-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on March 24, 2022. The Mike Mitchell Band opened up the main stage at FloydFest last year on Sunday morning for Blue Grass Day, adding to front man Mike Mitchell’s regular festival itinerary, heading up the FloydFest Band Camp as director of the Floyd Music School. Every […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on September 23, 2021 and online with a full gallery of photos HERE. Downtown Floyd was alive with activity on Sunday for the Americana Music and Art Festival at the Warren G. Lineberry Park and Outer Space, highlighting Floyd talent both on stage and at vendor booths. […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on September 9, 2021. For a full photo gallery of the event, see HERE. Smiles and sunshine prevailed as crowds returned to Floyd Yoga Jam for a joyful blend of yoga practices, dancing, socializing and rejuvenating. The 10th annual festival theme of BLOOM set the stage for […]
Two more days of YOGAJAM. Day tickets for Saturday and Sunday can be purchased at the front gate. More HERE. Look for a story in an upcoming Floyd Press.
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on August 26, 2021. Set along Greasy Creek on Burnette Farm in Willis, Floyd Yoga Jam is amping up for its tenth year, Sept. 2-5, with a “Bloom” theme accompanying the festival’s full schedule of yoga, wellness workshops, music, dance, art and children’s activities. “The idea is […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on July 29, 2021. Attendees started arriving for FloydFest on Wednesday, July 21, but the festival really took off on Thursday and continued throughout the weekend with a wide range of performing artists, a village of vendors and a collective feeling of gratitude to be back on […]
Going to Floydfest every July has been a 20-year tradition, like our version of summer camp, and our family shot is always one I treasure. But after taking 400 pictures of the bands and festival scene while working on coverage for the local paper, I always realize too late that I have too few pictures […]
The daytime at Floydfest is A-OK too! Look for a story and a photo spread in this week’s Floyd Press.
This Floydfest On the Rise band hails from Charlottesville. They play all originals, solid danceable rhythm/blues/rock/pop. Yesterday they played in the Garden on the Pink Floyd Stage and I keep thinking, ‘Now this is music!’ Sex Bruise is a satirical pop band from Charleston, SC that knows how to improv and create a party atmosphere. […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on July 8, 2021. “We have one of the best line-ups of all time, but the marque this year is that we’re back,” said Floydfest’s COO (Chief Operating Officer) Sam Calhoun about Floydfest Odyssey 2021, set to take off, July 21 – 25 at milepost 170.5 off […]
–Story and photos coming soon in The Floyd Press.
Coral Kendall (aka Cheeky), a Radford University student/poet/painter was the youngest reader at The Little River Poetry Festival this weekend. …I want to know what I feel like / what happens to my thighs that jiggle like the butterfly effect / that sends a tsunami that wipes out China / tell me at that moment […]
