The decades-long traditions is known not only locally but to people across the world.

Downtown Floyd felt normal for the first time in a long time Friday night with the return of the Friday Night Jamboree.

FLOYD, VA. – It wouldn’t be a summer in Floyd with the famous Friday Night Jamboree, but hundreds of people packed inside the Floyd Country Store just isn’t possible right now due to the COVID-19 pandemic. So after moving the show online, they’ve changed things up again to try to get people back to the music. There’s pickin’ and dancing and a whole lot of fun in downtown Floyd on Friday. Even if things looked a little different than they usually do, Floyd Country Store owner Dylan Locke said the show must go on. The weekly Friday Night Jamboree is usually inside, but Locke had to cancel it due to the pandemic.

“Well I tell you what, social distancing is not in the dictionary for the Floyd Country Store,” owner Dylan Locke said. The Friday Night Jamboree at the country store is a staple, but no match for the virus shut down. “Music is the best thing in the world, and music and dancing is what the Floyd Country Store people coming together week after week," Locke said. “It’s been hard for the community that surrounds the Floyd Country Store, so we’re trying to hang in there and stay positive and can’t wait for the day we can all get back together again," Locke said. You can watch the jamborees on the Floyd Country Store’s Facebook page.

FLOYD COUNTY (WSLS 10) - Stop 8 on the Virginia Proud Weather Tour took Jeff Haniewich to the Floyd Country Store in Floyd County. On Friday nights, the store is host the Friday Night Jamboree. That's what we do," said Dylan Locke, the owner of the Floyd Country Store. Floyd County recently opened a new visitor's center and a new website, visitfloydva.com. On Tuesday, the tour will be in Rockbridge County and Lexington.