Anthony Martino
Big Boi plays onbikes' Winter Wonder Ride afterparty at Curtis Hixon Park in Tampa, Florida on December 10, 2016.
Night one of downtown Tampa's Gasparilla Music Festival went off swimmingly on Friday, and Saturday is off to a drizzly, but celebratory start (The Rumble is bringing the spirit of New Orleans to the mainstage as I type this).
Adjustments to the festival's new home at Julian B. Lane Riverfront Park have also been seamless as far as we can tell, but today, the festival shared a last-minute cancellation by Sunday headliner Lake Street, which dropped out due to illness.
Per usual, GMF is taking the lemons and turning them into an intoxicating one-two punch with its replacement acts.
Killer Mike—who swept for the rap category at this month's Grammy awards—will now join Outkast's Big Boi to close out the festival mainstage on Sunday, Feb. 18.
Tickets for today and Sunday ($45 & up) are still available online and at the gate located at the corner of Cypress Avenue and N Boulevard. A rep for Gasparilla Music Festival told a Creative Loafing Tampa Bay that Killer Mike and Big Boi will each do a solo set then come together for a double dose of the Dirty South.
Refunds are not being issued.
Now if we could just get Goodie Mob to stay an extra night after their 8 p.m. performance on the Fortune Stage.
