Floyd Small Town Summer: Music from Amythyst Kiah & Music Road Company and Film: Wonder
Venue: Warren G. Lineberry Memorial Park, Floyd
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Amythyst Kiah, Floyd Small Town Summer, Music Road Company
Date: Thursday, June 7, 2018
Time: 6:00 - 10:30 PM
Event Types: Music, Food, Miscellaneous, Family Friendly, Arts & Theatre
Cost: Free

Description:
The Town of Floyd presents Opening Night of the 2018 Floyd Small Town Summer series featuring Music from Amythyst Kiah and Music Road Company and a screening of the film "Wonder" on Thursday, June 7, 2018 at Warren G. Lineberry Memorial Park.

Event Schedule:
• 6:15-7:15 pm: Amythyst Kiah
• 7:30-8:30 pm: Music Road Company
• 8:45 pm: Movie: Wonder starts

Bring the whole family and enjoy the beautiful Warren G Lineberry Park filled with music, movies and fun activities for the whole family. Featuring music, movies, face-painting, inflatables, games, food and beverage and special activities presented by a variety of community organizations!

Amythyst Kiah is a Southern Gothic, alt-country blues singer and songwriter based out of Johnson City, TN, which has been her permanent residence for nearly a decade. She has been performing in what is known as the Tri-Cities (Bristol, TN/VA, Johnson City, TN, Kingsport, TN) and in various parts of Southwest Virginia.

Not only are her influences eclectic, but they span across decades. She draws heavily on Old Time music (Mississippi Sheiks, Son House, Jimmie Rodgers, Olla Belle Reed, Carter Family) and is inspired by vocal stylings of R&B and country music from the '50s-'70s (Big Mama Thornton, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Mahalia Jackson, Dolly Parton, Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn). She also draws heavily from contemporary artists that have similar powerful vocal integrity (Adele, Florence and the Machine, Megan Jean and the KFB, Janelle Monae, Thom Yorke, Tori Amos, Bonnie Raitt). Needless to say, Amythyst has got a lot of tools in her vocal tool box, and is also well on her way to join the powerhouse vocalist pantheon.

She has opened for such acts as Tim O'Brien and Darrell Scott, The Duhks, Megan Jean and the KFB, and has played the Smithsonian Folk Life Festival 2012 alongside the Ebony Hillbillies and Sparky and Rhonda Rucker, and has performed on Music City Roots. She has also performed at the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington, DC and traveled Scotland and the UK performing at a number of major festivals including the Southern Fried Festival, the Cambridge Folk Festival, Edinburgh Jazz Festival, and SummerTyne Americana Festival.

Links:

• http://amythystkiah.com
• https://www.facebook.com/amythystkiah
• https://www.twitter.com/amythystkiah
• https://www.instagram.com/amythystkiah/

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/

Based on the New York Times bestseller, "Wonder" tells the incredibly inspiring and heartwarming story of August Pullman, a boy with facial differences who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time. The film is rated PG and stars Jacob Tremblay, Owen Wilson and Julia Roberts.

For more information on the film, visit: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2543472.

The Small Town Summer Event Series is free and open to the public.

Grab your lawn chair and/or blanket.

Some of the community organizations partnering to provide activities include Blue Mountain School, FloydJAMS, Young Life, Floyd Montessori, Floyd County High School SCA, Plenty!, Springhouse Community School, Cub Scout Pack 36, The Floyd Center for the Arts, Healthy Floyd, Preserve Floyd and the Girl Scouts.

The park will be open and access provided to the public starting at 6:00 pm on all Floyd Small Town Summer events.

For more information, visit: http://floydsmalltownsummer.com/ or https://www.facebook.com/floydsmalltownsummer/.

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