VAVirginia field entry
Floyd Country Store
Floyd, VA
A century-old country store where candy, workwear, records and café food give way to a dance floor and stage for the weekly Friday Night Jamboree.
Floyd Country Store blends traditional general-store retail, a café and ice-cream counter with a year-round calendar of old-time, bluegrass and gospel music.
Field notes
Why it belongs
Century-old general store, café, ice-cream counter, traditional-music retail, stage, dance floor and recurring live Appalachian music.
The same room serves as a practical country store by day and a nationally known old-time music and dance gathering place on its event schedule.
Floyd Country Store remains a working general store with old-fashioned candy, apparel, music recordings and accessories, gifts and changing practical goods. Its café and hand-dipped ice-cream counter share the 206 South Locust Street space. Music is not an occasional add-on: the retail room is rearranged for dances, jams and concerts, including the year-round Friday Night Jamboree. Performers, tickets and event times change, so the current calendar controls. The separately addressed Soda Fountain at 202 South Locust Street is adjacent and related but is not part of this profile.
Store contents
What you will find
Directory categories
Known for
- Friday Night Jamboree
- Old-time and bluegrass music
- Country-store retail
- Café
- Hand-dipped ice cream
- Dance floor