Tampa, Florida is a fantastic city for living, and it’s also a splendid place to visit. The mix of gorgeous tropical weather, along with a very lively, multi-cultural local population, is a very sure recipe for an interesting time. Visitors from all over the world, and all walks of life find something to enjoy here, and for the locals, there are many hidden secrets that make it an endlessly unraveling puzzle. Many people come to visit with the idea that they might move here someday, and this site has some excellent lodgings for people coming to check things out.
Musically, there is a wide variety of tastes in Tampa. You’ll no doubt hear a lot of pop and top 40 coming from car stereos, along with a heady blend of urban, hiphop, and Latin-inflected rock and rap, and a lot of the crooners will echo around at any given stoplight. There is a very strong Cuban heartbeat here, and Cuban variations of urban and folk music can be heard from stereos as well as live renditions. In this mix, then, one of the most anticipated events of the season will no doubt be the Engelbert Humperdinck concert in Clearwater in mid-February.
This show will be exciting particularly for students of culture, because it is a bit unusual, and it will be extremely fascinating to see who turns out. The centuries will start to collide with each other as this Anglo-Indian singer from England performs his own brand of popular song. Humperdinck was born Arnold Dorsey, and changed his name to honor the German composer of Hansel and Gretel. The singer crosses cultures as well as histories, and it will be interesting to see how the local trickster gods of time and space negotiate this performance.
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