The August 3rd Small Town Summer event is being moved inside due to inclement weather.
The bands will perform at Dogtown and the movie will be shown at Floyd Country Store.
The Town of Floyd is excited to announce the 6th season of Floyd Small Town Summer in 2023!
The Town of Floyd invites you to a series of FREE events in the Warren G Lineberry Park in downtown Floyd, Virginia
Bring the whole family and enjoy the beautiful Warren G Lineberry Park filled with music, movies and fun activities for the whole family. Featuring music, movies, face-painting, inflatables, games, food and beverage and special activities presented by a variety of community organizations!
Rain location will either be Dogtown Roadhouse or Floyd Country Store. Announcements of event location changes due to weather will take place on the morning of the event and will be posted on the Floyd Small Town Summer Facebook page.
AUGUST 3, 2023
MUSIC & MOVIE IN THE PARK
The event is being moved inside due to inclement weather.
The bands will perform at Dogtown and the movie will be shown at Floyd Country Store.
The Sol Roots Band
The Sol Roots Band performs a mix of New Orleans influenced funk, deep blues, energetic rock, greasy soul, and hypnotic rhythms. Sol is a fierce guitarist and soulful vocalist who has toured around the world with many musical legends.
The Sol Roots band has shared the stage with acts such as Jon Cleary, Cory Henry, Soulive, Victor Wainwright, The Wood Brothers, Sonny Landreth, Roosevelt Collier, Eric Lindell, Walter "Wolfman" Washington, Shemekia Copeland, New Orleans Suspects, Jackie Greene and many more.
Paying homage to the greats, and with a love of Universal Music as the guiding light, Sol steps out on a path with his own unique, powerful voice and a talented band of musicians.
Sol Roots is an official Home Grown Music Network artist and a "Next Generation" Music Maker Relief Foundation artist.
Shawn Spencer & Star City Swag
Shawn Spencer & Star City Swag are based in Roanoke, Virginia and perform classic music from a by-gone era. Honoring the greats like Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, and Frank Sinatra, Carmen McCrae and many more.
Hotel Transylvania: Transformania
Van Helsing's mysterious new invention transforms Drac and his pals into humans, and Johnny into a monster. With their new mismatched bodies, Drac and the pack must find a way to switch themselves back before their transformations become permanent.
AUGUST 17, 2023
MUSIC IN THE PARK
Park opens at 6:00pm
Hoppie Vaughan & The Ministers Of Soul
Rhythm and blue-eyed soul performer, Hoppie Vaughan has been igniting and expanding the live music scene in Southwest, Virginia since 1996. Hoppie is a full-time singer, songwriter, guitar player, bass player, and entertainer, and performs with his impressive group, the Ministers of Soul as well as solo and duo gigs around Virginia.
Adding a wallop of flavor to an evolving regional music feast with his distinct, deep South-influenced sound, Vaughan’s inspiration and influence has been a major catalyst for the growth of Roanoke’s live music scene which is getting bigger and better every year.
Hoppie has performed or appeared with Delbert McClinton, Rod Price of Foghat, Mac Gayden, Tommy Two Tone, Jimmy Hall of Wet Willie, Ronnie Milsap, Wayne Perkins, Tommy Castro, Tab Benoit, John Mayall, Sonia Data, Goose Creek Symphony, Gatemouth Brown, Miranda Louise, and The Kentucky Headhunters, among others.
Jonathan Scales Fourchestra
You’ve heard this before, but the whimsically named Jonathan Scales Fourchestra is really tough to describe. Veering from in-your-face, jaw dropping chops and passion, to those quiet moments when the background noise disappears and you hold your breath to take in a soundscape of solitude, the power trio of electric bass (E'Lon JD), drums (Maison Guidry), and steel pans (Jonathan Scales) combines elements of jazz, classical, and progressive rock, peppered with Latin rhythms and soulful outbursts of funk.
This may seem an odd thing to say, but on the verge of releasing their eighth studio recording, Jonathan Scales Fourchestra is only now truly embracing their identity as a group. For many years, Jonathan’s live band was a fluid lineup of top-notch musicians, and even included an “all-star” version with bassist MonoNeon (Prince, Nas), drummer Sput Searight (Snarky Puppy, Snoop Dogg) and percussionist Weedie Braimah (Trombone Shorty, Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah), as well as a number of other marquee players. Now, however, the Fourchestra is a decidedly indivisible band, and Jonathan is writing for the trio, not just the pans.
AUGUST 31, 2023
MUSIC IN THE PARK
Park opens at 6:00pm
JP Harris
JP Harris doesn’t fancy himself so much a musician as he does a carpenter who writes country songs. He has traveled the country, often alone, hitchhiking and hopping freight trains while making his living as a farm laborer, shepherd, woodsman, and carpenter, among other things. Still an in-demand carpenter to this day, Harris has been writing and performing Country music for nearly a decade. His two previous albums garnered fans and critics at major outlets like Rolling Stone. JP was also referenced by Eagles frontman Don Henley in a 2015 interview a new artist making “thoughtful, authentic music.”
With his latest album “Sometimes Dogs Bark at Nothing,” he’s back after a four- year hiatus to remind folks what a lifetime dedicated to country music looks and sounds like. Sure to please fans of his hardscrabble earlier work, this new release also finds the acclaimed songwriter and vocalist stretching himself musically and personally.
Working with producer (and Old Crow Medicine Show member) Morgan Jahnig, Harris tapped a handful of his favorite players, sent them acoustic demos of the album’s tracks, and gave some pretty specific instructions: “Take the next five days to think about these. Please write notes of whatever ideas come to mind. Please don’t talk to each other about it. Let’s all just get in the studio on day one and compare notes as we go.”
The resulting sessions had an air of spontaneity and palpable creative energy, both of which lent themselves to an album that feels real, raw, and more akin to a live performance than anything Harris has put out thus far.
Rachael Hester & The Tennessee Walkers
Rachael Hester & The Tennessee Walkers are a classic country and western band. They keep traditional country music alive by performing the classics, along with the occasional original song. Rachael Hester sings with a uniquely pure country voice while performing from the greatest of country and western swing. Her father, Hoot Hester (Time Jumpers, Randy Travis, Conway Twitty, Ray Charles) raised her in the tradition of country music.