The 33rd Annual Suncoast Jazz Festival will return to Clearwater’s Sand Key November 17-19, 2023. Jazz fans will once again gather on Florida’s West Coast the weekend before Thanksgiving and enjoy live performances from over 80 musicians. Held inside two resort settings on Sand Key at the Sheraton Sand Key Resort and Marriott Suites, the festival features performers from across the nation and around the world from New Orleans, San Francisco and New York to Italy, Brazil, Australia and Rio.
Suncoast Jazz Festival Director Joan Dragon is excited to announce that two-time Grammy award-winning Ranky Tanky will appear for the first time and will be a co-headliner along with beloved New Orleans jazz trumpeter and singer Kermit Ruffins and his band, the Barbecue Swingers. Grammy-nominated guitar wizard Diego Figueiredo will be back by popular demand.
Ranky Tanky is based in Charleston, South Carolina and specializes in jazz-influenced arrangements of traditional Gullah music (meaning “get funky”) which is a culture that originated among descendants of enslaved West Africans in the Lowcountry areas.
Suncoast Jazz festival runs from Nov 17 – 19th at The Sheraton Sand Key and the Marriott Suites in Clearwater.