A FREE Daily Visitor Guide for the North Carolina Mountains and 50+ NC Mountain Cities: The Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands Begins Tomorrow in Asheville

Wednesday, July 15, 2015

The Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands Begins Tomorrow in Asheville

July 16 - 19, 2015 Semi-annual Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands Over 200 exhibitors, craft demonstrations, and live regional music and entertainment bring Asheville's Civic (US Cellular) Center alive with fine traditional and contemporary crafts.

Both levels of the Center offer artisans exhibiting and selling works of clay, fiber, glass, leather, metal, mixed media, natural materials, paper, wood and jewelry. The Fair showcases the work of members of the Southern Highland Craft Guild with members living in the mountain counties of nine states from Maryland to Alabama.

Now in its 68th year the juried Craft Fair offers the heritage of traditional mountain crafts along with the best in contemporary art craft and techniques. Beginning on Friday during each Craft Fair, mountain musicians perform live on the arena stage. Since the first fair in Gatlinburg in 1948, the music of the area has been woven into the fabric of the Craft Fair experience. From old time to bluegrass, this tradition is kept alive today. Visit www.craftguild.org for a complete list of performances.

The Southern Highland Craft Guild is a non-profit, educational organization established in 1930 to bring together the crafts and craftspeople of the Southern Highlands for the benefit of shared resources, education, marketing and conservation. The Craft Fairs are one of the ways in which the Guild fulfills its mission. To learn more about Guild programs, visit www.craftguild.org.

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