Celtic Ray Public House

Funk'd Up Productions presents Tropico BLVD performing at Celtic Ray for the first time in Punta Gorda, Fla!

📆 Friday, February 16

⏰ 8PM - 11PM

📍 145 E Marion Ave, Punta Gorda, FL 33950

Guavatron, Electric Kif, Tropico Blvd, MiniM: BRILLIANT NIGHT!

On paper, the lineup put together by Guavatron and Floridian Social Club in St. Petersburg looked titanic. The actual show on Friday, December 16 shot several light years beyond that. We will keep words to a “MiniM-um” and let the superb photographs of Chuck Smalling  / Funk Eye Media  and Dan Fer / DJF Workshops: Photography & Multi-Media and the brilliant audio recordings of Marc Foster / St Pete Taper tell the real story. Because it was magic from start to finish.

Read the full article from MusicFestNews.

Cafe DaVinci Friday, December, 2, 2022

DELAND! 🔥

We are excited for our first show at Cafe DaVinci in Deland, FL. 🥳 Thank you Funk’d Up Productions for bringing the party and setting this up! We can’t wait to meet you all! 💪

Floridian Social Club Thursday 4/21

Performing at the famed downtown music hall on Thursday April 21st!

UPCOMING SHOWS 2021

WE GOT NEW SHOWS COMING YOUR WAY FOR THE REST OF 2021

🔥 JAN 2021 SHOW ANNOUNCEMENTS 🔥

WED 1/6 - DTSP Livestream 7p

SAT 1/9 - Audrey Solo at Pinellas Ale Works, St Petersburg, FL 7p

MON 1/11 - Audrey Solo at Saltwater Hippie Beach Bar, Madeira Beach, FL 9p

THUR 1/14 & 1/28 - Miguel & Friends at Ringside Cafe, St Pete, FL 9p

SAT 1/16 - Motorworks Brewing, Bradenton, FL 7p

SUN 1/17 - Miguel Solo The Hut, St Johns Pass 4p

SAT 1/23 - Bottles Pub, Pinellas Park, FL 7p

More shows coming soon! Visit our social media pages for more info!

New Year's Eve Show Available on Soundcloud and Bandcamp

Check out our entire set from New Year’s Eve from New Year’s Babe show at Dan Painter’s Tiny Town.

Halloween Zombies in Paradise

🎃 ZOMBIES + TIKI HALLOWEEN PARTY at Bar Fly in Palm Harbor! There's a Beach/Tiki Zombie Costume Contest, Drinks Specials, and best of all NO COVER! 🧟 We will be playing all night outside with a full light show! 🎪 Come out and enjoy a Spooky and Rockin' Night out! 🔥 Showtime 7pm til 11p Halloween Night | 1026 Nebraska Ave, Palm Harbor, FL 🎃

🦄 Unicorns Unite 2020 🦄

⚠️ FESTIVAL ALERT ⚠️

We're set to headline Saturday, October 17th at UNICORNS UNITE 🦄 This is a VERY special event, by INVITE ONLY. 🏆 Share & Tag someone in the comments you want to go with for a chance at getting some invites from us! Visit the Unicorns Unite Facebook Group for set times and info. 🚀

UPCOMING SHOWS FALL 2019

FALL 2019 SHOWS

📍 9/20 - Raffurty's, Sarasota

📍 9/21 - Dunedin Smokehouse, Dunedin

📍 10/5 - Dunedin Smokehouse, Dunedin

📍 10/11 - Whiskey Joe's, Tampa

📍 10/18 - Raffurty's, Sarasota

📍 10/19 - Walking Tree Brewery, Vero Beach

📍 11/15 - Raffurty's, Sarasota

📍 12/7 - Motorworks, Bradenton

📍 12/20 - Raffurty's, Sarasota

Miguel Lantigua Shows

Miguel Lantigua Band & Solo Acoustic Show Dates

📍 9/4 - Ringside Cafe, St Petersburg ^

📍 9/11 - Mad Beach Dive Bar, Madeira Beach *

📍 9/18 - Ringside Cafe, St Petersburg ^

📍 9/25 - Mad Beach Dive Bar, Madeira Beach *

📍 10/9 - Raffurty’s, Sarasota +

^ Miguel Lantigua Band

* Solo Acoustic

+ Acoustic Show with Billy Beck

Tropico BLVD at Red Star Rock Bar, Art Walk at Bottle's Pub & Ruby's Elixir!

We got a slew of shows this week and we cannot wait to see you there!

Check more shows!

UPCOMING SHOWS SUMMER 2019

📍 7/26 - Red Star Rock Bar, Tampa FL
📍 7/27 - Art Walk at Bottle's Pub, Pinellas Park FL
📍 8/1 - Crowbar, Tampa FL

📍 8/3 - Red Star Ybor, Ybor City FL
📍 8/16 - Ruby's Elixir, DTSP
📍 8/17 - Cage Brewing, DTSP
📍 8/24 - Raffurty's, Sarasota FL
📍 8/31 - Geckofest 2019, Gulfport FL

UPCOMING SHOW DATES

UPCOMING SHOW DATES

7/12 - Ruby's Elixir, St Petersburg, FL
7/26 - Red Star Rock Bar, Tampa, FL
7/27 - Bottles Pub. Pinellas Park, FL
8/16 - Ruby's Elixir, St Petersburg, FL

Pics or it didn't happen - Thank you Music Fest News!

Check out these amazing pictures from our Rage Against the Machine Tribute show over at Crowbar.

Full pictures and article here.

Miguel Lantigua, Tropico Blvd – Photo credit: John Strojny

Audrey Short, Tropico Blvd – Photo credit: John Strojny

Cody Moore, Tropico Blvd – Photo credit: John Strojny

Dan Gailey, Tropico Blvd – Photo credit: John Strojny

We had such an amazing time at this show, we saw come incredible performances from the artists on stage, including Bangarang who continued to light up the house!

The production was excellent with Miguel and Don manning the lights and video presentations through out the entire show. The band was led by Justino Lee Walker on guitar, Vinny Svoboda on bass and Michael Garrie on drums. Vocalists were Cess Colindres, Jon Ditty, Senyo Fugar, Chris Pack, and Noah Prescott.

Special thanks to Bungalow for putting the show together along with Crowbar and NO Clubs in Tampa.

See you on the next one!

Read the full article here: https://www.musicfestnews.com/2019/07/guerrilla-radio-a-rage-against-the-machine-tribute/?fbclid=IwAR0OMSEfYzenDzMDsCf02foBeOCCu0Oparz51ilUPkPS92lmNfTXMHh-WkI

Rise N'Shine Reggae Sunday

Rise N'Shine Reggae Sunday | 2/10/19 | Cage Brewing

We had a fantastic time at the Rise N’Shine Reggae Sunday at Cage Brewing this past Sunday! The event is was hosted by Goatfish Productions and it was a really special event. We started at 4pm and sound checked with Is This Love by Bob Marley, our first time performing that song, it was chill and it really helped us gauge the room. We managed to perform a few reggae covers that were really well received. It let us know that we are riding a good wave, and get ready for a few new reggae originals that we are cooking up! Dan’s mom was in the audience and so was Kaimesha’s , Michelle. We played Scarlet Begonias for her once we were told it was her birthday. Great jams and the boys of Guerilla Panic and Propaganjah brought a great show!

Unfortunately we did not record this show, however Don swears it was an amazing show. We will have to hope that was the case.

Rise N’Shine Reggae Sunday | 2/10/19 | Cage Brewing, St Petersburg, FL

Is This Love (soundcheck)

Drunk Uncle, I Shot the Sheriff, Moving Out, Road Trippin’, Amber, Scarlet Begonias, Dave, Sunday Morning, Slide, Walking on the moon, The Rails, Happy Birthday, Jolly Roger

Concert Review - SuperBowl Halftime Performances: Shock & Awe

SuperBowl Halftime Performances: Shock & Awe

Written by Miguel Lantigua 

When it comes to spectacle, we Americans are hooked to it. We love our fireworks, our big guns and just about anything loud, dangerous, and fun. We love the circus, the lions, tigers, and acrobats. No sports event is bigger than the Superbowl and by extension, no other musical spectacle is bigger or more watched than the Superbowl halftime show. 

Surprisingly enough, the Superbowl halftime shows were seen more as a celebratory tradition where regional marching bands would perform or jazz performers like Louis Armstrong and Rhythm and Blues Chubby Checker. 

It was only up until the mid-to-late ’90s where we would see the beginning of the halftime shows the transformation from an almost traditional anthemic intermission to where it is now: an all-out musical performance.

As cable TV became ubiquitous in American homes, more and more eyes were fixed to the nation’s biggest sports event. Advertisers and record companies needed to get in on the game. Historically you would point the finger at New Kids On the Block as they appealed to a much younger demographic and the soon to be MTV-Gen-Xers but categorically it would be Prince and Michael Jackson who would set the standard of the modern Superbowl Halftime Show with their elaborate sets, lights, pyrotechnics, fireworks, and most of all, incredibly tight and entertaining performance. 

I simply cannot even fathom the amount of pressure to perform in a football stadium, usually packed with hundreds of thousands of people in addition to the probably millions watching at homes and Buffalo Wild Wings across the country. Make no mistake, I doubt the Superbowl Halftime show is a coveted gig at this point and each performer is trying to out-do the last. Whether its bombastic fireworks or complicated stage setups or special guests so vastly different you’d think the show switch performers, the recent shows have been such a stimulation overload that I feel we have reached the limits of our spectacle tolerance for Superbowl halftime shows and we just want something bigger. Why isn't the stage brighter, why aren't there more fireworks, why can't the whop stadium light up? Drones again? Why can't they explode?

Five months after 9/11 the NFL had a tough call to make on who will be performing the halftime show on a day of celebration in a still-grieving country. While possibly your average pick to perform, U2 delivered a subdued but powerful statement with the names of the victims projected on a scroll during their emotive anthem “Where the streets have no name” to Bono flashing his jacket lining to show the American flag. It was cathartic. Bruce Springfield and Bruno Mars delivered powerful stage presence with their swagger and just mesmerizing confidence. 

This is the gig of all gigs, so when you come to it, you have to think about the legacy that came before you and what you plant ot leave behind. 

What did Maroon 5 leave behind? Besides memes and disappointed SpongeBob fans, not much else. 

While pretty forgettable musically, Maroon 5’s performance generated memes across the internet, whether its the frontman’s tattoo choices to how Travis Scott could barely keep the melody to a song with barely a melody. The band started with their first hit “Harder to breather” then continued down their repertoire, almost in chronological order. To the point where I almost thought I was watching Maroon 5’s induction into rock and roll hall of fame for a minute. On a stage in the shape of a big “M”. While a big 5 would have been clever, it would have been a logistical nightmare maybe a Roman V? Nah, most people wouldn't get it. 

Also, it’s almost painful how the NFL missed an opportunity to connect with internet culture by teasing Spongebob’s “Sweet Victory” just to ripcord us to Sicko Mode, minus Drake even? Was he busy? After Travis did a trust fall into the crowd, Adam and the boys continued to perform their soccer mom hits to the nation, with Levine stripping a layer after each song. By the time they played their number one wedding song “We will be loved”, they had drones flying above spelling LOVE. Where am I again? Isn’t this a football game? 

The show concluded with a shirtless Levine humping the microphone stand surely getting the women in the front row pregnant. 

A sweet victory it was not. 

New Shows!

UPCOMING SHOWS

Feb 10 - Cage Brewing, St Petersburg, FL

Feb 13 - Ringside Cafe, St Petersburg, FL

Feb 16 - Ruby's Elixir, St Petersburg, FL

Feb 27 - Ringside Cafe, St Petersburg, FL

Mar 9 - Ruby's Elixir, St Petersburg, FL

Mar 13 - Ringside Cafe, St Petersburg, FL

Mar 27 - Ringside Cafe, St Petersburg, FL

Apr 06 - Ringside Cafe with the Headtones, St Petersburg, FL

Apr 10 - Ringside Cafe, St Petersburg, FL

Apr 20 - TBA

Apr 24 - Ringside Cafe, St Petersburg, FL

Apr 27 -TBA

May 19 - Orange Blossom Jamboree, Sertoma Youth Ranch

Rise N' Shine Reggae Sunday!

Reggae Rhythms on a Sunday Downtown

Rise N’ Shine Reggae Sunday at Cage Brewing, St Petersburg, FL | Sunday 2/10/19

Can’t wait to hit Cage Brewing for the first time along with these acts—Guerilla Panic & Propaganjah!