Cashiers Mountain Music Festival

June 30 - July 1  Cashiers Mountain Music Festival 2012 The Cashiers Area Chamber of Commerce presents the Fourth Annual Cashiers Mountain Music Festival. Tickets are $25 per day or $40 for a two day pass, children 12 and under are free. Bring a chair or blanket. No coolers, pets or firearms. Fireworks are planned at dark on Sunday, July 1. Arts, crafts, food, drinks and a children's zone. Musicians are encouraged to bring instruments for jamming in the park. There will be a local church barbecue fundraiser on Saturday, June 30.

Win Tickets to the 39th Annual Folk School Fall Festival!

October 1-2 at John C Campbell Folk Schoo - 39th Annual Folk School Fall Festival  is one of the largest and most popular events of its type in the region, Fall Festival is a celebration of our rich Appalachian heritage.  Fine craft, craft-making demonstrations, music and dance performances, kids' activities, tasty food, and a visit to the school's Craft Shop and History Center make Fall Festival a great way to begin the autumn season. Admission for adults is: $5.00, Kids 12-17: $3.00, Under 12: Free.

Check out their latest blog post for a chance to win free tickets!

Over 200 craftspeople will sell fine craft and art work such as pottery, painting, metalwork, textiles, basketry, woodwork, and photography. Local community groups will provide a delicious variety of food, over 40 craft demonstrations will take place throughout the campus, and our History Center and Craft Shop will be open for visitors. A new addition to the festival this year is a Quilt Show held in the Quilting Studio, which will feature fine quilts by our instructor and students.

The entertainment schedule features some of the region's finest bluegrass, old-time, Celtic, Gospel, and folk music on two stages. Lively dance performances by the Campbell Folk School Cloggers and Morris, Garland, and Rapper Sword Dancers will also take place.

Bring the whole family to Fall Festival! Activities for kids include pony and wagon rides, petting alpacas, face painting, a drum circle, and adopting a pet from the Valley River Humane Society booth. For more information about Fall Festival, visit our website or call us at 828-837-2775. Please leave your pets at home.

View photos of Fall Festival in past years on Flickr.

Ot's Time to LAAFF again!

September 4    Lexington Avenue Arts & Fun Festival (LAAFF)   LAAFF is an experience for the whole family. Kids will love making art, dancing, getting their faces painted and activities throughout the day. Lexington Avenue in downtown Asheville is shut down for the day and filled with the largest independent street fair in the southeast.


Kids are also in on the act showing off their breakdancing, parading, and making music. The big “kids” will enjoy the ever popular bicycle jousting, local brews, an eclectic culinary and artistic experience, as well as the new big people game, Big Wheels for Big Kids.

Arts 2 People has been presenting LAAFF for 10 years with the support of the Asheville Community. Arts 2 People offers classes to the general public on a sliding scale, and provides arts-in-education opportunities to underprivileged populations. The organization is committed to strengthening the reputation Asheville has as a haven for the arts, continuing in importance with future growth.

Asheville's 8th Annual Monford Arts and Music Festival this weekend

May 21 -  8th Annual Monford Arts and Music Festival offers two stages filled with continuous live music and entertainment from featured local and national artists, all with a tie to Asheville's historic Monford District. Over 100 vendors with Art, food, crafts and native garden plants will be packed into two streets with something for everyone from a special children's area, a traveling Art Van, to strolling Shakespearian actors and even a Chinese Dancing Lion. Handicap accessible. Asheville NC.

Saluda's 8th Annual Arts and Music Festival this weekend

May 21  -  8th Annual Arts and Music Festival.   The town of Saluda celebrates the talent of more than 45 outstanding local artists and craftspeople from Western North Carolina and the Upstate of South Carolina. Exhibits include paintings and drawings in oil, water colors, acrylic; wood working; photography; pottery; jewelry; sculptures; stained glass and metal working. Watch live demonstrations of landscape painting, weaving, pottery and blacksmithing.

This year's festival will offer even more Saluda NC celebrates its 130th birthday!

Asheville's Hatchfest Scheduled for April 14 - 17 in 2011

For a third year Asheville's HATCH brings together luminaries in the arts and entertainment world to serve as mentors to groundbreaking new creative talent in an event called "Hatchfest". Asheville's studios, art galleries, theaters, concert halls and a variety of other locations become HATCH venues during the Hatchfest for experiential exhibits, panels, workshops, and networking events. With many of the panels, events and workshops open to the public the entire community has the opportunity to "hatch" their creativity in a positive and sustainable way.

Hatch is an non-profit organization operating year around to foster creative thinking and expression through networking, mentoring and exposure. The biannual International Hatchfests include performances, screenings, experiential events, panels, and real time (cross disciplinary) collaborations that provides exposure + expansion + evolution of  vision. Get an up-to-date schedule and more details at http://hatchfest.org.

Arts and Crafts Festival in Tryon NC

Oct 16 - 17   head for the  3rd Annual Tryon Arts & Crafts Fall Festival  now in it's 3rd year.  The Event Features over 40 of the finest artisans and craftspeople of the region and  will be held rain or shine on the grounds of Tryon Arts and Crafts.  In addition to shopping for handmade, one-of-a kind arts and crafts, visitors to the festival will enjoy food from local eateries, live entertainment and fun activities for the kids. See demonstrations in pottery making, lapidary, woodturning, weaving, as well as metalworking in the forge throughout both days.

John C Campbell 37th Annual Fall Festival this Weekend

Fall is in the air and the folks at John C Campbell Folk School have been busy preparing the campus for the 37th annual Fall Festival, coming up this weekend, October 2 & 3. The fields have been hayed, the walking trails mulched, and the pumpkins and gourds harvested from the garden for a  great weekend full of music, dancing, and crafts,

If you have never experienced the Fall Festival, now is the time! With 225 craft vendors, 20 food vendors, 40 demonstrators, and continuous live entertainment, there is something for everyone:

Shop for crafts from local and regional artists located along the mulched paths throughout campus. You'll find baskets, jewelry, weaving, knitwear, pottery, home decor, wood carvings, brooms, ironwork, beeswax candles, quilts, woodturned bowls, handmade soap, and much more.
Enjoy live entertainment at the Craft Shop and Festival Barn stages. Listen to bluegrass, old-time, gospel and ballad singing, and get ready to be wowed by the cloggers and the garland and morris dancers. Check out the entertainment schedule here.
Fill up on handcrafted food made by local nonprofit and community groups. You'll find an assortment of delicious treats from scones and fried apple pies to veggie wraps, meat pies, and the Folk School's BBQ.
Learn more about the traditional ways of making craft. Potters will be throwing mugs and bowls. Woodcarvers will be carving miniature animals and ornaments, while woodturners will be spewing wood shavings as they transform chunks of wood into beautiful bowls. Spinners and weavers will show you the traditional way of making yarn and textiles.

Art in Boone: An Appalachian Summer Festival

Appalachian State University hosts An Appalachian Summer Festival, an annual celebration of music, dance, theatre, visual arts, and film each year for the entire month of July. 2010 festival highlights include Patti LuPone, Janis Ian & Karla Bonoff, Ralph Stanley & Cherryholmes, Eastern Festival Orchestra, Amy Sedaris, Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, Golden Dragon Acrobats, John Pizzarelli & Swing 7, Summer Exhibition Celebration, and Blood, Sweat & Tears (Festival Celebration Concert). There are also workshops, film series, chamber music, and more! This is the the biggest arts celebration in the High Country! Purchase tickets online...

2nd Annual Honeybee Arts and Crafts Festival in Hisotric Downtown Marion

The Honeybee Arts and Crafts Festival on June 26 from 9Am - 4PM offers arts and crafts, locally produced honey, food vendors, live performances, street music and more. Admission is Free! The Festival is held on Main Street, in Historic downtown Marion North Carolina.

Dillsboro Arts and Music Festival this Weekend

June 12, Dillsboro North Carolina. Dillsboro Arts and Music Festival Celebrate traditional mountain crafts and enjoy lively regional musicians, dancers and storytellers. In addition to Dillsboro’s unique shops and studios, Front Street is lined with tents featuring all kinds of art and fine crafts including basketry, pottery, weaving, quilting, woodworking, jewelry, stained glass, painting, photography and more.