Main Street Music ~ Downtown Floyd
This weekend, we'll hear music in Floyd County without visiting the 'music mile' on Floyd's * Main Street for music. The New Roanoke Jug Band is playing a 'house concert' where more than the invited couple of dozen folks could pitch the hosts' two-story farmhouse right over onto its side.
But it won't be long before the Friday Night Jamboree spreads outdoors where the pickup bands and dancers play freely and for free. I look forward to carrying the camera again to see if I can do a better job of capturing the true flavor of being there. The lighting is a challenge, quarters are very close (and hot in summer) and there is more motion than you'd want to stop with the camera, even if you could.
I've just put some Jamboree images in a little gallery. Thought you might want to stop by for a visit to * Main Street, Floyd VA.
NOTE: * Technically, it's Locust Street, the north-south route through town. But Locust doesn't alliterate so well with Music as Main.
Comments
FYI, the Floyd Country Store is on Locust Street, not Main Street.
Posted by: Debbie | January 25, 2006 7:10 AM
Of course you're right! But then, Locust has rather become the main street, especially for music, and main sure works better alliteratively with music than Locust.
Posted by: fred1st | January 25, 2006 7:40 AM
You're right, Main Street for Music does sound better than Locust Street for Music. I just wanted to make sure those who read your blog and are looking for the Jamboree for the first time don't get all frustrated driving back and forth on Main trying to find the Country Store.
Posted by: Debbie | January 25, 2006 8:40 AM
We dubbed it "Floyd's Music Row" in a feature for The Floyd Press last year and have called it that in features on Blue Ridge Muse as well.
Posted by: Doug Thompson | January 25, 2006 9:14 AM