Blast Friday: Homecoming VI

Description

Blast Friday returns to Downtown Clearwater for its 10th season. This free food and craft festival kicks-off featuring a live concert starring BSTREETBAND on Friday, January 31 from 5:30 to 10 pm on the Tampa Bay Times Cleveland Street Stage. Food trucks and vendors will be serving a wide variety of freshly prepared specialty food and beer, wine and non-alcoholic beverages that will be available for purchase. Concert goers are welcome to bring their lawn chairs to watch the concert. Please see concert listings below (line-up, date and time subject to change). VIP packages are on sale now. Live local music and other activities will be located in the 600 block of Cleveland Street. The Greg Billings Band is a continuation of a phenomenon that began when popular ‘80s Florida band Romeo signed to Epic Records and released its first album after a name change to Stranger. The band features two members of Stranger, lead vocalist Greg Billings and bassist Tom ‘King' Cardenas and also includes lead guitarist George Harris, drummer Mark Busto, guitarist Kyle Ashley and Rob Stoney on keyboards. Known for their soul, funk and rhythm ‘n' blues music, The Black Honkeys have won awards in multiple categories for four years running in Creative Loafing's Best of the Bay Reader's Choice Awards. Front man, Brother Phil Esposito, is supported on vocals by the lovely Nicole Simone, with guitarist Greg Czinke, Will Harris on bass, Steven Tanner on drums, John "Dash" Dixon on keyboards, along with the fabulous Ebony & Ivory Horn Section with Scott Myers on trombone and Terry Clark on trumpet.