2021 New Year's Eve Dinner and Dance with Twin Creeks Stringband & The New Macedon Rangers
Venue: Floyd Country Store, Floyd
Organizations: Ashlee Watkins & Andrew Small, Twin Creeks Stringband
Date: Friday, December 31, 2021
Time: 6:00 PM - 12:00 AM
Event Types: Music, Food, Arts & Theatre
Cost:

Description:
The Floyd Country Store presents their annual New Year's Eve Dinner and Dance with the Twin Creeks Stringband and The New Macedon Rangers on Friday, December 31, 2021.

Schedule:
• 6:00-7:30 PM: Dinner
• 8:00 PM - 12:00 AM: Dancing

Twin Creeks Stringband plays music for dancing playing a strong rhythmic old time sound that goes back many generations.

In the late 1970s, a group of neighbors and friends got together to play the music that had been passed down in the Dry Hill and Ferrum areas of Franklin County. Some of the musicians were falling behind on their timing one day while playing and having some fun, and one spectator commented that he was going to call the group the Dry Hill Draggers.

Banjo player Jimmy Boyd and his brother Billy Boyd started the official Dry Hill Draggers band in 1981. The group flourished, and more than thirty years later, some of the Dry Hill Draggers members formed Twin Creeks Stringband, including Jared Boyd, grandson of Jimmy Boyd, a third generation claw-hammer banjo player; his dad Stacy Boyd on upright bass; Jason Hambrick on guitar and vocals; and Chris Prillaman on fiddle. Twin Creeks Stringband has a particularly driving old-time beat that is irresistible to dancers, and they are popular performers at the Blue Ridge Folklife Festival, as well as at the Galax Old Fiddlers’ Convention.

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

Ashlee Watkins and Andrew Small are an old-time country and husband and wife duo performing both traditional and original repertoire on fiddle, banjo, mandolin and guitar with powerful two-part harmonies.

Born and raised in eastern North Carolina, Andrew Small is a multi-instrumentalist and singer who has performed with artists ranging from Sierra Hull and Mandolin Orange to the North Carolina Symphony. He now resides in Floyd, VA where he serves as Coordinator of the Handmade Music School and also tours with the group Bill and the Belles. Andrew has won numerous blue ribbons from fiddlers’ conventions around the Southeast for his old-time fiddling and in 2015 was named the Bluegrass Mandolin Champion of Australia. He holds a master’s degree in music performance from Yale University.

Ashlee Watkins is a singer and multi-instrumentalist originally from Newcastle, NSW. Described by fiddler Bob Herring as having “it”, her powerfully unadorned vocals possess a timeless quality that evokes an uncommon emotional poignance. She has been awarded a number of blue ribbons from fiddlers’ conventions around the southeast for her folk singing and old-time banjo playing, and her band the New Macedon Rangers has been awarded blue ribbons in both old-time and bluegrass band categories. Now making her home in Floyd, Virginia, Ashlee also performs as a member of Jackson Cunningham’s string band Nobody’s Business.

The duo was formerly known as The New Macedon Rangers.

Links:

• https://www.facebook.com/ashleeandandrew
• https://soundcloud.com/newmacedonrangers

Dinner Menu:
• Turkey or Ham (gf)
• Mashed Potatoes, Poultry Gravy
• Collards (with or without bacon (v, gf)
• Garlic Greenbeans (v)
• Cranberry Relish (v, gf)
• Herb-Butter Carrots (v, gf)
• Traditional Stuffing
• Homemade Rolls (v)
• Assorted Desserts such as Pumpkin or Pecan Pie, Specialty Cheesecakes, (gf dessert option available upon request)

Al menu items made from scratch.

Tickets are $35.00 for both the dinner and dance and $15.00 for only the dance.

To purchase tickets only, visit: https://www.floydcountrystore.com/event/new-years-eve-dinner-and-dance-2021-12-31.

For more information, visit: https://www.floydcountrystore.com/event/new-years-eve-dinner-and-dance-2021-12-31 or https://www.facebook.com/floydcountrystore or call 540-745-4563.