The Tortuga Music Festival is coming back to Fort Lauderdale! Tickets go on sale at tomorrow (Friday, Nov. 7) at 10:00am for Rock The Ocean’s Third Annual Tortuga Music Festival taking place April 11-12, 2015 on Fort Lauderdale Beach. Produced and promoted by HUKA Entertainment, the two-day music and conservation festival on the ocean features over two dozen of the hottest artists in country, rock and roots music. Created together with the Rock the Ocean Foundation, the event serves to celebrate the festival’s oceanfront setting while raising awareness for issues impacting the world’s oceans, supporting marine research and conservation, and protecting of the festival’s namesake – the sea turtles that nest annually along South Florida’s Atlantic coast.

The early-bird tickets can be purchased for $139 for a two-day pass ($579 for two-day VIP and $979 for Super VIP) online at TortugaMusicFestival.com or by calling 877-987-6487. The early-bird ticket offer is an article of faith, since no performers have been named yet for Tortuga 2015. But in its first two years, the festival has brought in a solid lineup of country, blues, pop and indie-rock performers including Luke Bryan, Kenny Chesney, Eric Church, Jake Owen, Dierks Bentley, Sheryl Crow, Train, Brantley Gilbert, Grace Potter, the Avett Brothers, Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite, Ziggy Marley and Slightly Stoopid.

Additionally, Tortuga Music Festival fans who may have missed the opportunity to purchase merchandise at previous events will now have a chance starting today, with the launch of the festival’s online merchandise store at www.tortugamusicfestival.com. (Merchandise supplies are limited.)

Three stages of music will surround the festival’s centerpiece: the Conservation Village. Curated by Rock the Ocean founder - and former Fort Lauderdale resident - Chris Stacey, Conservation Village will offer interactive, educational experiences from such organizations as the Guy Harvey Ocean Foundation, Shark Savers, Sea Turtle Oversight Protection, Florida Fishing Academy and Bonefish Tarpon Trust. “The concept of marrying music and conservation has proven to be a winner,” Stacey told SouthFlorida.com. “With this year’s event, we hope to take our conservation awareness to new highs.”

We can’t wait to hear more about this great event that is quickly becoming a Fort Lauderdale Beach tradition! See you on the beach in April!