The Floyd Radio Show March Edition with Twin Creeks Stringband and Shay Martin Lovett
Venue: Floyd Country Store, Floyd
Organizations: Twin Creeks Stringband
Date: Saturday, March 5, 2022
Time: 7:30 - 10:00 PM
Event Types: Music, Arts & Theatre
Cost:

Description:
The Floyd Country Store continues their Season 10 of The Floyd Radio Show with their March edition with hosts Andrew Small & Ashlee Watkins and special guests Twin Creeks Stringband and Shay Martin Lovette on Saturday, March 5, 2022.

Live from The Floyd Country Store in the heart of downtown Floyd, Virginia! The Floyd Country Store brings together a new variety show every month celebrating American roots music. A series of guest hosts will perform original radio plays, comedy bits, ads, jingles, music and more. Each show features the finest old-timey musical acts, from storytelling banjo players to flatpicking guitarists to hard-driving string bands.

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

Each show is streamed live during the show and is available as a podcast. Many of the past show are re-broadcasted by partnering radio stations.

Tickets are $15.00 in advance and $18.00 the day of the show. To purchase tickets online, visit: https://www.floydcountrystore.com/event/floyd-radio-show-2022-01-01.

The Floyd Country Store occurs on the first Saturday of the month from September through May.

For more information, visit: https://www.floydcountrystore.com/event/floyd-radio-show-2022-03-05 or https://www.facebook.com/floydcountrystore or call 540-745-4563.