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Robbie Fulks in Concert
Venue: Floyd Country Store, Floyd
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Robbie Fulks
Date: Sunday, August 11, 2024
Time: 7:30 - 9:30 PM
Event Types: Music
Cost:
General Admission: $20.00 Reserved Tickets: $25.00 Kids 12 & Under: $10.00

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Description:
The Floyd Country Store presents Robbie Fulks in concert on Sunday, August 11, 2024.

Robbie Fulks, a singer-songwriter and instrumentalist, has explored bluegrass music throughout his career. His early work helped define the alternative country movement of the 1990s, but he has since returned to his bluegrass roots.

Fulks was born in York, Pennsylvania, and grew up in a half-dozen small towns in southeast Pennsylvania, the North Carolina Piedmont, and the Blue Ridge area of Virginia. He learned guitar from his dad, banjo from Earl Scruggs and John Hartford records, and fiddle (long since laid down in disgrace) on his own. He attended Columbia College in New York City in 1980 and dropped out in 1982 to focus on the Greenwich Village songwriter scene and other ill-advised pursuits.

Radio: multiple appearances on WSM’s “Grand Ole Opry”; PRI’s “Whadd’ya Know”; NPR’s “Fresh Air,” “Mountain Stage,” and “World Cafe”; and the syndicated “Acoustic Cafe” and “Laura Ingraham Show.” TV: PBS’s Austin City Limits; NBC’s Today, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Later with Carson Daly, and 30 Rock. From 2004 to 2008 he hosted an hourlong performance/interview program for XM satellite radio, “Robbie’s Secret Country.” Artists who have covered his songs include Sam Bush, Kelly Hogan, Andrew Bird, Mollie O’Brien, Rosie Flores, John Cowan, and Old 97s.

His release, "2017’s Upland Stories", earned year’s-best recognition from NPR and Rolling Stone among many others, as well as two Grammy® nominations, for folk album and American roots song (“Alabama At Night”).

His current release, Bluegrass Vacation on Compass Records, returns him to his bluegrass roots, with a large group of masterful musicians including Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Justin Moses, Ronnie McCoury, Alison Brown, David Grier, Tim O’Brien, Todd Phillips, John Cowan and more. Across 11 new original songs (and one freewheeling interpretation of the Delmore Brothers), Robbie covers themes like small-town blues, the endurance of childhood memory, inebriation, love, divorce, the role of music in strengthening family bonds, losing a loved one to Alzheimer’s, and bluegrass itself.

Links:

• http://www.robbiefulks.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/RobbieFulksOfficial
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6afzh-W3q2_qyEhyB-fL8w

Tickets are $20.00 for general admission, $10.00 for ages 12 & under and reserved tickets are $25.00.

To purchase tickets online, visit: https://aftontickets.com/event/buyticket/k3xdll7djw.

Doors open at 6:30 PM and the concert starts at 7:30 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/2yfgRpN2/image.png.

For more information, visit: https://www.floydcountrystore.com/event/robbie-fulks-2024-08-11 or https://www.facebook.com/floydcountrystore or https://www.instagram.com/thefloydcountrystore/ or call 540-745-4563.