{"id":187313,"date":"2026-03-11T15:09:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T15:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/187313\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T15:09:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T15:09:30","slug":"gasparilla-music-festival-releases-daily-lineup-adds-cuban-funk-star-cimafunk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/187313\/","title":{"rendered":"Gasparilla Music Festival releases daily lineup, adds Cuban funk star Cimafunk"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ACimafunk plays Cuban Club in Ybor CIty, Florida on Oct. 14, 2022. Credit: Ysanne Taylor \/ Gasparilla Music Festival<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay is officially a month out from Gasparilla Music Festival\u2019s grand return. As of this morning, the full daily lineup\u2014and one killer addition to the bill\u2014for the weekend-long shindig has been solidified.<\/p>\n

Afro-Cuban funk wunderkind Cimafunk<\/a>\u2014who made his Tampa Bay debut at the same festival four years ago<\/a>\u2014was confirmed for a Sunday night main stage slot, just before headliner, and fellow GMF repeat offender, Gov\u2019t Mule<\/a> takes over.<\/p>\n

The 36-year-old born Erik Alejandro Iglesias Rodr\u00edguez hissaid to be in the process of working on his fourth studio album at Miami\u2019s legendary Criteria Studios,<\/a> with a little help from Emilio Estefan. While most details about the record are still hush-hush, it\u2019s being recorded in an all-live format, and the likes of Billboard and Rolling Stone have hyped it as one of 2026\u2019s most highly anticipated Latin albums.<\/p>\n

Other new additions to GMF\u2019s daily lineup include Georgia alt-rock outfit Hotel Fiction, Lovelytheband (stylized in all-lowercase), and Texas R&B group The Suffers, which played its first Tampa Bay gig since a 2018 slot at St. Pete\u2019s short-lived Sunshine Music Festival<\/a>. And helping headliner Two Friends continue an EDM trend started at 2024\u2019s festival<\/a> will be L.A duo Forester, and Swedish producer Kasbo.<\/p>\n

Tickets to Gasparilla Music Festival at Tampa\u2019s Meridan Fields starting Friday, April 10 are still available and start at $55 for single-day tickets. A three-day pass is also available for $125.<\/a><\/p>\n

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