Share The Music with The Handmade Music School

The Handmade Music School in Floyd, Virginia is asking for your help in sharing the traditional music and dance culture of Southwest Virginia - let's make learning opportunities accessible to all students! 

The Handmade Music School makes its home at the world famous Floyd Country Store and draws from the rich local traditions to connect students with master musicians and dancers. Similar to the Pay It Forward program that the Floyd Country Store has implemented to help cover meal costs for those in need, the Handmade Music School is creating "Share The Music", a program that provides access to traditional music lessons, classes, workshops, and camps through a scholarship program.

During these unprecedented times, we have launched Handmade at Home, a virtual Crowdcast workshop series, and our amazing teachers are still offering private lessons and additional resources online.

Our goal at The Handmade Music School is to make all of our programming available and accessible to all area youth Junior Appalachian Musicians students and the greater community.

Your donations make a REAL difference to our students! If you are able, we ask you to consider a contribution that will help us meet our goal of making all of our programming accessible and available to all. Contributions of any amount are welcome - every little bit helps students in need!

The Handmade Music School is an initiative of Floyd Creative Studios, a non-profit, 501(c)3 organization dedicated to the creative process in Floyd County, Virginia.

Your contribution will go directly to our Share The Music scholarship fund. As a 501(c)(3) not for profit arts organization, your donation is tax deductible to the extent allowable by law.

Thank you for your support and for joining us in sharing the music and passing on these important musical traditions.

More about The Handmade Music School at The Floyd Country Store:

The Handmade Music School is dedicated to teaching old time, bluegrass, and traditional music and dance from Floyd County, Virginia and throughout the Blue Ridge Mountains. The philosophy of The Handmade Music School is to “hand down” the songs and dances from the teacher to the student, phrase by phrase and step by step, the way it’s been taught in the Blue Ridge Mountains for centuries. 

 Since the 1980’s, The Floyd Country Store has been known as a community gathering place built on the celebration of traditional Southern Appalachian music and dance. The Floyd Country Store is renowned as a place to experience authentic Appalachian music and is home to a group of musicians, flatfoot dancers, and cloggers who carry on the local tradition of social music making. Whether picking on the front porch, singing in a neighbor’s kitchen, or dancing at the Floyd Country Store, traditional music continues to bring people together in Floyd. For almost four decades, the Floyd Country Store has been a place where the musical traditions of Appalachia have been enjoyed by audiences coming to the Friday Night Jamboree or shared at a jam session on Sunday afternoon. Now the Floyd Country Store provides the opportunity to learn directly from these musicians and dancers so we can rest assured that we will all be enjoying these traditions for a long time!