The Gasparilla Music Festival features as headliners Mt. Joy, Shakey Graves, Two Friends, Jai Wolf, Gov\u2019t Mule, Drive-By Truckers, Bryce Vine and Cimafunk, with numerous artists on the bill. get info and tickets at this link.<\/p>\n
At the St. Petersburg Jazz Festival, the most notable names are Dafnis Prieto, Hot Club SRQ, Martin Bejerano and Alexis Cole. Find all info and tickets here.<\/p>\n
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Concert calendar<\/p>\n
Ruth Eckerd Hall welcomes Carlos Santana Friday; no introduction necessary. Tickets are here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Twangmeister Dwight Yoakam is back at the BayCare Sound Saturday for what seems like an annual visit; Flatland Cavalry and Chayce Beckham open the 7 p.m. show. Tickets are here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Country\u2019s Eric Church, who performed the National Anthem at the Tampa Bay Rays\u2019 home season opener at the newly-refurbished Tropicana Field, is in concert Saturday at Benchmark Arena. Ashley McBryde opens. Tickets are on the other end of this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n Kickoff time: Powerhouse blues trio GA-20 is onstage tonight at the Palladium Theater (tickets here<\/a>) with an opening set from singer\/songwriter Jackie Venson (both artists are in town to play the weekend\u2019s Tampa Bay Blues Festival).<\/p>\n Saturday at Ferguson Hall (in Tampa\u2019s Straz Center): Comedian and cartoonist Demetri Martin. Tickets are at this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n Lukas Nelson plays Jannus Live Sunday. In addition to his studio and road work alongside his dad, Willie Nelson, he and his band Promise of the Real are longtime collaborators with Neil Young. He\u2019s touring in support of his first solo album, American Romance, produced by Shooter Jennings (son of Waylon). The show\u2019s at 7, and tickets are here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Hip hop\u2019s Bow Wow and BTK will be onstage Sunday, with other artists, at Benchmark Arena. Tickets for the 7 p.m. show are at this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Where\u2019s the orchestra?<\/p>\n Tonight at 7, conductor Chelsea Gallo and The Florida Orchestra take you Inside Beethoven\u2019s Symphony No. 7, an advance deep-dive into one of the pieces on tap for this weekend\u2019s concert. Tonight\u2019s Mahaffey Theater event, which will feature a complete performance, is pay-what-you-can. It begins at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n Beethoven\u2019s 7th is indeed the centerpiece this weekend, but the full concerts will also include the U.S. premiere of Thierry Caens\u2019 Tribones, a concerto for three trombones that TFO co-commissioned with the French Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse. And Grofe\u2019s Mississippi Suite. And a \u201cmystery piece.\u201d<\/p>\n Here\u2019s the concert schedule (all tickets are at this link<\/a>): Friday, 8 p.m., Straz Center Ferguson Hall; Saturday, 8 p.m., Mahaffey Theater; Sunday, 7:30 p.m., Ruth Eckerd Hall.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The art of illusion<\/p>\n The Magicians Table begins a nearly two-month run tonight at the Jaeb The (Straz Center, Tampa). Imported from London\u2019s West End, it\u2019s an immersive, two-hour magic show that combines theater, live music and prestidigitation from a collection of larger-than-life characters performing what\u2019s known as close-up magic. Visit the website<\/a> for more info, showtimes and tickets.<\/p>\n The comedy \u201cRipcord\u201d opens tonight at the Off-Central, St. Petersburg. Publicity photo.<\/p>\n On theater stages<\/p>\n Ripcord is in its first weekend at the Off-Central in St. Petersburg. The comedy is by David Lindsay-Abaire, a Pulitzer Prize winner (for Rabbit Hole); it concerns the rivalry between two women at a senior living facility. Find showtimes and tickets here<\/a>. The show\u2019s Roxanne Fay and Bonnie Agan are guests on our Arts Alive! podcast Friday.<\/p>\n Also in St. Petersburg, and also in its first weekend, is freeFall Theatre\u2019s production of James Still\u2019s And Then They Came for Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank. The theater describes it as a multimedia play that combines videotaped interviews of Dutch Holocaust survivors\u00a0Ed Silverberg\u00a0and\u00a0Eva\u00a0Schloss\u00a0and live actors recreating scenes from their lives during World War II. Find showtimes and tickets here<\/a>.<\/p>\n At Demens Landing Park, on the St. Pete bayfront, American Stage\u2019s production of the musical Into the Woods continues. Find showtimes and tickets here<\/a>.<\/p>\n The history-based comic drama H*tler\u2019s Tasters, from ThinkTank Theatre, is onstage for three weekend performances at the Tampa Fringe Theatre, in Ybor City\u2019s Kress Contemporary. Just a few tickets remain; visit the website here<\/a>. And read the Catalyst interview with playwright Michelle Kholos Brooks at this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Coming soon<\/p>\n April 15 Chamber Series at the Palladium Theater<\/p>\n April 16-26 A Streetcar Named Desire at The Studio@620<\/p>\n April 16-May 3 X does not equal X at LAB Theater Project<\/p>\n April 17-May 3 The Meeting at Stageworks Theatre<\/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 18 The Florida Orchestra: Bugs Bunny at the Symphony at the Mahaffey Theater<\/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 30-May 3 Sunscreen Film Festival<\/p>\n Your Weekend Spotlight<\/a>\u00a0appears every Thursday in the\u00a0Catalyst\u2019s CREATE section.\u00a0<\/p>\n Please add us to your mailing list \u2013 send all press releases and event info to\u00a0bill@stpetecatalyst.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ripcord-Off-Central-300x192.jpg\")
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