Friday night tradition at Highland Haven is dinner at Hatcher's and on to Floyd for the Music. Not much to look at, Hatcher's is a Biker Bar but friendlier. The order of the day is strong drink and southern comfort food.
As for Floyd, population 432 and the county seat, it's a one-stoplight town about 20 miles away on the road to Galax.A regional mecca for old-time music and a must see stop on "The Crooked Road", Friday nights in Floyd are a hoot...chock full of street vendors, pick-up blue grass jams, people and the occasional street preacher.
...IT starts with a well-worn fiddle, held in equally well-worn hands above a tapping black cowboy boot. Then in comes the banjo, plucked with steel finger picks, followed by the autoharp, the mandolin, the percussive beat of an upright bass. Another banjo grabs the melody, and suddenly the room is bursting with knee-slapping, country-porch music. A man in a crisp checked shirt gets up and starts to dance, bouncing out a complicated bumbumBAM bumbumBAM with his feet, moving as smoothly as a Martha Graham dancer, hitting the floor on the downbeat.
...Excerpt from New York Times.
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