| Date: | September 18, 2022 |
| Time: | 12:00 - 6:00 PM |
| Venue: | Warren G. Lineberry Memorial Park |
| Organizations: | Appalachian Space Train, Brad Collier, Cocobolo, Earl White Stringband, Eric + Addie, Henry Hardt's Mudcats, Jake Retting, Junior Varsity, Kat Mills, Maggie Blankenship, Neal Skieebo Wyms, Paul Lemay, Seph Custer, Solacoustix, Virginia Hollow |
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The Third Annual Floyd Americana Music and Arts Festival will be held on Sunday, September 18, 2022 at Warren G. Lineberry Memorial Park in Floyd, VA. Music & Entertainment Line-Up: Hotel Floyd Stage: • 12:00-12:40 PM: Junior Varsity • 1:00-1:40 PM: Seph Custer & David Cannaday • 2:00-2:40 PM: Eric + Addie • 3:00-3:40 PM: Neal "Skieebo" Wyms • 4:00-4:40 PM: Earl White and Adrienne Davis Lineberry Park Stage: • 12:00-12:10 PM: Mystic Witches • 12:15-12:50 PM: Appalachian Space Train • 1:00-1:40 PM: Henry Hardt's Mudcats • 2:00-2:40 PM: Cocobolo • 3:00-3:40 PM: Brad Collier and The Easy Answers • 4:00-4:40 PM: Virginia Hollow • 5:00-6:00 PM: Solacoustix Duo Outerspace Stage: • 12:00-12:40 PM: Paul Lemay • 1:00-1:40 PM: Maggie Blankenship • 2:00-2:40 PM: Jake Retting • 3:00-3:40 PM: Michael Kovick • 4:00-4:40 PM: Kat Mills Enjoy 20 local Americana musical artists and bands on three stages of music at Lineberry Park, Outer Space and Hotel Floyd! The festival will also feature locally made arts and crafts, products and produce from Floyd's artisans and vendors. Junior Varsity's music consists of acoustic guitar and melodic mandolin playing. Link: https://www.facebook.com/Junior-varsity-643341906126272/ Seph Custer is a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist from Boones Mill, Virginia, offering a fresh look at American and handmade tunes. With many years of experience arranging music for groups in Southwest Virginia, as well as backing up groups and artists on stage, he's combined his talents to offer a diverse variety of acoustic songs, full-band jams, and intriguing covers. For his first seven years in music, his career revolved around playing lead guitar, banjo, slide and mandolin for numerous rock, Americana, blues, punk, alternative, and traditional bands. He's fined tuned his sound over the course of two studio albums and over 600 live shows, combining his diverse music taste with his skill set from several instruments; all delivered with only vocals and a modified guitar. Seph has been featured in The Floyd Country Store’s annual tribute concerts, covering Bob Dylan, Gordon Lightfoot, Carole King, and Paul Simon. In 2015, Seph's music was so well received at Callaway Brewing Company, they named a small batch German Wheat Ale "Sepheweissen." Seph Custer & The Papa Tom Band were included in Floydfest’s 2017 “Artists on the Rise” competition. In 2018, he became a member of Brackish Water Jamboree playing mandolin, joined them on tour, and performed alongside them in the “Rockn’ to Lockn” competition. He’s also appeared in Virginia Brew Hub Magazine, Appalachian Jamwich Magazine, The Roanoke Times, Blue Ridge Rocks, City Magazine, Roanoke’s Down By Downtown festival, The Nor-folk Festival, Pink Moon Festival, Blacksburg's Rock the Blocks and Steppin' Out Festivals, and WDVX's Blue Plate Special. As well as being a performer and composer, Seph teaches acoustic & electric guitar, mandolin, banjo, ukulele, bass, violin, slide guitar, lap steel, dobro, and music theory at Downtown Music in Rocky Mount, The Handmade Music School at The Floyd Country Store, and Fret Mill in Downtown Roanoke. Links: • http://www.sephcustermusic.com/ • https://www.facebook.com/sephcustermusic • https://twitter.com/sephcuster • https://www.reverbnation.com/sephcuster • https://www.youtube.com/user/sephcsuter/videos • https://www.instagram.com/sephcuster/ Appalachian Space Train hails from Floyd, VA. This four piece band rocks the stage and delivers explosive rockadelic funkabilly tunes. Down in the hollers of Southwest VA, a group of intergalactic space travelers are embarking on a voyage of the cosmos aboard a space train of sounds. Using precision tuned instruments, they navigate the solar systems of consciousness. Links: • https://appalachianspacetrain.com/ • https://www.facebook.com/AppalachianSpaceTrain • https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f0nuF4hC5EWTOT_i2IB6w/videos • https://www.instagram.com/appalachianspacetrain/ Henry Hardt's Mudcats play old time street and piedmont blues reveling in music penned earlier in the 20th century from Charlie Pool to The Reverend Gary Davis to Robert Johnson and are based in Floyd, VA. The band members are Jeff Liverman, Jeremia Dwier, Barb Gillespie, Will Norton and Sean Matuk. The Mudcat’s specialize in illuminating the influence that old style street music including blues and jug band sounds had on modern Rock and Roll. They play songs made popular by such artists as Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Nirvana and Eric Clapton, but they play in the style of the original recordings from the 1920s and 30s. Henry Hardt’s Mudcats are a fun, danceable look back at some of the most influential music of the last three generations. Links: • https://www.facebook.com/HenryHardtsMudcats • https://www.reverbnation.com/henrymudcathardt Cocobolo, a band that blends magic and mystery into melody, plays thought provoking, entertaining original music written by it’s members, all of whom currently call Southwest Virginia home. You are sure to love the creative and intricate leads of Bob Dillard, a lifelong guitarist, who brings excitement to the stage with his enthusiasm and skill. The sensitive and seductive bass accompaniments of Christopher Luster, playing electric stand up fretless bass, often surprisingly with a bow, the foot tapping rhythms and grooves of percussionist T.G. Williams, and the warm vocals of singer, Stella Trudel, whose commitment to writing original lyrics and singing from the heart weaves stories into harmonies that stir emotions and leave listeners wanting more. Links: • http://cocoboloband.com/ • https://www.facebook.com/Cocobolo-1637054022998218/ Virginia Hollow is a mixture of Americana, Bluegrass, Country, Indie, and Rock. A singer-songwriter band that performs songs written by lead singer Carrie Hinkley, along with an occasional handpicked cover or two. Virginia Hollow is a band and a sound born from the hills, valleys and mountains of Appalachia. Their performances and music take you on a journey fraught with raw emotions and stories of love, trust, betrayal and longing. When all is said and done, the haunting melodies of Carrie Hinkley's soulful voice are hard to shake off and instead keep returning and replaying in one's mind, like an untamed mantra of beauty and tragedy. This is a band whose time has come and needs to be reckoned with. Links: • https://virginiahollow.com/ • https://www.facebook.com/virginiahollowband/ Solacoustix is a music phenomenon, specializing and performing anything from Blues and R&B to rock based in Roanoke, VA. Solacoustix has played Floydfest and around the state to several college and university crowds. Jo Jo leads on Bass while Stuart mixes and mashes all types of current and classic music and adds his own soulful voice and makes it his own. Chris is a beast on drums and Cameron rocks the keys which makes this band the one to book for any event. No matter if you need a solo acoustic blues artist or a full band, Solacoustix can meet your needs. Links: • https://sites.google.com/view/solacoustix/home • https://www.facebook.com/jojo.stockton.3 • https://www.instagram.com/jojo.stockton.3/ Eric + Addie are two multi-instrumental singer songwriters from the New River Valley playing a wide variety of folk, Americana and much more in traditional styles. Link: https://www.facebook.com/ericplusaddie Neal Skieebo Wyms is a singer, song writer, blues extraordinaire and multi-instrumentalist who hails from Radford, VA and has performed professionally for most of his life. His music ranges from blues, soul, country, R&B, pop, and even some jazz as well as gospel. Self taught, he plays all the instruments and sings all vocals on his recorded works to date. Neal has taken up guitar playing and added instruments to his repertoire including bass, keyboards, piano, drums, and harmonica. His blues influences are Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf, Lightning Hopkins, Elmore James and Keb Mo among others. He sings original songs and covers from artists such as John Mayer, Bill Withers, Leon Bridges, BB King, Kembo and Prince. Neal discovered his gift for music and performing during his childhood years. His career has spanned over 30+ years. Neal has toured with female jazz vocalist, Miss Jane Powell, and has played bass for several top 40 bands and jazz combos including pop group Arrested Development, Bobby Brown's group Smooth Silk and legendary blues and soul artist Clarence Carter and William Bell. Links: • https://www.facebook.com/NEALSkieeboWYMS-MUSIC-WORLD-349185722228507/ • https://www.facebook.com/nealwymsmuzik/ • https://www.reverbnation.com/nealwyms • https://www.youtube.com/user/nealrae/videos Paul LeMay is a musician from Southwest Virginia performing Americana music. Jake Retting is a singer songwriter playing free form rock and roll blending poetry and storytelling based in Floyd, Virginia. He is also part of the Velvet Spring music collective along with Thurman Felker. Links: • https://www.facebook.com/jakerettingband • https://www.instagram.com/jakeretting/ Hailing from beautiful Patrick County, Virginia, Maggie Blankenship is a veteran of performing music that excites her passion for singing and entertaining audiences from every walk of life. With her guitar in hand, Blankenship soulfully sings a combination of original and cover tunes that are guaranteed to take you on an uplifting journey. Influences of bluegrass and rock ‘n’ roll echo throughout her unique folk-rock music style. Anytime she steps on stage she is taken to a sacred place that welcomes anyone willing to join her. Listen to the sound of her peaceful guitar, sentimental lyrics, and sultry voice as she delivers an unforgettable performance that often channels musical icons such as Susan Tedeschi, Grace Potter, Stevie Nicks, and Janis Joplin. Link: https://www.facebook.com/maggieblankenshipmusic Kat Mills performs soul folk music to soothe you and is based in Blacksburg, VA and tours throughout the East. She is a writer, singer, guitarist and seeker rooted in GenX habits, nodding and winking to 60s and 70s troubadour traditions, and openly commenting on the aches and triumphs of the moment. Any way you hear it, Kat's powerful vocal range, vintage Martin guitar, and mystic vibes combine to produce a clean honest sound that leaves audiences wanting more. Kat Mills believes in the power of folk music, now more than ever, to transport and transcend. A troubled day, or world, can be soothed by a song. At a time when we have almost forgotten how to be still, to listen, to reflect and then engage, Kat Mills helps us remember. She was a founding member of acclaimed newgrass band, Grass. Kat is currently based in Blacksburg VA and touring as a solo singer and songwriter throughout the East and beyond. Kat has been inspiring all with her music, her smoky voice and heartfelt lyrics for years. Her vintage guitars and throwback threads remind you of another era, but her soulful original songs and stories are for the here and now. Kat Mills has made records, won awards, and worked with some of the big names, but she really just wants to use her voice for good. Kat has proudly been involved in Clearwater’s Great Hudson River Revival (NY), Floyd Fest (VA), Solar Fest (VT), The Takoma Park Folk Festival (DC) and other events lining up with issues of social justice and environmental responsibility. Favorite opening sets have supported Levon Helm, Dar Williams, Dori Freeman and Sarah Lee Guthrie. Songwriter series, in-the-rounds, and house concerts have been a mainstay. But Kat Mills is equally at home on a theater or café stage, having played notable songwriter venues including The Towne Crier, Rosendale Café, The Lyric Theatre, Caffe Lena, Jefferson Center, and Kirk Avenue Music Hall. She was a finalist in the 2015 NewSong/LEAF Singer-Songwriter Competition, has had original song placements in film and podcasts, and appears as a backing vocalist for other artists, most recently with super-group “Reelin’ in the Years: A Tribute to Steely Dan” at the Bearsville Theater in Woodstock NY. Links: • http://www.katmills.com/ • https://www.facebook.com/thekatmillsshow • https://www.twitter.com/TheKatMillsShow • https://www.reverbnation.com/katmills • https://www.youtube.com/user/thekatmillsshow • https://www.instagram.com/thekatmillsshow/ Fiddlin Earl White has been a prominent figure in the Oldtime music and dance community for more than 40 years. He is one of "FEW" Black Americans playing and perpetuating the music that was once an important part of black culture and black communities across the US. He is an original and founding member of the famed Greengrass Cloggers, and received his first fiddle in 1975. Fiddlin Earl White' energetic, rhythmic, driving style is attributed to many years of dancing with the Greengrass Cloggers to the delights of Tommy Jarrell, the Highwoods Stringband, the Plank Road Stringband, and the Horseflies, to name a few. His fiddlin is as heartfelt as his dancing of earlier years. He currently leads the Earl White Stringband and has played with many of the finest Oldtime musicians in the country. Under the guise of "The Too Wet to Plow Stringband", "Early Night and the Daytimers", "The Dukes of Earl", "Sweet Bama", "The Earl White Band", and the "Earl White Stringband", and the dynamic duo as Adrienne Davis and Earl White. His bands have graced many audiences with their superb music as workshops or concerts. Link: https://www.facebook.com/earlwhitestringband Brad Collier is an independent singer-songwriter based in Southwestern Virginia. After decades of traveling the country playing a mix of traditional and original folk music, J. Bradley settled back down in the rolling hills of his youth to focus on new music and a growing passion for building string instruments. Links: • https://www.facebook.com/jbradleycollier • https://www.reverbnation.com/jbradleycollier Admission is free. The event is rain or shine. Sponsors: Town of Floyd, Dogtown Roadhouse, Wills Ridge Supply, Sticks & Stones Consruction, Inc., Thomas & Wall Real Estate, Hotel Floyd, Cocoa Mia, The Schroeder Law Firm, P.C., Outer Space, Timber & Tide Woodworks, Law Office of Alan Stuart Graf, Finn Graphics, Inc. For more information, visit: https://sites.google.com/view/floyd-americana-music-and-arts/home or https://www.facebook.com/floydamericanamusicandartsfestival or https://www.instagram.com/floydamericanamusicandartsfest/ or email floydamericanamusicandartsfest@gmail.com or contact Alan Graf at 931-231-4119 or alanstuartgraf@gmail.com. |