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Saturday, May 3rd -- Solazo
8pm
Tickets $12.00 General $6.00 12 and under
Call 540-745-7880
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 With members hailing from Chile and Argentina, Solazo presents a blend of soulful ballads, dance music and original tunes from Spain and Central and South America.
Solazo's brand new release, "Behind the Sun", is their most adventurous effort yet: Latin mystique and passion combined with superb musicianship. A touch of reggae, a touch of cumbia, and with the addition of trap drums the sound has evolved to a whole new level. |
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Friday, May 9 -- Floyd Young Actor's Co-op Presents: The Amazingly Wonderful Variety Show
7pm
featuring a collection of skits encompassing Shakespeare, Abbott and Costello, locally written skits and much, much more. |
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Saturday, May 10 -- Contra Dance
8pm,
Lessons at 7:30
Live music by Floorplay with caller Joy Greenwolfe
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Sunday, May 11 -- Floyd Young Actor's Co-op Presents: The Amazingly Wonderful Variety Show
5pm
featuring a collection of skits encompassing Shakespeare, Abbott and Costello, locally written skits and much, much more. |
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Friday, May 16 -- DJ Williams Projekt
8pm
$8.00 in Advance, $10.00 Day of Show
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 DJ Williams Projekt is one of the most talented funk/jazz bands around. Their solid rhythms and soulful grooves will keep you on your feet all night long.
DJ is originally from Plainfield, NJ but grew up in Richmond, VA. The Projekt is made up with some of the most talented players in Richmond: Gordon Jones, Dusty Simmons, Brian Mahne, Mark Ingraham, and Todd Herrington. DJ has shared the stage with such great musicians as John Legend, Karl Denson, Soulive, Dave Matthews, Michael Franti, Keller Williams, Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra, Benevento/Russo Duo, Citizen Cope, Marc Broussard, Dickey Betts, and many others. |
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Saturday, May 17 -- Floyd Young Actor's Co-op Presents: The Amazingly Wonderful Variety Show
7pm
featuring a collection of skits encompassing Shakespeare, Abbott and Costello, locally written skits and much, much more. |
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Saturday, May 24 -- Big Sam's Funky Nation
8pm
$12.00 General $6.00 12 and under
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 Presiding over his Funky Nation is Big Sam, formerly the trombonist for the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, who blows the funk out of his trombone and refuses to let the audience sit still.
Between solos and trombone riffs, Big Sam second-lines (a uniquely New Orleans style of street-dance) and gets the crowd going both in movement and in replies to his call-and-response MC-style. A talented group of jazz-trained musicians makes up the Funky Nation, bringing with them the improv-style associated with jazz and the horn-heavy front section that's the hallmark of big band funk. Theirs, and Big Sam's, exuberant dancing and playing, afford them a rare opportunity to let loose. Big Sam's Funky Nation has undeniable personality, as well as masterful chops. |
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Friday, June 6 -- Barrel House Mamas
8pm
Seated Room. Tickets - $12 Adv, $14 Day of Show
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 The Barrel House Mamas, a trio of women from Asheville, NC, conjure the sweet and sultry sounds of the Appalachian mountains they call home in their robust three-part harmonies and original songs. Imagine the old-timey pluck of a jumbo-bodied guitar sliding between the bluesy roll of a classical guitar and the twang of claw-hammer, and sometimes contemporary funk, banjo. Now lace it with middle-eastern inspired flute lines, the wailing honk of harmonica, and the soulful belting of heartfelt poetry. The result is a sound that is all at once bluesy, rootsy, folk, americana, a touch of country, and truly these Mamas' own. |
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Friday, June 13 -- Toubab Krewe
8pm
Seated Room. Tickets - $15 Adv, $18 Day of Show
On Sale May 5, call 540-745-7880
Also available at The Harvest Moon in Floyd,
Rocket Music in Blacksburg, and Fret Mill Music in Roanoke.
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 With extensive touring throughout the U.S. and Europe, and plans to release its much anticipated sophomore album, 2008 is shaping into an incredible year for the fast-rising band credited with "setting a new standard for fusions of rock 'n' roll and West African music" (Afropop Worldwide).
Since forming in 2005, the magnetic instrumental quintet has been credited with bridging the gap between West African and American music unlike any group before them, quickly winning a diverse and devoted following at top venues such as the Bonnaroo and Voodoo festivals to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Their live shows and self-titled debut album have won international acclaim from the New York Times, Global Rhythm, fRoots, NPR and more.
The members of Toubab Krewe developed their unique sound over the course of numerous extended trips to Mali, Guinea, and Ivory Coast, where they immersed themselves in the local culture and studied and performed with luminaries such as Lamine Soumano, Vieux Kante, Madou Dembele and Koungbanan Conde. In 2007 the band played at the legendary Festival of the Desert in Essakane, Mali, known as the most remote festival in the world.
The band is finishing up its new album with Grammy winning producer |
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Saturday, June 21 -- Carolina Chocolate Drops
8pm
Seated Room. Tickets - $15 Adv, $18 Day of Show
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 African – American String Band.
The Carolina Chocolate Drops are a group of young African-American stringband musicians that have come to together to play the rich tradition of fiddle and banjo music in Carolinas' piedmont. Rhiannon Giddens and Justin Robinson both hail from the green hills of the North Carolina Piedmont while Dom Flemons is native to sunny Arizona. Although we have diverse musical backgrounds, we draw our musical heritage from the foothills of the North and South Carolina. We have been under the tutelage of Joe Thompson, said to be the last black traditional string band player, of Mebane, NC and we strive to carry on the long standing traditional music of the black and white communities. |
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Friday, June 27 -- Laura Reed & Deep Pocket
8pm
Dancing Room. Tickets -
$10 Adv, $12 Day of Show
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 Laura Reed & Deep Pocket fill the stage with captivating, soul shaking, conscious music. The crowd is emerged with lyrics of truth and a voice of intensity backed by bass, organ, and drums, horns, and harmonies reminiscent of the past days of motown and funk. The roots of their sound and message stem from Laura’s diverse experience of growing up in South Africa and the American South. Formed in the summer of 2006, the band switches up the music between funk, progressive R&B, and pure SOUL behind Laura Reed’s captivating stage presence.
Laura’s intense vocals are backed with bass, organ, drums, horns and harmonies reminiscent of Motown, Soul and Funk.
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