Suwannee Hulaween

Suwannee Hulaween is an annual music festival with a Halloween theme held since 2013 at the Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, FL The festival is hosted and headlined by The String Cheese Incident. Suwannee Hulaween is produced by Silver Wrapper and Purple Hat Productions ^[1][2]

Overview

The festival, hosted by the The String Cheese Incident and produced by Silver Wrapper and Purple Hat Productions, is held outdoors on five stages and allows the attendees to camp onsite for the weekend. The Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park campground is over 800 acres and offers a wide range of options for camping, RV with full hook ups to cabin rentals to primitive camping. The crowd can be considered a mix of young dance enthusiasts, older jam fans, Dead Heads and those in between. Attendees are encouraged to dress in costume befitting a Halloween dance party. Suwannee Hulaween roams between the five stages: the Main Stage (where The String Cheese Incident plays its two sets each evening, followed by additional headliners. The Amphitheater (another big venue and stage to accommodate additional headliners), Spirit Lake (home to the art installations and silent disco, and where the late night party swings until 5 am.). Finally the nearby Campground Stage (a terrific smaller spot presenting Florida-based bands). The lineup includes approximately 40 artists each year.

As of 2014 Suwanee Hulaween has gone from a three-day to a four day long festival. Even though the official festival is only three days long, many festival goers arrive early for the Thursday Pre-party Kickoff. Which features less well known artists and is typically the night before the opening day of the festival.

Suwannee Hulaween is generally held either the weekend before Halloween or the weekend after. In addition to the headliners The String Cheese Incident , the festival has featured performances by past headliners EOTO, Dumpstaphunk, Joe Russo's Almost Dead, Primus, Pretty Lights, STS9, GRiZ, Big Gigantic, Thievery Corporation, and Slightly Stoopid.^[3]

Line up by year

2013

The 2013 festival held October 31 – November 2 featuring The String Cheese Incident (3 nights), STS9 (late night), Big Gigantic (late night), Emancipator, Conspirator, Steve Kimock & Friends, Suwannee Bluegrass Surprise, Brock Butler, Future Rock, Moon Taxi, Van Ghost, Jennifer Hartswick, Applebutter Express^[4][5][6]

2014

The 2014 festival held October 31 – November 2 featuring The String Cheese Incident (3 nights), Thievery Corporation, Big Gigantic, Beats Antique, The New Deal, Shpongle (Simon Posford DJ set), Joe Russo's Almost Dead, Emancipator, Greensky Bluegrass, The Dean Ween Group, EOTO, Keller Williams & Friends, Conspirator, Future Rock, Suwannee Bluegrass Surprise, Nahko and Medicine for the People, Rising Appalachia, Rob Garza (DJ Set), Kung Fu, The Soul Rebels, Judah and the Lion, Van Ghost, The Heavy Pets, Ghost Owl featuring Perpetual Groove members Albert Matt and Adam, Greenhouse Lounge, Cope, Strung Like A Horse, Jonathan Scales Fourchestra, Shane Pruitt Band, Suenalo, Dustin Thomas, Billy Gilmore’s Jam, Grandpa’s Cough Medicine Beartoe and Post Pluto.^[7][8]

Silent Disco performances included Thibault, Vlad the Inhaler, MZG, Uprise, Ployd, Lumagrove, Taylor Shockley, Rocks ‘N’ Blunts, David Preston, LAVA, Beat Thief Inc, Marc Freccaro^[9]

2014 introduced a Thursday night pre-party on Oct 30th which hosted Electron (featuring Marc and Aaron of Conspirator and The Disco Biscuits, Mike Greenfield from Lotus, and Brothers Past guitarist Tommy Hamilton), as well as Particle, Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band, MZG and Modern Measure.^[10][9]

2015

The 2015 festival held 10/30 - 11/1 featuring The String Cheese Incident (3 nights), Pretty Lights, Primus, Chance the Rapper & Social Experiment, STS9, ODESZA, Slightly Stoopid, GRiZ, Lettuce, Railroad Earth, Papadosio, The Floozies, The Polish Ambassador, Sam Bush Band, The New Mastersounds, Manic Science (Manic Focus x Break Science), Future Rock, Michal Menert, Dopapod, Goldfish, Elephant Revival, The Nth Power, TAUK, Stick Figure, Little Hurricane, Earphunk, Sister Sparrow and the Dirtybirds, Big Wild, Turbo Suit, The Heavy Pets, Shook Twins, Greenhouse Lounge, Thomas Wynn & The Believers, The Heard, Modern Measure, Jon Stickley Trio, Catfish Alliance, Post Pluto, Master Radical, Great Peacock, Billy Gilmore & Friends, The Hip Abduction, Beebs & Her Money Makers, Come Back Alice, Displace, Juke, Sqeedlepuss, The Groove Orient, S.P.O.R.E., Flat Land, Bath Salt Zombies, Morning Fatty, Holey Miss Moley ^[11]

2015 continued the Thursday Pre-Party Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, Dumpstaphunk, Eoto, Herd of Watts ^[12]

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