(l-R) SMF founders Disco Donnie and John Santoro Credit: Photo by Jason Fenmore c/o Sunset Music Festival
Tampa’s Sunset Music Festival used to be a single day event with pop up stages, but over the last decade, it’s grown into one of the biggest EDM festivals in the Southeast. This weekend it adds a third-day to its schedule for the very first time.

Starting Friday at the North Lot of Tampa’s Raymond James Stadium, Sunset and its founders Disco Donnie and John Santoro celebrate its 10-year anniversary and welcome back one of its original performers (Alesso, from Sweden) who joins a lineup featuring some of the biggest names in the genre (Skrillex, Zeds Dead, Illenium), plus up-and-comers like Rossy, Tita Lau and Moore Kismet.

This article appears in May 26 – Jun 1, 2022.

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...