Old Time Banjo & Dance Performance with Ben Nelson & Becky Hill

The Handmade Music School presents an Old Time Banjo & Dance Performance with Ben Nelson & Becky Hill at 7:30PM at The Floyd Country Store in Floyd, VA. Admission $20

This show follows a special one-hour “Flatfooting From Scratch” workshop with Becky Hill on Wednesday, April 9, 2025. This workshop also takes place at the The Floyd Country Store. Workshop Registration: $20

SPECIAL COMBO PRICE for Workshop and Performance: $35

An Old Time Banjo & Dance Performance with Ben Nelson & Becky Hill
Wednesday, April 9, 2025 from 7:30-8:30pm
The Floyd Country Store

Becky Hill and Ben Nelson have been friends for over a decade, and recently started crafting banjo and dance duets together. Ben grew up in southwest Virginia in a family of old-time musicians, and now makes his home in the North Carolina mountains. Becky is musically rooted in West Virginia, where she studied with percussive dance luminaries and elder square dance callers. Their arrangements of traditional tunes from southern Appalachia re-envision percussive dance as a primary instrument to explore the nuanced conversation between melody and rhythm. The goal of the project is to celebrate the traditions of Appalachian old-time music and dance, while simultaneously pushing the boundaries of those traditions. They have performed on the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, the Baltimore Old-Time Festival, Blackpot Festival and numerous others.