Fun weekends in Tampa mean that people will spend time in the city to enjoy concerts, shows and festivals. It potentially means heavy traffic as officials anticipate a crowded downtown.<\/p>\n
During the weekend days of April 10-12, the City of Tampa will host multiple events, such as the Gasparilla Music Festival<\/a>, attracting multitudes to the area, so make sure you plan accordingly and anticipate heavy traffic<\/a>. City officials urge drivers to be extra cautious in and around the area, particularly in downtown.<\/p>\n Tampa officials say these will be some of the major events impacting the flow of traffic in the city:<\/p>\n Friday, April 10<\/p>\n Tampa Bay Poker Run | Tampa Convention Center | 7 a.m.<\/p>\n Tampa Bay Condo & HOA Expo | Tampa Convention Center | 7:30 a.m.<\/p>\n Gasparilla Music Festival | Meridian Fields | 3 p.m.<\/p>\n Tampa Wine & Food Festival | Curtis Hixon Park | 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n Straz shows | 7:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.<\/p>\n Saturday, April 11<\/p>\n Tampa Bay Poker Run | Tampa Convention Center | 7 a.m.<\/p>\n Breakthrough T1D Walk | Benchmark International Arena \/ Bayshore | 9 a.m.<\/p>\n African Arts in the Park Festival | Perry Harvey Park | 11 a.m.<\/p>\n Tampa Wine & Food Festival | Curtis Hixon Park | 1 p.m.<\/p>\n Gasparilla Music Festival | Meridian Fields | 3 p.m.<\/p>\n Straz shows | 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.<\/p>\n Tampa Bay Sun game | Suncoast Credit Union Field | 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n Eric Church | Benchmark International Arena | 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n Sunday, April 12<\/p>\n Tampa Bay Poker Run | Tampa Convention Center | 7 a.m.<\/p>\n IUCX 2026 (move-in) | Tampa Convention Center | 7 a.m.<\/p>\n Summer Vibes | Ybor | 11 a.m.<\/p>\n Gasparilla Music Festival | Meridian Fields | 3 p.m.<\/p>\n B2K Reunion: Boys 4 Life Tour | Benchmark International Arena | 7 p.m.<\/p>\n City officials say using alternative transportation options can help make moving around easier. Options include using the free TECO Line Streetcar, the DASH service, HART buses, scooters and bikes.<\/p>\n They add that garages in downtown Tampa offer free covered bicycle parking and the Benchmark International Arena offers free bike valet for event attendees.<\/p>\n You can learn more about parking options here<\/a>, and you can stay up to date regarding road closures that can impact your commute in the City of Tampa’s website<\/a> or with the 10 Tampa Bay News app, which is free to use and download.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fun weekends in Tampa mean that people will spend time in the city to enjoy concerts, shows and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[47282,135,1526,40926,137,136],"class_list":["post-224170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-gasparilla-music-festival","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-convention-center","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}