2018 Annual Floyd Mardi Gras Costume Ball
Venue: Dogtown Roadhouse, Floyd
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Flirting With Chemicals, Jordan Harman, Music Road Company, Seph Custer, Sol Roots
Date: Saturday, February 10, 2018
Time: 6:30 PM - 02:00 AM
Event Types: Music, Food, Drink Specials, Miscellaneous, Arts & Theatre, Charity
Cost:
Advance Tickets: • Regular Attendees: $20.00 • Designated Drivers: $15.00

Description:
The Blue Mountain School presents the 9th Annual Floyd Mardi Gras Costume Ball on Saturday, February 10, 2018 at Dogtown Roadhouse.

Enjoy a full night of eclectic, soul moving music featuring six bands and performers on the main stage that benefits Floyd’s Blue Mountain School and it’s not just music you’ll feast your senses on.

The music line-up includes headliners Sol Roots and Lagniappe. Local musician Seph Custer, the Jordan Harman Duo, Flirting with Chemicals and Music Road Company.

The Sol Roots band performs a mix of New Orleans funk, raw blues, energetic rock, deep grooves, and southern soul. Sol is a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist who has toured with many roots, funk, and blues legends around the world as a part of Music Maker Revue. Sol's talent stretches from fiery rock to laid back jazz, and from funky innovative grooves to soulful ballads, drawing on a deep background in raw down-home blues.

The Sol Roots band has performed at many premier festivals and venues across the east coast US, and have shared the stage with acts such as Jon Cleary, Soulive, Dumpstaphunk,The Wood Brothers, Robert Randolph, Eric Lindell, Booker T Jones, Walter "Wolfman" Washington, Shemekia Copeland, Jackie Greene and more.

Paying homage to the greats, and with a love of Universal Music as the guiding light, Sol steps out on a path with a powerful group unique and talented band of musicians.

Links:

• https://www.solrootsmusic.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/SolRootsMusic
• https://www.twitter.com/solroots
• https://www.reverbnation.com/SolRoots
• https://www.instagram.com/SolRootsMusic/

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

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/

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

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

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 lounge stage, where a variety of unusual and brilliant acts will impress and delight throughout the evening. The silent auction is your opportunity to get your hands on some of the finest local wares and services that Floyd has to offer!

Lounge stage acts include musicians Whitney Lewis, Jake the Snake Retting and Paul LeMay & David Hall, Magician Nelson Oliver and Hooper Michaela Perdue.

Other special activities & events include:
• Photographic Dreams Photo Booth: Have your picture taken and take it home, too!
• Crowning of Floyd’s Mardi Gras King & Queen
• Free Buffalo Mountain Kombucha for designated drivers!
• Kiddy Gras Pajama Party returns at the June Bug Center so the kids can get down while you get your groove on. (Link for More Info: http://www.nextthreedays.com/FeaturedEventDetails.cfm?E=461070)
• Authentic Cajun delights at the Krewe du Bleu Dinner with Chef Richard L. Perry (Link for More Info: http://www.nextthreedays.com/FeaturedEventDetails.cfm?E=461071)

Advance tickets are $15.00 for designated drivers and $20.00 for regular attendees.

Tickets can be purchased online or in person at Dogtown Roadhouse, Republic Of Floyd, Visit Floyd, VA, and Blue Mountain School.

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

Must be 18 or older unless attending the Kiddy Gras Pajama Party.

In case of inclement weather, the make-up date will be on Saturday, February 17, 2018.

For more information, visit: http://floydmardigras.com/ or https://www.facebook.com/events/523876694633254/ or http://www.bluemountainschool.net/.

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