Organizers of the Wanee Festival updated the event’s website with news the festival will not be held at The Spirit Of The Suwannee Music Park in 2019. As Jambands.com notes, the statement does not make it clear whether the event will take place at all next year.
The Wanee Music Festival was first held in 2005 at The Spirit Of The Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, Florida and returned to the site each spring since. From 2005 – 2014, the event was headlined by The Allman Brothers Band. The last four installments have featured such acts as Widespread Panic, Bob Weir, Gregg Allman and the Trey Anastasio Band a top the lineup.
Organizers site the weekend the event was set to take place in 2019 as the reason why the event will not be held in 2019 at The Spirit Of The Suwannee Music Park. “The traditional weekend for the Wanee Music Festival in 2019 falls on the same weekend as Good Friday, Easter and Passover. It has been the Wanee Festival experience in the past that many of our regular festival goers decide not to attend on this weekend, due to the holiday being one that many choose to spend with their family, friends and religious faith,” reads a portion of the note from Wanee organizers. The statement asks festival goers to “stay tuned for future Wanee announcements.”
