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2023 Floyd Small Town Summer Series with The Revelers and Lenny Marcus & The Big Easy
Venue: Floyd Country Store, Floyd
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Lenny Marcus & The Big Easy, The Revelers
Date: Thursday, June 22, 2023
Time: 6:00 - 10:00 PM
Event Types: Music, Food, Miscellaneous, Family Friendly, Arts & Theatre
Cost: Free

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UPDATE: The rainy and cold conditions will force us to move this event inside. The music will move over to The Floyd Country Store. Music will start at 6:00 PM. We will not have inflatables, but we hope to have face painting. The Floyd Country Store can't fit as many people as the park so please be respectful of each other and we will have a good time!

The Town of Floyd continues its 6th Annual Floyd Small Town Summer series featuring music from The Revelers and Lenny Marcus & The Big Easy on Thursday, June 22, 2023 outside at Warren G. Lineberry Memorial Park.

The Town of Floyd offers this series of free events to provide a fun, family-friendly atmosphere in downtown Floyd, VA. Featuring music, movies, face-painting, inflatables, games, food and beverage and special activities presented by a variety of community organizations!

The Revelers have been bringing their party around the world for nearly 10 years. With their long-awaited follow up to 2016's Grammy-nominated record, the band has taken their place firmly at the top of a game where they make the rules. The brash blasts of the accordion, the shuffle of feet, the wailing vocals in old French. The sound of Cajun music is well known through the United States and abroad.

But, for Louisiana-based band The Revelers, it’s just the start of the story. Headquartered in the city of Lafayette in Southwest Louisiana’s Cajun Country, the band is dedicated to the “holy trinity” of Cajun culture: hot music, all-night dancing, and great food. But they’re determined to explore the larger world of Louisiana music as well. They’ve synthesized all of these different traditions into a new sound, their own sound.

Links:

• http://revelersband.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/RevelersBand

Jazz Times Magazine has described Lenny Marcus’ music as “Infectious!” No wonder, since Lenny worked for many years in New Orleans studying and performing with legends such as Ray Bryant, Ellis Marsalis, and Alvin Batiste. He has a strong blues-oriented left hand, thanks to Bryant. Lenny possesses a superior melodic imagination and highly developed arranging and orchestration skills that become palpable throughout a diversity of styles-swinging, cool, sophisticated, toe-tapping, high energy as well as beautifully contemplative and engaging.

Lenny has performed in three New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest, Spoleto, Barbados, and Grenada Jazz festivals in addition to appearing four times in Wash DC at the famed Blues Alley with his trio.

Lenny’s Big Easy Project features an eclectic mix of funk, jazz, blues, shuffles, all the wonderful beats and grooves that came from Marcus' experience playing music down in the deep South.

Links:

• https://www.lennymarcusmusic.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/lennymarcusmusic
• https://www.youtube.com/@lennymarcus/videos

The Small Town Summer Event Series is free and open to the public.

Bring your lawn chair and/or blanket.

Gates will be open and access provided to the public starting at 6:00 PM on all Floyd Small Town Summer events. Movies will begin when the sun goes down.

The events take place on alternating Thursdays from mid-June to the end of August.

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

For more information, visit: http://floydsmalltownsummer.com/ or https://www.facebook.com/floydsmalltownsummer/ or https://www.facebook.com/events/191717427127618.