The Road to Brainquility Begins
Photo by Kade Martin at Concert Hopper from Brainquility 2019
Art work by @MastroNYC
Brainquility Music Festival is an annual music and arts festival at Spirit of Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, Florida. The event will be returning to Suwannee over the weekend of February 6-8, 2020 and will be bringing along a few changes this year. Brainquility originated much further south than Live Oak in Safety Harbor, Florida back in 2018. After a successful first year, curators moved the festival to Spirit of Suwannee Music Park to give the festival some room to grow over the next few years. The festival’s first year at Suwannee in 2019 went off with a bang and curators are now expanding from a two-day to a full three-day event - which allows attendees the opportunity to soak in more music, art installations, and those sweet Suwannee vibes. Brainquility Music Festival is a festival unlike any other than offers attendees the opportunity to dive into a full immersive experience where no artists performances are overlapping each other! Curators at OnTap Music are ensuring that Brainquility leaves a legendary mark in the festival scene by designing an entertainment schedule that allows attendees the opportunity to truly relax and soak in all the extraordinary magic around them without missing a single beat from any of the artists performing.
Brainquility Music Festival released their lineup for the 2020 event in two separate phases to build up the hype this year. The initial lineup blew all expectations about the festivals out of the water and set the stage that the curators mean business this year. To kick off a fiery first wave, Brainquility announced The Floozies would be headlining. In case you haven’t heard, The Floozies are the funkiest electronic funk duo from Kansas to ever grace a festival lineup. Their live performances are a supersonic ride through space powered by neck-breaking, booty-shaking experimental funk. The first wave of the lineup also featured some hottest up and coming EDM artists, such as Maddy O’Neal, Megan Hamilton, and Side Trak’d. After announcing an epic first wave, Brainiacs were left on the edge of their seats wondering how they could possibly top their first phase of the lineup release. Shortly after, OnTap Music came in with the sidewinder and blew everyone away with the finalized lineup. Additions to the lineup include Manic Focus, Justin Martin, Bells and Robes, and MZG. The expansion of the festival to encompass a full third day allows for the festival to curate three major headliners. The Brainquility 2020 headliners are The Floozies, Manic Focus, and Justin Martin which is the perfect representation of brainiacs and their musical interests. The headliners are the perfect mash up of jazzy, experimental funk meets neck-breaking, deep dub-step beats. Brainquility Music Festival 2020 is set to be the funkiest way to dust off those dancin’ shoes and kick-off your festival season.
Brainquility being nestled into the beautiful Spanish moss drenched trees of Spirit of Suwannee Music Park allows attendees to relax and submerge themselves into a one of a kind camping experience. Not many other venues sprawl across eight hundred acres and include a river with fishing, canoeing, and bird watching available on sight. To top it all off, curators are bringing some activities and workshops to Brainquility to ensure all attendees are occupied at all times. In between the music, brainiacs will have the opportunity to try their hand at glassblowing, go on a scavenger hunt across the park, learn how to paint in a water painting class, or even try playing disc golf against some of the artists performing! Though the music schedule does not have any overlapping sets, you will need to be an early riser if you’re wanting to pack in activities and see all the music every day. Between these workshops designed to put you in tune with your inner self and the over-the-top music lineup, brainiacs will definitely be getting a fully immersive and liberating experience at Brainquility 2020.
Brainquility Music Festival tickets are currently on sale and available through the Festival Ticketing website. Tier 2 Tickets are currently available for $175 plus taxes and servicing fees. Brainquility also offers a reduced ticket fee for kids that’s only fifty bucks! If you’re looking to maybe upscale your stay at Suwannee a little bit and trade the tent for a cabin - Cabin & Golf Cart packages are still available starting at $900 for the weekend. This package includes a one-bedroom cabin and a golf cart to provide ease of transportation around the park. For more information on their cabin package, you can visit their website here. Before checking out - remember to hop over to the “add-ons” page and check out all the sweet amenities that Spirit of Suwannee Music Park has to offer. Attendees have the opportunity to add on extra passes to their tickets for bringing their pets, traveling in an RV, entering the campgrounds with your vehicle, and even early entry! Spirit of Suwannee Music Park is a one of kind festival venue that allows attendees to truly come and stake out their campsite as early as they would like! Campers can come and set up their home away from home as early as Sunday before the festival for a fee of sixty bucks. With Spirit of Suwannee Music Park sprawling over eight hundred acres in Northern Florida, the park offers plenty of space to explore and wander around enjoying one’s self before the event even begins. If there is one thing we always highly suggest it is definitely buying a few extra days of camping at Suwannee - you will absolutely never regret it! For more information on Brainquility Music Festival, you can check out their website, Instagram, and Facebook pages. To stay up to date with our journey to Brainquility and our adventures around the festival, be sure you are following Concert Hopper on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. As always - stay hydrated, if you see something then say something, and we hope to see you at a festival this year! Stay groovy, friends.