Back about four years ago, we added a Timberframe addition to our home on Bent Mountain. Our generous timberframers, Streamline Timberframe in Floyd, Virginia, are major partners with the Floydfest organizers, actually having built a couple of permanent Timberframe structures that house parts of the festival. Our friends at Streamline offered us a couple of three day passes as a VERY kind gesture.
We cluelessly attended our first Floydfest. Oh my goodness. I didn't know that much fun could be had on Planet Earth. The people watching was fantastic; the music even better. I was introduced to some amazing bands, many of them just on the verge of being too popular to play this intimate venue on the Blue Ridge Parkway.
The 2011 festival dates have been set as July 28 - 31st. The line-up for the 10 year anniversary of Floydfest includes favorites Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, Old Crow Medicine Show, Taj Mahal, Xavier Rudd, Railroad Earth, David Grisman, Hot Tuna, Sam Bush, Toubab Krewe, Donna the Buffalo, Carolina Chocolate Drops and my new favorites from last summer, J.P. Harris and the Tough Choices. And many more, some of whom I'm sure will soon become my new, new favorites. There is something for everyone, including the kiddos in the Children's Universe. Check our http://www.floydfest.com/ for the complete line-up and information on tickets, camping, and anything else you need to know to have more fun than you ever knew possible.
So if you are on the fence about attending, here's a nudge. DO IT! For those of us in SW Virginia, we are incredibly lucky to have this worldclass festival in our own backyard. And for those of you who aren't? Well, we just happen to have that perfect piece of mountain land you've been looking for.....
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