Live Radio Theatre Season Finale

Mon May 21 , Studio @ 620

You can be part of the live audience at the grand finale of this year's WMNF-Studio@620 Radio Theatre Project, as WMNF records live radio plays for broadcast.

Famed poet, Phyllis McEwen, channels Zora Neale Hurston as she and Bob Devin Jones perform, "Florida Folk and the Tales They Do."

And, "Last Lists of My Mad Mother," is a hilarious and touching look at the toll Alzheimer’s disease takes on the parent-child relationship. “When things are too serious to cry about,”...

Paul Thorn (solo) w/ Amanda Shires, plus Maggie Council

Fri May 25 , Skipper's Smokehouse

Paul Thorn solo is a different experience from hearing him with his great band. More intimate and personal, a show of stories and humor and song.

Paul Thorn Band, w/ Beth McKee

Sat May 26 , Skipper's Smokehouse

For the first time Paul Thorn has recorded an album of cover songs, but these are not the typical overplayed covers - they are songs written by his music world friends that fit his style. In listening to the album relaize what a tight and talented band Thorn leads - perhaps one of the best Southern rocking roots band playing today. His touring band (guitarist Bill Hinds, keyboard player Michael Graham, bassist Ralph Friedrichsen and drummer Jeffrey Perkins) has played with Thorn for fifteen...

Amy Denio

Fri Jun 01 , Catherine A. Hickman Theater

The amazing Amy Denio is coming in concert for WMNF in the intimate Catherine Hickman Theatre in lovely Gulfport.

Amy comes equipped with a 4 1/2 octave voice, a charismatic and witty stage presence, and 25 years of globe-trotting musical chops. This is one of those events where WMNF expands your musical horizons. This is a must-see, unique opportunity to see one of today's most original and uncomprormising artists.

Good Vibrations: Brian Wilson’s 70th Birthday Party/Tribute,

Sat Jun 16 , Skipper's Smokehouse

Brian Wilson, founder/leader/songwriter of The Beach Boys, is heralded as a musical genius along the lines of Lennon–McCartney. And soon he will be celebrating his 70th birthday. It's time for a fun WMNF celebration of Brian Wilson and Beach Boys songs at Skippers Smokehouse.

The Beach Boys have often been called "America's Band",and Allmusic has stated that "the band's unerring ability... made them America's first, best rock band." The group has had 36 US Top 40 hits (the most by an Amer...

This Land Is Your Land: Woody Guthrie’s 100 Birthday Celebration

Sat Jul 14 , Skipper's Smokehouse

July 14 is Woody Guthrie's 100th birthday.

A bunch of great local musicians are getting together to celebrate at Skipper's Smokehouse.

Artists include: Al Torchia and the Tattered Saints Bill And Eli Perras Dirty Spoons and Trash Blue Cypress Dog Peter Pat Ted Lukas .

The Free Speech Zone!

Sat Aug 18 , The Straz Center (formerly Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center)

WMNF is presenting an exciting new fundraiser aptly coined The Free Speech Zone and the timing couldn’t be better! The WMNF Development Committee is presenting his lively event---envisioned as a celebration of the right to individual and collective freedom of expression. The Free Speech Zone will take place Saturday, August 18, 2012 at the David A. Straz Center for the Performing Arts in Tampa from 7:00-10:00 pm.

The night will include:

• Opportunity for verbal and visual express...