Lynyrd Skynyrd named to Florida Artists Hall of Fame

Just a few weeks after playing a concert in Tallahassee, the members of Lynyrd Skynyrd learned that their legacy is going to stick around in the state capital.

The band, which formed in the early 1960s on Jacksonville's Westside and went on to a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame career, is being inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame. A plaque honoring the band will be placed in the rotunda of the state capitol building, although no date for the ceremony has been announced.

Visual artists Roger Bansemer of St. Augustine and Xavier Cortada of Miami and funk musician George Clinton, who is from Tallahassee, were also inducted into the Hall, which was formed in 1986 and has more than 50 inductees. Others with Northeast Florida ties who are already in the hall include Ray Charles, Rita Coolidge, Augusta Savage and Johnny Tillotson.

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Lynyrd Skynyrd is on tour with ZZ Top this summer and played at Tallahassee's Donald Tucker Civic Center on April 5. The two includes two other Florida stops, on Sunday, May 12, at Busch Gardens in Tampa and June 7 at the Rock the Country festival in Reddick.

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