-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on August 8, 2019. Nothing has been the same for Morgan Wade since she played Floydfest last year. That was when the Floyd singer/songwriter’s music career converged with Sadler Vaden, the guitarist for Grammy award winning musician Jason Isbell who was a festival headliner. Isbell’s sound tech, […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on August 1, 2019. Floydfest Voyage Home 2019 was a sold-out show that saw the best weather in recent memory. The sun shone down on as many as 15,000 happy campers and music lovers, which included those who come back year-after-year and a new generation of first-time […]
“Let the rumpus start” kept going through my head when the family arrived to FloydfestWILD on Saturday. We made ourselves at home at the Oasis, the mid-field art installation, designed by Eric Davis as “an oasis in the middle of the wild” where wild things can go to relax. We recognized other Wild Things there. […]
Joe was up at the site early on Thursday, sending me photos and videos from his phone. He’s heading up the festival’s Teen Engagement Program, and I was planning on a later festival shift, conserving my energy, so that I could last till midnight to see Lukas Nelson, son of Willie. It was our friend […]
-The following first appeared as ‘Fest’ive Spirit in Sounds of Floyd, a July 2017 magazine insert publication of The Floyd Press “I’m a lover of music. I’ve performed everything from folk, punk, jazz, reggae, old time, swing, bluegrass, blues, rock, and world music. I try to bring what I love and that’s what makes it authentic.” […]
Grace Potter fired up the crowd singing Fire on the Mountain and Burning Down the House late Saturday night. While she was doing that (and singing Rod Stewart’s Do You Think I’m Sexy disco style HERE), the giant wooden Phoenix in the main field was getting ready to be lit-up in a ritual performance of letting go […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on July 16, 2015 Every Saturday night through the months of April and May regional bands competed at the Phoenix, a new music venue in Roanoke owned by Floydfest founders Kris Hodges and Erika Johnson. The fan-voted Battle of the Bands was designed to foster the regional […]
A Phoenix Battle of the Bands winner, Bigmama Joy made it to the Floydfest’s pre-festival Showdown Throwdown. She was the only Floyd performer of 4 acts competing in the final battle of local bands, which took place at the Floydfest site Saturday June 20th. On back-up are others from Floyd: Tree Gigante and Emily […]
– The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on August 7, 2014 Floydfest’s first fashion show, Style Revolution, was a showcase of organic fashion and handcrafted designs provided by artisans from the festival’s Vendor Village. The dramatic presentation – held under the Global Village’s futuristic-styled tent Friday and Saturday night – was themed around […]
Many of the following photos were published in The Floyd Press on May 7, 2009. 1. A busy group at last Saturday’s Floydfest workday. Workers from Floyd, Blacksburg, Radford, Hillsville, and Cana came to exchange their labor for tickets for the July 23-26 Floydfest music festival or for the Floyd Fandango Beer and Wine Fest […]
