Ocoee Music Festival headliners announced

The festival will return with 80s rock night on Friday, March 10, and country night on Saturday, March 11.

By Annabelle Sikes
| 11:14 a.m. December 13, 2022

West Orange Times & Observer
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The Ocoee Music Festival is back and the headliners for 2023 have been announced.

City of Ocoee Mayor Rusty Johnson announced the performers at the Jolly Jamboree on Saturday, Dec. 10.

The festival will return with 80s rock night on Friday, March 10, and country night on Saturday, March 11.

Rock night will feature headliners including Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Night Ranger and The Mavericks, while country night will showcase Niko Moon, Chris Janson, Chapel Hart, Walker Montgomery, and Mark Houghton.

The OMF, formerly known as the Ocoee Founders' Day Festival, is "dedicated to celebrating Ocoee’s small town traditions with music, community, small businesses and fun," according to the city's website.

Over the past 27 years, the festival has grown from a few hundred guests to 20,000 attendees.

Locals will have the opportunity to enjoy an array of festival foods, carnival rides for kids, a unique marketplace, car show, beer garden and epic musical performances.

For more information and updates, visit the festival's website here.

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Annabelle Sikes

News Editor Annabelle Sikes was born in Boca Raton and moved to Orlando in 2018 to attend the University of Central Florida. She graduated from UCF in May 2021 with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and a minor in sociology. Her past journalism experiences include serving as a web producer at the Orlando Sentinel, a reporter at The Community Paper, managing editor for NSM Today, digital manager at Centric Magazine and as an intern for the Orlando Weekly.