Music
Mountain Area Storytellers: Stories on the Square
Historic Clay County Courthouse/Beal Center 25 Herbert Street, Hayesville, NC, United States2021 Mountain Area Storytellers and CCCRA Present: FRESH AIR - Stories on the Square! Join us at the gazebo for an evening of storytelling, poetry and music.
Hendersonville’s Home for the Holidays: a Sleigh Full of Events
Hendersonville’s collection of holiday events, known as Home for the Holidays, returns this year with festivities starting the day after Thanksgiving and running through year’s end. Experience the most wonderful time of the year with a sleigh full of activities, including a tree lighting ceremony, carriage rides, greenery markets, Christmas shows at Flat Rock Playhouse […]
A Small Town Christmas: Banner Elk Yuletide Fun
For those who need a little Christmas this holiday season, the Blue Ridge Mountain town of Banner Elk is the place to be the first weekend of December. The town’s three-day celebration known as A Small Town Christmas takes place Dec. 3-5, offering visitors a traditional holiday getaway wrapped in small-town charm. The schedule starts […]
Shelton House Tinsel Trail
Shelton House Campus 49 Shelton Street, Waynesville, NC, United StatesThe Shelton House Museum of NC Handicrafts will host several Holiday Events this December. The month-long Tinsel Trail which will remain open to the public through January 1, 2022. This event is a Community Events and free to the public, though donations for the preservation of the Shelton House History, Heritage, and Crafts is greatly […]
A Swannanoa Solstice
Wortham Center for the Performing Arts Biltmore Avenue, Asheville, NC, United StatesIn 2021, A Swannanoa Solstice celebrates 19 years of delighting Western North Carolina audiences with a world-class display of folk, ushering in the winter season and drawing in more fans each and every year. A beloved local holiday tradition, A Swannanoa Solstice welcomes renowned multi-instrumentalist Robin Bullock and Grammy-winner David Holt to the stage, along […]
Western Piedmont Symphony Link Up: The Orchestra Sings
Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts 733 Riverside Drive, Boone, NC, United StatesPart of the APPlause! K-12 Performing Arts Series Carnegie Hall’s Link Up program introduces elementary age students to the orchestra by helping them to become a part of it. Concert repertoire includes: “Come to Play,” Finale from The Firebird Suite, “New World Symphony,” “Ode to Joy,” “Oye,” “Simple Gifts,” “To Make Words Sing” and “Variations […]
Jake Blount and Nic Gareiss
Mars Hill University: Moore Auditorium Cascade Street, Mars Hill, NC, United StatesJake Blount is an award-winning banjoist, fiddler, singer and ethnomusicologist. He is the 2020 recipient of the Steve Martin Banjo Prize, and a two-time winner and many-time finalist at Clifftop. Blount specializes in the music of Black communities in the southeastern United States, and in the regional style of the Finger Lakes, and foregrounds the experiences […]
Jagged Path: the African Diaspora in Western North Carolina in Craft, Music, and Dance
Blowing Rock Art & History Museum 159 GINNY STEVENS LANE , BLOWING ROCK, North Carolina, United StatesBRAHM (Blowing Rock Art & History Museum) is excited to open the exhibition, Jagged Path: the African Diaspora in Western North Carolin in Craft, Music, and Dance. The in-person exhibition is accompanied by a program series, digital exhibit, book, and traveling exhibit. The Jagged Path seeks to illuminate the obscured history of African contributions to […]
Nina Simone Tribute Concert
Rogers Park Amphitheater 55 W. Howard Street, Tryon, United StatesA joyous, free, community celebration of the inimitable High Priestess of Soul in the town of her birth, featuring multiple musical artists from across the Eastern Seaboard. "Bring a chair; bring a cooler; bring a friend."
Dance Night in Fines Creek
Fines Creek Community Center Fines Creek Road, Clyde, North Carolina, United StatesLive music with Running Wolfe and the Renegades. Admission $5 / Food $5: Hot Dogs, Chips, Desserts, Drinks
Folkmoot LIVE! at the Queen Auditorium
Folkmoot USA 112 Virginia Avenue, Waynesville, NC, United StatesMay will continue the Folkmoot LIVE! at the Queen Auditorium series with Bluegrass Boogie on Sat, May 21. Organized by Adamas Entertainment, the featured bands for the concert are Unspoken Tradition with the Carter Giegerich Trio opening. Unspoken Tradition is about new, original Bluegrass, inspired by their own influences and the roots of traditional music. They bring a […]
36th Annual Carl Sandburg Music Festival
Carl Sandburg Home NHS 81 Carl Sandburg Lane, Flat Rock, NC, United StatesCarl Sandburg Home National Historic Site will host the 36th annual Carl Sandburg Music Festival on Memorial Day, Monday, May 30, 2022. This free festival offers live music performances at 11 a.m., 1 p.m., and 2 p.m. at the amphitheater and barnyard areas. Seating is available, and visitors are welcome to bring their own […]