This summer marked the triumphant return of the Williams family and me to FloydFest. After randomly seeing a poster on a shop store window in Asheville, NC which advertised “The Cat Empire” as one of the headliners of the music festival, we thought, “Let’s check it out.”
As it turned out, the FloydFest is only about 30 minutes away from Jane’s cabin in Kibler Valley, VA! It was then a shoe-in for us to visit. We bought our tickets and visited on Saturday (Day 3 of the festival). We had a great time and bought our tickets ASAP for the next year.
This time, Jane’s brother had an RV that we borrowed so we could camp out near the site and we planned for 3 days, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Here is our story in photos… we are definately going back next year!
This alien headed lady hands bells to children while chained to a t-rex gondola
He made some amazing handcrafted wood instruments!
David Grisman and his Quintet performed some amazing mandolin music
One of the local Floyd, VA artists made pottery with unique faces
Jane’s dad had a great time with this guy. As Jane’s mom was playing a special piece of pottery with her hands, a “singing bowl” the man said, “If you do it right, you feel it all through your chakras”
Jane loved Amos Lee, even though she said it seemed a little girly with all the adolecent girls screaming around us and acting giddy
Rusted Root blew the lid off the festival, probably 10k plus present for this show
Jane goes global
Richmond, VA’s Indigenous Gourd Orchestra grew all their own instruments, costumes and sung all their songs about gourds… they had a great message, “Don’t be part of a consumer culture! Create something!”
These performers were looked on with suprise by the crowd
Talking to the performers
Revered Peyton and his “Big Damn Band” put on one of the most highly energized shows I’ve ever seen… working the crowd into a frenzy!
The fans at the concerts jumped for bubbles!
Floydfest summarized in one image
The Avett Brothers closed out our musical adventure for the weekend. I don’t like this picture because the sunlight was horrible… but then again, I was really far away from them and point/shoot cameras have horrible zoom functionality
You can see all these pictures and more at my Flickr photoset for Floydfest 7
