FloydFest
Floyd, VA · Music
- When
- July 21–25, 2027
- Where
- 5826 Floyd Highway North · Floyd · VA
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet
FloydFest turns a mountain farm outside the town of Floyd into a five day music festival every summer, with seven or more stages spanning bluegrass, jam, and touring national acts. Now past its twentieth year, it is one of the largest ticketed music festivals in the Blue Ridge. The 2026 edition headlined Tedeschi Trucks Band and My Morning Jacket.
The history within reach
- FloydFestsame spot
FloydFest turns a mountain farm outside the town of Floyd into a five day music festival every summer, with seven or more stages spanning bluegrass, jam, and touring national acts.
A general store that sells work boots on Friday afternoon and clears its floor at six thirty for the oldest continuous jamboree of its kind, gospel first, then string bands, then flatfoot dancers wearing out the boards.
- Mabry Mill13 mi
Ed Mabry ground corn, sawed lumber and did blacksmith work at this one wet spot on the mountain until 1936, and the Park Service kept the buildings when the Parkway came through.
Ferrum College's Blue Ridge Institute hosts this juried folklife festival on the fourth Saturday of October, with old-time and bluegrass music, a sheepdog exhibition, a moonshine still display and Appalachian craft demonstrations.
- The Radford arsenal22 mi
Built in a year flat after Pearl Harbor and still the country's main source of the propellant that fires artillery and small arms, which makes a quiet stretch of the New River one of the strategically load-bearing places in the United States.