Same Day Delivery Orchestra playing Crowbar in Ybor City, Florida on March 16, 2024. Credit: Photo by Dave Decker
Formed in late-2017, Same Day Delivery Orchestra is actually a six-piece string ensemble that retools songs from Bay area bands and songwriters.

Melissa Grady’s “cover band” —two violins, one viola, one cello, one bass and a drummer—often backs those musicians up for rare live gigs.

Grady, an award-winning music educator for Hillsborough County schools, told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay that Same Day Delivery Orchestra is working on three new originals plus work from a handful of local artists (including Prescribed Fire) over the next year.

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This article appears in Jul 18-24, 2024.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...