Rocking out downtown

The popular Friday evening series of free outdoor concerts, Live After Five, returns this spring with eight concerts featuring various music styles. Escape that cubicle and flock downtown to Galvez Plaza, Third Street and North Boulevard, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. each Friday through May 16.

March 28 After 8 (funk)

April 4 Curley Taylor & Zydeco Trouble (zydeco)

April 11 N-2N (rock/soul)

April 18 Long Neck Society (rock/Cajun)

April 25 Tabby Thomas & Blues Revue with Smokehouse Porter & Miss Mamie and more blues all-stars (blues)

May 2 Sweet Root (rock/country)

May 9 Ann Savoy & Her Sleepless Knights (Cajun swing)

May 16 Phat Hat (funk)