South Padre International Music Festival

For the second year the South Padre International Music Festival will be held on South Padre Island, Texas. South Padre Island is a resort community in Cameron County, Texas. The town is located on South Padre Island, a barrier island along the Texas Gulf coast assessible via a causeway from the town of Port Isabel.

South Padre International Music Festival is an annual 3-day music festival held on South Padre Island, TX. South Padre International Music Festival also known as SPI Music Fest was first held on 2007 and marked the inaugural year of SPI Music Fest with almost 10,000 visitors throughout the weekend.

Organizers call it the Valley's biggest annual event. "Last year we didn't know who would show up because nothing like this has ever happened in the Valley before," said Tim Hayden, one of the event's founders. The festival producer is GamePlan Marketing & Events, a strategic marketing and advertising agency located in Austin, Texas.

Sixty-four bands across fourteen venues filled the island and rocked to an array of both national and international acts, encompassing a wide range of musical genres including country, funk, reggae, rock, indie, Latin rock, ska and jazz.

They brought the Musical acts like Grupo Fantasma, Robert Earl Keen, Robert Randolph & the Family Band, Los Amigos Invisibles, Jumbo, Reckless Kelly, Two Tons of Steel, Eric Hanke, Third Coast, Airline, Bongodogs, Hope for the Stars, Slim Richey, Stereo Kitsch and Espina.

The festival starts rocking on Friday, October 31, 2008 at 4PM and ends Sunday, November 2, 2008 around 4PM on the Island.


2008 Lineup

1. Willie Nelson & Family
   
2. Ghostland Observatory
3. Foghat
4. Los Lonely Boys
5. Steel Pluse
6. Blue Oyster Cult
7. Alejandro Escovedo
8. Los Amigos Invisibles
9. Grupo Fantasma
10. Fastball
11. Guy Forsyth
12. 60 Tigers
13. Del Castillo
14. Boombox
15. Vallejo
16. Nakia & His Southern Cousins
17. Sara Hickman
18. Brownout
19. The Last Vegas
20. Paula Nelson Band
21. Ginger Leigh
22. Twanguero
23. Suzanna Choffel
24. Big Burn
25. Bongodogs
26. Eric Hanke
27. James Speer
28. Meridianwest
29. Stewart Mann & The Statesboro Revue
30. Pelican West
31. Airline
32. Phillip Thomas Kellogg
33. Bree Stevens
34. Johnny Mac
35. Lauren Ashley
36. J.Micheal Lafferty
37. Third Coast
38. Rumtide
39. Jake Cortez
40. Danny Green
41. Carrie Elkin
42. Danny Schmidt
43. Sarah Pierce
44. Erin Ivey
45. Miami Mami
46. Liberal
47. Dog Men Poets
48. "On The Road Side" All-Stars
49. Port - O - Call

Tickets can be purchased through Ticketmaster.com. The average temperature for South Padre Island during the last week of October and the first week of November is 80' (average high) and 66' (average low).