This week the St. Pete Catalyst talked to Palladium Paul about the pandemic, the Palladium and the local performing arts scene. The story is by Bill DeYoung,  a veteran arts and music writer. a long excerpt from the story appears below, or you read the full article on the Catalyst site by following this link. […]

While we’re living through a spike in Covid cases locally and nationally and the Palladium remains closed to live performances, there is some hope on the horizon.   Dr. Anthony Fauci predicts that performing arts venues could return to full activity with no restrictions as early as Fall of 2021. If venues take proper safety […]

While our live shows remain on hold for a while, we’ve put together a slate of your favorite Palladium artists and performers doing concerts you can enjoy in your home.   We’re calling the series Palladium Live! And we are shooting these concerts with four, state-of-the-art cameras, adding professional sound and sending them out though […]

  If you’re like me, you’re tired of hearing the same holiday tunes over and over – especially since they go into heavy rotation everywhere by mid-November.   The talented husband and wife team of Gloria Munoz and Mark Feinman – Mark is one-third of the jazz trio La Lucha – had that feeling and […]

Once upon a time, in a version of St. Petersburg that seems so far away, a young guitarist names Nathanial pitched a Christmas jazz show to a woman named Dar, then the executive director of a struggling music venue called The Palladium. Nathaniel, known as Nate, promised the show would include selections from a jazz […]

Our monthly musical partnership with WUSF Radio’s All Night Jazz continues this Friday with another hour of jazz recorded live at the Side Door. WUSF calls the show: Side Door at the Palladium.   It’s part of a series of live shows recorded at venues around the country. WUSF Jazz Director Mike Cornette came up […]

Tomorrow is GivingTuesday, a global movement that inspires hundreds of millions of people to give, collaborate, and celebrate generosity each year.   Your gift to the Palladium on this special day means more than ever in 2020. The Palladium lost eight months of shows to the pandemic and there is no end in sight. Your […]

While it’s sad we have had to cancel our holiday season of live shows,  I take some comfort in knowing our annual Nate Najar Jazz Holiday concert will be happening and will stream to your home or wherever you want to experience it.   Nate says this year’s version is packed with holiday music, arranged […]

Sadly, I must report that due to the spike in coronavirus cases both locally and nationally  the Palladium has chosen to cancel all live performances for the time being.   In October, when we returned to limited live performances following a complete shutdown in March, our pledge to our audiences was that they would be […]

The three talented gentlemen who perform together as La Lucha are familiar faces at the Palladium. They do concerts of their own music, and the trio or various subsets thereof are side men on lots of Palladium gigs.   So it’s only appropriate the Palladium played a big part in the birth of their Arbors […]

I’m excited to have one of my favorite bay area bands back on our stage this Friday night. Have Gun Will Travel joins Geri X and Will Quinlan on the Hough Hall stage for a night of original music.   With Have Gun you get a genre-mashup of Indie, Americana and folk, that’s built around […]

There’s a very special guest coming to the Palladium this Sunday to perform live with our favorite local trio – La Lucha. Ken Peplowski is arguably the best jazz clarinet player on the planet. He was part of the musical team on La Lucha’s new CD – Everybody Wants to Rule The World. That Arbors […]

The Palladium is back both live and virtually. And the world is taking notice.   Please check out this story by veteran music writer Eric Snider. He wrote it for Arts Coast Journal, an on-line magazine produced by Creative Pinellas and edited by Sheila Cowley.   Thanks to them for this great coverage. To read […]

Our new Palladium Live series brings your favorite Palladium artists directly to your home or anywhere you take your laptop or I-Pad. If you’re as smart as my wife, you’ll be able to mirror your computer screen on your smart TV and watch the same way you watch Netflix.   Our streaming provider, Mandolin, has […]

As we reactivate the Palladium after more than six months of virus-imposed darkness, we are moving on several fronts – live shows, a streaming service and the creation of an artists’ support project we’re calling the Palladium Creative Class of 2021. That initiative puts money directly into the pockets of our best local performers and […]

We’ve had two great Saturday nights at the Palladium as we continue with our very limited October reopening.   The final October show is this Saturday, Oct. 17, at 8 p.m. Perennial Palladium favorites Nate Najar and Phill Fest will trade licks on their acoustic guitars, in a show our audiences love called Bossa Nova […]

After  six months without much entertainment news, the reopening of the Palladium is drawing some media attention.   I’m sharing links to a few really nice stories and an Zoom interview I did for the St. Pete Catalyst Sessions. If you missed any or all of these, they’ll give you a good picture of what’s […]

The Palladium’s October reopening – three Saturdays in a row – started off with a bang last Saturday. Our new favorite blues man, Jose Ramirez, released his Here I Come CD, with a memorable show featuring his band and several special guests.   Jose brought guitar legend Anson Funderburgh and singer Shelly Bonet with him, […]

I’ve been talking with blues guitarist and singer  Jose Ramirez for more than a year about a CD release show. Now that show is happening!   After more than six months without shows, we’re reopening the Palladium with Jose’s CD Release celebration for “Here I Come”  on Saturday, Oct. 3, at 8 p.m.  It’s going […]

After a six-month hiatus due to the pandemic, I was worried whether our audiences would be ready to buy tickets again when we reopen the Palladium for live shows on the first three Saturdays in October.   I don’t have to worry about that any more.   Our three reopening shows – one blues, one […]

As we take some small steps to our reopening on Oct. 3, we want our patrons to know we are taking their safety very seriously.  Below are specific details about the safety of our shows, what we expect from patrons and what they can expect from us. There is also some important information about ticketing […]

If you’re like me, you’ve missed seeing and hearing all the live shows at the Palladium and other arts and entertainment venues in our creative city. But like me, I think you’ve been willing to give up the joys of live music in an effort to avoid exposure to Covid 19.   We think the […]

While we’ve been dark at the Palladium since March 13, we haven’t been idle. One of our quarantine projects will debut in late September, when we begin streaming live Palladium Presents shows.   We’ve added great cameras, lens, and other equipment to bring you an at-home concert experience that will look and sound great. We’re […]

  This Friday, Sept. 5, at 10 p.m. WUSF All Night Jazz and The Palladium at SPC  present the second edition of our monthly series called “Side Door at the Palladium.” This new partnership brings some of the Palladium’s best concerts – recorded in  the Side Door Cabaret before the Covid shutdown.     Our […]

The bad news arrives in my email cue every day. Today’s email was from Columbia Artists Management, one of the industries longest-standing agencies representing musical artists.   “It is with a heavy heart that, having endured a prolonged pandemic environment, we must announce that effective Aug. 31, 2020, Columbia Artists Management, Inc. will close its […]