VERSAILLES, Ky. — Help continues to pour in from Kentuckians who want to lend a hand after the July floods engulfed eastern Kentucky. 

What You Need To Know

  • Communities help eastern Kentucky with supplies

  • Soaked Oak Band and Rolling Oven are hosting a fundraiser

  • They wanted to preserve the rich music in our state by helping the Hindman Settlement School

  • The floods left the school in shambles, destroying years and years of history

A Woodford County Bluegrass band is teaming with a pizza restaurant to put together a fundraiser called ‘Flood With Love.’

“We’re all Kentuckians, whether it be east or west or from the Penny Royal, wherever we’re all from right here in Kentucky,” said Mack Logsdon, a mandolin player. “When one community hurts, all of our communities kind of hurt.”

Logsdon is with the Soaked Oak Band, and he has many ties to eastern Kentucky.

“Personally, the Pick and Bow program at the Hindman Settlement School really speaks to heart because it takes a lot of young kids and teaches them the traditionalism of Appalachian music and of Bluegrass music and high mountain music, old timey music and all the stuff that you know, we’re playing in the Soaked Oak Band and I’ve been playing my entire life,” Logsdon said.

They wanted to preserve the rich music in our state.

“We’re just really trying to help the eastern Kentucky communities, the best way we can figure it out as musicians is to help us help a pillar of the community that’s doing the same thing and keeping the tradition alive and keep the music alive in eastern Kentucky,” Logsdon said.

So with the help of Rolling Oven, they’re helping the Hindman Settlement School in their rebuilding and restoring efforts.

“We got a lot of friends and family down there that are really suffering and are,” said Andrew StClair, manager of the Rolling Oven. “(Many) lost their homes and their businesses and it’s an opportunity for us and for a lot of us in Woodford County here to really give back and do something good for the people down there.”

The floods left the school in shambles, destroying years and years of history and with the money raised, they’ll send supplies to the area.

“What we can do is help an establishment, a pillar of the community, rebuild their establishment and rebuild what they were already doing 20, 30 all the way back to 1902, way before these floods ever happened,” Logsdon said. “And we can help get that back on its feet if we can help get them back moving. I think that’s a perpetual motion of growth and progress and eastern Kentucky.” 

The ‘Flood With Love’ event takes place this Saturday, Aug. 20 starting at 4 p.m..

If you can’t make it, you directly help the Hindman Settlement School.

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