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ASHLAND — There are times when bluegrass music has needed a bit of comedy in the mix.

The Floyd Country Store made it through. The old-time mecca and major draw on The Crooked Road went through some hard times during the pandemic, as did many venues everywhere. In Floyd, though, the store’s Friday Night Jamboree fueled the little downtown’s economy. Venue owners Dylan Locke and Heather Krantz worked to find workarounds, and relied on both livestreaming, donation-based performances and a porch stage out back, where the property abuts a rented guest house, to stage shows. A group calling itself Friends of the Floyd Country Store sparked a crowdfunding campaign last yea...

Interested in a finely crafted, six-string beauty? Want to help out a Floyd music school that teaches mountain music styles? Luthier Jackson Cunningham and Handmade Music School have teamed up for just those sorts of things. The nonprofit music school hopes to sell 800 tickets at $25 a pop to fund programming at the organization, which does traditional music and dance lessons, workshops and camps. Cunningham, an Oregon native, moved to Southwest Virginia to learn his craft from the likes of Audrey Hash Ham (Albert Hash’s daughter), Mac Traynham, Wayne Henderson and the late Arthur Conner...

  Article Contributed by IVPR | Published on Wednesday, April 21, 2021 DelFest, the beloved genre-spanning festival brainchild of McCoury Music and High Sierra Music is pleased to announce additional acts for its 13th annual festival, once again taking place in beautiful Cumberland, Maryland, on Sept. 23-26. Announced today, festival hosts The Del McCoury Band and The Travelin’ McCourys, will be also joined by Railroad Earth, Béla Fleck My Bluegrass Heart feat. Michael Cleveland, Sierra Hull, Mark Schatz, and Bryan Sutton, Cabinet, the Seldom Scene, Hawktail and Jacob Jolliff Band. �...

April 15, 2021 3:15 PM by FCNP.com LOCAL EVENTS THURSDAY, APRIL 15 News-Press “Spot of the Week.” Interested readers and supporters of the Falls Church News-Press can join the staff at a restaurant in or around the City of Falls Church to celebrate the paper’s weekly publication. Learn how to become a member of the News-Press, get a chance to purchase one of the paper’s books, “The Front Page: The First Five Years: 1991 – 1996” or just get to know members of the staff better. This week the News-Press will be at The Casual Pint (64...