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.

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.”

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TAMPA, Fla. — The 2025 Gasparilla Music Festival, which was originally scheduled to take place in February, has been postponed. Event organizers made the announcement in a Facebook post on Thursday, saying the decision was made due to "ongoing financial strain" caused by extreme weather conditions the past two years.