After successes of festivals like Big Guava Festival and Sunset Music Festival, Central Florida has rapidly become a formidable market. Luckily for live music lovers, Live Nation Florida announced the lineup to a new festival called Coral Skies Music Festival on Tuesday.
Set to take place on Oct. 25 in Tampa and Oct. 26 in West Palm Beach, the festival features the likes of Cage the Elephant, The Strokes’ frontman (Julian Casablancas) and his new band The Voidz, Bleachers, Bombay Bicycle Club, City and Colour, the Hold Steady, Tokyo Police Club and more.
The MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre in Tampa and the Cruzan Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach will host the festival. Two stages will be used in each city, but it remains to be seen how the acts will be split among them.
Coral Skies seems to be Live Nation’s new answer to a fall music festival after splitting ways with the Coastline festival.
Along with music, Coral Skies continues the tradition of Live Nation Florida festivals emphasizing food trucks, craft beer and art. The craft beer selections can be seen on the festival’s website and the appropriately named Food Trucktopia and Garden of Art offerings will be announced at a later date.
Early bird tickets are $20 and are on sale July 14 through July 17. Regular sale begins on July 18 with general admission tickets for $30, pit tickets for $55 and VIP tickets for $150. For more information, visit the Coral Skies website at coralskiesfest.com.
[A version of this story ran on page 9 on 7/10/2014 under the headline "New FL festival forms"]
