Floyd Fest is Coming!
But it might be hard to say when.
A Fragments friend wrote this morning, telling me about this piece on Floyd Fest in the Richmond paper. This is how the piece begins:
No doubt about it, rural Floyd County is one of the hippest places in Virginia, with the latest generation of hippies, artists, nature lovers and every sort of laid-back refugee from the urban rat race living shoulder to shoulder with the easygoing local farmers.The place has become part paisley, part pasture; half hemp fashion, half hayfield.
And one reason Floyd has gotten so hip is FloydFest, a musical extravaganza held every year in a wide field surrounded by woods and mountains where thousands gather to groove nearly nonstop to the sounds of dozens of bands and singers over several days.
However, the article never says WHICH several days.
FloydFest 5 (2006) will be July 27 through July 30. Check the website for details.
Bummer. We had already booked tickets to travel and will miss the Fest-ivities this year. Y'all have a good time.
Comments
As unlikely as it is for me to ever take up for the RTD, the paper actually did include the info in a side insert -- may not have shown on web version. It said "Thursday through next Sunday," gave ticket prices and a link to FloydFest site.
Posted by: Georgia | July 24, 2006 9:51 AM
Ugh! Maybe it's not so bad as the hippies oppose the development of Floyd. I'm just waiting for Floyd to host some "Great American Smokeout". As if the country needed something other than its own natural beauty and bounty for entertainment...
Posted by: Jim | July 25, 2006 10:32 AM
Jim, you paint with too broad a brush to label Floyd Fest attendees as hippies, meant, I suppose, in a pejorative sense. All sorts of people attend, across the age and culture spectrum.
I'd prefer, like you, that tourist dollars come from those who only want to look and go home, but for three days, those who want to listen and go home seems okay to me.
I do think you make an accurate connection between the "alter-natives" who favor organic foods and low environmental impact on the land ("hippies") with those who want the county to remain unexploited by what I guess in this context we could call the "straights" of corporate America who see our land and scenery as mere commodities.
But these them-and-us divides are artificial and not necessarily helpful.
Posted by: fred1st | July 25, 2006 10:46 AM
My apologies for divisively labelling grooving, paisley-clad, hemp-wearing individuals as hippies.
Posted by: Jim | July 26, 2006 12:27 AM