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March 2018 Floyd Radio Show with House & Land with Jake Fussell and Steve Kruger & Trevor McKenzie
Venue: Floyd Country Store, Floyd
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: House and Land, Kruger, McKenzie and Mullenex, Trevor McKenzie
Date: Saturday, March 3, 2018
Time: 7:30 - 10:00 PM
Event Types: Music, Arts & Theatre, Speaking Engagements
Cost:
Advance Tickets: $12.00 Day of the Show: $15.00

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Description:
The Floyd Country Store presents the March 2018 Floyd Radio Show with House & Land with Jake Fussell, Steve Kruger & Trevor McKenzie and more on Saturday, March 3, 2018 starting at 7:30 pm.

Live from The Floyd Country Store in the heart of downtown Floyd, Virginia! The Floyd Country Store brings together a new variety show every month. A series of guest hosts will perform original radio plays, comedy bits, ads, jingles, music and more. Each show features the finest old-timey musical acts, from storytelling banjo players to flatpicking guitarists to hard-driving string bands.

House and Land is a collaboration of Sarah Louise (VDSQ, Scissor Tail Editions) and Sally Anne Morgan of the Black Twig Pickers (Thrill Jockey).

Sally and Sarah started playing together after Sarah opened for The Black Twig Pickers for whom Sally plays the fiddle. The duo quickly discovered that they were both interested in the same very specific forms of traditional music. They both viewed it through the lens of their shared love of modern, experimental and minimal music.

House and Land’s music is less adorned and certainly less processed than much popular music today. The hand-hewn quality transports the listener to another time the way a Shirley and Dolly Collins recording can. The themes are universal and the songs intergenerational. “Home Over Yonder,” for example, came from the singing of Frankie Duff of Lexington, Kentucky, who passed away in January 2017 at the age of 102.

While there is a temptation to view this music nostalgically, this would be a mistake. This living music is constantly being rearranged. The obscure songs on this album, like many well-known traditional songs, are in a state of nearly constant evolution, a testament to their continued significance. Naturalistic and entirely modern, the music of House and Land continues this tradition with its own contemporary and beautiful interpretations.

Links:

• https://thrilljockey.com/artists/house-and-land
• https://www.facebook.com/houseandlandmusic

Trevor McKenzie is a multi-instrumentalist and singer originally from southwest Virginia. The progeny of cattle farmers, he first gravitated to old-time music through an early interest in regional history and a keen desire to avoid doing manual labor. Though only mildly successful in the latter ambition, he gathered a respect for the communities, historical events, and stories which continue to build the canon of traditional music.

Encouraged initially by family and church music, his formal musical training began at Jim Lloyd’s Barbershop in Rural Retreat, Virginia. In recent years he has continued to learn from and be humbled by skilled musicians from along the Appalachians and around the world.

Trevor currently lives in western North Carolina where he performs as a sideman with several regional acts including the Elkville String Band and the Laurel Creek String Band. On weekdays, he puts his historical knowledge and dusting skills to work in the archives of the W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection at Appalachian State University.

Link: http://www.trevormckenzie.com/

Steve Kruger is a folklorist and musician and a former Watauga and Ashe County resident with a wide repertoire of fiddle tunes and ballads from northwestern North Carolina.

Kruger is regionally known as an award-winning fiddler, singer and banjo player, was co-author of the 2013 book “Blue Ridge Music Trails of North Carolina" and documented North Carolina cultural traditions in the western mountains and along the southeastern coast.

Tickets for The Floyd Radio Show are $12.00 in advance or $15.00 the day of the show. They are available online, at the store, or by calling 540-745-4563.

To purchase tickets online, visit: https://www.floydcountrystore.com/event/the-floyd-radio-show-march-3-2018.

Each show is streamed live during the show and is available as a podcast. Many of the past show are re-broadcasted by partnering radio stations.

To view the event flyer, visit: https://i.imgur.com/PMr57Rr.jpg.

For more information, visit: http://www.floydcountrystore.com/radio-show or https://www.facebook.com/floydcountrystore or call 540-745-4563.