Mountain Legacies: Exploring Appalachian Culture
Transylvania Heritage Museum 189 West Main Street, Brevard
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
The Museum of the Cherokee Indian Presents: Disruption Exhibit
Museum of the Cherokee People 598 Tsali Blvd., NC, CherokeeWeek of Events
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 […]
Away From Home
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 tribes—in distant, residential boarding schools. Many were forcibly taken from their families and communities and stripped of all signs of “Indianness,” even forbidden to speak […]
The Museum of the Cherokee Indian Presents: Disruption Exhibit
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 (EBCI) and Cherokee Nation, Disruption is an artists’ response to the removal of funerary and culturally sensitive objects from public view. Located on the Qualla […]
John C. Campbell Folk School Fall Festival
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 clogging, Morris, and other dance performances. Fall Festival tickets are now available for purchase online. Avoid the lines and buy your tickets in advance, with […]
Music at the Market Concert: Wood Family Tradition
Music at the Market Concert: Wood Family Tradition
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 Bluegrass Gospel genre. Wood Family Tradition has its roots from legendary banjoist and songwriter Al Wood. Mike and Bobby are his sons and Jason is […]
Puddingstone Concert
Puddingstone Concert
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 they play range from Americana such as fife and drum, Celtic, folk, New Age, Flamenco, Renaissance, and even some classical. What makes a Puddingstone arrangement […]
The Village Potters Clay Center: Annual Mulit-Kiln Opening (MKO) Extravaganza!
The Village Potters Clay Center: Annual Mulit-Kiln Opening (MKO) Extravaganza!
The Village Potters Clay Center (TVPCC) is very pleased to announce the return of one of their most popular events: the Annual Mulit-Kiln Opening (MKO) Extravaganza! The event will be held on October 1, 2022 from 11am-4pm and will coincide with a special exhibit in their fine craft gallery. The MKO will take place in […]
Creatures of the Night & Bonfire Delight
Creatures of the Night & Bonfire Delight
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 to meet the park’s nighttime residents. This year’s Creatures of the Night & Bonfire Delight will take place on Saturday, Oct. 1 from 6:30 p.m. […]
