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2019 Annual Floyd Mardi Gras Costume Ball
Venue: Dogtown Roadhouse, Floyd
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Flirting With Chemicals, Jordan Harman, Lagniappe, Music Road Company
Date: Saturday, March 2, 2019
Time: 7:30 PM - 02:00 AM
Event Types: Music, Food, Drink Specials, Miscellaneous, Arts & Theatre, Charity
Cost:
Early Bird Tickets: $20.00 Day of the Event: $25.00

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Description:
The Blue Mountain School presents the 10th Annual Floyd Mardi Gras Costume Ball on Saturday, March 2, 2019 at Dogtown Roadhouse.

Enjoy a full night of eclectic, soul moving music featuring four bands and performers on the main stage that benefits Floyd’s Blue Mountain School. The Blue Mountain School is a Contemplative Progressive educational community located in Floyd, Virginia.

The main stage music line-up includes headliners Lagniappe featuring Jordan Harman, Music Road Company, Her Majesty and DJ Step who will perform late into the night.

Jordan Harman is a musician based out of Roanoke, VA.

In our world of sugar-sweet, mass produced, auto-tuned, musical McProduct, can soul still exist within the pop realm? Ask Jordan Harman. Somehow he has managed just that. He creates music that speaks something while retaining a great pop sensibility; something that is increasingly rare today.

Ask Jordan Harman to describe the songs he writes and he'll tell you that it's all about the soul. His smooth vocals, rhythmic guitar playing, and infectious hooks add up to a performance sure to please any crowd. The laid-back grooves will pull you in and, before you know it, you're dancing to the music and singing along.

With influences such as Bill Withers, Donnie Hathaway, D'Angelo, James Brown, The Meters, Otis Redding, and The Roots there are many different elements to his unique brand of soul.

Links:

• http://www.jordanharmanband.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/jordanharmanmusic
• https://www.twitter.com/jhband

Lagniappe is all-star band comprised of some of Floyd and Southwest Virginia's best musicians.

Music Road Company is a Floyd, VA based band that plays a great music featuring elements of rock, funk, reggae and fun for your dancing and listening pleasure designed to groove and move you. Featuring members of both Spoon Fight and the Color J.

Coming from such diverse places as South Africa, Ecuador, Key West, Maryland and Virginia, the band brings many cultural influences together to produce music without boundaries. Moving fluidly from funk to reggae, rock to afrobeat, their sound bounces from blues and soul to island dance and back again, bound together by one common ideal: Music should feel good and spread positive vibes. They get on stage to lift themselves up to a higher frequency and they won’t stop until they bring the entire audience with them

Music Road Company is a cooperative of common creative companions conspiring to command your cognitive locomotion. This crew digs through a wide and deep catalog of tunes and musical traditions to get you groovin’ and your hip bones movin'!

Links:

• http://www.musicroadco.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/musicroadco
• https://www.instagram.com/musicroadco/

Take in the Voodoo Lounge stage featuring Flirting With Chemicals, Jake Retting, David Hall and Paul Lemay.

Flirting with Chemicals, Floyd Virginia’s Neo-psychedelic dance band draws inspiration from many sacred sources including Velvet Underground, Neil Young, Yo La Tengo, Guided by Voices, The Byrds, Sparklehorse, Brian Eno and Bob Dylan. The song writing team of Barb Gillespie and Jeff Liverman deliver haunting lyrics coupled with elegant melodies and rhythms. Stephen Wallace on keyboard, Rick Hall on bass and Fred Harris on drums join Jeff and Barb in Flirting with Chemicals. Their skill and talent perfectly support the music and experience.

Flirting with Chemicals positions itself at a strange country crossroads. Hailing from a tiny, but musically significant town of Floyd, Virginia, they have one foot in the Appalachian Mountains and the other in the gritty sounds of the city. In the other orientation, their sound is of today but ghosts from the past creep into their arrangements and compositions. Echos of Neil Young’s plaintive voice, Charlie Patton’s gravel road vocal and the hypnotic musings of Eno make their way into this strange, beautiful and highly intoxicating music.

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

The Voodoo Lounge will also host the Silent Auction to benefit Blue Mountain School. This is an opportunity to get your hands on some of the finest local wares and services that Floyd has to offer, as well as original artworks from regional artists.

Other activities include:
• 50/50 Raffle
• Photographic Dreams Photo Booth
• Crowning of Floyd’s Mardi Gras King & Queen
• Kiddy Gras Pajama Party so your kids can party while you get your groove on. This kid’s party is from 7:30 pm to 12:30 am at the June Bug Center (Link: http://www.nextthreedays.com/FeaturedEventDetails.cfm?E=502199)
• Krewe du Bleu Dinner with Chef Richard L. Perry before Floyd Mardi Gras (Link: http://www.nextthreedays.com/FeaturedEventDetails.cfm?E=502198)

Early Bird tickets are $20.00 and day of the event tickets, if not sold out, are $25.00.

Tickets can be purchased online at: https://www.townvu.com/dogtownroadhouse/ordering.

Must be 18 or older to attend.

To view the event flyer, visit: https://i.imgur.com/mEym6sd.jpg.

For more information, visit: http://floydmardigras.com/ or https://www.facebook.com/events/2795627133925876/ or http://www.bluemountainschool.net/.