Past Events

5pm $10/15 Stevie Nicks Experience Silverback First Crush Deviate the Plan

8pm FREE (JAMBAND/TRIBUTE) Hippies please use side door… UJB has been faithfully bringing the music and spirit of the Grateful Dead to Skipper’s every Thursday at Skipper’s since 1998. Uncle John’s Band was formed in 1989 in Clearwater Florida from a combination of talented musicians who love to play the music of the Grateful Dead. The purpose of Uncle John’s Band is to recreate the atmosphere and musical adventure of a live Dead show. Over the past many years, Uncle…

8pm $10/13 Trae Pierce & The Stones Grammy Award-winning bassist Trae Pierce is leading a wild new musical experience known as Trae Pierce & the T-Stones (TPTS). Defined by hard-edged funk and hip-hop mixed with rock and blues, TPTS has developed a high-energy live show with a modern feel that also recalls the unstoppable grooves of Bootsy Collins: they “wants to funk you up!” Trae is a world-class bassist and four-time Grammy Award-winner (with the legendary Blind Boys of Alabama) who cut…

8pm $10/13 Applebutter Express  https://www.facebook.com/TheApplebutterExpress/ w/ The Palma Project    

12:00pm Join us for Slowdown Sundays at Skipper’s! On Sundays in March our very own, Julia will host a slow flow yoga class in the Skipperdome! The class will be donation based and include one free draft beer per attendee after class concludes. All shapes, sizes, ages, genders and skill levels are welcome! Please bring your own mat, towel and bottled water to keep hydrated throughout the class. We look forward to having you with us. Namaste!

5pm $5 Ellie Lee Winner of numerous awards, Ellie is a blues/rock guitarist/singer/songwriter that fronts the band with her soulful voice, ripping guitar solos and her obvious joy in performing. Ellie's guitar virtuosity has been compared to Jeff Beck, Albert King and Jimi Hendrix just to name a few. People enjoy the fact that Ellie plays and sings like there's no tomorrow.  http://ellieleeband.com/ellieleeband.com/Welcome.html Jay Anthony Terry Mark Weigle 

8pm FREE (JAMBAND/TRIBUTE) Hippies please use side door… UJB has been faithfully bringing the music and spirit of the Grateful Dead to Skipper’s every Thursday at Skipper’s since 1998. Uncle John’s Band was formed in 1989 in Clearwater Florida from a combination of talented musicians who love to play the music of the Grateful Dead. The purpose of Uncle John’s Band is to recreate the atmosphere and musical adventure of a live Dead show. Over the past many years, Uncle…

8pm $10/13

8pm $20/25 Get ready for the cosmic collaboration of Eric Lindell and Anson Funderburgh. Eric Lindell https://www.facebook.com/EricLindellBand/ Anson Funderburgh https://www.facebook.com/pages/Anson-Funderburgh/108850732473114  

5pm $10/13 The music of Carlos Santana meets British Blues Rock! Two great bands share the stage as they pay tribute to the music that helped form a generation...and change music forever. The music and rhythms of Carlos Santana come alive as they are perfectly performed by Moonflower in this amazing tribute concert. Hear all of Santana's greatest hits played by these master musicians as they flawlessly recreate the sound, feel and show of this Latin rock icon and immerse…

8pm $22/27 What a dream pairing! Roots music legends, Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore, have been friends for 30 years, but only recently realized they had never played music with each other before. So in 2017, Grammy winner Alvin and Grammy nominee Gilmore, decided to hit the highway to swap songs, tell stories, and share their life experiences. Though Texas born Gilmore was twice named Country Artist of the Year by Rolling Stone, and California native Alvin first came…

8pm $10/13

8pm Free Grateful Dead Nite - Saturday Edition with Uncle John's Band with Jerry Outlaw and Royse Bashaam

5pm $10/13 Jah Movement

8pm FREE (JAMBAND/TRIBUTE) Hippies please use side door… UJB has been faithfully bringing the music and spirit of the Grateful Dead to Skipper’s every Thursday at Skipper’s since 1998. Uncle John’s Band was formed in 1989 in Clearwater Florida from a combination of talented musicians who love to play the music of the Grateful Dead. The purpose of Uncle John’s Band is to recreate the atmosphere and musical adventure of a live Dead show. Over the past many years, Uncle…

8pm $7/10 Yarn You might expect a band that calls itself Yarn to, naturally, tend to spin a yarn or two. “that’s what we do, we tell stories, live and in the studio, truth and fiction” singer/songwriter Blake Christiana insists. “We don’t always opt for consistency. There’s a different vibe onstage from what comes through in our recordings. There’s a difference in every show as well, you never know what you’re going to get.” It’s with that in mind that…

8pm $12/15 Zach Deputy & the Yankees In making his fourth album Wash It in the Water, Zach Deputy dreamed up a sunny and soulful new sound that fuses hip-hop, funk, and folky pop with the spirited rhythms of soca and calypso. With that sound embodied by the album’s brightly melodic and richly textured title track, Wash It in the Water finds the Georgia-based singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist mining his Puerto Rican and Cruzan heritage for inspiration. “Because of the music I was…

12:00pm Join us for Slowdown Sundays at Skipper’s! On Sundays in April our very own, Julia will host a slow flow yoga class in the Skipperdome! The class will be donation based and include one free draft beer per attendee after class concludes. All shapes, sizes, ages, genders and skill levels are welcome! Please bring your own mat, towel and bottled water to keep hydrated throughout the class. We look forward to having you with us. Namaste!

5pm $10/13 Damon Fowler After spending much of the past year touring with the band Southern Hospitality, Damon Fowler is back with his third solo project for Blind Pig Records, Sounds of Home. Damon chose swamp blues master Tab Benoit to produce and record him at Tab’s rural Louisiana home studio, and their collaboration has resulted in Damon’s strongest effort to date. The tension between his measured, laid-back vocal delivery and the hallmark intensity of his guitar virtuosity has never been…

7pm $5 The Taste of Science program includes the following speakers and topics: Dr. Cecelia Nunes, who will be speaking on global food resource use, Dr. Tom Unnasch, who will be speaking on using science to help eliminate river blindness, Dr. Dominique Keller, speaking on being a zoo veterinarian at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, and Dr. Derek Wildman, who will be speaking on the evolution of pregnancy.  

8pm FREE (JAMBAND/TRIBUTE) Hippies please use side door… UJB has been faithfully bringing the music and spirit of the Grateful Dead to Skipper’s every Thursday at Skipper’s since 1998. Uncle John’s Band was formed in 1989 in Clearwater Florida from a combination of talented musicians who love to play the music of the Grateful Dead. The purpose of Uncle John’s Band is to recreate the atmosphere and musical adventure of a live Dead show. Over the past many years, Uncle…

8pm $7 www.johnnymileandthekilometers.com johnnymileandthekilometers.bandcamp.com https://www.cottondaleswamp.com/ https://www.facebook.com/cottondaleswamp/ https://www.facebook.com/FayRoy/ https://fayroy.bandcamp.com/music

8P  $5 OBJ Pre Party https://www.facebook.com/FollowTheMonarchs/ Follow The Monarchs Russ Bowers’ Isn’t Dead Yet $5 Cover includes a raffle ticket to win a ticket to OBJ

12:00pm Join us for Slowdown Sundays at Skipper’s! On Sundays in April our very own, Julia will host a slow flow yoga class in the Skipperdome! The class will be donation based and include one free draft beer per attendee after class concludes. All shapes, sizes, ages, genders and skill levels are welcome! Please bring your own mat, towel and bottled water to keep hydrated throughout the class. We look forward to having you with us. Namaste!

8pm $10/13 Betty Fox Band  With an extensive background in gospel and a lifelong passion for soul music, Betty Fox has come a long way from her southern roots to headlining festivals and captivating thousands with her raw swagger and unwavering talent. Now the 2015 representative of the Suncoast Blues Society, an International Blues Challenge Finalist, and 2 time winner of Creative Loafing’s Best of the Bay, she is truly proving herself a force to be reckoned with.    …

8pm FREE A Saturday night Zydeco party under the oaks at Skipper's featuring Koko Zydeco. Koko Ray Hansen

5pm $7/10 Nacho ordinary fiesta - North of Kennedy Cinco de Mayo party! Southern Train Little Kitner Boys Boneyard

8pm FREE (JAMBAND/TRIBUTE) Hippies please use side door… UJB has been faithfully bringing the music and spirit of the Grateful Dead to Skipper’s every Thursday at Skipper’s since 1998. Uncle John’s Band was formed in 1989 in Clearwater Florida from a combination of talented musicians who love to play the music of the Grateful Dead. The purpose of Uncle John’s Band is to recreate the atmosphere and musical adventure of a live Dead show. Over the past many years, Uncle…

8pm $12/15 Guitar Shorty Legendary guitarist/vocalist Guitar Shorty is a giant in the blues world. Credited with influencing both Jimi Hendrix and Buddy Guy, Guitar Shorty has been electrifying audiences for five decades with his supercharged live shows and his incendiary recordings. Like a bare knuckled boxer, Shorty strikes with his blistering, physical guitar playing and his fierce vocals, connecting directly with body and soul. What really sets Shorty apart is his absolutely unpredictable, off-the-wall guitar playing. He reaches for…

6pm $20/25 This annual event brings out the best swing dancers in the area.   This year’s Ruckus features as our headliner our longtime friends Big Sandy and his Fly-Rite Boys. Over the last three decades, Big Sandy and his Fly-Rite Boys have kept up a constant cycle of traveling back and forth across the lower 48, then hopping across the pond to Europe and beyond. They bring with them a brand of American music that has earned them an induction…

12:00pm Join us for Slowdown Sundays at Skipper’s! On Sundays in May our very own, Julia will host a slow flow yoga class in the Skipperdome! The class will be donation based and include one free draft beer per attendee after class concludes. All shapes, sizes, ages, genders and skill levels are welcome! Please bring your own mat, towel and bottled water to keep hydrated throughout the class. We look forward to having you with us. Namaste!

5pm $7 Not 'yo Mama's average Mother's Day celebration! Shoeless Soul Flow Sisters