Friday Night Backyard Jamboree with The Twin Creeks Stringband
Venue: Floyd Country Store, Floyd
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Twin Creeks Stringband
Date: Friday, May 14, 2021
Time: 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Event Types: Music
Cost:
Suggested donation of $8.00

Description:
The Floyd Country Store continues the 2021 Friday Night Backyard Jamboree with the Twin Creeks Stringband outside on Friday, May 14, 2021.

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

Admission is free with a suggested donation of $8.00 in support of the musicians.

Join us on Friday evenings behind the Floyd Country Store for a live show with some of our favorite old time string bands! The Backyard Jamboree features one band performing for two hours starting at 6:00 pm.

Bring your lawn chairs and blankets.

Seating opens at 5:30 pm and the music starts at 6:00 pm.

If you can’t join us live, check out the livestream on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/floydcountrystore/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwib5-8QRlyxWgHI5TX1lUg).

No dogs allowed, no alcohol allowed.

For more information, visit: https://www.floydcountrystore.com/events/list/ or https://www.facebook.com/floydcountrystore or call 540-745-4563.

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