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Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands

Harrah's Cherokee Center Asheville 87 Haywood Street, Asheville, NC, United States

Asheville's long-standing Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands is bringing interactive and dynamic craft to the heart of downtown at the U.S. Cellular Center for its 72nd year. The public will have the opportunity to shop and connect with regional, master craftsmen. This four-day event lasts until Sunday, October 20 at 5pm. Throughout the event, […]

$8 – $12

Valle Country Fair

Valle Crucis Conference Center Fair Grounds Highway 194S , Valle Crucis, NC, United States

Come early, stay late and enjoy live music in the big tent from 9 to 4 pm in a beautiful and historic mountain setting. More than 160 top quality, juried art and craft exhibitors from the Southeast. Food Galore – Hot Coffee/Tea and breakfast items available early, Brunswick Stew, Chili, BBQ, Sausage Factory, Burgers and […]

FREE

Appalachian Folk Festival at Vance Birthplace

Vance Birthplace State Historic Site 911 Reems Creek Road, Weaverville, NC, United States

This event will celebrate the traditions and cultures of the people who called the North Carolina mountains home in the early 1800s! Visitors can tour the site’s pioneer mansion and 1790s slave cabin. See and smell the open-hearth cooking in our 1795 fireplace, make your own candle, and discover how everyday life has changed over […]

FREE

Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands

Harrah's Cherokee Center Asheville 87 Haywood Street, Asheville, NC, United States

Asheville's long-standing Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands is bringing interactive and dynamic craft to the heart of downtown at the U.S. Cellular Center for its 72nd year. The public will have the opportunity to shop and connect with regional, master craftsmen. This four-day event lasts until Sunday, October 20 at 5pm. Throughout the event, […]

$8 – $12

Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands

Harrah's Cherokee Center Asheville 87 Haywood Street, Asheville, NC, United States

Asheville's long-standing Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands is bringing interactive and dynamic craft to the heart of downtown at the U.S. Cellular Center for its 72nd year. The public will have the opportunity to shop and connect with regional, master craftsmen. This four-day event lasts until Sunday, October 20 at 5pm. Throughout the event, […]

$8 – $12

ArborEvenings

Relax and unwind at the Arboretum’s new “ArborEvenings” after hours series. Held every Thursday, April – October, from 6 to 9 p.m., visitors will see the Arboretum’s gardens come to light after dark while enjoying delicious food and tasty beverages, including beer and wine, in one of Asheville’s most beautiful natural settings. On the last […]

Standard Parking Fees Apply

IIIrd Tyme Out: Concerts at the Rock

Old Rock School 400 Main Street West, Valdese, NC, United States

Concerts at the Rock welcomes IIIrd Tyme Out. “Playing music is the easy part,” says Russell Moore with an ever-so-slightly rueful laugh as he looks back on more than thirty years of doing what he grew up wanting to do. “By the time we put this band together”—he’s talking about IIIrd Tyme Out, his musical […]

$20

Shelton House History, Heritage & Crafts

Shelton House Campus 49 Shelton Street, Waynesville, NC, United States

Shelton House History, Heritage and Crafts presents an “Old Fashioned Appalachian Family Christmas, Grand Illumination and opening of the Tinsel Tree Trail”. Come join Shelton House for a Holiday celebration with a visit from Santa, Hot Chocolate and other treats, a Victorian Christmas Open House, Caroling, Grand Illumination of the House, and the opening of […]

Concerts at the Rock: Darin & Brooke Aldridge

Old Rock School 400 Main Street West, Valdese, NC, United States

Husband and wife duo Darin & Brooke Aldridge draw on the traditions of their native North Carolina, the savvy of a young, gifted band and their own dedication to ingenuity to create the most adventurous album of their career with their latest critically acclaimed release, Faster & Farther. The duo has placed several tracks at […]

Open Hearth Cooking at Vance Birthplace

Vance Birthplace State Historic Site 911 Reems Creek Road, Weaverville, NC, United States

Food historian Clarissa Clifton Lynch will return to the Vance Birthplace on Saturday, March 7, 2020 from 10 am-2 pm.  Lynch will explore African American foodways as she prepares a meal in the original 1790s fireplace in the Vance house--the same fireplace where Leah, an enslaved woman, cooked food for the Vances.  Learn about the realities of cooking over an […]

Garden Jubilee Nurseries & Orchards Tour

Garden Jubilee, a fixture on Hendersonville’s Main Street for a quarter century, moves to the countryside this year to avoid large crowds gathering downtown. The 2020 version, renamed Garden Jubilee Nurseries & Orchards Tour, takes place over four days, Friday, May 22, through Monday, May 25. In lieu of a street festival, people will venture […]

White Squirrel Festival

Downtown Brevard Brevard, NC, United States

In Brevard, We Celebrate Our White Squirrel Population! Featuring two-and-a-half days of great live music, crafts, and food, the White Squirrel Festival in Downtown Brevard, NC is the perfect way to experience everything this charming mountain community has to offer.  Best of all it’s FREE!  It has earned the reputation for showcasing many undiscovered artists […]

Free

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