Kris Hodges who along with his partner Erika Johnson, started the FloydFest music festival in 2002, poses on the festival grounds. FloydFest is 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. The festival has run yearly from 2002 to the present and brings a very wide variety of music and performance to the event.