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 […]
Our Mountain Music Traditions
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 HCAC who’s annual fundraiser featuring Balsam Range, Sister Sadie, and the Amanda Cook Band is on October 29, 2022 at the Maggie Valley Festival Grounds. […]
Spruce Pine Potters Market
Spruce Pine Potters Market is a unique event which showcases the region’s talent in the ceramics field. The Spruce Pine Potters Market is an annual show that is managed and organized by our artists who live and work in a two county area of western North Carolina. The rich history of craft in this region, […]
An Evening on the Block: Noir Collective AVL
An Evening on the Block: Noir Collective AVL
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 vegetarian dishes by Soce 4:20 Chamber of Commerce Ribbon cutting ceremony 4:30 Black Diamond Enterprise performs select pieces from Raising Black (performing at LEAF in Nov.) New Art by Jenny […]
First Friday – Gretchen Griffith
First Friday – Gretchen Griffith
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 story of a dedicated couple from the Foothills of Western North Carolina. Dr. Marjorie Strawn and her husband Bill impacted not only the county in […]
BBQ for Books with a Side of Bluegrass
BBQ for Books with a Side of Bluegrass
We are happy to announce that for 2022, BBQ for Books with a Side of Bluegrass will be held in its traditional format, live and in person! This popular event is an annual fundraiser to benefit early literacy hosted by Stokes Partnership for Children. This year the event will be held on Friday, October 7, […]
Music at the Market Concert: The Country Boys
Music at the Market Concert: The Country Boys
The Country Boys have played in most of the regional fiddler’s conventions, and they have won the coveted first place in the Galax Fiddlers Convention competition several times. The band also placed second runner-up in the old Union Grove Fiddlers Convention. The band specialized in fiddle tunes and receives a lot of their repertoire from […]
An Appalachian Folk Festival
An Appalachian Folk Festival
An Appalachian Folk Festival will be held on October 8th, 10 am - 3 pm., at the Allison Deaver House in Pisgah Forest. Enjoy a tour of the oldest frame house west of the Blue Ridge Mountains, as well as craft booths, artisans at work, mountain music, presenters, and children's activities. Featuring the Junior Appalachian […]
Pottery Pumpkin Patch – The Potters of Reems Creek Pottery Present Ceramic Pumpkins
Pottery Pumpkin Patch – The Potters of Reems Creek Pottery Present Ceramic Pumpkins
The potters at Reems Creek Pottery have been growing ceramic pumpkins this summer in anticipation of an abundance of finished pumpkins for their first pumpkin patch event. From mini – 1” high pumpkins to larger pumpkins that have grown to almost a foot tall, there will be pumpkins for all your fall themed decorating. Weather […]
Bluegrass at the Rock: Russell Moore & Illrd Tyme Out
Bluegrass at the Rock: Russell Moore & Illrd Tyme Out
The Old Rock School in Valdese, North Carolina has become well-known throughout the nation for its outstanding bluegrass concerts. The 500 seat auditorium is the perfect place to hear all of your favorites. All of us at the Old Rock School are very excited about the 2022-2023 season featuring bands that have never performed at […]
