The Floyd Radio Show with Twin Creeks Stringband and New Standard Bluegrass
Venue: Floyd Country Store, Floyd
Organizations: New Standard, Twin Creeks Stringband
Date: Saturday, February 1, 2025
Time: 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Event Types: Music, Arts & Theatre
Cost:

Description:
The Floyd Country Store continues The Floyd Radio Show 2024/2025 season with a performance on Saturday, February 1, 2025.

Join us at the Floyd Country Store for The Floyd Radio Show with host Kelley Breiding and special musical guests The Twin Creeks Stringband and New Standard Bluegrass.

The Floyd Radio Show is an old-timey variety show with original radio plays, comedy bits, ads, jingles, music and more, hosted by Kelley Breiding. Celebrating old time and traditional music with people and communities where music is played and enjoyed in its authentic and purest forms. The show is rooted in Floyd, VA where a musical and artistic community provides endless inspiration for the show, which appears live at the Floyd Country Store.

Twin Creeks Stringband plays music for dancing playing a strong rhythmic old time sound that goes back many generations.

In the late 1970s, a group of neighbors and friends got together to play the music that had been passed down in the Dry Hill and Ferrum areas of Franklin County. Some of the musicians were falling behind on their timing one day while playing and having some fun, and one spectator commented that he was going to call the group the Dry Hill Draggers.

Banjo player Jimmy Boyd and his brother Billy Boyd started the official Dry Hill Draggers band in 1981. The group flourished, and more than thirty years later, some of the Dry Hill Draggers members formed Twin Creeks Stringband, including Jared Boyd, grandson of Jimmy Boyd, a third generation claw-hammer banjo player; his dad Stacy Boyd on upright bass; Jason Hambrick on guitar and vocals; and Chris Prillaman on fiddle. Twin Creeks Stringband has a particularly driving old-time beat that is irresistible to dancers, and they are popular performers at the Blue Ridge Folklife Festival, as well as at the Galax Old Fiddlers’ Convention.

Link: https://www.facebook.com/Twincreeksoldtime

New Standard is a traditional and hard driving bluegrass band that brings together a variety of styles and influences ranging from traditional music to contemporary bluegrass and gospel artists. The band was founded in October, 2011 by three Virginia Tech students.

New Standard plays a mix of traditional bluegrass and gospel music honoring those before us such as Bill Monroe, Flatt & Scruggs, Reno & Smiley and The Stanley Brothers.

New Standard has entertained audiences in many towns across the mountains and Piedmont of Virginia. From fall festivals to church services, birthday parties to fishing tournaments, the group enjoys playing traditional gospel and bluegrass music for a wide variety of audiences.

Links:

• http://www.newstandardbluegrass.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/newstandardbluegrass

Tickets are $20.00 for general admission and $25.00 reserved seating, for sale online at https://aftontickets.com/event/buyticket/1o91dv8m9e and in-person in the store.

Doors open at 6:00 PM and the show starts at 7:00 PM.

The Floyd Radio Show will also be livestreamed on Floyd Country Store TV.

The Floyd Country Store is located at 206 South Locust Street in Floyd, VA.

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For more information, visit: https://www.floydcountrystore.com/event/the-floyd-radio-show-02-01-25 or https://www.facebook.com/floydcountrystore or https://www.facebook.com/events/591585097066970/ or https://www.instagram.com/thefloydcountrystore/ or call 540-745-4563.