“David Bowie Tribute” – Talk to Mark and Ricky Wilcox & The Moonsnakes featuring Steve Connelly – $5/8

8pm $5/8

“David Bowie 70th Birthday Tribute”
8pm Acoustic Set of David Bowie Tunes
Bowie songs throughout the night

Talk to Mark (POP/ROCK)

By equal turns both raucous and melodious, St. Petersburg, Florida quartet Talk To Mark mix power guitars, impassioned vocals and pop songwriting into a straight-ahead rock style all their own. The band began in the spring of 2005 when frontman Mark Murphy and original bassist Paul Bernardini decided to expand their musical horizons beyond their acoustic duo act and begin playing full-band electric shows. After booking a gig with only 10 days to rehearse a 3-set show, and eschewing finer details such as a band name, they hastily enlisted Gene Young, a jazz/reggae drummer friend of Murphy’s who had learned to play rock as a teenager, to complete their trio; their world premiere took place at Limey’s Pub in St. Petersburg on March 13, 2005. During a set break an enthusiastic fan inquired as to the band’s name, to which Young replied, “I don’t know, talk to Mark” – unintentionally settling the band name debate for good.

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Ricky Wilcox & The Moonsnakes featuring Steve Connelly (POP/SOUL/COUNTRY/ROCK))

Ricky is a veteran Tampa Bay (via Ohio and Chicago) musician possibly best known as a member of the influential and notorious Deloris Telescope. Working primarily with guitar/studio wizard Steve Connelly, Wilcox’s Moonsnakes have put out 3 critically acclaimed power pop releases on Sunshine Drenchy Records, as well as featured selections on several compilation CDs. “St. Pete’s Ricky Wilcox is an accomplished pop-rock singer- songwriter whose unusual credits include a featured song on the ABC soap All My Children and a blink-and-you-miss-it cameo in The Punisher movie. … Wilcox and his band of Moonsnakes play Midwestern power-pop, soul, country and early ‘80’s British pub rock tunes with effortless harmonies. They contemplate the wonders of love and spaceships, too…” Tampa Bay Times

www.rickywilcox.com