The Floyd Radio Show April Edition with Momma Molasses and The Earl White Stringband
Venue: Floyd Country Store, Floyd
Organizations: Earl White Stringband, Momma Molasses
Date: Saturday, April 2, 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 April edition with guests Momma Molasses and The Earl White Stringband on Saturday, April 2, 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 guests along with the hosts Andrew Small and Ashlee Watkins 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.

Fiddlin Earl White has been a prominent figure in the Oldtime music and dance community for more than 40 years. He is one of "FEW" Black Americans playing and perpetuating the music that was once an important part of black culture and black communities across the US. He is an original and founding member of the famed Greengrass Cloggers, and received his first fiddle in 1975.

Fiddlin Earl White' energetic, rhythmic, driving style is attributed to many years of dancing with the Greengrass Cloggers to the delights of Tommy Jarrell, the Highwoods Stringband, the Plank Road Stringband, and the Horseflies, to name a few. His fiddlin is as heartfelt as his dancing of earlier years.

He currently leads the Earl White Stringband and has played with many of the finest Oldtime musicians in the country. Under the guise of "The Too Wet to Plow Stringband", "Early Night and the Daytimers", "The Dukes of Earl", "Sweet Bama", "The Earl White Band", and the "Earl White Stringband", and the dynamic duo as Adrienne Davis and Earl White. His bands have graced many audiences with their superb music as workshops or concerts.

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

Currently based in Bristol, VA/ TN, and originally from the Pines of North Carolina, (just south of Piedmont in Carthage, NC) Momma Molasses' music is soul stirringly resonate, and smothered in good old fashioned folk sentiment; blending Americana, Old-Time, Alt-Country, PiedmontBlues, Swing, Appalachian, and Bluegrass music into a uniquely timeless sound. Harnessing her rolling contralto voice which scales over homespun finger-picked guitar, her sound is warm, rich, and passionate, with songs that embrace and captivate listeners.

Links:

• https://www.facebook.com/mommamolasses
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF9G7ZlIxJnpRjuCzoAknVw
• https://www.instagram.com/mommamolasses/

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 $17.00 in advance and $20.00 the day of the show. To purchase tickets online, visit: https://aftontickets.com/event/buyticket/nvjqwrrjop.

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

To view the event flyer, visit: https://i.postimg.cc/4N6Zgdkg/image.png.

For more information, visit: https://www.floydcountrystore.com/event/floyd-radio-show-2022-04-02 or https://www.facebook.com/floydcountrystore or call 540-745-4563.