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.

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...

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.”