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2024 Floyd Small Town Summer Finale with The Crooked Road's 20th Anniversary Celebration
Venue: Warren G. Lineberry Memorial Park, Floyd
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Floyd Small Town Summer, Junior Sisk Band, Loose Strings, Twin Creeks Stringband
Date: Thursday, August 29, 2024
Time: 6:00 - 9:00 PM
Event Types: Music, Sports, Family Friendly
Cost: Free

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Description:
The Town of Floyd concludes their 7th Annual Floyd Small Town Summer event series with The Crooked Road's 20th Anniversary Celebration on Thursday, August 29, 2024 outside at Warren G. Lineberry Memorial Park.

Event Schedule:
• 6:00 PM: Gates Open
• 6:05 PM: Twin Creeks Stringband
• 6:50 PM: The Loose Strings Band
• 7:45 PM: Junior Sisk Band

The Crooked Road has made a significant impact on the Floyd community and Southwest Virginia, by celebrating our music heritage and inviting the world to come visit the "birthplace of country music" here in Southwest Virginia. Floyd and venues like the Floyd Country Store have invited travelers in to experience old time and bluegrass music and dancing traditions. On this night we celebrate 20 years of The Crooked Road (and 40 years of the Friday Night Jamboree at The Floyd Country Store) with an exciting night of music and dance!

Join us in Lineberry Park as we celebrate Floyd’s important place along the Crooked Road. We will feature a variety of stringband musicians such as students from Handmade Music School, Twin Creeks Stringband, The Loose Strings Band and Junior Sisk Band. The Crooked Road On Tour is a concert program of exemplary artists of The Crooked Road region who are steeped in heritage music traditions.

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

The Loose Strings Band (LSB) is an all girls band, consisting of five members from Galax, VA a part of the heart of Appalachia. They were once known as a youth band and have now crossed over into the adult league and placed 8th in the adult competition at the 80th Galax Fiddlers Convention.

They band has been together for almost a decade playing at bluegrass convention, weddings, benefits, churches, reunions and festivals. They are known in the Blue Ridge Mountains and beyond for their nice blend of tight vocal harmonies and sweet rhythms.

Links:

• http://www.theloosestringsband.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/TheLooseStringsBand
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo0-1C3FfsbQal76FcyYXsA
• https://www.instagram.com/theloosestringsband/

Junior Sisk is widely recognized as one of today's top bluegrass vocalists, and a constant reminder that traditional bluegrass is still alive and well. A longtime resident of the Virginia Blue Ridge, his bluegrass pedigree runs deep. Influenced by a father who wrote songs and played guitar and a mother who sang, Sisk first learned to play around age 14. His early influences included The Stanley Brothers, Larry Sparks, and Dave Evans, but he often credits the Johnson Mountain Boys with inspiring him to pursue bluegrass professionally.

Sisk first made his mark in bluegrass as a songwriter in the early 1990s, penning classic Lonesome River Band songs like "Game (I Can't Win)" and "Tears Are Blinding Me." As a member of Wyatt Rice & Santa Cruz and Blueridge, he helped define the sound of driving, modern traditional bluegrass. In 1998, Sisk founded the Ramblers Choice band, and released "Sounds of the Mountains" on Rounder Records. After leaving Blueridge in 2006, he reformed Ramblers Choice and began a successful career on Rebel Records.

His 2011 album Heart of a Song helped bring the band into the spotlight and earned the prestigious IBMA Album of the Year Award in 2012. Its single "A Far Cry from Lester and Earl," which Sisk co-wrote, became a rallying cry for a resurgence of traditional sounds in bluegrass and additionally, received the 2012 Song of the Year Award from the IBMA. Sisk was further honored when he was named 2013 IBMA Male Vocalist of the Year, and his band earned the 2014 SPBGMA Bluegrass Band of the Year award. In 2016, "Longneck Blues," a collaboration with noted singer-songwriter Ronnie Bowman, was named Recorded Event of the Year by the IBMA. Most recently, Sisk received the 2017 Male Vocalist of the Year award from SPBGMA.

In 2015, Sisk signed with Mountain Fever Records and has been happily turning out hit after hit for them ever since. His most recent album, Brand New Shade Of Blue boasts the chart topping single "Whiskey and the Guitar."

Links:

• https://juniorsisk.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/juniorsiskband

The Small Town Fall Festival Event Series is free and open to the public.

The Town of Floyd offers this series of free events to provide a fun, family-friendly atmosphere in downtown Floyd, VA. Featuring music, movies, face-painting, inflatables, games, food and beverage and special activities presented by a variety of community organizations!

Bring your lawn chair and/or blanket.

Gates will be open and access provided to the public starting at 6:00 PM.

To view the event flyer, visit: https://i.postimg.cc/qB9vqG24/image.png or https://i.postimg.cc/xd5nz644/image.png.

For more information, visit: https://floydsmalltownsummer.com/ or https://www.facebook.com/floydsmalltownsummer/ or https://www.facebook.com/events/1392666494743015/.