Alison Krauss headlining the main stage on Sunday | Photos courtesy Ty Brady

I didn’t get to hear much of Alison Krauss and Union Station featuring Jerry Douglas, but what I heard was nice, though pretty reminiscent of the show the band put on recently at Roanoke Performing Arts Theatre. Here’s the review from that July 2011 show. Wow. A year has passed.

Bruce Hornsby at the main stage

Ricky Skaggs doing a workshop at the folklife porch

Read notes from Hornsby and his band’s set with his “country cousin,” Ricky Skaggs.

Sam Bush, the festival king

10:42:16 The Heins family, Conrad (age 7, left), David (middle) and Caroline (right), from Charlottesville play a game of Carrom at Floydfest 11 in Floyd, Virginia on Saturday.

10:59:41 Fans dance in the beer garden as Poe Mack performs on the Tapas Stage.

11:06:14 Volunteer Sallie Fleckenstein (middle, hat) checks wristbands at the entrance to the beer garden at Floydfest 11 in Floyd, Virginia on Saturday.

11:11:16 Hungry patrons line up for a late night bite to eat at the Original French Crêperie at Floydfest 11 in Floyd, Virginia on Saturday.

11:40:45 “Tone Stoke” Capulla stokes a bonfire at the Global Village at Floydfest 11 in Floyd, Virginia on Saturday.

11:47:08 Attendees warm themselves next to a bonfire at the Global Village at Floydfest 11 in Floyd, Virginia on Saturday.

12:00:03 Melissa Rae spins a pair of fire wings during a performance by the Scintillation Fire Troupe during a bonfire at the Global Village at Floydfest 11 in Floyd, Virginia on Saturday.

12:03:23 Melissa Rae reflects quietly during the “Lighting the Artistic Heart” at the Global Village at Floydfest 11 in Floyd, Virginia on Saturday.

12:05:33 A flaming heart shaped wood art piece goes up in flames during a “Lighting the Artistic Heart” in the Global Village at Floydfest 11 in Floyd, Virginia on Saturday.

6:55:15 Kyle Brown, from Morgantown, North Carolina juggles 7 balls at Floydfest 11 in Floyd, Virginia on Saturday.

7:52:57 Jane Rakes from Roanoke, Virginia waits for the start of the set of SOJA at Floydfest 11 in Floyd, Virginia on Saturday.

8:05:11. Jane Rakes (center, with ball), from Roanoke, Virginia  screams her approval during the set of SOJA at Floydfest 11 in Floyd, Virginia on Saturday.

8:26:40  6 year old Emma Beverage-Hoffman practices hula hoop in the Global Village at Floydfest 11 in Floyd, Virginia on Saturday.

8:35:49 David Hirsh (age 17) and Wynne Darden (age 16), both from Blacksburg, Virgina rest together in a hammock in the Global Village at Floydfest 11 in Floyd, Virginia on Saturday.

9:45:33 Poe Mack performs on the Tapas Stage.

                                                                                                                                                       4:30 p.m. – The Punch Brothers perform on the Dreaming Creek Main Stage. Stephanie Klein-Davis | The Roanoke Times

2:14 P.M., Brittany Houston, 22, of Virginia Beach tries out the Aerial Trapeze Academy of West Palm Beach, Florida’s rig at the Floyd Festival Saturday afternoon.

8:45AM: Art Ford, of Christiansburg, practices yoga on the newly constructed Hill Holler Beer Deck.

9:07AM: Fresh, local produce sits ready for sale in the Poor Farmer’s Market.

9:21AM: French toast from the Sugar Shack is a perennial favorite of Floydfest-goers for breakfast.

9:23AM: Special edition roasts from the Red Rooster Coffee Roaster in Floyd sit ready for purchase.

9:25AM: Ken Ceglowski, of Raleigh, orders a cup of coffee from Floyd native Katie Mayer at the Red Rooster Coffee Roaster’s new stand.

10:05: The morning was rougher for some than others.

10:36AM: Chieck Hamala Diabate performs at  as the Workshop Porch’s Saturday opener.

10:36AM: Chieck Hamala Diabate performs as the Workshop Porch’s Saturday opener.

11:14AM: Isabella Burgoyne, of Radford, plays the fiddle for passesrby. At age 9, she has already been playing for three years.

12:44PM: Yarn performs on the Main Stage.

Photos by Daniel Lin

2:56 a.m. Fire is marched in on sticks during a performance by Locos Por Juana during FloydFest early Saturday morning.

3:40 a.m. Patrick Brennan, 22, of Blacksburg, sits with his friend, Karys Blakemore, 19, of Blacksburg, by a fire during FloydFest early Saturday morning.

3:54 a.m. Polly Bates, a member of MarchFourth Marching Band from Portland, Ore., rests on a hula hoop hanging from a fire-breathing dragon during FloydFest early Saturday morning.

4:05 a.m. Clara Williams rests in a van with her boyfriend, Nate Leath, both of Lexington, in the early Saturday morning hours during FloydFest.

Photos by Rebecca Barnett

Royal Tailor (DJ Cox at left) | Courtesy of Proper Management

The Grammy Awards are on Sunday, and this year, two Southwest Virginia natives have a shot. On this podcast, we talk with DJ Cox, who graduated from Giles County High School, is one lucky and happy rookie. His band, contemporary Christian act Royal Tailor, is barely a year into its history as a recording and touring unit, and its first record, “Black & White,” is nominated for Best Contemporary Christian album.

Cox couldn’t be more excited or more gracious about it. On this podcast, we discuss how he got into the band, how he and his bandmates approach their job and what exactly the name Royal Tailor means.

Read about Cox, bluegrass album nominee Ralph Stanley and the Bristol Sessions box set in Sunday’s edition of The Roanoke Times and roanoke.com/entertainment.