| Date: | February 21, 2026 |
| Time: | 7:00 - 9:00 PM |
| Venue: | Floyd Country Store |
| Organizations: | DaShawn Hickman |
| Cost: |
General Admission: $20.00 Reserved Seating: $25.00
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| Description: |
The Floyd Country Store hosts DaShawn Hickman presents Sacred Steel on Saturday, February 24, 2024. Join us for a special evening with one of today’s foremost players of Sacred Steel, a blues-gospel tradition of pedal steel. Wendy and DaShawn Hickman are a married couple of sweetheart musicians, rooted in gospel roots and soulful tradition based in Mount Airy, North Carolina. One of today’s foremost Sacred Steel players DaShawn Hickman channels the blues-gospel traditions of the Pentecostal-Holiness churches of the 1930s. Hickman draws a through-line to Southern black church music dating back to nearly a century before he put his own sound down. He grew up hearing the pedal steel in the tiny House of God church his family attended in Mt. Airy, and listening to his mother play lap steel at home. Hickman picked up the instrument at the age of five, and in his teens, formed a group with three of his cousins that found fame as The Allen Boys, North Carolina’s only touring Sacred Steel band. In August 2023 DaShawn was inducted into the Sacred Steel Hall of Fame. Channeled by artists like Anita Baker and India Arie, Wendy’s voice shines with a splash of Tina Turner’s "raspiness" and reminds DaShawn of his most esteemed musical influence: his mother, Alice Hickman. "I grew up hearing a variety of styles and took from a lot of them and put my spin on it," he explained. "But my mother is the one single individual that really influenced me. She’s the one that got me started playing Steel Guitar. She played lap steel, and one day she put it in my hands and I’ve been doing it ever since." Links: • https://littlevillagefoundation.com/dasahwn-hickman/ • https://www.facebook.com/p/DaShawn-and-Wendy-Hickman-Music-100089379981225/ • https://www.facebook.com/shawn.hickman2 • https://www.instagram.com/dashawnhickman_steelguitar/ Tickets are $20.00 for general admission and $25.00 for reserved seating. Tickets can be purchased online at https://aftontickets.com/event/buyticket/38jyn307x7 or in person at the store. Doors open at 6:00 PM and the music starts at 7:00 PM. The Floyd Country Store is located at 206 South Locust St in Floyd, VA. To view the event flyer, visit: https://i.postimg.cc/7L3phDq4/image.png. For more information, visit: https://www.floydcountrystore.com/event/dashawn-wendy-hickman-present-sacred-steel or https://www.facebook.com/floydcountrystore or https://www.facebook.com/events/33085031791095059/ or https://www.instagram.com/thefloydcountrystore/ or call 540-745-4563. |