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Punkin’ Chunkin’ Festival

Punkin’ Chunckin’ Field 811 Settawig Road, Brasstown, NC, United States

If you have never seen a pumpkin fly, Punkin Chunkin is your chance. Catapults, air cannons, trebuchets and other powerful machines toss pumpkins up to several thousand feet in a battle between world champion pumpkin chunkers and the home teams. Thousands of people come every year to see this hugely popular festival in western North […]

$3.00 – $10
Concert / Performance

The Burnett Sisters Band in Concert

The Burnett Sisters are presented by Joe Shannon’s Mountain Home Music. For the Burnett Sisters Band, it’s all about family. Growing up playing music together in Boone, North Carolina, the sisters’ sound is focused around the type of breathtaking vocal harmonies that can only come from the unique bond shared by siblings, expertly complemented by […]

$10.50 – $22.00
The North Carolina Ceramic Arts Festival 2019.
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The North Carolina Ceramic Arts Festival

Pack Square Park Pack Square Park, Asheville, NC, United States

The North Carolina Ceramic Arts Festival in partnership with The Village Potters Clay Center is an Asheville, NC event that focuses on ceramic arts of all genres including tilework, sculpture, jewelry, and pottery. The festival includes over 40 ceramic art vendors, food trucks, and raku demonstrations. Come for a day of fun and enjoy lunch […]

Concert / Performance
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Brevard Music Center Concert Series

Brevard Music Center 349 Andante Lane, Brevard, NC, United States

The Brevard Music Center's summer festival also features the popular BMC Presents series, having brought non-classical artists as rich and diverse as Steep Canyon Rangers, Amy Grant, Béla Fleck, Bryan Sutton, Lyle Lovett, The Manhattan Transfer, Garrison Keillor, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Marvin Hamlisch, Peter, Paul and Mary, PDQ Bach, Judy Collins, and Michael Feinstein to the […]

$35.00 – $45.00

Concert / Performance

Holiday Cheer Concert with Newberry & Verch

The Earl Scruggs Center: Music & Stories from the American South 103 South Lafayette Street, Shelby, NC, United States

Growing up, musicians Joe Newberry and April Verch absorbed traditions of home and hearth - in his Missouri Ozarks and her Ottawa Valley of Canada. The holidays have always been a special time of year for both, with the lure of family and friends, festive decorations, gifts under the tree, and always.... music. So now, […]

$25.00
Concert / Performance, Dance

Feed & Seed

Feed & Seed 3715 Hendersonville Road, Fletcher, NC, United States

Music at the Feed & Seed is well known locally and nationally. It is a hot spot destination for Bluegrass, Classic Country, and Appalachian Music featuring many well known headliners. Feed & Seed is located in a hundred year old feed and seed store. The hall seats 160 people with cushioned pews, chairs, and theater […]

No admission charge but donations graciously accepted.
Dance
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Breaking Up Christmas Dance at the Historic Earle Theatre

The Earle Theatre 142 North Main Street, Mount Airy, NC, United States

The Surry Arts Council invites you to share in this Blue Ridge Mountain holiday musical tradition. "Breaking Up Christmas" is an old-time dance tune that takes its name from dance parties in the area, where old-timers used to "break up" Christmas nightly through old-Christmas. The times have changed, but the music, the spirit , and […]

$10.00

Concert / Performance, Radio Broadcast
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WPAQ Saturday Morning Merry-Go-Round

The Earle Theatre 142 North Main Street, Mount Airy, NC, United States

The WPAQ Saturday morning Merry-Go-Round, which is a live radio broadcast set in a vintage movie theater, has an exceptionally long history of presenting the best of live traditional music in the Blue Ridge. Through the years, a host of regional and national music legends, including Tommy Jarrell, Benton Flippen, the Carter Family, Mac Wiseman, […]

$8.00
Workshop / Class / Demonstration
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Junior Appalachian Musicians (Music Classes)

JAM is an after-school program for children in grades 4 – 8 and beyond that introduces music through small group instruction on instruments common to the Appalachian region, such as fiddle, banjo and guitar. Each JAM program is individually operated and funded. In JAM, instrument instruction is often augmented by dance and vocal instruction as […]

Visit website for details and scholarship.
Exhibit
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Southern Appalachian Archives

Ramsey Center for Appalachian Studies at Mars Hill University 147 Bailey Street, Mars Hill, NC, United States

The Southern Appalachian Archives are a rich storehouse of manuscripts and collections, which document regional and local history. Notable among the treasures held in the Southern Appalachian Archives are: The Bascom Lamar Lunsford Collection, which includes an oversized scrapbook, photographs, sound recordings, transcribed ballads, and other memorabilia (Lunsford Collection Brochure); The James G. K. McClure Collection, which includes […]

Workshop / Class / Demonstration
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Junior Appalachian Musicians (Music Classes)

JAM is an after-school program for children in grades 4 – 8 and beyond that introduces music through small group instruction on instruments common to the Appalachian region, such as fiddle, banjo and guitar. Each JAM program is individually operated and funded. In JAM, instrument instruction is often augmented by dance and vocal instruction as […]

Visit website for details and scholarship.
Workshop / Class / Demonstration
Recurring

Junior Appalachian Musicians (Music Classes)

JAM is an after-school program for children in grades 4 – 8 and beyond that introduces music through small group instruction on instruments common to the Appalachian region, such as fiddle, banjo and guitar. Each JAM program is individually operated and funded. In JAM, instrument instruction is often augmented by dance and vocal instruction as […]

Visit website for details and scholarship.

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