The Floyd Country Store, Virginia | Traditional Appalachian Music and Flatfoot Dancing

Since the 1980s, the Floyd Country Store in Floyd, Virginia, has been a popular destination for those who enjoy authentic Appalachian music and dance. The Friday Night Jamboree, held year round, features spirited flatfoot dancing to bluegrass string bands. American flatfoot dancing developed as a unique mixture of Irish step dancing combined with English, Scottish, German, Cherokee and African rhythms and movements. Some of the flatfoot dancers at The Floyd Country Store wear tap shoes. Flatfoot dancing is important to Appalachian culture and its people, and it lives on at The Floyd Country Store.