The state is the home of the genre's 'Big Bang', and the 330-mile Crooked Road links its heritage music venues, weaving between folk dances, fiddle shops and barn house jams via the mist-shrouded peaks of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Last month’s Fire on The Mountain Fundraiser at The Floyd Country Store raised over $4,300 for Floyd and Patrick County fire departments in the aftermath of the Tuggles Gap fire
Registration is officially open for The Floyd Country Store’s fourth annual Gingerbread House Contest. Contestants can register online until Nov. 28. The contest is free and open to the public.
The long-running festival brings about $4 million to Floyd and neighboring counties each year, but businesses say tourism is so big in Floyd that its absence won't hurt much.