{"id":415845,"date":"2026-10-01T16:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T16:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/415845\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T16:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T16:28:08","slug":"americana-darling-caamp-brings-punchy-new-lp-to-st-pete-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/415845\/","title":{"rendered":"Americana darling Caamp brings punchy new LP to St. Pete this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"594\" data-attachment-id=\"368762\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/caamp-cj-harvey-shorefire-crop\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Caamp-CJ-Harvey-Shorefire-crop-scaled.png?fit=2560%2C1950&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1950\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"Caamp CJ Harvey Shorefire crop\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Caamp&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Caamp-CJ-Harvey-Shorefire-crop-scaled.png?fit=780%2C594&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Caamp-CJ-Harvey-Shorefire-crop.png\" alt=\"An indoor group portrait photograph by C.J. Harvey showing folk-rock band Caamp. Captured in a medium wide shot standing indoors, five band members pose together in front of wooden doors and a wooden bookcase filled with books. The member in the front center wears a bright red &quot;BASEBALL&quot; sweatshirt and white trousers, flanked on the left by a band member in a dark blue blazer with a yellow-and-black striped shirt and light blue jeans, and on the far left by two members in dark jackets and a patterned coat. The fifth member stands on the right in a dark jacket and khaki trousers under warm flash lighting.\" class=\"wp-image-368762\"  \/>Caamp Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/shorefire.com\/images\/uploads\/gallery\/Lead_Press_2_-_Caamp_Additional_Edits-34.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CJ Harvey \/ Shorefire<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Longtime darlings of the Americana scene, Taylor Meier and Evan Westfall have somehow always found themselves as openers for some of the biggest tours in music.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The boys from Ohio, better known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caamptheband.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.caamptheband.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Caamp<\/a>, get a chance to headline this time around, supporting a fifth studio LP, Copper Changes Color, which is punchier than anything they\u2019ve released before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bassist Matt Vinson, keyboardist Joseph Kavalec, and drummer Nicholas Falk are in the lineup alongside Meier and Westfall, with soulful indie-folk duo Whitney opening at <a href=\"https:\/\/community.cltampa.com\/location\/duke-energy-center-for-the-arts-mahaffey-theater-13492133\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/community.cltampa.com\/location\/duke-energy-center-for-the-arts-mahaffey-theater-13492133\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mahaffey Theater<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/community.cltampa.com\/event\/caamp-with-special-guest-whitney-21366758\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/community.cltampa.com\/event\/caamp-with-special-guest-whitney-21366758\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tickets to see Caamp and Whitney at Mahaffey Theater in St. Petersburg on Saturday, Oct. 3 are still available and start at $66.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/caamptheband.bandcamp.com\/album\/copper-changes-color\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Copper Changes Color by Caamp<\/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\/oct-01-07-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oct. 01 \u2013 07, 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":"Caamp Credit: CJ Harvey \/ Shorefire Longtime darlings of the Americana scene, Taylor Meier and Evan Westfall have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[55481,7565,202,204,203,199,201,200,1865],"class_list":["post-415845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-duke-energy-center-for-the-arts-at-mahaffey-theater","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415845","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=415845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}