Story & Song: Our Experiences in Appalachia with Costa, Campbell and Lloyd
Venue: Floyd Country Store, Floyd
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Saturday, November 17, 2012
Time: 7:30 - 10:00 PM
Event Types: Music, Speaking Engagements
Cost: $8.00

Description:
The Floyd Country Store presents a story & song event featuring musicians Costa, Campbell and Lloyd titled "Our Experiences in Appalachia" on Saturday, November 17th.

These three amazing story tellers and Appalachian musicians tell the tales and play the music of the mountains they know so well.

Jim Costa of Talcott, W.Va., is proficient on most traditional instruments and in southern West Virginia styles, but has become an expert in the free-form knocking and picking styles of Tennessee native Uncle Dave Macon. He has absorbed most of Uncle Dave’s songs as well as his enthusiasm for old and newer forms of music. Jim spends much of his time performing and teaching music, but his main interest is the preservation of eighteenth and nineteenth century forms of West Virginia culture by the collecting of tools, artifacts, construction techniques, and musical instruments.

Mark Campbell of Richmond, Va., started to learn the guitar and banjo at the age of 10 while growing up in the Shennandoah Valley of Virginia. While in college in Charlottesville, he picked up the fiddle and has since devoted himself to unraveling the techniques of older regional styles. Mark has won the Virginia State Fair and West Virginia State Folk Festival fiddle titles as well as being a five time finalist and 2001champion at the Appalachian String Band Music Festival at Clifftop, West Virginia. Mark is serving as a master fiddler with the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.

Jim Lloyd, Vice Mayor and barber of Rural Retreat Va., is a fourth generation musician of Southwest Virginia who continues to entertain and teach fans across this nation and abroad. He is one of the most sought after guitar accompanists and has won many awards at festivals on instruments ranging from autoharp to banjo. Jim’s music and storytelling has been documented by the Smithsonian Institution as well as several commercial labels. Lloyd’s Barber Shop has become an institution for swapping tunes, songs and stories which helps keep alive the culture of Virginia’s Southern Appalachian Highlands.

Tickets are $8 and can be purchased online at: http://www.floydcountrystore.com/shop/categories/categories-event-tickets or by phone at 540-745-4563.

For more information, visit: http://www.floydcountrystore.com/uncategorized/story-song-event-featuring-costa-campbell-and-lloyd

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