{"id":415851,"date":"2026-10-01T16:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T16:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/415851\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T16:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T16:34:10","slug":"ahead-of-indie-night-live-rohna-plays-free-concert-at-saturdays-tampa-bay-lightning-home-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/415851\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahead of Indie Night Live, Rohna plays free concert at Saturday&#8217;s Tampa Bay Lightning home opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"679\" data-attachment-id=\"368768\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/andres-hernandez-rohna-photo-by-dave-decker\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Andres-Hernandez-Rohna-Photo-by-Dave-Decker-scaled.png?fit=2560%2C2227&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2560,2227\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"Andres Hernandez Rohna Photo by Dave Decker\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Andres Hernandez of Rohna at Crowbar in Ybor City, Florida on May 15, 2026.&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Andres-Hernandez-Rohna-Photo-by-Dave-Decker-scaled.png?fit=780%2C679&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Andres-Hernandez-Rohna-Photo-by-Dave-Decker.png\" alt=\"A concert performance action photograph by Dave Decker showing Andres Hernandez of Rohna at Crowbar in Ybor City, Florida on May 15, 2026. Captured in a dynamic low-angle shot on a dark stage, bass player Andres Hernandez plays an orange-and-white Rickenbacker-style electric bass while leaning back with an expressive open-mouthed expression. He wears a dark headband, short-sleeved blue denim button-up shirt, and dark trousers under bright concert stage flash lighting, with stage trussing and another band member partially visible in the background.\" class=\"wp-image-368768\"  \/>Andres Hernandez of Rohna at Crowbar in Ybor City, Florida on May 15, 2026.<br \/>Credit: Dave Decker \/ Creative Loafing Tampa Bay<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among fans of the Bay area\u2019s indie-rock scene, <a href=\"https:\/\/rohnamusic.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/rohnamusic.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rohna<\/a> is a familiar name. Still, the band is always reaching for bigger audiences. The quartet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/music-2\/tampas-extremely-popular-indie-night-concert-series-is-expanding-to-the-ritz-with-big-halloween-party\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">upgrades its famous Indie Night Live to The Ritz for Halloween<\/a>, and this weekend has plans to rock the plaza outside the Tampa Bay Lightning home opener before and after the match against the Washington Capitals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s no cover to see Rohna outside Benchmark International Arena in Tampa on Saturday, Oct. 3.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1790872450_177_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\/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":"Andres Hernandez of Rohna at Crowbar in Ybor City, Florida on May 15, 2026.Credit: Dave Decker \/ Creative&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1412,1864,135,1865,137,136],"class_list":["post-415851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-benchmark-international-arena","tag-live-music-in-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-concerts","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415851","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=415851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}