Treat your Mom to brunch AND locally grown flowers. Each Mother’s Day brunch box includes our famous quiche, locally grown salad kits from Kat the Farmer and variety of mini breakfast pastries and scones and a unique bouquet of locally grown flowers from Golden Foot Flower Farms. Serves four people.
Join us at the Floyd Country Store on Saturday, April 17, 2021 at 8:00pm for a live (and livestreamed) show with Redd Volkaert. The show will have a limited in-person audience and air live on Facebook and YouTube.
Join us on Saturday, April 10 for a live show with some Floyd Virginia’s finest bluegrass and old-time musicians. The show will have a limited in-person audience and air live on Facebook and YouTube.
This week’s tune is a revisit to “Angeline the Baker.” Thanks to Molly Stouten for helping me hunt this down. Here is a link to the song version that I heard many years ago on a WPAQ Saturday afternoon broadcast called the Blue Ridge Spotlight.
Now through Sunday, April 4th — come down to the Store for 20% off retail items! We’ll be open our regular hours on Easter Sunday (10am – 6pm). Join us for brunch and some great deals!
Thanks to old time fiddler Ole Rossel of Copenhagen, Denmark for this take of Carroll County’s Uncle Norman Edmonds and band playing the melody to the old folk song “Lonesome Dove.”
Let us do the cooking for your Easter Brunch! Each brunch box includes our famous quiche, locally grown salad kits from Kat the Farmer, plus dessert. Serves four people.
I was impressed by one our young clawhammer banjo players in our local JAM program, Hannah Cantrell from Floyd County. She played this tune for me at a gathering this past weekend on my fretless banjo. She told me she had learned this tune Poplar Pole secondhand from banjo player and fiddler Mike Gangloff who knows a lot about the music of our local “unknown” players of the past.
Here’s a tune for this week played by Stuart Lundy, one of the sons of fiddler Emmet Lundy of the …
Join us on Friday evenings at 6:00pm beginning in April for live shows with some of our favorite old time string bands! If you can’t join us live, check out the livestream on Facebook and Youtube.
This week’s tune is called “Callahan”. This one is from the playing of William (Bill) Shelor. I first heard it on the LP recording on the Heritage label called “Eight Miles Apart” that features two of the families from our local area that were prolific players of our kind of music in their lifetimes, namely, the Kimbles and the Shelor families.
The Handmade Music School is pleased to announce the Handmade at Home online learning series. Events are streamed through Crowdcast, with payments accepted on a sliding scale basis.
