Local NC Crafts at the Mountain High BBQ and Music Festival

August 9 - 10    Franklin hosts the annual Mountain High BBQ & Music Festival   at the Wayne Proffitt Agricultural Center, 1436 Georgia Road.  In addition to BBQ, Music and a Car Show the festival offers local NC crafts.

This two-day event features authentic, mouth-watering BBQ, and is an official North Carolina State BBQ Championship competition with $11,000 in cash and awards. Enjoy the live entertainment, classic cars, cornhole tournament  and tastin’ tent.

Hours are Friday 11 AM to 8 PM and Saturday 10 AM - 6 PM.

Find NC Crafts at This Weekend's Sprude Pine BBQ Championship and Bluegrass Festival

July 19 - 20    Spruce Pine BBQ Championship and Bluegrass Festival   The event features a sanctioned professional BBQ competition, a wings contest, public tastings, live bluegrass music, a cornhole tournament, championship clogging teams, craft vendors, BBQ equipment and supplies vendors, local food vendors, the Spruce Pine Skedaddle 5K and Fun Run, a kids play-area.

Arts and Crafts Auction at the Annual Bluff Mountain Festival

June 15   18th Annual Bluff Mountain Festival   The event includes Music all day featuring some of the region’s best Traditional Old-Time and Bluegrass Music, ballad singing and clogging followed by an evening Square Dance until dark.

Bring the family and the lawn chairs to enjoy a day full of music under the shade trees. Food will be available from vendors and the event includes a local arts and craft silent auction and arts and crafts market.

Learn more about Hot Springs NC HERE.

Saluda Arts Festival this Weekend

May 18 - The Saluda Art Festival - This year's festival includes nearly  90 artists and craftspeople, lively and award winning music, the children's art tent, several art and craft demonstrators and delicious food from our local restaurants.

A highlight of the Festival is the dedication to artist Johnny Waddill who graciously permitted the festival's organizers to use his painting to brand the Saluda Arts Festival. He died on March 1, 2013, and to honor Johnny Waddill's love for art, the Saluda Business Association is dedicating the 10^th Annual Saluda Arts Festival to his memory. There will be a special exhibit displaying his work during the festival at the Saluda Center, 64 Greenville St., Saluda, NC. The Saluda Center will also be open as a "comfort station" for festival goers. 

Entertainment Schedule

 (McCreery Park Pavilion) 

11am- Magician and TV personality, Jack Roper, will entertain the audience. 
11am - Spring Concert from the Dancer's Extension at Saluda School
Students from The Dancer's Extension will perform their Spring Concert.
12pm - Sol Driven Train - Children's Concert
1pm - Clay Ross Band, guitarist, vocalist, composer, and songwriter with Brazilian-style rhythms.
3pm - Sol Driven Train, versatile 5-piece band, based in Charleston, SC, features rotating lead vocalists, and multi-instrumental talent spread across horns, strings, and percussion.
Music for the Saluda Arts Festival is funded by the Polk County Community Foundation's Saluda Fund Grant. This grant is a major reason that the Saluda Arts Festival can bring high-caliber, talented musicians to the festival each year. 

West Jefferson Antique Fair Today

September 22   West Jefferson Antique Fair   Backstreet, Downtown West Jefferson will be filled with antiques, collectibles, beautiful furniture, advertising items, hand-made items, live entertainment and food vendors. Featured entertainers are the Southern Gospel Group The Bledsoes.