Every summer, 10,000 Lakes Festival is one Jacksonville’s most well known festivals. The festival was started in 1978 after the city’s residents decide they wanted a huge celebration in the ample city parks. The very inception of 10,000 Lakes Festival is due to the planning of Kent Judge, who went through countless pages of details to make the tour a reality. The festival began as a small event, featuring a lot of local acts..

It took three years, but eventually 10,000 Lakes Festival began to establish itself as a premeir event The tour began to get some more established acts to perform, but still included the smaller that had been with the festival since the beginning. Hotel rooms in the city were soon being filled months in advance for the dates surrounding 10,000 Lakes Festival.

10,000 Lakes Festival is now one of the hottest events of the year, with tickets generally lasting only a couple of hours after being released to the public. Any group now considers it an honor to be asked to sing at the festival, and will try and break any prior commitments to make an appearance at the event. 10,000 Lakes Festival has come along way from the tiny event it started out as, and seems only to grow bigger and bigger every year.

The festival is the must see event of the year with more big name groups and more stages than ever before. 10,000 Lakes Festival’s tickets for their latest tour are available on TheSeats.com, along with the complete concert schedule and seating charts.