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Levine: Dynamic Resonate Suwannee to serve various musical tastes from SOSMP woods

Photo: Courtney Scout via Resonate Suwannee

When is a music festival more than people coming to experience a collection of acts? When it’s thrown amid 800 acres of north Florida woods. That’s Resonate Suwannee. RoadtripMojo had a chat with Paul Levine of Purple Hat Productions to discuss the upcoming Resonate Suwannee Festival. Slated for March 30-April 1, 2023, at the Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park, the third installment of the fest will pair up Essential Productions with headliner STS9, and SOSMP and Levine’s Purple Hat Productions.

Listen to the interview here.

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North Beach Music Festival Brings Jams to Miami Beach – Again

For jam band fans, brothers Gideon and Noah Plotnicki are good folk to follow. Their pedigree boasts a collection of stellar sets from Brooklyn to New Orleans. Drawing on success booking late-night shows at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and serving as talent buyer Brooklyn Comes Alive, in 2021 they brought the inaugural year North Beach Music Festival to a 1960s-era, Art Deco-styled amphitheater steps from the Atlantic, ensconced in palms – and for two nights of jam and funk last December – lit with a laser ceiling and awash in jams. Year two promises to amp it up.
In this recent Sit Down With the Producers, we caught up with the brothers to discuss their history, their philosophy and their plans for North Beach Year II  on December 9-11, 2022 in Miami Beach (listen to the discussion here).

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FloydFest Pumps the Music Festival Heartbeat

You could excuse Sam Calhoun if he gloats a bit about the success FloydFest Odyssey enjoyed earlier this year. Fresh off the fear of the pandemic, the festival, which had gone quiet like almost all others in 2020, returned loud, proud and pretty damn safe. Definitely worth boasting about.

While other fests remained locked down or overly cautious, Calhoun’s show – “FloydFest Odyssey 2021” – went on. Fans enjoyed Music. Magic. Mountains. in the hills of Virginia.

The odyssey didn’t end after the show. It seemed to endure after the closing act, like notes carrying through the hills of Virginia. One of the first to cancel in 2020, they were among the first to return with a “traditional” (no pods, no distancing) fest in 2021.

“The afterglow of getting through Odyssey is wild,” says Calhoun, producer with promoter Across-the-Way Productions.

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Faith, Grit Drive Music Festival Promoter Beyond Covid

When the lights went down and the bands hit the stage for a “podfest” in the overflow parking lot at Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in spring 2021, festival goers felt the return of something all new, yet familiar.

Coming on the tail end of the pandemic panic that shut down concerts, festivals and the economy at large for a hard year, pulling off Suwannee Spring Fling that March took a dose of faith.

It also took something else, said headliner Keller Williams. 

“Let me be the first to say it,” Williams said. “Beth Judy’s got balls.”

He was speaking about the park’s festival director, who had staged another in a growing list of successful and safe socially-distanced music festivals. Someone had to be first back. At that point, the park had done it twice already. They’ve marketed it as “a tradition reborn.”

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Win Big With Ryobi Tools Camping Hack Giveaway

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This kit includes the a P747 18V ONE+ Dual Function Inflator/Declator, RYI14SP 14W Foldable Solar Panels, a P755 18V ONE+ Workshop Blower, and a P5453 18V ONE+ 8” Chainsaw Kit. 

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