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Events can be submitted to jsage@wythenews.com by 5 p.m. each Monday.
Dec. 31
Floyd Country Store: The Floyd Country Store will host its 10th annual New Year’s Eve celebration with a homemade dinner and dance. The dinner is from 6:30 to 7:30 and the dance, featuring Twin Creeks Stringband, Up Jumped Trouble, Larry Sigmon and The Virginia Girls, runs from 8 p.m. to midnight.
Jan. 3
Floyd Country Store: Red Camel Collective, a bluegrass band made up of Heather Berry Mabe, Tony Mobe, Curt Love and Johnathon Dillon – members of the Junior Sisk Band and winners of the 2025 IBMA Momentum Award – will play the store on Saturday, Jan. 3. The band's sound ranges from traditional bluegrass and classic country, to fresh modern sounds all their own — pure, heartfelt, beautiful singing and smooth, rhythmic, top notch picking.
Jan. 17
Floyd Country Store: Asheville, North Carolina,-based songwriter Anya Hinkle will be joined by fiddle player, songwriter and educator Libby Weitnauer, now loving in Nashville, for a Saturday, Jan. 17 show. Hinkle is the 2019 Merlefest Chris Austin Song Contest winner.
Feb. 7
Floyd Country Store: The Floyd Radio Show returns with host Kelley Breiding for an old timey variety show with original radio plays, comedy bits, ads, jingles, music and more. Joining Breiding for the Saturday, Feb. 7, show are musical guests The Whitetop Mountain Band and The Redd Volkaert Trio.
Feb. 14
Floyd Country Store: West Virginia native Tim O’Brien and his wife, Jan Fabricius, will play the store on Saturday, Feb. 14. O’Brien first emerged as singer, instrumentalist, and songwriter with the iconic 1980’s bluegrass group Hot Rize. He’s written songs for people like Garth Brooks and the Dixie Chicks, released rootsy classics like Red on Blonde and The Crossing, and earned a few Grammy awards. Prior to the show, the store will host a Handmade Heart Strings Valentine’s Dinner.
Feb. 21
Floyd Country Store:Wendy and DaShawn Hickman are a married couple of sweetheart musicians, rooted in gospel roots and soulful tradition. DaShawn is one of today’s foremost players of Sacred Steel, a blues-gospel tradition started in the Pentecostal-Holiness churches of the 1930s. Hickman picked up the instrument at the age of 5, and in his teens, formed a group that found fame as The Allen Boys, North Carolina’s only touring Sacred Steel band. Channeled by artists like Anita Baker and India Arie, Wendy’s voice shines with a splash of Tina Turner’s “raspiness” and reminds DaShawn of his most esteemed musical influence: his mother, Alice Hickman. DaShawn and Wendy Hickman will play the store on Saturday, Feb. 21.
Feb. 28
Floyd Country Store: The Faux Paws are set to play the store at Saturday, Feb. 28. From raging fiddle tunes, to saxophone solos and unrequited love songs, the music of The Faux Paws would be hard to pin down with standard genre descriptions. The band’s contagious groove, and feel-good melting pot folk music has been honed over ten years of playing together, and is the sound of three close friends (two of which happen to be brothers), who feel a musical kinship that transcends any stylistic limitations
March 21
Floyd Country Store:Born in the bluegrass of Kentucky and raised on Wyoming’s high plains, Shelby Means is one of the foremost bassists in bluegrass, with nearly two decades of experience in bluegrass, folk, rock, Americana, and country outfits. Now based in Charleston, South Carolina, Means spent a dozen years in Nashville. During that time she performed most notably as a member of the Grammy-nominated all-women bluegrass band Della Mae. She later joined Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway on bass and vocals, earning her first Grammy win for their 2023 album, City of Gold. Means is set to play the store on Saturday, March 21.
March 22
The Onlies – made up of Sami Braman, Riley Calcagno, Vivian Leva, Leo Shannon and Nokosee Fields – are set to play the store on Sunday, March 22. The band, all still in their early twenties, won first place at the Clifftop Appalachian Stringband Festival in 2017, has toured the US extensively, and has performed and collaborated with Bruce Molsky, Elvis Costello, Tatiana Hargreaves, Foghorn Stringband, The Bee Eaters, John Herrmann & Meredith McIntosh, and Darol Anger, among others.
April 4
Floyd Country Store: The Floyd Radio Show will have it’s final performance of Season 13. Hosted by Kelley Breiding, The Floyd Radio Show is an old-timey variety show with original radio plays, comedy bits, ads, jingles, music and more. Celebrating old time and traditional music with people and communities where music is played and enjoyed in its authentic and purest forms. This week’s musical guests are The Twin Creeks String Band Band and The Bay’s Mountain Cut-Ups.
April 26
Floyd Country Store: Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper is slated to play Sunday, April 26, at the store. Cleveland is the IBMA’s most awarded Fiddle Player of the Year, taking the nod 12 times. Together with Flamekeeper members Josh Richards (guitar), Nathan Livers (mandolin), Jasiah Shrode (banjo) and Chris Douglas (bass), Cleveland makes his way around the country performing festivals, clubs, and performing arts centers, delighting audiences, leaving them with jaws dropped in complete amazement.
May 29
Floyd Country Store:The Sentimental Gentlemen are a powerhouse collective that seamlessly blend deep-rooted traditional bluegrass with fresh, contemporary influences. When they’re not on the road backing the West Virginia songbird, Sierra Ferrell, the band’s members are busy crafting a sound that is as diverse as it is electrifying, drawing on years of professional stage and studio experience. As full-time touring and studio musicians, they’ve graced stages across the globe, playing with an impressive roster of artists including Sierra Hull, Mark O'Connor, Western Centuries, and Lindsay Lou. The Sentimental Gentlemen are Joshua Rilko (mandolin & vocals), Oliver Bates Craven (fiddle, guitar, vocals), and Geoff Saunders (bass, vocals), with rotating banjo and guitar buddies. The group is set to play the store on Saturday, May 29.
