Gasparilla Music Festival won’t be coming back to Tampa next month. The annual tradition was supposed to take over Julian B. Lane Riverfront Park on Feb. 14, 15 and 16. Instead, organizers took to Instagram on Thursday afternoon to announce a postponement.

Gasparilla Music Festival 2025 was scheduled to be held from February 14, 2025, to February 16, 2025, in venues at the Julian B Lane Park in Tampa, Florida.

Thursday, the Gasparilla Music Foundation announced that it would be postponing the event, originally slated to begin on Valentine’s Day, because of “the ongoing financial strain caused by two consecutive years of extreme weather conditions that were beyond [their] control.”

The Gasparilla Music Festival that was scheduled for February has been postponed, organizers said in a social media post on Thursday.

In a statement put out on the event's website Thursday, organizers shared their decision to postpone the Feb. 14-16, 2025 event at Julian B Lane Riverfront Park in Tampa due to “financial strain caused by two consecutive years of extreme weather conditions that were beyond our control.”

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 in August 2019. Past work can be seen at Suburban Apologist, Tampa Bay Times, Consequence of Sound and The...