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Saffire: The Uppity Blues Women on Farewell Tour

Tags: Saffire, blues, arts, culture, music

Saffire: The Uppity Blues Women are one of the most successful and entertaining acoustic blues groups today. Ann Rabson and Andra Faye talk about their love of Skipper’s and the WMNF audience as they treat us with a concert on their farewell tour. Julie Black’s CD release party will be the opening for the concert on Friday, April 10 at 8 p.m.

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Girls on Film in concert for WMNF

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Rio, Girls on Film is a four-piece female new wave band from Tallahassee. Girls on Film will be part of Synthetic Pleasures concert for WMNF, a night of electro beats, old wave synths and glamtronic noise at 9 p.m. March 27 at the Orpheum, 1902 Republica de Cuba, Ybor.

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Springsteen ready for Super Bowl performance listen

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Tags: Sports, Super Bowl, media, Bruce Springsteen, entertainment, music

Rock superstar Bruce Springsteen gave his first formal press conference in 20 years this afternoon.

The New Jersey rocker is in Tampa, where he’ll be performing in front of a huge worldwide television audience this Sunday night at halftime of the Super Bowl.

Speaking to more than a thousand reporters at the Tampa Convention Center, the media center for the Super Bowl this week, Springsteen warned reporters that he wasn’t exactly a football fanatic.

Springsteen is on a particular high...

Suede in concert

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Tags: Suede, music, pop, jazz, blues

Pop/Jazz/Blues phenom Suede plays piano, guitar and trumpet, but voice is her first instrument and entertaining is clearly her first love. She sings original material and pop, blues and jazz standards like nobody you've ever heard.

Celebrating 25 years as a full-time independent artist Suede is proud to announce the release of Dangerous Mood, her new CD. Suede will appear in concert Nov. 22 at 8 p.m. at King of Peace MCC Church, 3150 5th Ave. N., St. Pete. A VIP reception with Suede a...

Daniel Pearl Music Days marked In Tampa

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Tags: New urbanism, Daniel Pearl, music

Good afternoon, welcome to WMNF’s Radioactivity program. I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up, we’ll hear about the Seventh Annual Daniel Pearl World Music Day … and later the Presidential Climate Action Project, things the next president can do to help the environment immediately upon taking office.

First up today, Dawn Morgan is one of the organizers of the commemoration of the Daniel Pearl World Music Day in Tampa tomorrow at 7 p.m. at the Tre Amici coffeehouse on 19th Street in Ybor City.

Dani...