Venue: Warren G. Lineberry Memorial Park, Floyd
Organizations: Chance McCoy Band, Floyd Small Town Summer, Miss Tess & The Talkbacks
Date: Thursday, August 29, 2019
Time: 6:00 - 10:30 PM
Event Types: Music, Food, Miscellaneous, Family Friendly, Arts & Theatre, Charity
Cost: Free
Description:
The Town of Floyd wraps up the 2019 Floyd Small Town Summer series with its closing event featuring live music from Miss Tess & The Talkbacks and the Chance McCoy Band on Thursday, August 29, 2019 at Warren G. Lineberry Memorial Park.
Small Town Summer offers fun for the whole family, including bounce houses, games, face painting and special activities presented by a variety of community organizations. Food will also be available for purchase and benefit the Floyd non-profit Plenty!.
A virtuoso fiddler, guitarist, and banjo player, Chance McCoy is best known as a member of Grammy-winning Americana powerhouse Old Crow Medicine Show. He is a indie folk musician, actor and film composer from the Appalachian mountains of West Virginia.
After receiving a grant to study with old master musicians from the Appalachian Mountains, he went on to win the Fiddle, Banjo and Dulcimer championships in his home state. In 2012 Chance was living in a run-down cabin in the mountains when a cold call from Old Crow Medicine Show landed him an invite to join the legendary Americana band of "Wagon Wheel" fame.
His first album with Old Crow, where he debuted his talents as songwriter, singer and instrumentalist, earned the band a Grammy for best folk album. After touring with artists such as Mumford and Sons, The Lumineers, Willie Nelson, Sturgil Simpson, Margo Price and other luminaries, he turned his focus towards making his first solo record.
Chance currently lives on his farm in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia where he enjoys a rustic back-to-the-land lifestyle, creating music and producing films.
Links:
• https://www.chancemccoy.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/chancemccoymusic
• https://www.youtube.com/user/appalachianfiddle/
• https://www.instagram.com/therealchancemccoy/
Miss Tess has always been known for creating an eclectic array of vintage blues, country, and jazz sounds. Currently residing in Nashville, she finds no shortage of inspiration in the roots scene there. However varied Tess’ music can be, front and center sits her voice that has been described as "alternately seductive and sexy, and a pure joy to listen to” (Pop Matters).
When most people think of defiant music, they think of punk rock or outlaw country. But defying genres while transcending eras and resisting clichés is hard to pin down when it comes to artistry—unless you’re talking about Miss Tess. Swinging for the fences and from the branches of jazz, country, blues and old school rock and roll, she has employed all of her influences and talents on a tour-de-force, while cleverly taking standard perspectives and ideas, like the definition of a love song, to task.
In over a decade of touring Miss Tess has won fans from New York City to New Orleans and Alabama to Alaska. Over the years she has shared the stage with the likes of Lake Street Dive, NRBQ, The Holmes Brothers, Eilen Jewell, and Todd Snider. Her band has graced stages at Blissfest, Cayamo, Clearwater Jazz Holiday, Floydfest, Ossippee Valley Music Festival, Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion, Burlington Jazz Festival, Green River Festival, Red Wing Roots, Shakori Hills, and more. Miss Tess’s music has been heard from coast to coast on taste maker programs such as XM/Sirius’s The Loft, NPR’s Folk Alley, Santa Cruz’s KPIG and Boston’s WUMB. Her 2016 album, “Baby, We All Know” lived in the top 20 on the Americana Charts for six weeks.
As she expands and grows more into her own sound, Tess is still hard to categorize. She says “Many times after the show somebody will come up to compliment the band and ask me what kind of music we just played. After mumbling through a few different genres I usually just tell them it’s my music and hope they enjoyed the show”. Enjoyable is just what her music is, propelled by the classic quality of Tess’s vocals, compelling and totally believable. The production throughout is the right balance of punch and rhythm, without getting in the way of the vocals or songwriting, giving this collection of songs a plentiful dose of old-school swagger. Time after time, Miss Tess is able to utilize sounds and styles from a past era combined with modern sensibilities to present an authentic and engaging presence.
Links:
• http://www.misstessmusic.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/misstessmusic
• https://www.twitter.com/MissTessMusic
• https://www.youtube.com/user/misstessmusic/videos
• https://www.instagram.com/misstessmusic/
The Small Town Summer Event Series is free and open to the public.
You are welcome to pack a picnic, but please observe that there is no alcohol in the park.
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.
In case of inclement weather, all events will be moved inside Floyd County High School.
For more information, visit: http://floydsmalltownsummer.com/ or https://www.facebook.com/floydsmalltownsummer/.
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