Newcomers, familiar faces highlight SunFest’s music lineup

SunFest’s announcement of its music lineup usually comes toward the end of February, with several reminders leading up to the big reveal.

But for 2017, organizers decided to launch what SunFest executive director Paul Jamieson called “a midweek surprise.” That announcement came Wednesday.

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“We took a lot of measures to tighten things up, including not saying when it was going to happen,” Jamieson said of the lineup for the May 3-7 festival along the downtown West Palm Beach waterfront.

The lineup includes Weezer, Blink182, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Widespread Panic, Marshmello, Snoop Dogg, Ziggy Marley, Tori Kelly, Flo Rida, Fetty Wap, Steve Winwood, Night Ranger, St. Paul & The Broken Bones, 3 Doors Down, Rachel Platten, Christopher Cross, Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals and more.

Jamieson said there was one minor leak — Blink-182 reportedly included the SunFest date on its website along with other upcoming shows. It’s something that has happened in the past with other bands, and Blink-182 took the listing down. The festival winked at that incident on its Facebook page in the moments before Wednesday’s announcement, playing Blink-182’s music over a shot of the SunFest logo.

As for the actual lineup, Jamieson and festival spokeswoman Melissa Sullivan said the response has been positive.

“The festival has a different character every year,” Jamieson said. “We were fortunate on a lot of levels. We started early and got some people we’d been trying to get for years, like Widespread Panic — we haven’t had a jam band like that for years. And then there’s Flo Rida, and Fetty