SIDE DOOR SUMMER JAZZ & BLUES SERIES Continues July Through August

The Palladium's very cool Side Door Summer Jazz & Blues Concert Series continues. This popular series continues through early September on its intimate nightclub stage, the Side Door Cabaret, bringing the best in blues, jazz, rock - even theater, and more to Tampa Bay.

Schedule:

Fri., 7/15
Ronnie Burrage Quartet, Third Kind of Blue, Augmented, led by one the world's best jazz drummers; Burrage has played with jazz legends Branford and Wynton Marsalis, Sonny Rollins, Pat Metheny, McCoy Tyner, Jaco Pastorius, Wayne Shorter, among others, and is featured on more than 100 recordings.
Ronnie Burrage on You Tube
8 p.m.

Sat., 7/16
Damon Fowler Group, homegrown, hi-test, house rockin' blues
With his hybrid of roots rock, blues, and sacred steel, plus songwriting and vocal skills, it's no wonder critics are extolling Fowler's originality and technical guitar expertise which has been compared to Johnny Winter and Jeff Beck, while his slide guitar hints of Duane Allman. He can play fiery guitar runs with the best of them, but it's his lyrical work on lap steel and Dobro that makes him stand out among the legions of guitar heroes.
Damon Fowler on You Tube
8 p.m.

7/20 - 24
[title of show], an Obie Award-winning Broadway musical
Presented by Primo Academy
This musical-within-a-musical follows a pair of struggling writers looking to create a Broadway hit. From the minds of actual former starving artists Hunter Bell (book) and Jeff Bowen (music and lyrics), the agony and ecstasy of making musical theatre was born from a script feverishly assembled weeks before the New York Musical Theatre Festival's submission deadline. The show eventually became a certified Broadway hit. Bell and Bowen's stage personas go from desperately seeking inspiration, to realizing that their desperation is itself entertaining material. From showbiz in-jokes to off-hand anecdotes, everything is game in this completely original musical.
Wed., 7/20, Thursday, 7/21 and Saturday, 7/23, 8 p.m.
Fri., 7/22, 9 p.m.
Sun., 7/24, 2 p.m.

Wed., 7/27
Kaleidescope: The Great American Songbook Through Vocal and Instrumental Images
An evening of favorite standards from the Great American Songbook - Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, Rodgers & Hart, Irving Berlin and more.
7:30 p.m.
(Ticket sales benefit the Performing Arts Consortium of St. Petersburg)

Fri, 7/29
Grant Peeples and the Peeples Republik Band, southern singer-songwriter
Peeples sings in a gruff from-the-streets voice laced with Waits, Cash, Cohen, and with more than a little Kelly Phelps in him -- all the whiskey-throated singers so prized in hard-tack roots heritage. With Rebecca Zapen, vocalist and fiddler.
Grant Peeples on You Tube
8 p.m.

Fri., 8/5
Doug Deming & The Jewel Tones, 50s Chicago blues
Featuring Dennis Gruenling on harmonica
Doug Deming & The Jewel Tones on You Tube
Swinging jump blues, gritty shuffles, and driving boogies!
8 p.m.

Sat., 8/6
O Som Do Jazz, the spirit of ‘60s Brazilian Bossa Nova, Samba, Baiao
The great Brazilian songbook of Tom Jobim, Edu Lobo, Marcos Valle, Baden Powell and others.
O Som Do Jazz on You Tube
8 p.m.

Fri., 8/12
Sean Chambers, blazin' hot blues rock guitar!
Said Living Blues Magazine, "Chambers' brand of blues is a no-frills blend of Chicago, Texas, and Delta styles, played with an understated sense of ferocity."
Sean Chambers on You Tube
8 p.m.

Sat., 8/13
Stan Hunter Quartet: Swinging Jazz
Legendary jazz performer Stan Hunter is a master of piano and the Hammond organ, and has recorded and traveled the world with the greats including John Coltrane, Sonny Stitt, and Sonny Payne.
Stan Hunter on You Tube
8 p.m.

8/19-21, 25-26, 28 & 9/1-4
Lourdes of the Flies, A Savage New Comedy,
by Bill Leavengood, the writer-director of Webb's City - The Musical!
Presented by The Palladium, Beth Morean Trust, and Will Knot Di Productions World premiere -prep school girls accidentally sink their ship, struggle to survive and create a new society on a desert isle. Thurs. performances - 7:30 p.m. Fri. & Sat. performances - 7:30 p.m. & 10 p.m.
Sun. matinees - 3 p.m.

Sat., 8/27
The St. Pete Muscle Classic, body building competition, Hough Hall
10 a.m. & 5 p.m.

 

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