Allman, Widespread Panic headline Wanee Music Festival

   It's still three and a half months away and a couple of hundred miles away, but the 2015 Wanee Music Festival is worth getting excited about.
   The 11th annual festival is set for April 16-18 in Live Oak. The lineup that's been announced so far includes three former members of the Allman Brothers Band, all playing separately with their own groups: Gregg Allman, Jaimoe’s Jasssz Band and Butch Trucks & Very Special Friends.

Gregg Allman

   Widespread Panic is the nominal headliner, but there are tons of great acts and big names, including Cheap Trick, Earth, Wind & Fire, Gov't Mule, JJ Grey & Mofro, Hot Tuna, Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk and supergroup the Word, which includes Robert Randolph, John Medseki and Luther DIckinson.
   Also slated to appear are Oteil & Friends, Galactic, Zappa Plays Zappa, Leftover Salmon featuring Bill Payne (of Little Feat), Yonder Mountain String Band, Rich Robinson of the Black Crowes, Raw Oyster Cult,  Dragon Smoke, the Revivalists, Home At Last, The Nth Power Performs Steely Dan, Tea Leaf Green, Bobby Lee Rogers Trio, Pink Talking Fish, Eric Lindell & Company, Royal Southern Brotherhood, Twiddle, Natural Child, Jacob Jeffries Band and Juke.
   The festival is in Suwannee Music Park, which is a gorgeous place for music festival.
   Advance tickets are on sale now, and if you're sure you want to go you might want to get tickets soon. Three-day tickets are $195 plus "applicable fees" but the price will go up later. Tickets include three nights of primitive camping and music from 12:30 p.m. on Thursday and full days of music on Friday and Saturday.
   VIP tickets are $499 (again plus applicable fees) and include a whole lot of extra stuff, including catered meals and  access to private restrooms.
   For tickets and more information, go to waneefestival.com.  

Phillip Phillips added to Tampa's Funshine Festival

   American Idol winner Phillip Phillips has been added to the already impressive lineup for the Funshine Music Festival at the Florida State Fairgrounds in Tampa.

Phillip Phillips

   Phillips will play Friday, May 3. Train, Smashing Pumpkins and Cheap Trick will also perform that evening.
   The festival continues over the two following days, with such big-name acts as Styx, REO Speedwagon and the Wallflowers. There are more than 30 acts overall.
   Tickets are on sale now. They're $20 through April 26 and $25 after that. Three-day tickets are $49. Those tickets are good for general admission to all stages. You may have to sit on the grass for shows at the Live Nation Amphitheatre with those tickets, but you you can get reserved seats for single shows in the amphitheater for $40-$55.
   Check Livenation.com for tickets.

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Aerosmith, Cheap Trick to play Tampa

Aerosmith's "Global Warming Tour" will perform Dec. 11 at the Tampa Bay Times Forum, the band has announced.  

The original lineup of Steven Tyler (vocals), Joe Perry (guitar), Brad Whitford (guitar), Tom Hamilton (bass) and Joey Kramer (drums) will be performing songs from their new album “Music From Another Dimension,” due out November 6 on Columbia Records. 

Plenty of past hits — "Sweet Emotion," "Walk This Way," "Dream On," the silly stuff the band recorded in the 1990s — will likely be performed as well. 
 
Cheap Trick opens .  

Tickets go on sale 10 a.m. Monday (Sept. 24).  

www.livenation.com/aerosmith 

—AP Photo: Singer Steven Tyler, left, and lead guitarist Joe Perry, right, of Aerosmith, perform at the Sweden Rock Festival in Solvesborg, Sweden.