{"id":408790,"date":"2026-09-24T00:34:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T00:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/408790\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T00:34:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T00:34:32","slug":"peli-gene-will-build-dream-estate-during-octobers-no-cover-rock-the-park-tampa-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/408790\/","title":{"rendered":"Peli Gene will build &#8216;Dream Estate&#8217; during October&#8217;s no-cover Rock the Park Tampa concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"484\" data-attachment-id=\"368352\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/peli-gene-gasparilla-music-festival-photo-by-ray-roa\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Peli-Gene-Gasparilla-Music-Festival-Photo-by-Ray-Roa-scaled.png?fit=2560%2C1589&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1589\" 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=\"Peli Gene Gasparilla Music Festival Photo by Ray Roa\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Peli Gene plays Sparkman Wharf during Gasparilla Music Festival in Tampa, Florida on April 12, 2026.&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Peli-Gene-Gasparilla-Music-Festival-Photo-by-Ray-Roa-scaled.png?fit=780%2C484&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Peli-Gene-Gasparilla-Music-Festival-Photo-by-Ray-Roa.png\" alt=\"An outdoor performance photograph by Ray Roa showing the band Peli Gene playing Sparkman Wharf during Gasparilla Music Festival in Tampa, Florida on April 12, 2026. Captured in a medium shot on an outdoor stage, the musician stands center stage singing into a microphone attached to a stand with a guitar strapped across their body. They wear a short-sleeved light blue short-sleeved collared shirt with a subtle floral print, blue jeans, and has curly dark brown hair and a mustache. In the background behind a wooden slat backdrop, a drummer sits at a drum kit on the left while a Hartke amplifier head rests on a cabinet on the right under outdoor stage lighting.\" class=\"wp-image-368352\"  \/>Peli Gene plays Sparkman Wharf during Gasparilla Music Festival in Tampa, Florida on April 12, 2026. Credit: Ray Roa \/ Creative Loafing Tampa Bay<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last April at the Sparkman Wharf stage, Peli Gene made its Gasparilla Music Festival debut with anthemic, bouncy indie-rock that sounds like the feeling of pulling off a sweatshirt on a cold day turned perfectly-sunny.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Tampa-based band headlines Rock the Park in support of an April release, Dream Estate. Songwriter Sunde returns to the park after getting rained out last month, with Geoff Abraham &amp; Finn Walling playing a set of bluesy rock in the opening slot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/community.cltampa.com\/event\/rock-the-park-tampa-14303634\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/community.cltampa.com\/event\/rock-the-park-tampa-14303634\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">There\u2019s no cover to see Peli Gene, Sunde, and Geoff Abraham &amp; Finn Walling Rock the Park at Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park in Tampa on Thursday, Oct. 1.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/peligene.bandcamp.com\/album\/dream-estate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dream Estate by Peli Gene<\/a><\/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\/sept-24-30-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sept. 24 \u2013 30, 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":"Peli Gene plays Sparkman Wharf during Gasparilla Music Festival in Tampa, Florida on April 12, 2026. 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