The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on September 5, 2024. The annual Floyd Yoga Jam festival began on Thursday, August 29, with an opening ceremony. Guided by life-passages officiant Katherine Chantal, the opening circle addressed the 2024 theme of ‘Retrospective’ and set the intention of presence and peace for the 4-day festival and […]
That was what I said at the end of our reading to the Yoga Jammers who came to Katherine’s and my Fairy Godmother’s Midnight and the Art of Archetype call-and-response poetry in the Tea Shanti. Most came on the title alone because the description wasn’t in the program, and some didn’t even know it was […]
Two More days left to Jam at @Floyd Yoga Jam. Story and photos coming soon.
Fairy Godmother’s Midnight and the Art of Archetype is the newest installment in the Soulful Aging poetry reading tour that Katherine Chantal and Colleen Redman have been doing since the winter of 2022 at various regional venues. They will be presenting this latest call-and-response reading followed by a writing workshop at Floyd Yoga Jam on […]
Sunday’s send-off from Floydfest 2024 began for me with a John Prine tribute and sing-along with friends at the Canopy Grove Stage. I arrived late afternoon for the fourth day of celebrating. I was tired and thinking I was going to hang back, but an impromptu hangout with some old friends, mixed with John Prine’s […]
If there ever was a Floyd house band that the local music lovers and dancers follow, it would be Music Road Co. They christened Floydfest’s Higher Ground stage with their funk, rock Latin and reggae songs at the start of the festival on Wednesday evening, then again Thursday night and Saturday at the VIP pub […]
It didn’t rain once on my two days so far at Floydfest, but there were signs of past rains on Thursday, and I had a hard time keeping my head up for want of finding a four-leaf clover in the grass. On Friday, I got lucky walking through the site when I heard Jaime Wyatt […]
I arrived Thursday at noon for opening day at Floydfest @Festival Park with no problems getting on site, no traffic on the 221 and no long lines into the festival check-in. It was a new Horizon, after leaving the old and beloved Blue Ridge Parkway site and skipping last year as the new site was […]
Lovingly tended and attended for nine years now, the festival is in full bloom and its seeds are spreading far and wide. What can I say? Every year, we say ‘best yet’ but this year really did top them all. On Saturday morning 20+ poets kayaked down the river writing poems while 20+ and more […]
When I arrived at the 9th annual Little River Poetry festival Friday Toni Britton was reading poems under the big tent to an attentive audience. LRPF founders Judith and Jack set the stage with words of welcome. Poets reunited with hugs and conversation while lunch was being set up by the crew at Floyd’s Outer […]
-The following was written by Judith Stevens, Little River Poetry Festival co-founder, pictured on the right with fellow co-founder Jack Callan and first appeared in The Floyd Press on 5/16/24 Who could have guessed 9 years ago that Floyd Festival co-founder, Jack Callan, formerly of Norfolk, Virginia, would be living on the side of a […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on May 16, 2024 Dubbed Floydfest Horizon, the 2024 festival is off to a good start, after taking a year off to develop the festival’s new Floyd County property at 5826 Floyd Highway North in Check. Set to take place on July 24 -28, Floydfest 24 will […]
