2024 Floyd Living Traditions Festival
Venue: The Floyd Center for the Arts, Floyd
Date: Saturday, August 24, 2024
Time: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Event Types: Music, Food, Drink Specials, Miscellaneous, Family Friendly, Arts & Theatre, Speaking Engagements, Class
Cost: Free
Description:
The Floyd Center for the Arts in partnership with the Floyd Country Store’s Handmade Music School presents the 2024 Floyd Living Traditions Festival on Saturday, August 24, 2024.

Schedule of Events:
Outdoor Stage:
• 10:00 AM: Handmade Music School
• 11:15 AM: Willard Gayheart & Scott Freeman
• 12:15 PM: The Little River Missionary Baptist Church Choir
• 1:15 PM: Lua Project
• 2:30 PM: Tribute to the Korn Kutters with Mac Traynham and George Slusher
• 3:45 PM: Larry Sigmon & The VA Girls
• 5:00 PM: New River Wranglers Stringband

Indoor Stage:
• 10:30 AM: Appalachian Storytelling
• 12:00 PM: Floyd Historical Dancers
• 1:30 PM: Flat Foot Dancing
• 3:00 PM: Floyd Contra Dancers
• 4:40 PM: Floyd Shape Note Singers

Known for its bluegrass and old-time music, along with a lively arts scene, Floyd, Virginia, will celebrate its rich artistic heritage with the Floyd Living Traditions Festival. The festival will feature music on two stages and fun for the whole family. More than 70 artists will be on hand to perform, offer works for sale, and demonstrate Floyd traditions such as quilting, spinning, instrument making, weaving, blacksmithing, dancing, woodworking, and basketmaking. Food trucks including Thai & More and Copper Dog and Co. along with homecooked pinto beans and cornbread, an outdoor beer garden, hands-on kids activities, 30-minute workshops and opportunities to learn and create firsthand await!

Saturday’s all-day event takes place both inside and out at the dairy barn campus of the Floyd Center for the Arts.

Admission to the festival is free on Saturday.

There will also be Special Kickoff on Friday, August 23rd at 6:00 PM at the June Bug Center. For more information, visit: http://www.nextthreedays.com/FeaturedEventDetails.cfm?E=780175.

This event is sponsored by Skyline National Bank. This project is made possible by Mid Atlantic Arts’ Central Appalachia Living Traditions program & Mid Atlantic Tours program of Mid Atlantic Arts with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.

The Floyd Center for the Arts is located at 220 Parkway Lane South (VA-8), Suite 1 in Floyd, VA on the edge of downtown.

To view the event flyer, visit: https://i.postimg.cc/JnCgw5RL/image.png.

For more information, visit: https://www.floydartcenter.org/floyd-living-traditions-festival or https://www.facebook.com/FloydArts or https://www.facebook.com/events/1689230248504136 or https://www.instagram.com/floydcenterforthearts/ or call 540-745-2784.