Music, Christmas stories on Radio Show

Floyd Radio Show guest host Ralph Berrier Jr. (left introduces The New Ballard Branch Bogtrotters at the December 2016 Floyd Radio Show.

Catherine Pauley tells one of her family Christmas stories.

Ralph Berrier Jr. hosted the December edition of The Floyd Country Show at the Country Store before a packed crowd Saturday night.

Besides music by Berrier’s Java Brothers, Eddie Bond and the New Ballard Branch Bogtrotters, Amythyst Kiah and others, the show offered skits and Christmas stories from guests,including artist and retired art teacher Catherine Pauley. Bond, Berrier and other musicians finished the night jamming in front of the stage as store staff cleaned up.

The radio show, offered online via streaming and in podcast, is broadcast from the stage at the Country Store on the first Saturday of each month.

Eddie Bond (left) jamming with other musicians after the show.

Santa Claus appears on stage during a set.

Southern Gothic, alt-country blues singer Anythyst Kiah.

DOUG THOMPSON

Long-time newspaperman, photographer, and videographer who sold his first news photo more than 60 years ago, still writes and shoots photos for Lee Enterprises newspapers, provides TV news for local stations/networks, and produces documentaries. He is also the founder and publisher of Capitol Hill Blue, the oldest political news channel on the Internet, and owns Blue Ridge Muse, a hyperlocal website in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Southwestern Virginia. A member of the National Press Photographers Association, Thompson also owns Blue Ridge Photography, LLC.

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Music, Christmas stories on Radio Show

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