Darin & Brooke will welcome to the stage JD Crowe & The New South, Balsem Range, Harris Brothers, New Plowed Ground, Unspoken Tradition, and the Catawba Valley MusicRevival Youth Band. Darin, Brooke and the band will perform both days.

Friday April 9 will begin with open stage at 5:00pm and Saturday's Festival will begin with open stage at 11:00 am. There will be a Thrusday night Jam and Pinto Supper at 6:00pm on the 8th. Bring your lawn chair and be a part of this great, family friendly event. Show goes on Rain/Shine/Warm/Cold. Lots of shelter and good food.

Free Parking, Free Camping! Visit our website at www.catawbavalleymusicrevival.com or call 704-447-5090.

Advance tickets only $10 for Friday, $20 for Saturday.....$30 for the weekend! Children 12 and under free with paying adult! Gate prices, Friday $12, Saturday, $25.

MerleFest began in the spring of 1988 and has grown from two flat-bed trailers and 4,000 attendees to 13 stages with more than 81,500 festival participants.

Unbelievable lineup (like usual). You have to go to at least one MerleFest!

Call 1-800-849-2258 for more info

The festival is FREE to the public and features some of the region's best Traditional and Bluegrass Music 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!

Great lineup. No Parking Fee. Bring your own chairs. Chairs may be set out on Tuesday after the tent is set up.

"2009 Pickin' in the Park" bluegrass festival on Saturday June 27th 4-9 at the Jackson County Recreation Park located in Cullowhee.

Hot dogs, Hamburgers, BBQ, Indian Fry Bread, Sno Cones. Antique Car show. Featuring: Sweet 'Tater, Daybreak, Flint Hill, Shilo, Bobby and the Blue Ridge Traditions, Ranee Stepp and Appalachian Fire and open mike. $ 10. for adults.

Proceeds benefit the Jackson County Community Foundation. For information call Norman West at 1-866-293-5678.

Great facilities, good food and a great place to enjoy a sumer day with your family............lots for the kids to do and if they are under 12, they get in free.

2010 Dates
    July 3, 10, 17, 31
    Aug. 14, 21, 28

This mountain tradition features an always-enjoyable variety of Big Circle Mountain Dancers, Clog Dancers, Bluegrass and Old Time String Bands, Ballad Singers, and Storytellers. Shindig on the Green gets underway “along about sundown,” or for those using a watch- 7:00 p.m., and usually runs until 10:00 p.m.

The festival will include a bluegrass camp for kids, wagon rides, 4 days of bluegrass music, tent sales of bluegrass instruments, music and other bluegrass related materials, food and drink sale, special July 4th Celebration of old-time activities and the largest fireworks show in western North Carolina.

Music to remember on the cool banks of Cove Creek in Sugar Grove North Carolina, preserving our mountain musical heritage and celebrating the diversity it has inspired!

Includes bluegrass by Jonathan Maness, Bryan Osborne and the Ashe MT boys, RoundTop Bluegrass, and CreekSide Grass. Wonderful food and fun for all.

Starts at 3pm and goes until 10pm.

Tickets $15.00 info call 828-963-1882 or 828-406-5241

Since 1928, mountain fiddlers, banjo pickers, dulcimer sweepers, dancers, balladeers and others have come to enjoy themselves “along about sundown” the first weekend in August at the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival. In 2007, performers at the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival will take to the stage for the 80th time at Diana Wortham Theatre at Pack Place in downtown Asheville on Thursday through Saturday at 7 p.m.

The Ola Belle Campbell Reed Homecoming Festival is an opportunity to celebrate the life and music of this remarkable woman in the locale where her life's journey began, the small community of Lansing, along the New River in the mountains of North Carolina.

Another great Cherokee Festival lineup. Bring your own chairs - Chairs may be set out on a first come first served basis after the tent is set up on Tuesday.

The Fines Creek Bluegrass Jam is held on the grounds of the old Fines Creek School, 192 Fines Creek Road, Clyde, NC. The performance stage is outdoors, giving the audience a wonderful view of the mountains. Bring a lawn chair and position yourself for some wonderful mountain music. Tents are available for the audience in case of rain but the music goes on. Food and drink are available on the school grounds and in the old cafeteria. Limited chairs are available for rent. Atmosphere is informal and family-centered.

The Jam runs for two nights. On Friday, August 27, 2010 music begins at 5:00 pm and lasts until midnight. On Saturday, August 28, 2010 events begin at 4:00 pm until midnight. Ticket prices are $ 15 for adults for one night or $ 25 for both nights. Tickets for teens (ages 12-15) are $ 7 per night. Children under age 12 are free.

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This year the festival will be held at Jones Farm, northeast of Lenoir on N.C. Byway 268. The Jones Farm is the historic property of Tony Jones and his family, and home to Laura Foster's resting place. Laura Foster lived directly across the road from the current festival on German's Hill. Tom Dooley was accused of murdering a neighbor, Laura Foster, in 1867. The events surrounding this crime and Dooley's subsequent trial and execution live on in North Carolina's best-known murder ballad and in stories passed down through local families.

The 4th Annual Mountain Song Festival is expanding its offerings. We're starting off this years event September 11, 2009 with a Friday Night Mountain Song Pre-Party hosted by the Steep Canyon Rangers and featuring Town Mountain and Moon Shine Babies. Doors at 6:30, Showtime 7:00 pm.

Hosted by the Great Smokies Craft Brewers Association and benefiting Big Brothers & Big Sisters of Western North Carolina, the Brewgrass Festival has quickly become one of the most popular beer and bluegrass events in the Southeast.

Tickets for 2010 will go on sale the first Saturday in March.

Held at the High Country Fairgrounds in Boone, NC. from 10am to 11pm.

Line up includes Doyle Lawson & QuickSilver, The Grascals, and Darin Aldridge and Brooke Justice.

The festival, which is now in its 42nd year, brings out the region's finest musicians and dancers. Numerous stages, jam circles, and workshops will occur throughout the day. At night there will be a concert featuring more than 20 different performances by ballad singers, dancers, and string bands.

Outdoor portion of festival will take place from 11 am until 4 pm. Indoor Concert will begin promptly at 7 pm and conclude around 10 p.m.

Admission Info:
Day Festival- Free
Evening Concert in Moore Auditorium - $12 for adults, $6 for children 12 and under. Tickets will be available at Moore Auditorium beginning at 6:00 p.m. You can call and reserve tickets at the Liston B. Ramsey Center for Regional Studies at Mars Hill College at (828) 689-1571.

The festival name was borrowed from the song, Carolina in the Fall, written and performed by The Kruger Brothers. The lyrics to the song allude to the hospitality shown by the Shepherd Family as they welcomed The Kruger Brothers and their friends and family while they have performed and visited in the United States.

For More Information,
Contact AJ and Jill Kirby at 828-396-2052 or 828-781-5920.
Email: simscountrycloggers@yahoo.com.

The lineup of performers for 2010 Bluegrass First Class is unbeatable. Tickets go on sale now.

Friday: Rhonda Vincent & The Rage, Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out, The Grascals, Next Best Thing, Snyder Family Band and many more!

Saturday: Steep Canyon Rangers, Dailey & Vincent, Almost Original Tony Rice Unit with Josh Williams on lead vocals, Lonesome River Band, Darin & Brooke Aldridge, Dillon and many more!

Hotel reservations are availabe NOW by calling the Crowne Plaza Resort in Asheville, NC 800-733-3211