FloydFest 2018, the latest annual offering of the local summer outdoor music festival, taking place today to through Sunday is taking place at Milepost 170.5 on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Floyd.
Foster The People, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Old Crow Medicine Show, Gov’t Mule, The Infamous Stringdusters, Leftover Salmon, Tyler Childers and Greta Van Fleet are headlining the festival, which features 100 bands on eight stages over five days.
“This is ‘wild’ as we find in nature — it’s an essence, it’s an energy, it’s an authentic state of being,” Kris Hodges, co-founder and CEO, explained. “Our lives these days get so disconnected, so discordant, so consumed in a rat race, that we forget to stop and enjoy and embrace this life. We invite you to recall your ‘wild;’ be as a child.”
For 2018, FloydFest was named ‘Best Festival’ and ‘Best Kid-Friendly Outdoor Destination’ in Blue Ridge Outdoors Magazine’s Best of the Blue Ridge Competition, as well as ‘Best Music Festival’ and ‘Best Place to Hear Mountain Music’ in Blue Ridge Country’s Best of the Mountains Competition. A limited number of tickets remain, and are available by clicking to www.floydfest.com or www.floydfest18wild.eventbrite.com.
Prices will increase at the gate upon initial opening Today. FloydFest is located at 894 Rock Castle Gorge Road in Floyd, Va. (Milepost 170.5 on the Blue Ridge Parkway).
FloydFest will also include vibrant and varied vendors, quality craft brews and chews, healing arts, camping and community, workshops and whimsy, children’s activities, onsite art installations and a final lineup featuring more than 100 artists performing on eight+ stages over five days.
Voted ‘Best Outdoor Music Festival,’ FloydFest also features myriad Outdoor Adventure programs, including its popular On-the-Water Guided Float Trips and Belcher Mountain Beatdown mountain-bike excursion.
