Credit: Jeffrey LaTour

Credit: Jeffrey LaTour

Every year, Sarasota hosts the Harvey Milk Festival, a multifaceted music and arts celebration of America’s first openly gay elected official, and it always features an all-day concert in its agenda.

For its 11th iteration, Harvey Milk Festival welcomes Los Angeles-based indie-pop act Rituals of Mine, Seattle’s indie-rock band Moon Palace and Sarasota electro-synth act MeteorEyes lead the 2020 lineup.

Other Florida-based bands on this all-day show show set for May 9 at Sarasota’s JD Hamel Park—located downtown at 199 Bayfront Dr.—are Roxx Revolt & the Velvets, Soulpaz (stylized “SOULPAX”), Emmanuelle Sasson, and Tampa’s own Jordan Esker & the 100%. 

The event is free to attend and kicks off at 2:20 p.m. with a message from HMF Founder and President Shannon Fortner. VIP tickets—which let buyers meet the band—can be had via eventbrite.com.

See a schedule for Harvey Milk Festival’s music lineup below, and get more information via harveymilkfestival.org.

11th Annual Harvey Milk Festival Lineup

2:20 p.m. Opening // HMF Founder and President Shannon Fortner
2:30 p.m. Rose
3:15 p.m. Auto Kania
4 p.m. Jordan Esker & the 100%
4:45 p.m. Emmanuel Sasson
5 p.m. Soulpax
6:15 p.m. Fruut
7 p.m. Keynote Speaker TBA
7:10 p.m. Roxx Revolt & The Velvets
8:05 p.m. MeteorEYES
8:50 p.m. Vigil to honor Harvey Milk, pioneers of the LGBTQ+ movement and others we have lost along the way.
9:15 p.m. Moon Palace
10:15 p.m. Rituals of Mine
11:05 p.m. HMF Closing

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