I wait all year to see Santa, and when I see him at our town Christmas Parade, I chase his float down the street trying to get a picture or at least a longer look. But his sleigh just seems to fly right by. Look for a photo spread in this week’s Floyd Press to […]
We can always count on Dogtown Roadhouse to bring good bands to Floyd for those of us who go to the dance floor instead of the gym. I always check Dogtown’s upcoming band list and then listen to a couple of tracks of the bands I think I might like. But when it comes to […]
The special ten-year anniversary issue of Floyd County Moonshine has hit the newsstands, virtual and otherwise. Moonshine is a bi-annual literary journal of local flavor that features primarily regional authors, as well as new and established poets and prose writers from all over. Photography of Floyd’s rural scenery is also included in every issue, and […]
Thursday I went to a Dead Man’s Carnival wedding party at Dogtown Roadhouse where one of the performers did a new take on sawing a girl in half by putting blades in a box she was in (more to come). The next night I was back for a Tom Petty tribute band. I felt it […]
By “peek” I don’t mean “peak” because I don’t think there will any peak foliage days on the Blue Ridge Parkway this year. For whatever reason, the season is late. There is still so much green and many trees have gone from green to grays and browns. There are splashes of color that give me […]
When Joe and I were recently at the new brew pub in town, Buffalo Mountain Brewery, I joked that drinking beer at the pub was going to be my new “practice.” Really, it gets me out of homebody recluse mode and helps to lighten me up. It’s also a great place to meet up with […]
This first appeared in The Floyd Press on October 11, 2-18 A Music Lab performance band, called Her Majesty, opened for Music Road Co at Dogtown Roadhouse Saturday night, bringing dancers to the floor and applause from patrons. It was a surprise performance that featured primarily original songs, written and sung by 15-year-old Floyd Countian […]
I was busy dancing. Because “now is the time to get off your feet and dance in the street…” or at Dogtown Roadhouse in Floyd when Donna the Buffalo comes to town (for the fourth time since their first Dogtown show in 2010). You better “look both ways before you cross her heart.” Cross my […]
It’s hard to mess up Grateful Dead music like it’s hard to mess up an egg breakfast, and I’d eat the later three times a day and dance to the former every time. M.C. Broom & The Jam got it right at Dogtown Saturday night. They were joined by Buck and Griz for a whole […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on May 31, 2018. The third annual Little River Poetry Festival (LRPF) is just around the corner and has a new date. Located at Daniel Sowers’s On the Water Canoeing and Kayaking, the date has been changed from the second weekend in June to the third, June […]
In 2006 I wrote a post about my friend Jayn and her house called Home is Where the Art is. It began: Her art can’t be separated from the life she lives and the place she lives it from, an old Appalachian country home with a flower child touch and an artist’s manifested vision… See […]
Anthony Flaccavento is campaigning for the 2018 Democratic nomination for Virginia’s 9th Congressional District, the seat that Democrat Rick Boucher held for more than two decades and that Republican Morgan Griffith now holds. On May 20th, the Abington farmer, author, small business owner and sustainable economic development consultant cut the ribbon at a Campaign Headquarters […]
I was really proud of myself for being able to dance and sing along with the lyrics during Morgan Wade & the Stepbrothers’s recent hometown show at Dogtown. Some of her songs from her new album, Puppets with my Heart, are like anthems to me now, like Songs I Won’t Remember. It was the tail […]
It was the weekend of the first annual Mayfaire at The Floyd Center for the Arts, complete with Maypole Dancing. I was briefly crowned, tried on a Queen of May Day garland, made by one of the Floyd Mystic Witches dancers. Look for a spread of photos coming in this week’s Floyd Press on the Old […]
Just when I gave up getting a picture of Clark Gable and Scarlet O’Hara cardinals together, a pair of red-breasted grosbeaks paid a visit. I had never seen one before! They call it a purple finch, but it looks red to me. A cardinal, woodpecker and nuthatch also play a role.
Did they have a Neil Young Tribute just so they could write “Tonight’s the Night” on a poster? Actually, the concert was called “Heart of Gold” and took place Friday night at Dogtown Roadhouse to benefit SustainFloyd, a local environmental group focused on sustainable local economy. The local musicians that came together for the event […]
And they have been for 32 years. It was the anniversary show of The Kind at the Pine Tavern last night and the band’s community of fans came out. I had to peel layers because the show was not in traditional tented pavilion, but in the Pine’s indoor dining room addition, a small space for […]
The Floyd-based band Flirting with Chemicals was the Mardi Gras soundtrack to a lighted hoop show and dancers that included a troupe of Mystic Witches. Here’s what the band’s Facebook page says: “Flirting with Chemicals, Floyd Virginia’s Neo-psychedelic dance band draws inspiration from many sacred sources including Velvet Underground, Neil Young, Yo La Tengo, Guided […]
