music

Tampa Bay’s Grateful Dead tribute band, Uncle John’s Band, headlined the Grateful Dead’s 50th anniversary concert in 2015 and played its 1,000th show at Tampa’s Skipper’s Smokehouse last year.

It’s well known that Spotify’s algorithms are state-of-the-art. It’s how they’ve accumulated 217 million active monthly users.

The Gasparilla Music Festival, held in downtown Tampa March 9-10, offers great music from over 40 acts, including The Avett Brothers and Gary Clark Jr.

Nothing says holiday spirit quite like music, and the Tampa Bay area has a variety of holiday performances throughout December.

Nothing says holiday spirit quite like music, and the Tampa Bay area has a variety of holiday performances throughout December.

Siobhan Monique was the first recipient of TBBCA’s Art Stars Scholarships Program for vocal music. Since the program’s founding in 2008 by the late Charlie Hounchell, TBBCA has provided financial tuition assistance for higher education in the arts to over 60 students.

Bill Graham’s life was anything but typical. The music promoter worked with everyone from the Rolling Stones and the Grateful Dead to Santana and Jefferson Airplane.

The arts are central to a community’s quality of life and economy. The Florida Orchestra improves the community’s access to live classical music by taking it beyond the concert hall and into the local community.

More than 40,000 music fans attend Clearwater Jazz Holiday each year to hear a blend of jazz, funk and soul artists perform against a backdrop of sunsets and sea breezes.

Band Together NC is a nonprofit organization that uses live music as a platform for social change. Since its inception in 2001 following the tragedy of 9/11, the organization has grown to become the largest annual charitable music festival in the Southeast, donating nearly $5.5 million to local charities.