-The following first appeared with a larger spread of photos in The Floyd Press on September 7, 2017. A slideshow of other photos can be viewed on the Floyd Press website. There was an impressive turnout for the 6th annual Yoga Jam despite scattered showers and overcast weather Friday and Saturday. Parking lots and campsites […]
-The following first appeared as ‘Fest’ive Spirit in Sounds of Floyd, a July 2017 magazine insert publication of The Floyd Press “I’m a lover of music. I’ve performed everything from folk, punk, jazz, reggae, old time, swing, bluegrass, blues, rock, and world music. I try to bring what I love and that’s what makes it authentic.” […]
Sunday is like the cherry on the top of my four days of Floydfesting. I started out the day by taking pictures of sweet Floyd friend sightings. I took a series of shots called “People-watching from a Red Picnic Table in Front of the Longfin Grille Truck,” where I had a Chef Chiron made lunch. […]
Butterflies and boys (sons and grandsons) made my heart flutter at Floydfest on Saturday. We lounged on a giant rubber duckie after watching a juggler swallow fire and balance a chair on his head. Josh and Emily wore flowers in their hair from their Carolina Flowers flower farm in Marshall, NC. They’re getting married September […]
Does it look like these people like Michael Franti? Michael Franti likes his fans as much as they like him. This is how Franti gets in the mix with them. He brings fans up on stage to sing and dance with him, whether on the main stage or a make-shift crowd surfing stage like the […]
In the VIP tent, we watched a woman get a pie in the face while trying to win a lottery ticket challenge. I found my Floyd dance friend StarRoot (who also had an art booth on site) and we danced a few songs to Gote, just one of the bands that our friend John McBroom […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press with a larger spread of photos on September 8, 2016 and online HERE. The fifth annual Floyd Yoga Jam officially opened Friday with a large circle gathering woven together with a rainbow of colored yarn. Conceived by local artists and dancers, Lore Deighan, Leia Jones and Katie […]
Can you guess what it is? Keep watching. Oooh Ahhhhh Bam Slam The video will give you your answer. / Our World Tuesday
The fifth annual Floyd Yogajam got fired up yesterday, and there are two more days for spiritful jamming to yoga, music and more to come. The first evening reached a crescendo for me when Mighty Joshua and his Zion #5 family took to the stage in the high reggae fashion. By the end of the […]
1. “It used to be that artists never took credit for their own work. There was this thing literally called “the muse.” Every once it a while it comes to visit you and it’s not up to you. At some point in history we got rid of that idea and starting taking credit. Some people […]
I’m pretty sure I heard Bruce Hornsby keeping time by repeating “Pokemon Go” a few times during his Main Stage Sunday performance that closed this year’s Floydfest. He played with the Grateful Dead for a couple of years before Jerry died, and I’m happy to say I saw some of those shows. I also had […]
Saturday was family time! Virginia is for Lovers and so is Floydfest. I learned that Floyd Countian Joey Kaylor, pictured here with his family, made the giant Dreamweavin’ dreamcatchers displayed center stage. Check them out above and HERE. Their stickers say, ‘Listened to a Mom Today.’ My friend Lotus on the rocks with a friend, […]
It was my first time seeing Shakey Graves, on a recommendation from my son Josh. He played without his band, sitting on a red suitcase that had a foot drum fitted in it and told stories of growing up and how he got his band name. It was inspired by a tripped out guy that […]
It’s actually Floydfest #15 but is being called 16 to match the year, because this year’s theme is Dreamweavin’ and it’s a Floydfest leap year, wrinkle in time. After going to every single Floydfest since the beginning, when I first arrive each year I don’t know how old I am or what year it is […]
It was my first time at the Phoenix, the music venue club that holds Battle of the Bands contests for Floydfest’s fan-voted On the Rise band competition. It was a breath of fresh air to feel transported back into the 60s, where I saw bands like Led Zepplin before they were famous in an old […]
– The following first appeared in The Floyd Press with a larger spread of photos on August 13, 2015. Whether it’s performance art, live music, theater or visual art, Floydfest has always been a canvas for creativity. Everything from the costumes worn to landscaped pools and gardens, and to the vending of fine art […]
Our World Tuesday / Wordless Wednesday
Grace Potter fired up the crowd singing Fire on the Mountain and Burning Down the House late Saturday night. While she was doing that (and singing Rod Stewart’s Do You Think I’m Sexy disco style HERE), the giant wooden Phoenix in the main field was getting ready to be lit-up in a ritual performance of letting go […]
