Rising Appalachia perfroming at the twelfth annual FloydFest music festival, held July 25-28, 2013. Rising Appalachia plays a variety of world music and often feature banjo and fiddle as well as other folk instruments from cultures around the world. The festival was presented by Across The Way Productions, a management company based in Floyd, Virginia specializing in creating and producing live music events. Among other things, they produce FloydFest, Floyd Fandango and various area concerts.