The Floyd Country Store, home of the Friday Night Jamboree, has been an important part of the community for almost a century. Many of our Jamboree friends still recall when the Store was the place in town to buy everything from groceries to wool socks to a better mousetrap - a Floyd size version of today's "superstore."

Along about 1983, two of the store's former owners were in a local bluegrass band that gathered at the store most every Friday night for a practice session. People passing by would knock on the doors, asking to be let inside so they could better hear the music.

Pretty soon, the band got tired of being interrupted every few minutes to let someone else in the store, and so they just left the doors open. As the crowds grew, other musicians came to join the fun. And the rest, as they say, is history.

In 1999, when the store changed owners, a new sound system was installed, the stage was enlarged a bit, and some cosmetic improvements were made. Other than that, the Jamboree just keeps rolling on as it has for years, except that the music seems to get better and the crowds bigger with every passing month.

Many of those who attend the Jamboree are regulars, and for them, the Jamboree is a place to see old friends week after week. But the Jamboree also gets visitors every week from all across the country, and very frequently from around the world.

Articles about the Jamboree have appeared in many state and national newspapers, and in August of 1999, National Public Radio aired a ten minute segment about the Jamboree on the Morning Edition program. The March, 2000 issue of Country Living magazine identified the Floyd County Store as one of the two best places in the country to hear bluegrass music (the other place was a club in New York City).

At the Jamboree, we're all very proud of and grateful to the musicians who bring their instruments and their talent to the store every week. The show starts every Friday at 6:30 p.m and they will play till we close around 10:30 or 11:00 p.m.

This year you will find that the Floyd Country Store has become a real country store again with a soda fountain and candies and snacks! You can also get hats and tee-shirts, even overalls!

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Tables have been installed near the front windows where patrons can play cards or play board games and checkers.

The store has been greatly expanded so that patrons can sit and socialize in the front half of the store while the band and the dancers fill the back end of the store with fine country music.