Come Celebrate New Year's Eve with Us!
#280 / An Invitation
This New Year’s Eve is a special one for the Floodisphere.
That’s because the band is turning 50. We trace our roots back to a party at Susie and Dave Peyton’s home on Dec. 31, 1973, at which Dave jammed with Charlie Bowen for the first time, and now our friends at Alchemy Theatre want to host a big “Flood at 50” Birthday Bash!
Thank You, Mike and Nora
Alchemy’s Mike Murdock and Nora Ankrom — the kind folks who brought us in to be part of the wonderful “Bright Star” production last summer — are working with us to get the plans together for the New Year’s Eve do. Details will be coming out in the days ahead, and we’ll keep you up to date.
For now, we just want to get on your radar and to be on your calendar for Dec. 31.
We’d love for this to be a reunion of Flood folks — past and present — at the beautiful Alchemy Theatre in the Geneva Kent Arts Center at 68 Holley Ave. in the hills of Huntington.
Music from Us … and from You
We’re thinking the affair will start around 7:30 and sail on ‘til we toast the new year at midnight. The Flood, of course, will perform a set or two, but ours shouldn’t be the only music that listeners hear that night.
We’re hoping long-time Flood friends also come and jam with us during the evening. There’s a bunch of you who have picked with us over the years!
A band born at parties needs to keep that tradition going, so players — you know who you are! — should plan to bring their instruments to join the fun.
We’re Gonna Put You in the Movies….
In addition, Sam St. Clair wants us to do a documentary for our golden anniversary year, perhaps something that we can share with the Appalachian Film Festival in the spring.
So we expect to be shooting videos throughout the evening. It’ll be fun if we also can get your Flood yarns recorded, so start remembering your favorites. Here are some random images to get you thinking:
So, Is It a Date?
We imagine folks will be coming and going throughout the evening. Some will stay the whole time. Other will want to make us one stop on their rounds of New Year’s Eve festivities all over town.
Either way, put The Flood and Alchemy Theatre in your datebook for New Year’s Eve. It’s gonna be a hoot!
Tickets!
The good folks at Alchemy Theatre who are hosting it have created a Facebook Event page for the do, with all kinds of additional goodies. Click the graphic below to reach it on Facebook:
You can order tickets online through the page. Tickets also will be available at the door. Note: all proceeds of the ticket sale goes to Alchemy Theatre.