{"id":280879,"date":"2026-05-22T14:32:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T14:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/280879\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T14:32:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T14:32:19","slug":"this-weekends-tampa-bay-barbecue-festival-is-a-big-st-pete-concert-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/280879\/","title":{"rendered":"This weekend&#8217;s Tampa Bay Barbecue Festival is a big St. Pete concert, too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"526\" data-attachment-id=\"360750\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/foxnveadfacebook\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/foxnveadFacebook.png?fit=1170%2C788&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1170,788\" 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;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"foxnveadFacebook\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Fox n\u2019 Vead&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/foxnveadFacebook.png?fit=780%2C526&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/foxnveadFacebook.png\" alt=\"A bright, outdoor daytime portrait photograph of the four members of the band Fox n' Vead standing in a row in front of the brightly lit, solid yellow side of a large trailer. From left to right: the first member has long hair and a mustache, wearing a black bucket hat and black overalls over a t-shirt, smiling with their arms crossed. The second member is wearing a white backward baseball cap, glasses, and a black t-shirt, holding a sunburst-finish electric guitar with both hands. The third member is wearing a loose, olive-green short-sleeve button-down shirt and dark pants with their hands resting casually at their sides. The fourth member has a beard and is wearing a backward baseball cap, a black graphic t-shirt, and camouflage pants, holding a white electric guitar by the neck. The overall image has a warm, distinctly retro color grade.\" class=\"wp-image-360750\"  \/>Fox n\u2019 Vead Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=456288487160377&amp;set=a.130000049789224\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">foxnvead \/ Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Organizers for this meaty gathering could\u2019ve popped the word \u201cmusic\u201d in front of \u201cfestival.\u201d Heavy hitters of the Bay area \u2018cue scene will be in the pit (shout out Kenny Alexander from Big Red BBQ), but the lineup of bands is no small feat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The appropriately-named Blackberry Smoke is set to close it out, but don\u2019t miss <a href=\"https:\/\/foxnvead.info\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/foxnvead.info\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fox N\u2019Vead<\/a>, a Carolina quartet that blurs the lines between southern and garage-rock on songs like a 2025 breakout single, \u201cWaste Away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/community.cltampa.com\/event\/tampa-bay-barbecue-festival-and-competition-21365017\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/community.cltampa.com\/event\/tampa-bay-barbecue-festival-and-competition-21365017\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tickets for the Tampa Bay Barbecue Festival &amp; Competition happening at Vinoy Park in St. Petersburg from Saturday-Sunday, May 23-24 are still available for $15 and up.<\/a> Children 10 and under get in free.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779460339_104_hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Youtube video\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" nopin=\"nopin\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><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 wp-block-paragraph\"><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\/may-21-27-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 21 \u2013 27, 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":"Fox n\u2019 Vead Credit: foxnvead \/ Facebook Organizers for this meaty gathering could\u2019ve popped the word \u201cmusic\u201d in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[7565,202,204,203,199,201,200,1865,25912],"class_list":["post-280879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-live-music-in-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa-bay-concerts","tag-vinoy-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280879","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=280879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}