Quilts: The Stories They Tell
Mountain Heritage Center Hunter Library, 176 Central Drive, WCU, CullowheeMountain Legacies: Exploring Appalachian Culture
Transylvania Heritage Museum 189 West Main Street, BrevardJagged Path: the African Diaspora in Western North Carolina in Craft, Music, and Dance
Blowing Rock Art & History Museum 159 GINNY STEVENS LANE , BLOWING ROCKGraduating Class of 2022 of Haywood Community College’s Professional Crafts Program
Folk Art Center Milepost 382, Blue Ridge Parkway, AshevilleCarl Sandburg Home Summer Plays & Sing-Alongs
Carl Sandburg Home NHS 81 Carl Sandburg Lane, Flat RockBlue Ridge Blueberries: U-Pick Farm
Blue Ridge Blueberries 267 Altapass Church of God Road, Spruce PineThe Swannanoa Valley Fine Arts League Presents the 2022 Annual Juried Members Exhibit
Red House Studios and Gallery 310 W. State Street, Black MountainWeek of Events
Quilts: The Stories They Tell
Twenty-five quilts from the Mountain Heritage Center's extensive collection featuring Album, Crazy, and Patchwork quilt styles. Stories of makers, families, and community members as well as local and national patterns, techniques and materials, and the perceptions of quilts will be showcased. View old favorites as well as new acquisitions and quilts that have never been […]
Mountain Legacies: Exploring Appalachian Culture
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 them their home. Families with roots in Scotland, Germany, and France arrived by way of Virginia or South Carolina with few personal possessions. Using the […]
Jagged Path: the African Diaspora in Western North Carolina in Craft, Music, and Dance
BRAHM (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 […]
Graduating Class of 2022 of Haywood Community College’s Professional Crafts Program
The Southern Highland Craft Guild opened its Main Gallery exhibition at the Folk Art Center showcasing the Graduating Class of 2022 of Haywood Community College's Professional Crafts Program on May 21st. Located on the second floor until September 7th, the show continues the historical relationship between the Southern Highland Craft Guild and Haywood, an educational […]
The Banner House Museum Summer 2022
The Banner House Museum is excited to announce hours, tours, and tickets for Summer 2022! Experience 19th-century life in Banner Elk and the High Country in the home of Samuel Henry Banner, one of Banner Elk’s early settlers and his his wife, Jane Hyder Banner, and their seven children. The circa 1870 house has been […]
Carl Sandburg Home Summer Plays & Sing-Alongs
In mid-June, Carl Sandburg Home will offer free summer children’s plays and family sing-alongs. The park will also expand Sandburg Home hours to four days per week. Apprentice actors from the Flat Rock Playhouse Vagabond School of the Drama will perform Rootabaga Express! on Thursdays and Saturdays at 10:15 a.m., from June 16 to August 13. Rootabaga […]
Blue Ridge Blueberries: U-Pick Farm
We are launching our U-Pick Blueberry farm this year: www.blueridgeblueberries.com. We are located about 1.5 miles off the parkway at mile marker 327 where Altapass Hwy intersects the parkway between North Cove overlook and the Altapass Orchard: 267 Altapass Church of God Rd. Our farm (Revival Farm and Art) is also home to Plumb Art (deborahkolp.com). […]
The Swannanoa Valley Fine Arts League Presents the 2022 Annual Juried Members Exhibit
Excitement is building as The Swannanoa Valley Fine Arts League welcomes everyone to the Members’ Juried Show. Our first Juried Show since 2019, this exhibit beckons with new work in all media created in the past three years. Gwen Diehn, Emerita Professor in Art at Warren Wilson College, is our esteemed juror. Creativity, innovation, and […]
Quilting as Art Expo
Quilting as Art Expo - A quilt show like no other! Join us in the beautifully renovated HUB Station Art Center in Hudson, NC for a two day quilt show, 10:00 am-5:00 pm. Our quilt expo weekend is packed! Join us for a rotation of demonstrations, two trunk shows - one hosted by the acclaimed […]
An Appalachian Summer Festival: Rolston String Quartet
An Appalachian Summer Festival: Rolston String Quartet
With their debut album Souvenirs, an all-Tchaikovsky release that was named Recording of the Year by BBC Music Magazine, the Rolston String Quartet continues to receive acclaim and recognition for their musical excellence. The quartet, which will perform a program of Haydn, Thomas and Beethoven, was awarded First Prize at the 12th Banff International String […]
WNCHA History Hour: Bascom Lamar Lunsford and Western North Carolina Song
WNCHA History Hour: Bascom Lamar Lunsford and Western North Carolina Song
Join the Western North Carolina Historical Association (WNCHA) Thursday, July 28 at 6pm as for this live Zoom webinar exploring the musical legacy of Bascom Lamar Lunsford. This even will also be recorded. Lunsford was born in 1882 in Madison County, North Carolina, home to Cecil Sharp’s “nest of singing birds.” He was both a traditional musician […]
2022 Summer Tracks: Seth Walker
2022 Summer Tracks: Seth Walker
Seth Walker’s gift for melody and lyric, along with his rich, Gospel-drenched voice and his stellar band will fill the air at Summer Tracks. Perhaps Country Standard Time said it best: “If you subscribe to the Big Tent theory of Americana, then Seth Walker –with his blend of Blues, Gospel, Pop, R&B, Rock, and a dash of […]
Summer Tracks Continues July 29 with Seth Walker
Summer Tracks Continues July 29 with Seth Walker
Summer Tracks presents Seth Walker and his trio on Friday, July 29 in Rogers Park. Just back from three-weeks in Europe, Summer Tracks is Walker’s first stop on the American leg of his summer 2022 tour. Wherever he performs, Walker’s Gospel-drenched, Southern-inflected voice and knack for getting around on the guitar enthralls audiences. With a […]
Folkmoot Summerfest 2022 and KidStuff
Folkmoot Summerfest 2022 and KidStuff
Folkmoot Summerfest 2022 provides amazing, interactive, kid-friendly opportunities and activities. KidStuff is proud to present “Base Camp On the Go,” featuring Gaga Ball, Zorb Ball, Slackline, Corn Hole, giant Connect 4 and Lawn Jenga. There’s a fantastic selection of interactive games consisting of ring toss, pin the nose on the clown, fishing, bowling, and hula […]
Grove Arcade Summer Festival 2022
An Appalachian Evening with Aubrey Eisenman & The Clydes
An Appalachian Evening with Aubrey Eisenman & The Clydes
Aubrey Eisenman & The Clydes is a four piece, Asheville-based band. Aubrey, the frontwoman/upright bassist/songwriter placed second in the John Hartford National Songwriting Competition in 2017 and has had an active role in the women in music scene in the region, founding the annual “Women in Music Series”, which has sold out premiere theatre venues […]