Springhouse students shared talks and slide shows with an enthusiastic audience for Community Presentation Night 2024. Presentations topics outlined some of the school’s features and included talks on school trips, screen printing in the school Print Shop, community dance, mentoring, and land stewardship. Senior Capstone Presentations included reviews of school highlights, sharings of personal growth […]
Nope. They have their own 9 to 5 song. Joe heard it and told me they were doing Dolly Parton. It seemed unlikely and I couldn’t hear it, so I videotaped a bit and when I listened at home, I realized No. Floyd’s Father Sun band, a reggae band that consists of a father, a […]
And here we are living the pub life: good friends, good brew and good music to boot. I went for the Buffalo Mountain Brewery couches, to meet up with my sweet friend Sudha (who came with her friend Doris) and to hear the Yardweez‘s rocking folk and songwriting, done mostly by Noah Broe. Noah has […]
It was a marathon dance party with Dead Reckoning at Dogtown last night. I danced the whole 2 set show, thanks to my friends who danced beside me and whose energy held me up. Even the Drum/Space. The knowing smiles on everyone’s faces, the sing-alongs and the energy raised helped me go past my regular […]
The Partnership for Floyd will be celebrating 20 years of service to our community with a FREE ice cream social at the end of the Floyd Earth Day in the Park, April 20, 3 – 4 pm, following the Appalachian Species Giant Puppet Parade. – The following article first appeared (with small edits) in the […]
We got some good dancing in to Gote at Dogtown. Gote is a regional band with some names we are familiar with: John McBroom on vocals and guitar, Foster Burton on vocals and guitar, Jay Gladden on drums and Matt Leonard on guitar. They do mostly originals with some Grateful Dead flavor dropped in and […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on April 4, 2024 ‘What is a poem?’ That was the first question a Springhouse Community student asked at a class where students where gifted with copies of Artemis Journal, a Floyd-based yearly journal that features writers and artists from the Blue Ridge Mountains and beyond. Artemis […]
Performed by the New River Theatre Guild at the June Bug Center, the two-weekend show run of Godspell concluded to a standing ovation on Easter Eve. Based on the 2011 Broadway revival of the 1971 off-Broadway production, the local performance of the musical, directed by Justin Linville, was an upbeat rendition with a comical modern […]
There was a Lucky Dog sale at Chateau Morrisette Winery where we had an Easter Brunch, but I was the lucky dog. I found a sparkly pink Easter egg left over from the Easter egg hunt earlier in the day. I remember hiding Easter Eggs for my kids but don’t remember ever finding one for […]
That’s a line from Mustang Sally, my favorite song that the CC Coates band does. They played the song last night at Dogtown Roadhouse and were in top form. Listen HERE. At one point, I became drawn to the lights on the floor and watching the feet of the dancers. Have feet will dance! Check […]
I had never been to Macados in Christiansburg before, but it was a St. Patrick’s Day party with our favorite all-star hometown band, Music Road Co. The party was in the lobby where Macados and Old Town Printing is located. It and the people were all decked out in green. I was on my own […]
I always forget the animal name that follows Mad in the band’s name. Walrus, Otter? It’s Iguana. All I can say is I’d love them either way. The above is a clip of dueling guitar faces with Foster Burton (left) and the other lead guitarist who bookend the band. THIS was my favorite original song […]
