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Sit Down with the Producer: James Cornett – Music Fan From a Music Festival Family

James Cornett of the Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park (photo courtesy Live For Live Music)

When the Spirit of Suwannee Music Park last spring announced the dates for its 2018 Hulaween Music Festival, it was a eagerly awaited announcement about the latest in more than 30 years of live events and music education from the family business James Cornett leads today.

As President and CEO of Cornett’s Spirit of the Suwannee, Inc., James carries on what parents Bob and Miss Jean started as bluegrass festivals back in their native Kentucky. It was the quintessential “family business” with James, just 12 at the time, selling tickets and picking up trash.

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Soulshine Farm Music Festival: Sweet as Tupelo Honey

By Barry Bluth

Soulshine Farm Music Fest is a three-day, homegrown, mountain top “bluegrass” music festival tucked on the side of Green Mountain, North Carolina. The festival grew out of a birthday celebration with Mac Arnold of Muddy Waters fame being the original band. Today, it’s as fun as modern music festivals can be.

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Soulshine Farm Music Fest: A Mountaintop Camping Feast for the Senses

By Barry Bluth

Soulshine is a song that has always meant something very special to me. I’m not really sure when it began, but it’s been one of those songs with meaning that struck a chord with me. Maybe it came at Lockn Festival, when my wife, Jen, and I stood about 10 feet from Warren Haynes as he serenaded us with Soulshine into Tupelo Honey back into Soulshine. That show was the most expensive ticket I’d ever laid my hands on, but it was her birthday, after all.  It was a memorable moment that could not have been sweeter.

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Peaking at FloydFest in the Blue Ridge Mountains

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Image courtesy Richmond Times-DispatchReview by Jam Band Purist

FloydFest is billed as “five days of Music, Magic, and Mountains” featuring adventure, vendors, food, brews and more than 100 artists. It helps that campers enjoy that same experience. After all, when camping atop a mountain – the Blue Ridge Mountains, no less – the experience peaks like the altitude itself.

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OkeeFest: A Florida Music Festival Feast for the Senses

The main stage at Okeechobee Music Festival (image courtesy Adam McCullough.com)

We make no secret at RoadtripMojo that our first love is jam bands. We’ll travel almost a thousand miles – and fly even farther – to see bands that turn a three-minute song into a 15-minute improvisational frenzy. But when an event like Okeechobee Music Festival springs up each year 90 miles from our South Florida homes, a two-hour drive is a no-brainer. Truth be told, OMF is heavy into electronic dance music, or EDM. But with some “real” bands on hand, like Turquaz, Lettuce, Big Gigantic, Slightly Stoopid, Trombone Shorty, and a few others, we figured it was worth a day trip. Man, was it ever…

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