June kept the Tampa Bay calendar crowded in the same handful of rooms that have owned the spring. Forbici Modern Italian and its St. Pete sister room stayed the busiest stages in the market for acoustic sets, Welcome to The Farm - St. Pete kept its band nights stacked, and the DJ booths at Sonder Social Club, Predalina, and Boulon Brasserie ran deep into the weekend. Here's who owned June. Top Acoustic Artists Joe Hite takes the top spot with 12 gigs spread across three rooms: Forbici Modern Italian, Union New American, and Forbici Modern Italian St Pete. That's close to three nights a week on stage, and the spread matters as much as the count. Hite isn't a one-room regular leaning on a single booker's loyalty. He's working two different Forbici locations plus a completely different room in Union New American, which says his draw travels. Restaurants want a guy who can fill a dining room without drowning conversation, and Hite has clearly become the answer across multiple properties at once. Daniel B. Marshall matched Hite's 12 gigs but kept it tighter, splitting his month entirely between the two Forbici rooms. A near-identical gig count with half the venue footprint says a deep, trusted relationship with one restaurant group. Eric Yoder logged 8 gigs across four venues, the widest spread in the top five. Between both Forbici rooms, Mad Dogs and Englishmen, and Sonder Social Club, Yoder's the most versatile booking in the acoustic pool right now. Chris Barbosa put in 5 gigs across three rooms, adding Boulon Brasserie to his usual Forbici and Union rotation. Elliot Dickinson rounds out the top five with 5 gigs, all inside the Forbici family of rooms, another sign of how much of June's acoustic action ran through that one kitchen. Top Bands Daniel B. Marshall leads the band category too, with 2 gigs at Forbici Modern Italian St Pete in a full-band configuration. Landing atop both the acoustic and band boards in the same month is rare, and it says the room trusts him in whatever format the night calls for. Marshall's June is a case study in range: solo sets covering slow dinner hours, full band for the nights that need more push. Ian Davis, Jake Dodds, Matt Billor, and Rachel Schumacher all tied at 2 gigs apiece, every one of them logged at Welcome to The Farm - St. Pete. That room clearly built out a rotating band night in June, and this quartet carried it. Top DJs DJ Xae takes the top DJ slot with 4 gigs, all at Sonder Social Club. A full residency, essentially. Four appearances in one room in a single month means the booth belonged to Xae for most of June, and Sonder leaned on that consistency rather than rotating in new names every week. LAYNE matched that with 4 gigs, holding down Predalina the same way Xae held Sonder. Slex Allen also put up 4 gigs, anchoring Boulon Brasserie's late-night rotation. Quinn Blalock logged 3 gigs split between Sonder Social Club and Predalina, the only name in the top five working both rooms. Geecee rounds out the top five with 3 gigs, all at Predalina, backing up LAYNE's residency with a second steady presence in the same booth. June made it clear which rooms are carrying the market right now, from the Forbici kitchens to the Farm's band nights to the DJ booths at Sonder, Predalina, and Boulon. If you played shows this month that aren't reflected here, it likely means the venue isn't in our system yet. Not seeing all your shows? If you're performing at a venue that isn't listed on the platform yet, those gigs won't count toward your ranking. Let us know which venues you play at and we'll work on getting them added so your full schedule is reflected.
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