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The Floyd Radio Show with The Whitetop Mountain Band and Jesse Smathers & Corbin Hayslett
Venue: Floyd Country Store, Floyd
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Jesse Smathers, Whitetop Mountain Band
Date: Saturday, March 8, 2025
Time: 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Event Types: Music, Arts & Theatre
Cost:
General Admission: $20.00 Reserved Seating: $25.00

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Description:
The Floyd Country Store continues The Floyd Radio Show 2024/2025 season with a performance on Saturday, March 8, 2025.

Join us for another installment of the Floyd Radio Show with Host Kelley Breiding and musical guests Whitetop Mountain Band, Jesse Smathers and Corbin Hayslett.

The Floyd Radio Show is an old-timey variety show with original radio plays, comedy bits, ads, jingles, music and more, hosted by Kelley Breiding. Celebrating old time and traditional music with people and communities where music is played and enjoyed in its authentic and purest forms. The show is rooted in Floyd, VA where a musical and artistic community provides endless inspiration for the show, which appears live at the Floyd Country Store.

The Whitetop Mountain Band is a family-based band that originated in the 1940s. They have deep roots in mountain music and their members have done much to preserve the Whitetop region’s style of old time fiddling and banjo picking. Their performances are also noted for their versatility, often containing blues, classic country, honky tonk pieces and traditional bluegrass. They are a tour de force of playing, singing, and dance, and they are gifted entertainers as well.

They are one of the busiest groups in the Appalachians, performing concerts, festivals, competitions and for dances in America and abroad in the United Kingdom and Australia. They have been featured in many books, magazines and TV/radio shows about Appalachian music such as "The Guide to the Crooked Road", "Strings of Life”, Country Music Television, Travel Channel, PBS and more.

Links:

• http://whitetopmountainband.tripod.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/Whitetop-Mountain-Band-194453647280207/

Jesse Smathers is an accomplished mandolinist, guitarist, and singer from Eden, North Carolina.

Heavily influenced by the music that runs in his family, Jesse has found inspiration and takes pride in his musical family lineage. His grandfather, Harold Smathers, and grand uncle, Luke Smathers, recorded for June Appal and were awarded the North Carolina Folk Heritage Award in 1993 for their contributions to North Carolina Folk Music with the Luke Smathers String Band.

Jesse began playing the guitar at age 11, picked up the mandolin at 15, and was heavily influenced by the music of Lonesome River Band. In 2009, he won the guitar championship of the Virginia Folk Music Association. He has also won at the Charlie Poole Festival and placed 3rd in guitar at The Old Time Fiddlers Convention in Galax. The following year, he began his career as a touring musician with the James King Band, playing mandolin and singing tenor and high baritone, and later rejoined the band performing guitar and vocals. In 2013, High Voltage, featuring Jesse as the lead vocalist, won first place in the bluegrass band category at the Galax Old Time Fiddler’s Convention.

In 2014, Jesse joined Nothin’ Fancy. The same year, he was also inducted in Phi Mu Alpha, a music fraternity, as a Sinfonian, joining such greats as John Phillip Sousa, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Andy Griffith. The Lonesome River Band welcomed him to the group as a mandolin player and lead and tenor vocalist in 2015, and Jesse won the 2017 IBMA Momentum Award for Vocalist of the Year. Mayhayley’s House, LRB’s second album to feature Jesse, was nominated for Album of the Year at the 2019 IBMA Awards.

Jesse now resides in Floyd, Virginia. He now performs on guitar with Lonesome River Band, and he’s also a member of the core faculty at the Handmade Music School, the Floyd Country Store’s traditional music school.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/user/Jessesmathers1

Tickets are $20.00 for general admission and $25.00 reserved seating, for sale online at https://aftontickets.com/event/buyticket/p79plznzxk and in-person in the store.

Doors open at 6:00 PM and the show starts at 7:00 PM.

The Floyd Radio Show will also be livestreamed on Floyd Country Store TV.

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

To view the event flyer, visit: https://i.postimg.cc/Vkxy4vMv/image.png.

For more information, visit: https://www.floydcountrystore.com/event/the-floyd-radio-show-2 or https://www.facebook.com/floydcountrystore or https://www.facebook.com/events/1283703119601571/ or https://www.instagram.com/thefloydcountrystore/ or call 540-745-4563.