They say there’s nothing new under the sun. Still, as artists we stubbornly insist on excavating the unheard, unseen, and unrealized. With the vastness of human creativity, what gives us the audacity to believe that we could land on something original? Perhaps we’re just blowing ourselves up. Even still, as we rolled into the small town of Floyd Virginia, we could feel it in the air – they’ve never seen anything like this before.
The truth is, we’ve never seen anything like Floyd before, either. Literally off the beaten path, our tour bus wandered slowly to our destination at the Sun Music Hall, where we played to a welcoming audience. Even in the rural depths of Virginia, music from all corners of the globe kept the night the town buzzing. Music from South Korea and Mozambique blended to start of the night, meandering through folk, jazz, hip-hop. The blend of this all is indescribable, and in many cases unrecognizable – yet it summons familiar tones of human fellowship around song and story. So maybe it’s true that there’s nothing that’s ever quite new. If that’s the case, then this is a hell of a reinvention.