Across-the-Way Productions

01/23/2025

Help illuminate the ‘Aurora’ — Volunteer at FloydFest 2025! 🎶✨

Every festival has a heartbeat, and at FloydFest, that heartbeat is you. Our amazing volunteers are the driving force behind the unforgettable experience we create together, year after year.

Volunteering isn’t just about helping out — it’s about stepping into the vibrant energy of the festival, meeting incredible people, and being a part of something truly special. 🌟 Whether you’re a seasoned pro or just curious to lend a hand, there’s a place for everyone in our festival family!

🎉 Why Volunteer?
🎟️Gain behind-the-scenes access to the magic of FloydFest
🎶Enjoy live music, laughter and unforgettable memories
🤝Build friendships that last long after the festival lights dim

📢 Applications for FloydFest 2025 are now OPEN!
Don’t miss your chance to be part of this wild-and-wonderful journey.

Visit https://floydfest.com/volunteers/ to explore all the exciting opportunities and secure your spot today!

Let’s make this year’s festival shine brighter than ever. 🌈💫

01/22/2025

"Mt. Joy’s songs unfold like good political speeches: They amble and converse and pulsate fervently until it’s time to get the crowd chanting along.” –NPR

Originating from Philly & L.A., Mt. Joy makes their first trip to our mountains as a headliner for FloydFest 25~Aurora (July 23-27, 2025). Experience the five-piece indie-folk-rock phenomenon live on Friday, July 25, on our main stage: https://wl.seetickets.us/event/FloydFest-25Aurora/625477?afflky=FloydFest

🎧📖: https://floydfest.com/artist/mt-joy/
🎞: https://youtu.be/pT4NvMy351I

Thank you for all the "Live at Red Rocks" album love - Here is the full live video of "Silver Lining" from our sold out show at Red Rocks on May 22nd, 2021. ...

01/18/2025

Mere months before Tan and Sober Gentlemen bring their signature blend of pulsating “Irish-American hillbilly music” to FestivalPark for FloydFest 25~Aurora (July 23-27, 2025), the raucous, hard-hitting six-piece lands at The Grandin Theatre on Thursday, March 27, and you’re invited to join the merriment.

FloydFest & Across-the-Way Productions are proud to co-pro this show with our friends just down the mountain at The Grandin Theatre, introducing this dynamic high-octane show to Roanoke audiences, as a preview to the party on tap for July’s ‘Aurora.’

👉 Don’t miss this & ➡️ The Tan and Sober Gentlemen @ The Grandin Theatre:
ADV: $20+tax | DOORS: $24+tax
🎫 & ℹ️: https://grandintheatre.com/shows/tan-sober-gentlemen
🎧: https://floydfest.com/artist/tan-sober-gentlemen/

01/15/2025

🚨 Vendor applications are now open for FloydFest 25~Aurora (July 23-27, 2025): https://floydfest.com/vendors/

Our vendor webpage is a one-stop shop for:
✅ Vendor FAQs
✅ Important dates for applications, notifications & fees
✅ Food Vendor Guidelines
✅ Non-Food Vendor Guidelines
✅ Full-Service Food/Specialty Food Vendor Application
✅ Non-Food Vendor Application
✅ Contact info & more
➡️ https://floydfest.com/vendors/

ℹ️ 2025 Vendor Applications close on Feb. 28
ℹ️ Vendor selections are made based on diversity of ideas, educational offerings and sense of community. Positive interaction with attendees through imaginative and interactive educational displays, activities and discourse are encouraged.

📸: Y'Dell Lynch

01/14/2025

Best of the Blue Ridge’s "Best Music Festival" of 2025 illuminates with a FOURTH ROUND of artist additions:

🌠 Jeremie Albino 🌠 Chris Smither 🌠 Clover County 🌠 Palm Palm 🌠 Abby Bryant 🌠 Red Panda 🌠 Peen - Cville's Premier Ween Tribute Band 🌠 … added to the lineup for FloydFest 25~Aurora (July 25-27, 2025), with even more on the way.

🌌 Join the viewing party: https://wl.seetickets.us/event/FloydFest-25Aurora/625477?afflky=FloydFest
🌌 New merch: https://shop.presspressmerch.com/collections/floydfest
🌌 Today’s e-blast newsletter: https://floydfest.com/aurora-fourth-round-2025
🌌 Vantage point: FloydFest.com
🌌 Blue Ridge Outdoors names FloydFest ‘Best Music Festival’ of 2025: https://www.blueridgeoutdoors.com/go-outside/best-of-the-blue-ridge-2025/?goal=0_2f4e1e8384-67dc6f1a5d-223391305&mc_cid=67dc6f1a5d&utm_source=hive&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hive_email_id_384054_floydfest-25aurora-e-blast-newsletter-5-tuesday-january-14-2025-10-am -races

01/13/2025

🎬 The of the third video of our 2024 FloydFest Bus Stop Recording Sessions - Drayton Farley performs “Above My Head,” recorded live during FloydFest 24~Horizon (2024) at the .

Thanks for joining us on the bus, Drayton!

👀 Watch other FloydFest Bus Stop Recording sessions via our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/

👏🏻 Special thanks to Dan Hartigan & Hartigan Media for audio/video production & a big shout-out to our bus stop sponsors Press Press Merch & Peluso Microphone Lab, LLC

FestivalPark FloydFest

01/08/2025

💜 Blessed to be considered the ‘Best’ 💜

You have our heart — FloydFest is grateful to once-again receive top honors for “Best Music Festival” in Blue Ridge Outdoors Magazine's ‘Best of the Blue Ridge 2025.’

👏 Congrats to all of the honorees; we’re in some extraordinary company.

🖋 Blue Ridge Outdoors: “FloydFest has set a standard for thriving independent music festivals by annually bringing a devoted crowd back to a scenic site in Southwest Virginia for a carefully curated, eclectic lineup of roots music …”

And, we can’t wait to do it again. Experience FloydFest 25~Aurora (July 23-27, 2025): FloydFest.com

Blue Ridge Outdoors is celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2025, so all year long we’ll be revisiting some of our favorite adventures from the past three decades.

01/05/2025

📌 Friendly update: Only TWO FloydFest Glamp-Camp Packages remain before a total sellout of that ticket-type: https://floydfest.com/glamping/

👉 Grab that glamping before it's gone: https://wl.seetickets.us/event/FloydFest-25Aurora/625477?afflky=FloydFest
*The two remaining packages feature (2) Twin Beds. If you prefer (1) Queen instead, let us know, and we can make it happen ...

FloydFest 25~Aurora (July 23-27, 2024) is five days of Music, Magic, and Mountains featuring outdoor adventure, vendors, food, brews and more than 100 artists on seven+ stages. FloydFest.com!

01/05/2025

Creating a sanctuary for families has always been a top priority for FloydFest. At FloydFest, kids are never an afterthought — they’re a centerpiece! After all, ‘family-friendly’ is one of the four main keystones this festival is built on.

FloydFest’s Children’s Universe is in the heart of FestivalPark’s main concert field, offering enriching activities in an imaginative landscape. From the rock-climbing wall, pirate-ship playground, sensory sandbox and arts-and-crafts tent, to the Forever Young Stage with its kids’ open mic sessions, curated stage acts and music workshops, to the annual Peace Parade, with its jugglers, puppets and musicians, FloydFest provides five days of your kids (and you) never having to ask ‘what’s next:' https://floydfest.com/childrens-universe/

✅ As always, Kid GA (Ages 6-12) tickets are only $30, good for all five days with a paying adult: https://wl.seetickets.us/event/FloydFest-25Aurora/625477?afflky=FloydFest

📸: Roger Gupta |

01/03/2025

On this first Friday of 2025, let’s throwback to Friday of FloydFest 24~Horizon, and a small smattering of the smiles that peppered FestivalPark …

Don’t miss this year’s , , & sea of smiles during FloydFest 25~Aurora (July 23-27, 2025): https://wl.seetickets.us/event/FloydFest-25Aurora/625477?afflky=FloydFest

📸: Craig Shaffer |

01/02/2025

Happy New Year, !

As we crest into the year of FloydFest 25~Aurora, we’d appreciate you giving FloydFest some love via voting in Virginia Living Magazine’s Best of Virginia 2025: https://bov2025.virginialiving.com/

We have been blessed to win accolades in this annual recognition of the best businesses in the state for multiple years, so if you have a moment to show some love, we’d be grateful. You can cast votes through January 31, and FloydFest is included in both Best ‘Festival’ and Best ‘Family Entertainment’ in the ‘Southwest’ Group. Appreciate all of you!

And, stay tuned for even more rounds of artist announcements for FloydFest 25~Aurora (July 23-27, 2025), coming soon!

Immerse yourself in our & at FloydFest.com

01/02/2025

❤ Virginia is for Music Lovers. Virginia is for FloydFest. ❤

To live and create in a state that values the arts is something we at Across-the-Way Productions & FloydFest will never take for granted.

We are grateful to start this new year as a recipient of the top award amount from Virginia Tourism Corporation’s Special Events & Festivals Sponsorship Program. These funds buttress our programming and, as Governor Glenn Youngkin said, “reinforce Virginia's reputation as a premier destination for memorable events and festivals.”

We are proud to be an ambassador for Virginia, a state we love so much. We are proud to operate and create alongside so many other extraordinary special events & festivals.
Virginia is for Lovers, indeed.


Experience through our lens: Join us for FloydFest 25~Aurora (July 23-27, 2025): FloydFest.com.

Governor Glenn Youngkin, 74th Governor of Virginia

12/31/2024

🥂 Happy New Year, !

The year of FloydFest 25~Aurora (July 23-27, 2025) is almost upon us ...
⏳ Friendly reminder: Ticket prices increase at midnight tonight. Secure your smiles for the summer, at the lowest prices of the season: https://wl.seetickets.us/event/FloydFest-25Aurora/625477?afflky=FloydFest

12/27/2024

💝 Buy your FloydFest 25~Aurora (July 23-27, 2025) tickets before prices increase at the end of the year (FIVE DAYS!) for a chance to receive a $100 merch credit. Already bought tickets? You're in luck — we're offering another chance to win a $100 merch credit exclusively for our early buyers: https://wl.seetickets.us/event/FloydFest-25Aurora/625477?afflky=FloydFest

🗞 Read all about it: https://app.hive.co/email/377891/view/public?hash=dbf2e354f806ce7

✨ Immerse yourself in the & : FloydFest.com

Buy your FloydFest 25~Aurora tickets before the end of the year for a chance to receive a $100 merch credit. Already bought tickets? You're in luck — we're offering another chance to win a $100 merch credit exclusively for our early buyers. Don’t wait — buy your tickets today!

12/26/2024

Just because Christmas has come and gone, doesn't mean the deals are done: Make sure your new year includes the & of FloydFest 25~Aurora (July 23-27, 2025) with the cheapest prices of the season: https://wl.seetickets.us/event/FloydFest-25Aurora/625477?afflky=FloydFest

12/17/2024

🎁 Friendly reminder: Purchase FloydFest VIP tickets prior to Christmas Day and receive a one-of-a-kind holiday gift from Across-the-Way Productions!

Looking for FloydFest 25~Aurora at the FestivalPark Jul 23, 2025 - Jul 27,2025. Presented by FloydFest with The Black Crowes, Mt. Joy, and JJ Grey & Mofro

12/17/2024

FloydFest 25~Aurora (July 23-27, 2025)'s emerging lineup illuminates with a THIRD ROUND of artist additions ...

🌠 Femi Anikulapo-Kuti & The Positive Force 🌠 The Brothers Comatose 🌠 Big Something 🌠 Aly and AJ 🌠 Hans Williams 🌠 The Free Label 🌠 Theo Lawrence 🌠 Diggin Dirt 🌠 Bella's Bartok 🌠 Cha Wa 🌠 Brass Queens 🌠 … with even more visible soon, so !

🌌 Ticket prices increase SOON, in 15 days, on Jan. 1, 2025: https://wl.seetickets.us/event/FloydFest-25Aurora/625477?afflky=FloydFest
🌌 Grab glamping before it’s gone: https://floydfest.com/glamping/
🌌 New merch: https://shop.presspressmerch.com/collections/floydfest
🌌 Today’s e-blast newsletter: https://floydfest.com/aurora-third-round-2025
🌌 Vantage point: FloydFest.com