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Friday Night Jamboree with The Comptons and Twin Creeks Stringband
Venue: Floyd Country Store, Floyd
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: The Comptons, Twin Creeks Stringband
Date: Friday, March 11, 2022
Time: 6:30 - 10:00 PM
Event Types: Music
Cost:
General Admission: • Adults: $8.00 • Children Ages 7-12: $5.00 • Kids 6 & Under: Free

Reserved Seating: $12.00

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Description:
The Floyd Country Store presents Friday Night Jamboree inside with The Comptons and Twin Creeks Stringband on Friday, March 11, 2022.

Schedule:
• 6:30 PM: The Comptons
• 7:30 PM: Twin Creeks Stringband

The Friday Night Jamboree happens every Friday, rain or shine, all year round at the Floyd Country Store. The first hour is gospel music and this is followed by two dance bands. The dance bands provide the right beat for our enthusiastic crowd of flat foot dancers and cloggers.

The Compton brothers, Darryl and Roger, began playing bluegrass gospel music in the 80's in church then was joined shortly after by their dad, Clinton Compton. The three make their home in Willis, VA in Floyd county.

The band just changed members about a year and a half ago. Tim Goins from Mt. Airy, NC now plays dobro and banjo with the group, whichever the song may call for. Tim in the past has played with such groups as the Easter Brothers, Mark Templeton and New Vision, Lynwood Lunsford and many more.

There are times when the Compton' friends consist of Doug Holly from Floyd on guitar and some vocals, also Jimmy Creed, cousin of the Comptons, on mandolin or guitar.

Links:

• http://comptonbluegrass.tripod.com/index.html
• https://www.facebook.com/The-Comptons-Friends-139296176140731/

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

General admission tickets for the Jamboree are sold at the door only starting no earlier than 4:45 PM on Friday's.

Reserved seating is now also available in a very limited number of reserved seats, located in the center section starting from the second row through the fifth row. Reserve seating is limited to 40 seats with a maximum eight tickets per order. Seating is assigned on a first-come, first served basis, per customer request and special needs.

To purchase reserved seating online, visit: https://www.floydcountrystore.com/music/jamboree.

The Jamboree operates on “Granny’s Rules” – no smoking, no drinking alcohol, no bad language, and no conduct unbecoming to a lady or a gentleman. It’s a great time for the whole family, and you’re likely to see kids from six to ninety-six out on our hardwood dance floor. You may even be one of them.

To view the event flyer, visit: https://i.postimg.cc/HsssbZZ5/image.png.

For more information, visit: https://www.floydcountrystore.com/music/jamboree or https://www.facebook.com/floydcountrystore or call: 540-745-4563.