Big IV Productions directors Paul Levine and Lyle Williams continue to shape Florida’s music scene with plans to bring two festivals to Like Oak, Florida’s Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in 2010. Returning for its fourth consecutive year, Bear Creek Music & Arts Festival will take place November 12-14 and the inaugural Blackwater Music Festival will touch down August 26-28.

Voted “Florida’s Best Live Music Venue” in 2009 by readers of Florida Monthly Magazine, Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park is set against North Florida’s historic Suwannee River and offers 800 acres of pristine camping dotted with soaring Spanish moss covered oak and pine trees, cabin rentals, RV hookups, and a wide range of amenities including a restaurant, general store, showers, full service bathrooms and more.

For the first ever Blackwater Music Festival fans will be treated to three days of eclectic music with sets by Slightly Stoopid, STS9, Michael Franti & Spearhead, JJ Grey & MOFRO, The Disco Biscuits, G. Love, Galactic and more than 20 other celebrated bands. Up to date lineup and ticket information is available at: http://www.blackwatermusicfestival.com/

The critically acclaimed Bear Creek Music Festival will once again feature a massive lineup full of rock, jazz, funk, live electonica, and jam titans. Fan favorites Umphrey’s McGee return for two nights of headlining shows with other acts such as Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk, Lettuce, The New Mastersounds, Perpetual Groove, George Porter’s Running Pardners, Toubab Krewe, Zach Deputy and others also playing twice over the three day event. Other artists set to perform include Maceo Parker, Pee Wee Ellis, Fred Wesley, Bernie Worrell, DJ Logic, Soulive, The New Deal, Bonobo Live Band, Eliot Lipp and many more. Complete lineup, ticket info, and all details including Wednesday night’s Pre-Pre Festival and Thursday’s Pre-Festival Kick-Off Parties available here: http://www.bearcreekmusicfestival.com/2010/

Big IV Productions is owned and operated by Paul Levine and Lyle Williams, founders of the Bear Creek Music Festival and co-producers of the brand new Blackwater Music Festival with Blackwater Music, LLC (a company owned by Williams and Judy Van Zant / owner of Jacksonville Beach, FL’s Freebird Live). Deeply engrained in the Florida music scene, Big IV Productions is also partners in Tallahassee’s Engine Room as well as Suwannee River Jam, and producers of the Purple Hatter’s Ball.