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2023 Floyd Small Town Fall Festival with Seldom Scene and Twin Creeks Stringband
Venue: Warren G. Lineberry Memorial Park, Floyd
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Floyd Small Town Summer, Seldom Scene, Twin Creeks Stringband
Date: Thursday, October 12, 2023
Time: 6:00 - 10:00 PM
Event Types: Music, Food, Miscellaneous, Family Friendly
Cost: Free

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The Town of Floyd continues the 2023 Floyd Small Town Fall Festival with The Seldom Scene and opener Twin Creeks Stringband on Thursday, October 12, 2023 outside at Warren G. Lineberry Memorial Park.

If you've enjoyed the Floyd Small Town Summer Series, end the season with two nights of great live folk, old time & bluegrass music at the Floyd Small Town Festival.

Fifty-three years into a legendary career, much has changed about The Seldom Scene, starting with the venerable progressive bluegrass quintet’s various lineup iterations over time. But even as band members have stepped in and out of various roles, what’s most important is what hasn’t changed: an undeniable knack for blending both old and new music and traditions without sacrificing what makes either potent and durable.

The Seldom Scene has dexterously performed original and traditional songs while presenting fiery and soulful reinterpretations of material by Merle Haggard, James Taylor, and more. Even if their playing style feels more at home in intimate clubs, where the audience can feel their exuberance radiating from the stage, the Scene’s elastic relationship to genre established an important precedent that encouraged their contemporaries and allowed bluegrass bands to expand their repertoire in ways that laid the groundwork for today’s bluegrass boom.

The band began playing together at weekly jam sessions in 1971 in founder Ben Eldridge’s Bethesda, Maryland basement, The Seldom Scene have become one of the single greatest contributors to the progression of bluegrass while setting a new standard and attracting new audiences to the genre.

Their legendary weekly DC-area residencies included bluegrass versions of country music, rock, and even classical pop. The band's popularity soon forced them to play more than once a week, but they continued to maintain their image as being seldom seen, and on several of their early album covers were photographed with the stage lights on only their feet, or with their backs to the camera. The Seldom Scene have performed at the White House many times, and continue to tour year-round and members of the original Seldom Scene lineup have been inducted in International Bluegrass Music Association’s Hall of Fame.

Links:

• http://www.seldomscene.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/seldomscene
• https://www.twitter.com/_SeldomScene

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

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

The Town of Floyd offers this series of free events to provide a fun, family-friendly atmosphere in downtown Floyd, VA.

Bring your lawn chair and/or blanket.

Gates will be open and access provided to the public starting at 6:00 PM.

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

For more information, visit: https://www.facebook.com/floydsmalltownsummer/ or https://www.facebook.com/events/290219643723480/.