Last year, the inaugural Gasparilla Music Festival debuted at downtown Tampa's scenic Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park & Kiley Gardens, and proved itself a success with more than 6,000 attendees, beautiful weather, and a nice lineup of genre-spanning national acts paired with some high-caliber local talent. The second annual GMF promises to be even better, growing from three to four stages in and around the park and gardens, and adding some big name acts to the already respectable lineup.
This article appears in Feb 7-13, 2013.