The Town of Floyd is moving forward with the 5th season of Floyd Small Town Summer this year!
The season will feature 7 events and will run from June 9th - September 1st every other Thursday night for the summer months. We are excited to get back to The Warren G Lineberry Park for a great community event with music, movies, and family fun!
SAVE THE DATES: June 9, June 23, July 7, July 21, August 4, August 18 & September 1, 2022!
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!
JULY 21, 2022
MUSIC IN THE PARK
Park opens at 6:00 pm
Joslyn & The Sweet Compression
After cultivating her dynamic voice and performance skills in backup roles and stage plays, Joslyn Hampton teamed with her stepfather, Marty Charters (a touring guitarist and songwriter who has shared the stage with legends such as Junior Wells, Buddy Guy, and Van Morrison), to compose a captivating set of tunes and assemble an ace band. Joslyn & The Sweet Compression (Marty Charters - guitar, Steve Holloman - keyboards, Smith Donaldson - bass, Rashawn Fleming - drums, Trevin Little - saxophone, and Chase Fleming - trombone and trumpet) combine to deliver a hook-filled mix of funk and soul on their self-titled debut album, released in 2019. A headlining favorite at regional clubs and music festivals, they are poised to engage fans across the country with widespread touring in 2022.
Justin Golden
With roots in the Mississippi Delta, Chicago, and the Piedmont of Virginia, Richmond-based guitarist and songwriter Justin Golden’s origins are deeply vested in the blues. First picking up the guitar at age 19, Golden did what came naturally and let the music flow through him. With an extremely diverse musical palette, Golden aims to bring some new ideas to traditional blues forms. In addition to his work as a recording and performing artist, Golden maintains a busy teaching schedule and works with the non-profit The Rhapsody Project to provide community enrichment through anti-racist cultural heritage programs.
AUGUST 4, 2022
MUSIC IN THE PARK
Park opens at 6:00 pm
Junior Sisk Band
Junior Sisk is widely recognized as one of today's top bluegrass vocalists and is a constant reminder that traditional bluegrass is still alive and well. A longtime resident of the Virginia Blue Ridge, his bluegrass pedigree runs deep. Influenced by a father who wrote songs and played guitar and a mother who sang, Sisk first learned to play around age 14.
His early influences included The Stanley Brothers, Larry Sparks, and Dave Evans, but he often credits the Johnson Mountain Boys with inspiring him to pursue bluegrass professionally. Sisk first made his mark in bluegrass as a songwriter in the early 1990s, penning classic Lonesome River Band songs like "Game (I Can't Win)" and "Tears Are Blinding Me."
The Junior Sisk Band features Johnathan Dillon, Tony Mabe, Heather Berry Mabe, Doug Bartlett and Curt Love.
Twin Creeks Stringband
The Twin Creeks Stringband is an old-time band from Southwest Virginia where their hard-driving music has been handed down to them through generations of music in Carroll and Franklin County. The band is a continuation of The Dry Hill Draggers, a band formed in the early 1980's in Franklin County, Virginia who played for dances and festivals for over 30 years. Though the name has changed, the high-energy sound and rock-solid rhythm remains unchanged. The Twin Creeks Stringband continues to play hot fiddle tunes with a driving beat along with strong vocals that will entertain both listeners and dancers alike. The members of the band include Chris Prillaman on fiddle, Jason Hambrick on guitar and vocals, Stacy Boyd on bass, and his son Jared Boyd on banjo.
AUGUST 18, 2022
MUSIC IN THE PARK
Park opens at 6:00 pm
Terry Brown Ascension Project
The Ascension Project brings a dynamic, innovative & creative sound to their audience offering a unique, intricate blend of jazz, fusion, R&B, soul & blues. Featuring some of the finest talent in the Roanoke Valley Area.
Terry Brown is a soulful singer who comes to the Roanoke Valley. Although he studied classical voice in college, he grew up singing R&B, jazz, show and choral music. Terry has had the privilege to perform with some of the finest musicians in the Roanoke Valley area and beyond. He is the former male lead singer for the Sway Katz Big Band, and is the current lead singer for The Kings Band. He is also the co-founder and lead singer of The Fire Band and The Ascension Project, both bands being an eclectic mix of jazz, blues, R&B and classic rock with variation.
Jordan Harman Band
In our world of sugar-sweet, mass produced, auto-tuned, musical McProduct, can soul still exist within the pop realm? Ask Jordan Harman. Somehow he has managed just that. He creates music that speaks something while retaining a great pop sensibility; something that is increasingly rare today.
Ask Jordan Harman to describe the songs he writes and he'll tell you that it's all about the soul. His smooth vocals, rhythmic guitar playing, and infectious hooks add up to a performance sure to please any crowd. The laid-back grooves will pull you in and, before you know it, you're dancing to the music and singing along.
With influences such as Bill Withers, Donnie Hathaway, D'Angelo, James Brown, The Meters, Otis Redding, and The Roots there are many different elements to his unique brand of soul.
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
MUSIC IN THE PARK
Park opens at 6:00 pm
Music Road Co
Join Music Road CO, a cooperative of common creative companions conspiring to command your cognitive locomotion. This crew digs through a wide and deep catalog of tunes and musical traditions to get you groovin’ and your hip bones movin’!!
Where does Music Road Co find its inspiration? And why does it connect so perfectly with audiences of all ages and backgrounds? The answer might lie in their widespread roots. Coming from such diverse places as South Africa, Ecuador, Key West, Maryland and Virginia, the band brings many cultural influences together to produce music without boundaries.
Moving fluidly from funk to reggae, rock to afrobeat, their sound bounces from blues and soul to island dance and back again, bound together by one common ideal: Music should feel good and spread positive vibes. They get on stage to lift themselves up to a higher frequency and they won’t stop until they bring the entire audience with them.
Isaac Hadden Organ Trio
This cutting-edge group redefines the modern organ trio and carves out their own unique sound in the world of funk, jazz, rock, and R&B. The group is led by up-and-coming guitarist Isaac Hadden. Voted Blue Ridge Outdoors Magazine's Best of the Blue Ridge in the artist/band category, Hadden has been bending brainwaves and wowing audiences with his high-energy playing style and animated stage presence from a young age.
IHOT also features powerhouse drummer Iajhi Hampden, who holds a grammy nomination for his work with John Legend, toured with Macy Gray, and has performed high-profile gigs all over the United States and in Europe. On Organ/Keys is Bill Stevens, an esteemed musician in the southeastern U.S. and beyond. Known for his work with The Lee Boys, Stevens has toured the country performing passionate music with a wide array of top-shelf artists.
Isaac Hadden Organ trio borrows from a wide array of musical traditions to create hard-grooving, powerful, dynamic music that will rock both brain and booty.