The New Floyd County Ramblers
SW Virginia-style Old Time Dance Music
The New Floyd County Ramblers play old time dance music and carry on the music and dance traditions of Southwest Virginia. The string band won first prize at both the 52nd and 53rd Annual Mount Airy Bluegrass & Old Time Fiddlers' Conventions. In 2025, they were awarded first place in the traditional band category at the Appalachian String Band Festival in Clifftop, WV.
Music for TV, Films, and Podcasts
Ashlee and Andrew provided the soundtrack and original theme music for the documentary Rock Castle Home, a film by Dr. Charles Thompson, Professor of the Practice of Cultural Anthropology and Documentary Studies at Duke University. This award-winning documentary film tells the story of an isolated mountain community and its descendants, the history of the Blue Ridge Parkway, and it explores the importance of holding onto stories and a sense of place. The film has been aired on PBS networks around the United States and is now available to stream on their website.
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Ashlee and Andrew provided the soundtrack and original theme music for Season 1 of the podcast The Green Tunnel, in collaboration with a team from the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. This podcast series is part of the center's Appalachian Trail Histories project and it tells the stories of the people who have made the trail what it is today and explores how those stories fit into the larger history of the place.
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