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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.

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Okeechobee Music Festival to Ignite Florida Night

Photo by Ivan Meneses for Insomniac Events

Central Florida is home to Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park, the state’s first “Dark Sky Park” designated by the International Dark Sky Association. Yet, about 30 miles to the south on the first weekend in March, the night skies will light up bright as day when the Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival returns for its annual romp.

From the art to the woods to a line-up that includes jam, electronic, hip-hop, rap, R&B, dance, dubstep, disco, funk, indie, house, and techno, this fest is an evolution in progress.

In this Sit-Down with the Producer, RoadtripMojo posed some questions to fest cofounder Rechulski. We asked what’s new at OkeeFest – and what will never change – and what festival goers and RVers will discover at the fest’s sixth run…   (GA and VIP ticket and camping packages are currently available for purchase at www.okeechobeefest.com)

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Win Big With Ryobi Tools Camping Hack Giveaway

We’re at it again. Want some stuff for your deep woods or music festival campsite or around the yard or patio? How about a bunch of @ryobitoolsusa Camping Hack gear? Whether you have full hookups or are boondocking deep in the woods, battery and solar power simplify camping chores.

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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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Camping Memories Made Where You Park It

We were sitting in our backyard recently and I noticed something I’d never noticed before. Two of our palms were perfectly spaced to hang our hammock. A nearby was a spot perfect for a fire pit. Trees for the hammock, a safe spot for a fire pit, and plenty of room to sprawl. This is stuff I look for when camping. Why had I never thought of it in our own backyard?

So that got me thinking… How important is the site to the camping experience? When we called Camp Venice Retreat in November to book a week’s stay, I tried to cut straight to the chase with the manager, Tamara. I’d eyed their site map, but those things can be so deceiving. Often not drawn to scale and designed to make every site look spacious enough for Will Smith’s monster rig, you don’t know if the site they’re offering is the spatial equivalent of a parking spot at the outlet mall.

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Tale of Two Industries: Concerts & Camping Amid Coronavirus

The coronavirus > COVID-9 earlier this year delivered a one-two punch to patrons of the RV camping and live music festival sectors. It also presented in stark contrast the tale of those two industries and how different they are when faced with a potentially existential threat. Almost immediately, both the live entertainment and the camping and recreational vehicle (RV) industries got hammered. Both were shut down cold. No concerts, no camping, no club shows, no festivals.

However, those similarities soon ended and traveled different roads. As the pandemic slogged on and science and consumers came to understand it better, what was murky soon cleared. Those denizens of both RVing and music festivals realized the sectors had nothing in common and the longer-term impact upon these two unique categories couldn’t be more different.

Live music still struggles – horribly. RVing is stronger than ever. How governments, consumers, and the respective industries responded reflect how little we knew then, and how much we think we know now. 

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