Tedeschi Trucks Band fans: Do not worry. The band — which was a centerpiece of the six-year-old Live Nation-produced Sunshine Music Festival — isn’t quitting on you.
The winter time party at Vinoy Park is, however, taking a break (and so will Sunshine’s Boca Raton stop).
“Sunshine Music Festival will be on hiatus in 2019,” organizers wrote last week. “However, Tedeschi Trucks Band has some special plans for St. Pete/Tampa Bay/Gulf Coast and South Florida fans for next year!”
The news will come as a bummer for those who grew attached to the cozy, relatively low-key affair, but Sunshine’s run is admirable considering the fact that other Bay area fests produced by Live Nation had much shorter shelf lives (Coral Skies, Big Guava and Funshine all saw their lights dim pretty quickly despite having some pretty great lineups).
This article appears in Sep 13-20, 2018.
