Rockin’ RVing & Music Festival Camping
Psychedelic rides are nothing new to the Grateful Dead or music festival scene. Whether VW microbuses or the original Further itself, bright rides are as common as trippy tunes. But Sugaree, a converted GMC school bus, puts a vivid new spin on the music festival RV / tour bus. Dad David McQuaid calls it their “schoolie conversion into our psychedelic hippie bus.”
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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?
Music festivals, concerts, camping folk and RVers have an undeniably friendly, good-karma vibe. After all, they don’t call the RV group “Good Sam Club” by happenstance. But producers and activists are looking to turn vibes into action. From organizations like HeadCount to community causes like Habitat for Humanity, organizers are determined to make it easy to transform people into supporters.
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