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Mountain Legacies: Exploring Appalachian Culture

Transylvania Heritage Museum 189 West Main Street, Brevard, NC, United States

The Transylvania Heritage Museum's new exhibit, Mountain Legacies: Exploring Appalachian Culture, is now on display. This exhibit shows how early settlers made their way into the Appalachian Mountains and made […]

Away From Home

Mountain Heritage Center Hunter Library, 176 Central Drive, WCU, Cullowhee, NC, United States

Beginning in the 1870s, the US government attempted to educate and assimilate American Indians into “civilized” society by placing children—of all ages, from thousands of homes and hundreds of diverse […]

The Museum of the Cherokee Indian Presents: Disruption Exhibit

Museum of the Cherokee People 598 Tsali Blvd., NC, Cherokee, NC, United States

The Museum of the Cherokee Indian (MCI) opens Disruption, an art intervention of the Museum’s permanent exhibition. Featuring works by 36 enrolled members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians […]

Music at the Market Concert: Wood Family Tradition

Surry County Farmer's Market 903 E. Atkins Street, Dobson, NC, United States

Family values, legacy, faith and humor are just a few things that Wood Family Tradition bring to the stage with over 150 years of combined experience in the Bluegrass and […]

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Puddingstone Concert

The Hub Station Arts Center Cedar Valley Road, Hudson, North Carolina, United States

Puddingstone formed first as a trio, consisting of percussion, hammered dulcimer, harp, and flutes. It has since doubled in size and now includes vocals, guitar, synthesizer, and fiddle. The genres […]

John C. Campbell Folk School Fall Festival

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

Visit fine craft exhibitors, tucked along the school’s winding wooded paths. Watch artisans demonstrate traditional and contemporary crafts. Fill your ears with traditional roots music, and tap your toes to […]

Creatures of the Night & Bonfire Delight

Grandfather Mountain 2050 Blowing Rock Highway, Linville, NC, United States

Embrace your nocturnal side at Grandfather Mountain through Creatures of the Night & Bonfire Delight, the park’s after-hours program where guests enjoy rare after-dark tours, fireside tales and a chance […]

Our Mountain Music Traditions

Haywood Handmade Gallery 86 N. Main Street, Waynesville, NC, United States

Art after Dark at the Haywood County Arts Council (HCAC) on Friday October 7 starting at 6pm will be all about music. It’s Smoky Mountain Bluegrass Festival month for the […]

An Evening on the Block: Noir Collective AVL

Noir Collective AVL 39 S Market St Suite C, Asheville, NC, United States

Join our celebration with our neighbors as we reflect on another year in business. We are very grateful for your continued support and patronage. Schedule  4:00 Small bites from the Diaspora all natural […]

First Friday – Gretchen Griffith

The Hub Station Arts Center Cedar Valley Road, Hudson, North Carolina, United States

Join Gretchen Griffith, a talented story catcher and author, for a book launch and reception at the HUB Station. Gretchen's newest book, "The Physician and the Forester", is an inspiring […]

We welcome submission of Western North Carolina events focused on our heritage themes of mountain music, crafts, foodways, outdoors and Cherokee culture. Please submit two weeks in advance.

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