Loose Leaf Notes

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 […]

The 5th Annual Little River Poetry Festival (at On the Water in Floyd) was my first event since the pandemic sent us all home to our rooms. It was the smallest turnout yet but that made for a deeper sharing and enough were committed to coming that it turned out to be a wonderful success. […]

Where else but in Floyd can you learn from an old-timer how to forage ginseng one day and then meet Wavy Gravy – the Woodstock clown with an ice-cream flavor named after him – in town for FloydFest the next? Where Else But Floyd is the name of my 30+ year poetry and essay-excerpted retrospective […]

-The following was written by the Little River Poetry Festival co-founder Jack Callan and first appeared in The Floyd Press on June 4, 2020. The Festival will take place June 12-14, 2020 at On the Water in Floyd.  What if you were out with your dog an’ it run off with no, “May I go?”, […]