Located between Tampa and Lakeland, Plant City is home to the Florida Strawberry Festival, a uniquely Florida Festival that offers everything imaginable, with dollops of cream on top!
Offering fresh strawberries, buckets of cream, together with headline entertainment, rides, agriculture, artwork and exhibitors and crafts along with free acts throughout the eleven day celebration, taking place from March 3 through March 13, 2023.
The latest news is that the entertainment lineup for the 2023 Florida Strawberry Festival has been released.
Twenty headline artists perform every year on the Wish Farms Soundstage and it is one of the more popular attractions at the event.
The lineup is as follows:
Thursday, March 2, 2023
Jimmy Sturr & His Orchestra @ 10:30 a.m. (free with paid gate admission)
The Oak Ridge Boys Front Porch Singin' Tour @ 3:30 p.m.
Friday, March 3, 2023
Willie Nelson @ 3:30 p.m. Halestorm @ 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 4, 2023 Sara Evans @ 3:30 p.m.
Sunday, March 5, 2023
The Gatlin Brothers @ 3:30 p.m.
Monday, March 6, 2023
Neal McCoy @ 3:30 p.m. Josh Turner @ 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, March 7, 2023
Roots & Boots feat. Aaron Tippin, Collin Raye and Sammy Kershaw @ 3:30 p.m. CeCe Winans @ 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
Tanya Tucker @ 3:30 p.m.
Thursday, March 9, 2023
Bill Haley Jr. & The Comets @ 10:30 a.m. Tommy James & The Shondells @ 3:30 p.m. for King & Country @ 7:30 p.m.
Friday, March 10, 2023
Wayne Newton @ 3:30 p.m. Train @ 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 11, 2023
Sawyer Brown @ 3:30 p.m. Keith Sweat @ 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, March 12, 2023
Country Gold Tour, featuring Leroy Van Dyke, T.G. Sheppard, Mandy Barnett and T. Graham Brown @ 3:30 p.m. Lynyrd Skynyrd @ 7:30 p.m.
Tickets go on sale Thursday, Dec. 8 at 8 a.m. at www.flstrawberryfestival.com, over the phone at 813-754-1996, or in person at the Amscot Main Ticket Office located at 2209 W. Oak Avenue in Plant City.
Guests come from near and far to enjoy exhibits of agriculture, commerce, industry, livestock, fine arts, horticulture, and crafts. The fabric of American life is woven into the Festival through social events, contests, youth developmental programs, top-name entertainment, and parades with glorious floats and high-stepping marching bands.
The Florida Strawberry Festival represents a piece of Americana, a time in American history when fairs and festivals brought communities together through celebrations of their harvests. It has continued to grow in popularity year after year through the preservation of this heritage.
Central to its focus, the Festival continues to preserve and enhance the agricultural and historical legacy of the Florida strawberry.
To book your tickets check out the official website.
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