It’s a tradition that’s been going on for at least a couple of decades. Every year I wear a different get-up but dance in the same spot on the dance floor, as if no time had passed. I’ve loved masquerading since I dressed as Huck Finn for Halloween when I was still in elementary school. […]
“Who needs to eat when I’m so full of music?” That’s what I said to a friend on the way the reception spread following Virginia’s Blue Ridge Music Festival’s inaugural concert at the Floyd EcoVillage’s new state of the (green) art Celebration Hall on Sunday. I don’t generally go to classical music concerts (I’m a […]
It’s an honor to have my photograph included as one of the 75 black and white portraits featured in A Portrait of Floyd, a new Jacksonville Center exhibit featuring photographs from a random photo shoot on the streets of Floyd, taken by Norfolk photographer Glen McClure last April. At the Meet the Artist Reception last […]
It was the Break-up Bash at the Sun Hall for the ALLiENS, the celebrated World Groove band based out of Floyd. They never said why they were breaking up. I tried not to think about that. I was too busy dancing and taking pictures and video clips for one of the band member’s webpage in […]
At the Sun Music Hall, the best seat in the house is the couch. I shared one with a new mom and her babe while waiting to hear OneBeat: 32 musicians from 21 countries making music in a cultural exchange that’s sponsored by the U.S. State Department as a diplomatic person-to-person initiative. But I had […]
Walk the plank or run while you can. It was a bad idea, even worse because it was pouring rain.
Irish reels are fun, but I like laments the best, songs sung without accompaniment and with a haunting rhythmic lilt, airs that make pathways to the past, pied piper penny whistles that call me to my heritage, other-worldly uilleann pipe that cry for lost memories and lyrics that tell my family’s history. “We Irish like […]
On the way to the Floyd Yoga Jam, I was thinking about Women’s Wellness Week, being on the same road to Indian Valley where the weeklong retreat used to be held, back in the early 90’s. The song “Woodstock” was playing in my head, but I changed the words from ‘I’m going on down to […]
It was a colorful parade of antique tractors riding through town on Saturday. The red, green, blue and orange tractors were riding for the 6th annual Floyd Tractor Fun Run fundraiser to benefit localyouth with health challenges. Many of the tractors pulled wagons full of riders who waved to onlookers as they passed. Look for […]
~ The following first appeared in Natural Awakenings of Southwest Virginia. The first annual Floyd Yoga Jam is coming to the Blue Ridge Mountains of Southwest Virginia on Labor Day Weekend, 2012. The three day yoga and music festival, the first of its kind in the state, will be located along the waters of Greasy […]
It was standing (or dancing) room only at the Floyd Country Store for the visit of Tim Kaine and his wife, Anne Holton, Friday night. Some Friday Night Jamboree attendees wore stickers, announcing their support for the former Virginia governor and Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate. Others weren’t aware that Kaine was scheduled to […]
Former Virginia Governor, past DNC Chairman, and one-time possible running mate of Barack Obama, Tim Kaine is currently a candidate for the U.S. Senate. He and his wife, Anne Holton, attended the Jamboree at the Floyd Country Store Friday night. Holton, a former Richmond judge and daughter of a governor, is the dancer in the […]
