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.

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.

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.”

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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.

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.