Ray Roa is the Editor-In-Chief at Creative Loafing Tampa. He covers a diverse range of topics including regional interest, culture, food and beverages, and sports, with a particular focus on events and conferences. Ray's work has been featured in Orlando Weekly, NewsBreak, WMNF Community Radio, and Creative Loafing Tampa.
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Ray Roa's coverage primarily focuses on local entertainment news, specifically music events and concerts in the Tampa Bay area of Florida. Given this focus, he would likely be responsive to pitches related to upcoming music events, concerts, or local artist spotlights within Tampa Bay.
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Get With This, plus Tampeño indie-rock-and-pop heroes Charlie and Romeo Blu, open.
Skim opens at Crowbar this weekend.
By: Ray Roa
He's at the BayCare Sound on the eve of a new album, 'Brighter Days.'
![Review: In Tampa, Cyndi Lauper goes out big with powerful, hopeful, and fun farewell concert [PHOTOS]](https://media2.cltampa.com/cltampa/imager/u/slideshow/18912333/cyndilauper-photobyphildesimone-4712.jpg)
By: Ray Roa
“If I’m going out, I’m going out big!” pop singer Cyndi Lauper gleefully stated from the stage at Amalie Arena on Wednesday night. The accomplished singer, writer, activist, and actress is saying farewell to the road after a professional singing career spanning over 40 years. And, in true celebratory and colorful style, Lauper delivered one hell of a final show in the Tampa area for just under 10,000 fans who filled nearly every seat in the arena for this gala.
By: Ray Roa
Some of the best jazz gigs in town happening Nov. 7-14.
No Plea and Last Bias roll out the welcome mat.
By: Ray Roa
Last month, Better Lovers released a new album featuring the single, "Love As An Act Of Rebellion." Last night, the Buffalo hardcore quintet staged something of an Election Night rebellion and made Tampa Orpheum into a place to yell as election poll results came in. Full of Hell and Spy opened the show.
By: Ray Roa
Ground traffic around downtown Tampa came to a halt last Saturday afternoon, but it was clear skies when Red Bull once again brought its Flugtag flying machine competition to the convention center. The showcase found teams (28 of ‘em in 2024) bringing their ideas to life, then launching them off a 27-foot platform into the Hillsborough River while upwards of 80,000 people gawk from the shoreline and from the water. At the end, Orlando’s Flug Shag team—who Flugtag-ed in Milwaukee and Cincinnati in 2022 and 2023—took home the win with a flight of 51 feet. The three-hour competition saw Tampa host Flugtag for a third time, following stops in 2008 and 2011.
After South Florida, Tampa’s population of Cubans is larger than anywhere else in the United States And still, the Bay area feels closer to the Caribbean island than almost anywhere else in America.
“You can’t underestimate the toll it takes on people’s mental health,” Rep. Lindsay Cross said during a Friday morning appearance on WMNF-Tampa 88.5-FM. She was discussing the ongoing recovery in a Tampa Bay area that was hit with back-to-back storms.
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