documentary about Jimmy Buffett\u2019s early Coral Reefers Band).<\/p>\n
Also noteworthy this month is the rescheduled date (April 28) for master illusionists Penn & Teller at the Mahaffey Theater. Penn Jillette reportedly broke his ankle in January, forcing the postponement of several tour dates, including one in St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n
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\u201cOne Froggy Evening\u201d is one of the classic animated shorts to be accompanied by The Florida Orchestra as part of \u201cBugs Bunny at the Symphony,\u201d April 18 at the Mahaffey Theater: Image: Warner Bros.<\/p>\n
The Florida Orchestra<\/p>\n
Inside Beethoven\u2019s Symphony No. 7, April 9 at the Mahaffey Theater<\/p>\n
Beethoven\u2019s Symphony No. 7, Thierry Caens\u2019 Tribones, Grofe\u2019s Mississippi Suite: April 10 at Straz Center Ferguson Hall; April 11 at the Mahaffey Theater; April 12 at Ruth Eckerd Hall<\/p>\n
Rimsky-Korsakov\u2019s\u00a0Scheherazade, Bizet\u2019s\u00a0Carmen and Saint-Saens\u2019\u00a0Dance Bacchanal. Soloist: Sarah Shellman, violin. April 15 (11 a.m.), Ruth Eckerd Hall; April 16 (11 a.m.), Mahaffey Theater<\/p>\n
Bugs Bunny at the Symphony, with screenings of original Warner Bros. cartoons, April 18 (shows at 2 and 8 p.m.), Mahaffey Theater<\/p>\n
Astor Piazzolla\u2019s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, Bach\u2019s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 and Suite No. 1, Golijov\u2019s Last Round, April 24, Clearwater Church of the Ascencion; April 25, Peter and Cynthia Zinober Concert Hall at USF; April 26 (2 p.m.), Palladium Theater<\/p>\n
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Theater<\/p>\n
April 1-5 A touring production of Moulin Rouge The Musical at Ruth Eckerd Hall<\/p>\n
April 9-19 The comedy Ripcord at the Off-Central. Two mismatched roommates become unlikely friends at a senior living facility<\/p>\n
April 10-12 Hitler\u2019s Tasters, a dark comedy from ThinkTank Theatre, at the Tampa Fringe Blackbox Theatre<\/p>\n
April 10-May 17 Part oral history, part dramatic action, part direct address, part remembrance: And Then They Came For Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank at freeFall Theatre<\/p>\n
April 16-26 A fresh interpretation of Tennessee Willians\u2019 A Streetcar Named Desire at The Studio@620<\/p>\n
April 16-May 3 Playwright Steven Patrick explores a viral academic and philosophical upheaval in X does not equal X at LAB Theater Project<\/p>\n
April 17-May 3 Martin Luther King and Malcolm X have a sit-down in The Meeting at Stageworks Theatre.<\/p>\n
April 28-May 3 A touring production of Stereophonic at the Straz Center\u2019s Morsani Hall.<\/p>\n
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Ongoing theater<\/p>\n
The Jobsite Theater production of The Shark is Broken continues through April in the Straz Center Shimberg Playhouse<\/p>\n
The American Stage production of Into the Woods continues through April 26 in Demens Landing Park<\/p>\n
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The April calendar
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Florence (Welch) + the Machine: April 28 at Benchmark Arena. Publicity photo.<\/p>\n
April 1 Gladys Knight at Seminole Hard Rock Event Center<\/p>\n
April 3 Sebastian Bach and White Lion at Ferg\u2019s Entertainment Complex<\/p>\n
April 3 We Them One\u2019s Comedy Tour at Benchmark Arena<\/p>\n
April 4 Ali Wong (comedy) at the Mahaffey Theater (April 3 sold out)<\/p>\n
April 4 Cream of Clapton Band at the Capitol Theatre<\/p>\n
April 8 Blessd at the Mahaffey Theater<\/p>\n
April 8 Billy Strings at Benchmark Arena<\/p>\n
April 10 & 11: Gasparilla Music Festival at Meridian Fields<\/p>\n
April 10 & 11 Tampa Bay Blues Festival at Vinoy Park<\/p>\n
April 10 Gabriel Iglesias (comedy) at Benchmark Arena<\/p>\n
April 10 Santana at Ruth Eckerd Hall<\/p>\n
April 11 Dwight Yoakam at the BayCare Sound<\/p>\n
April 11 Demitri Martin (comedy) at the Straz Center Ferguson Hall<\/p>\n
April 11 Eric Church at Benchmark Arena<\/p>\n
April 12 B2K & Bow Wow at Benchmark Arena<\/p>\n
April 12 Lukas Nelson at Jannus Live<\/p>\n
April 15 Chamber Series at the Palladium Theater<\/p>\n
April 17 Bill Murray & His Blood Brothers at Ruth Eckerd Hall<\/p>\n
April 17 Goose at the BayCare Sound<\/p>\n
April 17 & 18 Breakaway Music Festival at Raymond James Stadium<\/p>\n
April 17 Eric Johnson at the Capitol Theatre<\/p>\n
April 18 Foreigner at the BayCare Sound<\/p>\n
April 18 Saigon Kick at the Capitol Theatre<\/p>\n
April 18 American Aquarium at Skipper\u2019s Smokehouse<\/p>\n
April 19 UB40 at Ruth Eckerd Hall<\/p>\n
April 19 Women of Jazz at the Palladium Theater<\/p>\n
April 21 Alyssa Edwards at the Capitol Theatre<\/p>\n
April 21 Maren Morris at Seminole Hard Rock Event Center<\/p>\n
April 22\/23 Graham Nash at the Capitol Theatre<\/p>\n
April 22 Boys Like Girls at Seminole Hard Rock Event Center<\/p>\n
April 23 Theresa Caputo at the Mahaffey Theater<\/p>\n
April 23 Diego Figueiredo at the Palladium Side Door<\/p>\n
April 23 Chris Tucker (comedy) at Straz Center Morsani Hall<\/p>\n
April 24 Joe Satriani and Steve Vai at the BayCare Sound<\/p>\n
April 24 & 26 Opera Tampa MacBeth in Straz Center Ferguson Hall<\/p>\n
April 24 Rory Block at Safety Harbor Art & Music Center<\/p>\n
April 24 Jazz guitarist Dave Stryker at New Tampa Performing Arts Center<\/p>\n
April 24 Jeff Foxworthy (comedy) at Ruth Eckerd Hall<\/p>\n
April 24 Ottmar Liebert & Luna Negra at the Capitol Theatre<\/p>\n
April 25, 26 & 28 BTS at Raymond James Stadium<\/p>\n
April 25 North Mississippi All Stars at Skipper\u2019s Smokehouse<\/p>\n
April 25 Alton Brown at Ruth Eckerd Hall<\/p>\n
April 25 Justin Hayward at the Capitol Theatre<\/p>\n
April 28 Penn & Teller at the Mahaffey Theater<\/p>\n
April 28 Florence + The Machine at Benchmark Arena<\/p>\n
April 29 Nate Najar & Daniela Soledade at the Palladium Theater<\/p>\n
April 30 Alabama Shakes at the BayCare Sound<\/p>\n
April 30 Sit Down for Standup (comedy) at the Palladium Side Door<\/p>\n
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Websites<\/p>\n
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