Americana Afternoon Music with Bill Hudson, Seph Custer and Crawford & Power
Venue: Floyd Country Store, Floyd
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Bill Hudson, Crawford & Power, Seph Custer
Date: Saturday, July 22, 2017
Time: 12:00 - 3:00 PM
Event Types: Music
Cost: Free

Description:
Floyd Country Store presents Americana Afternoon Music featuring Bill Hudson, Seph Custer and Crawford & Power on Saturday, July 22, 2017.

Bill Hudson is an urban folk musician currently residing in Roanoke, VA. In his storied career he has performed with the likes of Pete Seeger and Rev. Kirkpatrick promoting the clean up the Hudson River in New York City as well as toured throughout Italy. He has produced a number of large environmental events including the Earth Day Celebration in Harrisonburg, VA and the Pipestem Folk Festival in West Virginia drawing thousands.

Some of the acts Bill has opened up for are John Hammond, Fred Eagelsmith, Ray Wylie Hubbard, and Jack Hardy, Guy Davis. Bill has also shared the stage with Bruce Springsteen.

Links:

• http://bill-hudson.blogspot.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/SingerSongwriter-Bill-Hudson-147173542020547
• https://www.reverbnation.com/billhudsin

Seph Custer is a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist from Boones Mill, Virginia, offering a fresh look at American and handmade tunes. With many years of experience arranging music for groups in Southwest Virginia, as well as backing up groups and artists on stage, he's combined his talents to offer a diverse variety of acoustic songs, full-band jams, and intriguing covers.

For his first seven years in music, his career revolved around playing lead guitar, banjo, slide and mandolin for numerous rock, Americana, blues, punk, alternative, and traditional bands. He's fined tuned his sound over the course of two studio albums and over 600 live shows, combining his diverse music taste with his skill set from several instruments; all delivered with only vocals and a modified guitar.

Seph has been featured in The Floyd Country Store’s annual tribute concerts, covering Bob Dylan, Gordon Lightfoot, Carole King, and Paul Simon. In 2015, Seph's music was so well received at Callaway Brewing Company, they named a small batch German Wheat Ale "Sepheweissen." Seph Custer & The Papa Tom Band were included in Floydfest’s 2017 “Artists on the Rise” competition. In 2018, he became a member of Brackish Water Jamboree playing mandolin, joined them on tour, and performed alongside them in the “Rockn’ to Lockn” competition. He’s also appeared in Virginia Brew Hub Magazine, Appalachian Jamwich Magazine, The Roanoke Times, Blue Ridge Rocks, City Magazine, Roanoke’s Down By Downtown festival, The Nor-folk Festival, Pink Moon Festival, Blacksburg's Rock the Blocks and Steppin' Out Festivals, and WDVX's Blue Plate Special.

As well as being a performer and composer, Seph teaches acoustic & electric guitar, mandolin, banjo, ukulele, bass, violin, slide guitar, lap steel, dobro, and music theory at Downtown Music in Rocky Mount, The Handmade Music School at The Floyd Country Store, and Fret Mill in Downtown Roanoke.

Links:

• http://www.sephcustermusic.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/sephcustermusic
• https://twitter.com/sephcuster
• https://www.reverbnation.com/sephcuster
• https://www.youtube.com/user/sephcsuter/videos
• https://www.instagram.com/sephcuster/

With roots in country, Americana, and southern rock, Crawford & Power seek to put their twist toward a classic country music revival. Authentically southern, Jake Crawford's powerful vocal blended with a modern approach to the Dobro from Ethan Power, create a brand of country that has been lauded as a breath of fresh air to the genre. The Franklin County, VA based band has already opened for a variety of artists including The Marshall Tucker Band, Willie Nelson, Travis Tritt, The Charlie Daniels Band, Cody Johnson, Luke Combs, 38 Special, Gary Allan, and Jerry Douglas, among many other major acts.

With the help of their debut EP, "Play a Hank Jr. Song," the duo has quickly eclipsed over 2.5 million on-demand streams. Crawford & Power followed up their debut release with two singles in 2019, "She Liked to Get High" and "Dancing Alone" and began 2020 by releasing, "Letting You Go". The duo released "What I've Been Missin'," on August 20th, 2021, which will be the first single off of their new self-titled EP. That was followed by fan favorite "Moonshine", "Country Boys Like Me", and "I'd Like a Shot" in early 2022.

Links:

• https://soundcloud.com/crawford-power
• https://www.crawfordandpower.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/crawfordandpower/
• https://www.twitter.com/crawfordnpower
• https://www.youtube.com/c/CrawfordPower/featured

On Saturdays the Floyd Country Store presents their Americana Afternoon starting at noon.

Each week we schedule different performers to play anything from blues, bluegrass and country to the American roots music of Ireland and Africa.

Admission is free.

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

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