The Floyd Youth Get Together Camp
June 6th – 10th, 2022
The Handmade Music School is excited to announce the First Annual Floyd Youth Get Together Camp: a traditional music and dance camp for kids ages 8-14 on June 6-10, 2022. The camp will take place at the Floyd Events Center, which is part of the Floyd EcoVillage in Floyd, Virginia. Kids will jam together, be involved in square-dancing and square dance calling, perform, and learn about the long history of music and dance in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
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Announcing the Music of Our Mountains Launch Event and Fundraiser on April 23rd
Join us at the Floyd Country Store on Saturday, April 23, 2022 at 7:30pm for music and discussion on a century of the People, Places, Tunes and Roots from Floyd, Patrick, Carroll & Grayson Counties, with Martha Spencer, Mac Traynham, Andy Buckman, Kinney Rorrer, Wayne Martin, Trevor McKenzie, Corbin Hayslett, Jackson Cunningham and Hunter Holmes.
Mac’s Tune of the Week
Tunes and stories of our local Virginia Blue Ridge region
Angeline the Baker (Revisited)
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.