Who’s playing the Strawberry Festival? Country acts and rock throwbacks taking the stage
One of Florida’s most familiar music festivals has bloomed again after taking a pandemic pause in 2021.
On Friday, the Florida Strawberry Festival released its lineup of headliners for the 2022 event — its 87th! — in Plant City for 10 days beginning March 3 to March 13.
Among them, some popular country music acts like Sam Hunt and Lady A (formerly Antebellum). Yesteryear hard rockers like Sammy Hagar and his band, The Circle, and Tesla, when Tesla was an ‘80s pop-metal band and not related to Elon Musk’s cars or spaceships. And nostalgia pop acts like the Beach Boys and The Drifters.
Here’s some of the acts you can see on the Wish Farms Soundstage, which is in eastern Hillsborough County, about nine miles west of Lakeland and 20 miles east of Tampa.
March 3
▪ Jimmy Sturr & His Orchestra
▪ The Oak Ridge Boys
▪ Lady A
March 4
▪ The Beach Boys
▪ Boyz II Men
March 5
▪ Home Free
▪ Lauren Daigle
March 6
▪ Chicks with Hits featuring Terri Clark, Pam Tillis and Suzy Bogguss
▪ Sammy Hagar & The Circle
March 7
▪ John Anderson
▪ Kenzie Wheeler
March 8
▪ Ricky Nelson Remembered starring his sons, Matthew and Gunnar Nelson, whom you may recall from their self-named early ‘90s hair metal band, Nelson.
▪ Zach Williams
March 9
▪ Lee Greenwood
▪ Jake Owen
March 10
▪ The Lettermen
▪ The Drifters, Cornell Gunter’s Coasters & the Platters
▪ Tesla
March 11
▪ Gene Watson
▪ Cole Swindell
March 12
▪ Bobby Bones & The Raging Idiots
▪ Nelly
March 13
▪ The Bellamy Brothers
▪ Sam Hunt
How to get tickets
Tickets go on sale at 8 a.m. Dec. 9 and vary by show. For instance, tickets for some of the bigger, more current names like Sam Hunt, Lady A and Jake Owen the range runs from $55 to $40. Some of the vintage acts, like the Oak Ridge Boys are $25.
Tickets are available via the Strawberry Festival website at flstrawberryfestival.com/.
This story was originally published November 12, 2021 at 2:39 PM with the headline "Who’s playing the Strawberry Festival? Country acts and rock throwbacks taking the stage."
