Like many music festival producers, Paul Levine didn’t chart his career path. It formed over time, culminating in his role as a producer of such events as Suwannee Hulaween, Bear Creek, the Aura Festival, Fool’s Paradise, and Purple Hatter’s Ball and his role at one of the most celebrated RV and festival camping destinations, the Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, Florida. It started when Levine was a student at Lehigh University outside Philadelphia from 1987 to 1991. He’d travel to Grateful Dead shows throughout the Northeast. Having banked 100 or more shows, Levine found himself in his dorm room one day wondering how to get the Dead to play Lehigh?
RV owners like to invite family and friends to join them on their journeys. Then they plop their guests in a converted dinette or the sofabed and say, “G’night.” Come morning, their slumber is invaded with light and the patter of passersby. Privacy? What a quaint notion.
