Country music’s next big thing, Zach Bryan, is playing Tampa next summer

Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit opens the show.

click to enlarge Zach Bryan, who plays Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida on Aug. 14, 2024. - Photo by Louis Nice
Photo by Louis Nice
Zach Bryan, who plays Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida on Aug. 14, 2024.
Country music is having a moment, and while some of the hype tends to be a bunch of hoopla over a song about rich guys, it’s still fun to watch all corners of the genre get time in the sun.

One of country’s new Oklahoma smokeshows is heading south for a show in Tampa Bay. While we were all stressing out over Idalia, Zach Bryan announced plans to play the local football stadium next summer.

Tickets to see Zach Bryan play Tampa’s Raymond James Stadium on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024 go on sale next Friday, Sept. 8 and start at $20.50. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit open the show alongside, Levi Turner, who’s signed to Bryan’s Belting Bronco Records. The stop is the only Florida show on the “Quittin’ Time” tour, but there is some cushion to add a second date.

Byran, 27, is some kind of “total-Libertarian” (wait until he finds out he’s playing in a stadium paid for by taxpayers!), country Bon Iver, having come to prominence posting lo-fi videos of himself playing guitar during his time in the Navy. He’s spoken out against transphobia (hello, Alice Cooper, did you hear that?), and has seen his almost-exclusively self-written, Springsteen-ian lyrics about heartland living earn Grammy nominations, chart-topping hits and the adoration of a legion of fans.

The tour supports Bryan’s just-released self-titled album that sees him get help from another one of roots music’s bright rising stars, Sierra Ferrell, plus favorites like The War and Treaty, and Kacey Musgraves. Subscribe to Creative Loafing newsletters.

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Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief in August 2019. Past work can be seen at Suburban Apologist, Tampa Bay Times, Consequence of Sound and The...
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