Tropical Heatwave at the Cuban Club in Ybor

Our community commercial-free radio station, WMNF, hosts many shows year round but the biggest and best is Tropical Heatwave. This was the 28th year for the event. 8 hours of music.... 30plus bands on six stages for $30.00. What a deal.

Rockin' with The Mojo Gurus

Blair Carman and the Belleview Boys
Piano Rockabilly. Swing dancers. Fun.

Michael Burks. The Iron Man. Michael and his band rocked the Cuban Club bandshell.

Thomas Wynn of Thomas Wynn and the Believers. I didn't get a pic of the entire group. Bonehead me.

Pack A.D. Two chicks. Energy all around. They were incredible.

Cold Joon. Words can't describe this diverse act. I wish I had more pics. There are 6 other band members who aren't shown.

Random shot of Bailey and some dude with funny shirt.

James Intveld. I wasn't as impressed with him as I thought I'd be.... Too commercial? Too cute? Too something.... We stayed for a few songs and then headed back downstairs to see The Beauvilles who probably blew the speakers out... My ears finally stopped ringing Monday.

Look! Shelley in a pic!

Bailey - not sure what she's doing.

Random crazy dancers during Magadog. They closed the show outside and we had a blast dancing and playing.

Let the skanking begin! This was a fun group of dancers. They even tolerated me!

SCOTT! YES! Scott joined the circle occasionally! He's a skanker!

Action shot. Look at 'em go!

One of the senior drunk dudes dancing in the circle. Everybody was having a great time.

Crazy Dancin' Guy #1 and his girlfriend enjoying Magadog. This dude is a familiar sight at Skipper's and Bailey got this great shot of them. BTW, his name is Paul. There are a few guys who 'dance like no one is watching' and I've nick-named them CDG 1, 2, 3, and 4.

Another skanking action shot. Bailey and friends.

Scott - AGAIN! Scott and Bailey exiting the circle. See the guy in the blue shirt with white stripes? Another drunk dude who was enjoying the heck out of the dancing.

More random skankers.

Other bands we saw but not recorded on the camera:

Johnny Cakes and the Four Horseman of the Apocalypso

Chuck Prophet

Kinobe and Soul Beat Africa

Big Sam's Funky Nation

BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet

Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue

Magadog

Many other bands all around but we couldn't do it all!

We ended the night dancing with Magadog. They played over and the crowd stayed 'til the very end. Then, we were off for some slices of pizza and headed home. I'm not sure what time we made it to bed... 3am maybe?