A concert performance photograph by Ysanne Taylor showing Flipturn playing Gasparilla Music Festival at Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park in St. Tampa, Florida on April 29, 2023. Captured in a medium shot on an outdoor stage, bassist Madeline Jarman smiles broadly while playing a seafoam green bass guitar. She has blonde hair, wears glasses and a white graphic t-shirt featuring kittens, and stands facing a bandmate with dark hair tied in a bun seen from behind on the left, under bright natural daylighting.
Flipturn plays Gasparilla Music Festival at Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park in St. Tampa, Florida on April 29, 2023. Credit: Ysanne Taylor / Gasparilla Music Festival

After staging its long-running reggae festival at Vinoy Park over spring break, organizers of Reggae Rise Up are back with this festival packed with the kind of indie-rock that’s a hallmark of your Spotify algorithm.

Flipturn is the gem on the Fin Fest poster for good reason. Florida-born, and alum on early Gasparilla Music Festival lineups, the band has gone big. A two-time Lollapaloozer that’s played UK Dates, too, the quintet is a year removed from a stellar live album recorded over a two-night stint at Orlando’s House of Blues.

Richy Mitch & The Coal Miners, which opened dates on Caamp’s 2026 tour, are among the other highlights on the two-night festival alongside homegrown favorites like Speak Easy, Shevonne & the Force, and Rohna.

Tickets to see Flipturn, Fitz and the Tantrums, Richy Mitch & The Coal Miners, and more at St. Pete Pier in St. Petersburg on Friday-Saturday, Nov. 13-14 are still available and start at $34.


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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...