It’s a big year for fans of Will’s Pub – the bar celebrates 20 years.
**UPDATE** Looks like the Will’s Pub anniversary is a full weekend extravaganza that also includes festivities on Friday-Saturday, Sept. 11-12, including massive reunion shows. Days break down like this:
Friday, Sept. 11
My Hotel Year (sold out)
Saturday, Sept. 12
Bughead, Junkie Rush, Gargamel!
Sunday, Sept. 13
To do it right on the last day, they’ve dedicated Sunday, Sept. 13 to an all-day party from 2 p.m. to 2 a.m. and so far, it features more than 20 amazing Florida acts that are either currently crushing it or else revived for this special occasion. Here’s everyone announced so far:
- Thomas Wynn & the Believers
- The Spitvalves
- Have Gun Will Travel
- The Sh-Booms
- The Legendary JC’s
- Richard Sherfey & All God’s Children
- The WildTones
- Golden Pelicans
- The Ludes
- The Hamiltons
- Brown Bag Brass Band
- The Woolly Bushmen
- Grave Return
- Panther Camp
- Teen Agers
- Wet Nurse
- DJ BMF
- Christina Wagner
- Tanner Jones (You Blew It!)
- Princeton’s Guff
- Bithlo Rising
- Jim O’Rourke & the Rugs
The bands on Sunday will be spread across three stages (Lil Indies, Will’s Pub, the “dirty laundry” pavilion), and if you show up early, your $20 admission includes beer tastings from 2-5 p.m. representing great Florida breweries in true Will’s Pub craft-beer-forward fashion. These are the breweries involved so far: Cigar City, Brew Hub, Crooked Can Brewing Company, Two Henrys Brewing Company, Orlando Brewing, Orange Blossom Brewing Co., Ten 10 Brewing Company, Redlight Redlight, Red Cypress Brewery and Cask & Larder.
FYI: All of this info is on the very comprehensive Facebook event page where you can also get updates, like the possibility of a special T-shirt designed for the occasion and info on vendors and food trucks participating in the event. If the T-shirts look anywhere near as rad as the poster for the event, I’m already sold on one:
This article appears in Jul 29 – Aug 4, 2015.
