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OutKast, Vampire Weekend coming to Big Guava Music Festival

Times staff
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Updated: January 15, 2014 at 05:17 PM

Live Nation and the Florida State Fair Authority announced the lineup for an ambitious live music festival headlined by OutKast, Vampire Weekend and Foster The People at the fairgrounds May 2-4.

The Big Guava Music Festival, formerly the Funshine Music Festival, will have four stages, food trucks, thrill rides and craft beers and a packed three-day lineup that also includes Slightly Stoopid, Cake, Tegan And Sara and the Violent Femmes

Early bird tickets are on sale for $99 at bigguavafest.com.

The rest of the lineup is:

•Girl Talk

•Earl Sweatshirt

• Grouplove

• Haim

• Twenty One Pilots

• Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Experience

• Chance The Rapper

• Walk The Moon

• Blue October

• Band Of Skulls

• ZZ Ward

• Ms Mr

• Timeflies

• Hoodie Allen

• American Authors

• Deap Vally

• St. Lucia

• Smallpools

• Bear Hands

• Morning Parade

• Kitten

• Magic Man

• Jacuzzi Boys

• Gringo Star

• Unlikely Candidates

• Vic Mensa

• Terraplane Sun

• Jessica Hernandez And The Deltas

• Fly Union

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