Events for January 23 - October 21, 2023

Valle Country Fair

Valle Crucis Conference Center 146 Skiles Way, Valle Crucis, NC, United States

The Valle Country Fair is celebrating its 40th anniversary!  Join us for the  Valle Country Fair in the most picturesque valley of the High Country during the Peak of Leaf Season.  The Fair is an authentic harvest-season community celebration revolving around quality hand-made crafts with more than 160 juried exhibitors displaying their art and crafts, plus home-cooked […]

$10 – $50

Apple Harvest Festival

Downtown Waynesville, NC 9 South Main Street, Waynesville, NC, United States

Join us in beautiful downtown Waynesville on October 15, 2022 at the Annual Apple Harvest Festival. The Apple Harvest Festival will be in it’s 35th year of operation. This fun, family friendly festival is owned, operated and organized by the Haywood Chamber of Commerce. The streets of downtown Waynesville, NC are filled with almost 200 […]

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Woolly Worm Festival

Banner Elk, NC - Woolly Worm Festival Site Shawneehaw Ave South, Banner Elk, NC, United States

The 45th Annual Woolly Worm Festival takes place the 3rd weekend of October, falling on the 15th and 16th in 2022, in the quaint mountain town of Banner Elk North Carolina. We think it’s the perfect time to share some tips that will make your experience a good one while at the festival and getting […]

$4.00 – $12
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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

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

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 […]

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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

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

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.

Folk School Winter Dance Week

John C. Campbell Folk School 4590 Brasstown Road, Brasstown, NC, United States

Ring in the New Year at the Folk School! This popular, year-end, traditional dance and music celebration features American contras and squares as well as English country dancing, all set to live music. The week also includes flatfoot dancing, clogging, and square dance calling workshops, group singing, jam sessions, and more. Winter Dance Week offers […]

$438.00
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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 […]

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Celebrating Nina Simone Plaza & Sculpture

Nina Simone Plaza 54 Trade Street, Tryon, NC, United States

The Eunice Waymon—Nina Simone Project (NSP) exists to honor the remarkable life and legacy of a native Tryon, North Carolina daughter, who achieved international recognition for her unique talent and her formidable contribution to the musical arts. The musical talent of Eunice Waymon, who was born in 1933, evidenced itself early on. By age 4 […]