Yadkin Arts Council hosts Annual Harvest Fesival

Sept 17, Yadkinville NC  hosts the 35th Annual Yadkin Valley  Harvest Festival - Three streets are closed off to accommodate the thousands of people who attend the all-day family festival featuring live music - country, rock, gospel, bluegrass and pop - on two stages. The event includes agricultural displays, a farmers' market, artist demonstrations, blue ribbon competitions, a petting zoo and relay races for the kids, art, crafts and food vendors, carriage rides and more. Don't miss the popular Yadkin "Idol" competition!

The Yadkin  Arts Council sponsors the Festival and is central to activities. A month-long "Miniature Society of America Traveling Exhibition" opens at the Yadkin Cultural Arts Center in the Welborn Gallery.  A Yadkin Valley quilt exhibit is on display in the classrooms.

The YARD artists will be working in their plaza studios and Uptown Wine & Gallery will be open for wine tasting and art viewing. The Third Branch Cafe at the Center will serve food and drink, and R.H. Barringer will host a free beer tasting on the patio beginning at 1:00 pm and lasting until the beer runs out.

64th Annual Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands

July 21 - 24    64th Annual Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands   This bi-annual event is one of the largest and most notable craft fairs in the southeast. The Craft Fair is held each July and October at the Asheville Civic Auditorium, drawing 1000s of visitors from across the country since the Fair began in 1948

Enjoy exhibitors, demonstrations and entertainment. More than 200 craftspeople fill the two levels of the center with a diversity unlike any other craft show. Works range from centuries old traditions to the latest in contemporary techniques and materials, and include clay, fiber, glass, leather, metal, mixed media, natural materials, paper, wood and jewelry.
Local musicians share their love of traditional and bluegrass mountain music live on the arena stage. Get a complete schedule or performances here.

All exhibitors are members of the Southern Highlands Craft Guild 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.

8th Annual Monford Arts and Music Festival in Asheville

May 21  the 8th Annual Monford Arts and Music Festival  in Asheville 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.