When the Skies Open Up: Embracing the Mud and Mayhem at a Rainy Music Festival
You can’t say we weren’t warned. A week out from the Suwanee Spring Reunion music festival, the weather app warned that it would be wet. Days out, it warned there’d be up to a 90% chance of rain.
Here we are, socked in with that spot-on forecast drenching the campsite. But the tent is dry, and the day’s music hasn’t started yet. We have a poncho – damned if we’re gonna get locked in the tent.
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The wilderness of reality stretched wide before me, but I had no intention of crossing it to the other side. I was on a journey, an unholy pilgrimage to the heart of chaos, the Hulaween Music Festival at the Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park. A cacophonous celebration of the bizarre, the absurd, the mystical – all set to a spectacular set list four days long. It was a place where the laws of physics, reason, and sobriety held no sway. This was Gonzo territory.
About 20 years ago during a roadtrip through northern Georgia, we happened upon Payne’s Creek / Lake Hartwell Army Corps of Engineers campground. As RV campers, it was our first experience with “COE” campgrounds; we’d never even heard of them before. It was better than most other campgrounds we’d ever visited. All sites were large and true and plumb and square as a campsites can be. The woods were thick with flora and the bathhouses were clean and well-kept.
Coming off two highly-praised, sold-out shows that belied the ravages of the pandemic to deliver its best festivals ever – FloydFest 21 Odyssey and FloydFest 22 Heartbeat, COO Sam Calhoun from Across The Way Productions and his team are at it again. Now in their new forever home – Festival Park –