Hear Us
Come here to find out where the guys will be playing next. And remember, if we don't have any gigs coming up near you and you're in the Huntington area, you have a standing invitation to drop by the Wednesday night jam session at Charlie's house. (Don't bring a covered dish -- the boys have had enough, and besides, they get sleepy after they eat...) Just call and let us know you're coming.
Upcoming Gigs
-- Sunday Dec. 27 -- afternoon,
Dinner and show at ARTS R enaissance Center
-- Friday Aug. 6, 2010,
Pricketts Fort in Fairmont, WV
No Sympathy from Symphony
What a farcical, sad, strange time this has been for the Family Flood. Cascading events have culminated in our being forced to cancel plans for a June 14 concert with our old steamboatin' buddies, ragtime pianist Jazzou Jones and tenor banjo master Bob Schad, both of whom we've known and played with over the years on The Delta Queen steamboat and elsewhere. It's not every day you find musicians blocking other musicians from performing. But yesterday that's just what the board of directors of the Huntington Symphony Orchestra voted to do. To read all about it, click here.
Red Barn Radio
In January 2009, Floodsters were the guests of the Red Barn Radio program in Lexington, Ky. The show, which aired on various radio public radio stations in February, now can be heard online. Audio of the hour-long show has been posted on the web. For the show, the guys played a lot of music and were interviewed by host Brad Becker.
Want to hear it all? Start with this link:
When you reach the WGADNET page, scroll down to the Red Barn Radio logo, the click on the "Flash" button on the right side.
This should load a media player. On this screen, click on "4. RED BARN RADIO SHOW 07-14 - 1937 FLOOD" and the audio begins. (Note you also can use this player to listen to other recent Re Barn shows, including one by The Flood's old buddy, Rob McNurlin, who appeared the week after the Flood.)
Now in its seventh season, Red Barn Radio is a syndicated weekly broadcast started by Ed Commons and Marilyn Myers and produced with Becker. In-depth interview with the performers are conducted during the performance and incorporated into the final edit for airplay by affiliate stations, including Public Radio in several states and Canada.
Podcast Appalachia Chooses Flood Tune for Theme Song
John Norris Brown -- who's affiliated with a wonderful, popular blog called Hillbilly Savants -- has launched an online audio product called Podcast Appalachia and he's selected a 1937 Flood tune -- "Sail Away, Ladies" (The 1937 Flood Plays Up a Storm) -- as his theme song. Check it out and follow John's Appalachian studies, click here. Meanwhile, Hillbilly Savants is the group project, published by about 20 of writers with three editors and well worth your attention. Click here out here!