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Americana Afternoons with American Roots and Bob Chew
Venue: Floyd Country Store, Floyd
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: American Roots, Bob Chew
Date: Saturday, June 3, 2023
Time: 12:00 - 3:00 PM
Event Types: Music
Cost: Free

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Description:
The Floyd Country Store presents Americana Afternoons with American Roots and Bob Chew on Saturday, June 3, 2023.

Music Schedule:
• 12:00 PM: American Roots
• 1:30 PM: Bob Chew

American Roots is a Blacksburg-based acoustic guitar and vocal harmony duo performing roots and Americana music penned between about 1900 and 1950. Fred and Jon Benfield took the name “American Roots” because it describes the music they have enjoyed performing together in the five-county area over the last 30 or so years.

The father and son guitar duo's musical influences are many and varied as are their shows which could be characterized as Americana Music: “Carter Family to Gershwin”. They are "Crooked Road Artists” interested in preserving the music of the southern Appalachians, but also enjoy performing tunes from other genres. Fred and Jon have spent most of their lives in and around the southern Appalachians and have developed an affection for the broad scope of music appreciated by folks in the region. Their performance may include traditional ballads, Appalachian blues, Piedmont blues, trad-country, trad-jazz, western swing, early country, tin-pan alley toe tappers, swing tunes, hot fiddle tunes (on guitar), and “folkgrass”.

They’ve performed at venues all around the region including the Floyd Country Store, Blacksburg’s Steppin’ Out festival and Shawsville's Beans and Banjos.

An retired ecology professor at Virginia Tech, Fred Benfield told a writer for Virginia Tech’s website, “My favorite part of performing is the communication that occurs between us during gigs. We’ve played together for so long that we just somehow know where the other is going on tunes without saying anything or even looking at each other.”

Link: https://www.facebook.com/American-Roots-260081600850582/

Bob Chew is a local musician performing classic country, western swing and cowboy tunes. Bob plays the steel guitar among other instruments and singing both as a solo artist and in a variety of bands including Swingfest, The Dirt Road Kings and The Hayriders. Bob has also been a member of The Floorboards and 3 Minute Lovin'.

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

Join us at the Floyd Country Store every Saturday at noon from 3:00 PM for Americana Afternoons. Each Saturday enjoy multiple musicians performing live on the stage inside The Floyd Country Store.

The music is varied, but has the common thread of Americana, traditional acoustic music. Some of it is indigenous, including bluegrass, or the music of contemporary singer-songwriters: you might hear the blues, or some of the Celtic or African sounds that underpin our American folk traditions.

Admission is free.

Floyd Country Store is located at 206 South Locust St in Floyd, VA.

For more information, visit: http://www.floydcountrystore.com or https://www.facebook.com/floydcountrystore or https://www.instagram.com/thefloydcountrystore/ or call 540-745-4563.