Stand and be recognized young wookling. The days of half truths and conjecture is past. The news coming down from the mountain is pure golden. FloydFest returns to beautiful Patrick County, Virginia with a mission is to be the best music festival experience of our time; to sell a limited quantity of tickets to the highest-quality event experience, bar none, celebrating music, art and life in an intimate, visually stunning environment. Start getting ready now for one of the finest parties of the summer festival season. Come sit a spell for this is yet another in a series of yarns from the Delta Lot Chronicles: FloydFest returns to the mountain.

Across-the-Way Productions, Inc. invites patrons to embark on an ‘Odyssey’ to celebrate FloydFest 21, the latest annual offering of the Southeast’s premier summer outdoor music festival, taking place Wednesday to Sunday, July 21 to 25, 2021, in Floyd, Va.

Welcome to FloydFest 21~Odyssey — five days of Music, Magic, and Mountains, in the picturesque paradise at Milepost 170.5 on the Blue Ridge Parkway — featuring vibrant and varied vendors, quality craft brews and chews, healing arts, workshops and whimsy, camping and children’s activities, outdoor adventure, onsite art installations and a final lineup featuring 100 artists performing on nine stages over five days.

Floydfest 2021 Lineup

The Avett Brothers, Billy Strings, Old Crow Medicine Show, Turkuaz with Jerry Harrison & Adrian Belew: Remain in Light, Whiskey Meyers, Goose, Leftover Salmon, Keller Williams, Molly Tuttle, The Band of Heathens, Nicole Atkins, Devon Gilfillian, Brent Cobb, Keller and the Keels, Andy Frasco and the U.N., Katie Pruitt, Acoustic Syndicate, Hogslop String Band, Consider the Source, L.A. Edwards, The Broadcast, Travers Brothership, Rebekah Todd and the Odyssey, Stephen Lewis and the Big Band of Fun, Mama Said String Band, Big Daddy Love, L Shape Lot, Tara Dente, Melt, The Josephines, Goodnight, Texas, Goodfellers, Lance Thomas, Abby Bryant and the Echoes, Hot Trail Mix, The Ambassador, Apex, Blue Mule, Chupacabras, The Dead Reckoning, Dharma Bombs, Empty Bottles, Exit 109 Bluegrass, The Floorboards, Gote, Isaac Hayden Project, The Jam, James Lageaux, John McBroom, Jordan Harman, Lazy Man Dub Band, Mike Mitchell Band, My Radio

Photo by Jerry Friend

On The Rise 2021

49 Winchester, Ashley Heath and Her Heathens, Bailey Bigger, Bandits on the Run, Big Atomic, Casey Noel, Chance McCoy, Christian Lopez, Darzo, Dr. Bacon, Free Union, Grizzly Goat, Into the Fog, Music Radio Co, Nicholas Jamerson and the Morning Jays, Orange Culture, Pressing Strings, Restless Legs String Band, Sexbruise?, Short and Company, Taylor Scott Band, Thunder and Rain, Unaka Prong

FloydFest recently won two Best of the Blue Ridge 2021 awards from Blue Ridge Outdoors magazine and was a runner-up in two more categories.

• Music Festival (Overall): Winner
• Music Festival Missed Most in 2020: Winner
• Family Friendly Festival: Runner-Up
• Rowdiest Festival: Runner-Up

FloydFest Rules

• No weapons
• No outside alcohol (FloydFest features multiple beer and wine gardens, where adult beverages are sold for a reasonable price. Coolers will be searched; outside alcohol will be confiscated.)
• No drugs (Those found in possession of illegal substances will be immediately turned over to police.)
• No dogs on the festival site, campgrounds, or in parking lots. Especially Chihuahuas.
• No open-air fires (small gas stoves are allowed)
• No glass
• No wristband, no admittance (Violation is trespassing and subject to eviction and arrest.)
• No frowning

Delta Lot Chronicles

Find the fray and visit the Kamp Happiness Interactive Pleasure Palace in the heart of Delta Lot. It’s the one-stop shop for face painting, heavy gluten and loud, unapologetic jams. Join the Roanoke Mafioso as they reunite for yet another in a series of epic FloydFest adventures.

Shuttles will run from the Delta Lot to the Festival Site and back from 3 p.m. until 2 a.m. on Wednesday, from 9 a.m. to 2 a.m. Thursday through Sunday and from 9 a.m. to noon on Monday. (A smaller shuttle service will also run between 2 and 9 a.m. daily.)

Interested in carpooling? Ride Solutions can help! Visit here for more info: HTTP://RIDESOLUTIONS.ORG/FLOYDFEST

This five-day celebration of music & art is nestled in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of Southwest Virginia featuring outdoor adventures, vibrant and varied vendors, quality brews and chews, healing arts, workshops, children’s activities, art installations, and a lineup featuring more than 100 artists on nine stages. FloydFest 21~Odyssey is set for July 21-25, 2021, at our longtime home at Milepost 170.5 on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Floyd, Va.

Covid Safety Plan

Festival Site Address
894 Rock Castle Gorge Road Floyd, VA 24091

Delta Lot Address
2889 Helms Road Meadows of Dan, VA 24120

Thanks to Sam and Brian at Across the Way Productions for allowing the wranglers to be part of the glorious fun for the third year. Check out the wook wranglers archives for the 2020 Virtual Scrapbook and the Relative Importance of Sleep at a Festival. Visit Kamp Happiness at Delta Lot for complimentary dialysis and free legal advice.  Keep up with the wranglers as we head continue the Florida Spring Tour to Fool’s Engagement and Suwannee Rising.        Namaste.

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