Floyd Small Town Summer: Music with Five Mile Mountain Road and Darrell Scott Bluegrass Band
Venue: Warren G. Lineberry Memorial Park, Floyd
Organizations: Darrell Scott, Five Mile Mountain Road, Floyd Small Town Summer
Date: Thursday, July 5, 2018
Time: 6:00 - 10:00 PM
Event Types: Music, Food, Miscellaneous, Family Friendly
Cost: Free
Description:
The Town of Floyd continues the 2018 Floyd Small Town Summer series with Music In The Park featuring Five Mile Mountain Road and the Darrell Scott Bluegrass Band on Thursday, July 5, 2018 at Warren G. Lineberry Memorial Park.

Five Mile Mountain Road is a Franklin County, VA-based Old Time, Bluegrass and classic Country band with an emphasis on music for dancing.

With front man Billy Hurt sawing the fiddle, Five Mile Mountain Road is known throughout the region for superb dance tunes and world-class instrumentation. Seth Boyd (banjo & guitar), Brennen Ernst (guitar & banjo), and Steven Dowdy (upright bass) round out the group’s lineup. Named after one of Franklin County’s signature rural byways, the group is one of the best up and coming bands around. All the members of Five Mile Mountain Road have had experience playing with other well-known bands.

Link: https://www.facebook.com/fivemilemountainroad

Darrell Scott became one of the more successful country songwriters of the late '90s and early 2000s, placing songs with the biggest names in country music, including several major chart hits. Garth Brooks, the Dixie Chicks, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, and many others recorded his work. At the same time, he worked consistently as a studio musician and released a series of his own solo albums. He has collaborated with Steve Earle, Sam Bush, Emmylou Harris, John Cowan, Verlon Thompson, Guy Clark, Tim O'Brien, Kate Rusby, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Mary Gauthier, Dan Tyminski, and many others.

“I look like an insider because of everything I‘ve done, but I always felt like an outsider,” Darrell Scott says. “And that’s important—to be an outsider.”

He’s also a master. Witness his ability to make just about any instrument talk, listen to his vocals and songwriting to hear him contain every emotion between joy and pain within one verse in his singing and in his pen. Nowadays he’s taking the outsider role even more seriously; after 23 years in Nashville he spent the last year devoting himself to a self-sufficient lifestyle in the country while simultaneously putting together his best album in years.

Born in Eastern Kentucky to restless Appalachians who moved him Out West, raised by a country-music-worshiping single father, he studied poetry with Philip Levine, a celebrator of the working class who would later become the nation’s Poet Laureate. Scott has lived the songs he sings: he’s worked hard, told defiant truths, and never turned down the chance to pursue love. Along the way he has created an oeuvre of albums beloved by his devoted fans and written songs that became hits for everyone from Dixie Chicks to Travis Tritt as well as being covered by more than 70 others while never shying away from critiquing the industry. The multi-talented Grammy nominee has also been a member of Robert Plant’s Band of Joy, won the AMA Song of the Year, named ASCAP’s Songwriter of the Year and a host of other accolades.

Links:

• http://www.darrellscott.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/darrellscott

Bring the whole family and enjoy the beautiful Warren G Lineberry Park filled with music, movies and fun activities for the whole family. Featuring music, movies, face-painting, inflatables, games, food and beverage and special activities presented by a variety of community organizations!

The Small Town Summer Event Series is free and open to the public.

Grab your lawn chair and/or blanket.

Some of the community organizations partnering to provide activities include Blue Mountain School, FloydJAMS, Young Life, Floyd Montessori, Floyd County High School SCA, Plenty!, Springhouse Community School, Cub Scout Pack 36, The Floyd Center for the Arts, Healthy Floyd, Preserve Floyd and the Girl Scouts.

The park will be open and access provided to the public starting at 6:00 pm on all Floyd Small Town Summer events.

For more information, visit: http://floydsmalltownsummer.com/ or https://www.facebook.com/floydsmalltownsummer/.