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12th Annual Mountain Sports Festival

  • May 25, 2012 - May 27, 2012
  • Location: Carrier Park
  • Address: Amboy Road and Michigan Avenue, Asheville, NC 28806

Experience Springtime in Asheville, NC at the 2012 Mountain Sports Festival. Bring your family and friends and join us at Carrier Park for the outdoor music & sports event of the year!

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15th Annual Black Mountain Arts & Crafts Show

  • June 2, 2012 - June 3, 2012
  • Location: The Olde Depot
  • Address: 207 Sutton Ave., Black Mountain, NC 28711

The Arts and Crafts Show is FREE TO PUBLIC on Sutton Ave. next to The Old Depot. The Show has over 65 Juried Crafters/Artists and its purpose is to Promote the highest quality crafts. It is held in the middle of Historic Black Mountain and food and cold drinks at West end.

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31st Annual Goombay! Festival

  • August 24, 2012 - August 26, 2012
  • Location: Downtown Asheville
  • Address: Downtown Asheville, Asheville, NC 28801
  • Venue:  Downtown Asheville

GoomBay is a three day African-Caribbean festival, located in downtown Asheville, that lives up to its West African name, meaning rhythm or drum, with rhythmic sounds and colorful sights. The Goombay dancers wear colorful costumes and high headdresses topped with feathers. Often times, grotesque masks help to enhance the free and exotic movements. Located on Eagle Street in downtown Asheville.

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35th Annual Sourwood Festival

  • August 11, 2012 - August 12, 2012
  • Location: Black Mountain
  • Address: Black Mountain-Swannanoa Chamber of Commerce, Black Mountain, NC 28711
  • Venue:  Black Mountain

Black Mountain's annual Sourwood Festival is always a hit with the locals and visitors alike! There's always plenty to see and do, great music and lots of fun, and of course lots of great mountain cookin'. Held each year in August, it's a time for good food, good fun and good friends. Come on over and join us, we'll be expecting you!

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57th Annual Grandfather Mountain Highland Games

  • July 12, 2012 - July 15, 2012
  • Location: Grandfather Mountain
  • Address: US 221 & Blue Ridge Parkway at Milepost 305, Linville, NC 28646
  • Venue:  Grandfather Mountain
  • Recurrence: Recurring daily

Over one hundred Scottish clans and societies sponsor this celebration of Scottish dance, music, and athletics. Admission charged.

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65th Annual Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands

  • July 19, 2012 - July 22, 2012
  • Location: US Cellular Center
  • Address: 87 Haywood Street, Asheville, NC 28801
  • Venue:  US Cellular Center
  • Recurrence: Recurring daily

Over 200 exhibitors, craft demonstrations, and live regional music and entertainment! For four days each July and October, the US Cellular Center in Asheville, NC comes alive with fine traditional and contemporary crafts. Over 200 craftspeople fill the two levels of the center selling their works of clay, fiber, glass, leather, metal, mixed media, natural materials, paper, wood and jewelry.   The Fairs, a local tradition since 1948, showcase the work of members of the Southern ...

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65th Annual Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands

  • October 18, 2012 - October 21, 2012
  • Location: US Cellular Center
  • Address: 87 Haywood Street, Asheville, NC 28801
  • Venue:  US Cellular Center
  • Recurrence: Recurring daily

Over 200 exhibitors, craft demonstrations, and live regional music and entertainment! For four days each July and October, the US Cellular Center in Asheville, NC comes alive with fine traditional and contemporary crafts. Over 200 craftspeople fill the two levels of the center selling their works of clay, fiber, glass, leather, metal, mixed media, natural materials, paper, wood and jewelry.   The Fairs, a local tradition since 1948, showcase the work of members of the Southern...

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85th Annual Mountain Dance & Folk Festival

  • August 2, 2012 - August 4, 2012
  • Location: Diana Wortham Theatre at Pack Place
  • Address: 2 South Pack Square, Asheville, NC 28801
  • Venue:  Diana Wortham Theatre at Pack Place
  • Recurrence: Recurring daily

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 2012, performers at the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival will take to the stage for the 85th time at Diana Wortham Theatre in August.

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9th Annual White Squirrel Festival

  • May 26, 2012 - May 27, 2012
  • Location: Downtown Brevard
  • Address: Downtown Brevard, Brevard, NC

Go Nuts at the 9th Annual White Squirrel Festival! Voted "Best Spring Music Festival in Western North Carolina" by Asheville Citizen Times News Poll 2008.  Thousands of fan go nuts in Downtown Brevard on Memorial Day weekend, in Brevard, North Carolina! You don't want to miss our 14 free, live concerts. Headliners this year: Firecracker Jazz Band and Jeff Sipe Group. We will kick off the 9th Annual White Squirrel Festival with our 5th Annual Memorial Day Parade, which is organize...

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Asheville Beer Week

  • May 24, 2012 - June 3, 2012
  • Location: Various Breweries Around Asheville
  • Recurrence: Recurring daily

The first ever Asheville Beer Week will take place May 24 through June 3, 2012. The ten days celebrating beer and Beer City, USA, will culminate at Asheville's third Beer City Festival on June 2. The mission is to celebrate that nectar known as beer-to taste many different styles of beer and variations on those styles; to pair beer with a smorgasbord of delicious foods; to learn about and explore beer in all its delectable complexity; and, most of all, to have fun drinking beer in the brew...

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Asheville Chocolate and Arts Festival

  • December 8, 2012
  • Location: US Cellular Center
  • Address: 87 Haywood Street, Asheville, NC 28801
  • Venue:  US Cellular Center

This multicultural arts event will feature performers, musicians and dancers from Asheville and beyond, local artisans, baskets and basket weaving demonstrations by Gullah artisans, cultural arts and education by members of the Cherokee Nation, Bellydance, African dance,Argentine Tango, Hip Hop, and local chocolate tasting by Asheville's finest chocolatiers and dessert-makers. Performers will also be teaching classes in: Drumming, Bellydance, Tango, West African Dance, and digeridoo throug...

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Asheville Cinema Festival

  • November 1, 2012 - November 4, 2012
  • Location: Various Locations Throughout Asheville

The Asheville Cinema Festival (replacing, but not related to the former Asheville Film Festival) presents 40 films with a mix of feature-length movies and shorts. Downtown Asheville viewing venues will be Asheville Community Theatre, the Masonic Temple theater and Lexington Avenue Brewery's back performance room. Opening and closing night events are at the Biltmore Grande cinema at Biltmore Park in south Asheville.

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Asheville Oktoberfest

  • October 13, 2012
  • Location: Wall Street
  • Address: Downtown Asheville, Asheville, NC 28801
  • Venue:  Downtown Asheville

On Saturday, October 13 downtown Asheville's Wall Street will transform into "Little Germany" for the Asheville Downtown Association's 4th Annual Oktoberfest.  Internationally-renowned "oompah" band, The Stratton Mountain Boys, returns to the stage with happy yodeling songs, shoe-slapping dances and lively spirited Polka music sure to incite dancing in the street and rousing cheers of "ein Prosit!"  The event will feature beer tastings from local breweries...

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Asheville Wine & Food Festival

  • August 25, 2012
  • Location: US Cellular Center
  • Address: 87 Haywood Street, Asheville, NC 28801
  • Venue:  US Cellular Center

The Grand Tasting! Attendees sip, savor, and swirl hundreds of wines while sampling local delicacies in the newly-renovated US Cellular Center. Regional culinary professionals also host cooking demonstrations, classes, and Q&A sessions throughout the day.

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Beer City Festival

  • June 2, 2012
  • Location: Roger McGuire Park
  • Address: Downtown Asheville, Asheville, NC 28801
  • Venue:  Downtown Asheville

Showcasing the best beers brewed in the Carolinas. A product tasting in beautiful Asheville, NC.  The Brewgrass Guy's have teamed up with the Asheville Brewer's Alliance to add a spring Beer Festival entertained by Rock n' Roll and showcasing the Carolina's finest craft beers. Tickets can be bought on our site or at local breweries in the Asheville Area.  

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Bele Chere Festival

  • July 27, 2012 - July 29, 2012
  • Location: Downtown Asheville
  • Address: Downtown Asheville, Asheville, NC 28801
  • Venue:  Downtown Asheville

Bele Chere (pronounced Bell Cher), the largest free outdoor street festival in the Southeast. The three-day festival on the streets of Downtown Asheville features live, original music all day and night for 200,000 festival-goers. Bele Chere means "beautiful living" and comes from an ancient Scottish dialect. Bele Chere offers the unique opportunity to see, taste and hear some of the region's finest art, cuisine and music.

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Garden Jubilee

  • May 28, 2012
  • Location: Downtown Hendersonville from 6th Ave-Caswell St.
  • Recurrence: Recurring every week day

Garden Jubilee covers 8 blocks of Main Street with over 200 vendors selling handmade arts and crafts, plants and items to enhance your outdoor living area. Local and regional nurseries will be selling 1000's of annuals, perennials, vegetables, herbs and hard to find plants on every block of the festival. A great way to enhance the beauty of a garden is to add ornamentation. There will also be delicious food to satisfy any appetite in the food court, located between Barnwell & Caswell Street...

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Green Swan Fest

  • June 2, 2012
  • Location: Warren Wilson College
  • Address: 701 Warren Wilson Road, Swannanoa, NC 28778

Enjoy a full day of music with local and national performers on the main stage. Bring the family for children's events and environmental activities. Raffles for great door prizes, local food trucks and micro-brews too. Located at beautiful Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa NC. This event celebrates and encourages the work of Asheville GreenWorks, a local environmental non-profit, working diligently for 38 years to "clean & green" Buncombe County. Throughout the year, Asheville Gr...

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LEAF - Lake Eden Arts Festival

  • October 18, 2012 - October 21, 2012
  • Location: Camp Rockmont
  • Venue:  Black Mountain
  • Recurrence: Recurring daily

LEAF is one of the treasured fall traditions for families and friends across the southeast and beyond the weekend of October 18-21 at Camp Rockmont in Black Mountain. A weekend at LEAF is the equivalent of going on a year-long multi-cultural music, arts, dance, and outdoor adventures journey, which "recharges our batteries." A few aspects that make LEAF "one of the best fests in the country" [re: Johnny Irion] is the FAMILY friendly atmosphere, the diverse sampling of arts an...

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Lexington Avenue Arts and Fun Festival (LAAFF)

  • September 1, 2012 - September 2, 2012
  • Location: Downtown Asheville
  • Address: Downtown Asheville, Asheville, NC 28801
  • Venue:  Downtown Asheville

Once a year we shut down Lexington Ave in downtown Asheville for this all day, all local, all original street fair that has grown to be the largest independent street fest in the southeast! This jam-packed day is filled with wild street performers, unique artwork, a wide variety of music, and just about everyone who wants to have some fun and celebrate in the streets of Asheville. Arts2People has been presenting LAAFF for 10 years with the support of the Asheville Community.

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River Arts District Studio Stroll

  • June 9, 2012 - June 10, 2012
  • Location: River Arts District
  • Address: Clingman Ave. at Lyman St., Asheville, NC 28801
  • Venue:  River Arts District

At the Studio Stroll in Asheville's River Arts District, all of the gifts are locally handmade and one-of-a-kind. Visit the artists' studios and find special gifts for family, friends, and yourself. The first, largest, and most walkable tour of working artists' studios in the region, the River Arts District Studio Stroll takes place in 19 historic buildings along the French Broad River. There will be artists' demonstrations and hands-on activities throughout the weekend. Getting to and aroun...

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Taylor RanchFest & Pink Cornmaze 2012

  • October 5, 2012 - October 28, 2012
  • Location: Taylor Ranch
  • Address: 1005 Cane Creek Road, Fletcher, NC 28732
  • Venue:  Taylor Ranch
  • Recurrence: Recurring weekly on Sunday, Friday, Saturday

The gates of the 500-acre Taylor ranch open to the public for the first time to partner with Mission Hospital and raise funds for local cancer care; a portion of the proceeds benefits Mission Hospital's Breast Care Program. Every weekend in October 2012 - family, fundraising and fall themed fun, come together at the Taylor Ranch for North Carolina's first ever 6-acre Pink Cornmaze (‘til dusk) and Haunted Mountain Trail (opens at dusk). The festival atmosphere also includes an old fashioned...

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The Brewgrass Festival

  • September 15, 2012
  • Location: Martin Luther King Jr. Park
  • Address: Downtown Asheville, Asheville, NC 28801
  • Venue:  Downtown Asheville

Each year in the beautiful mountains of Western North Carolina, we gather over 40 American breweries to showcase more than 120 different beers. We add a great lineup of national and regional bluegrass musicians that, in the past, has included such notables as Cadillac Sky, Carolina Chocolate Drops, The Infamous String Dusters, Dry Branch Fire Squad, J.D. Crowe, The Osborne Brothers, Norman Blake, Tony Trischka, Jim Lauderdale, Valerie Smith, Tony Furtado, Yonder Mountain String Band, and Sons Of...

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AVL Father's FEst

  • June 16, 2012
  • Location: Highland Brewing Company
  • Address: 12 Old Charlotte Highway, Suite H, Asheville, NC 28803
  • Venue:  Highland Brewing Company

We are very proud to present the first Annual Asheville Father's Day Festival! You and your family are invited to come celebrate all that is being a Father. We have lots of special activities, competitions, and live musical performances lined up for this very special day. On Saturday, June 16th, 2012 at 12:00 PM the Highland Brewery will transform into a Father's paradise - with fun for the whole family! Tickets are just $20 per family, and you can purchase them now online. Tickets will also be...

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Weaverville Roots Festival

  • May 26, 2012
  • Address: Downtown Weaverville, 2 S. Main St., NC 28787

The Weaverville Roots Festival is a three-day celebration of the culture and heritage of Weaverville, NC. On Saturday, May 26, Heritage Day will fill the downtown and park areas with music, demonstrations, food and other entertainment. On Sunday May 27th we will celebrate our Tree City USA status with Arbor Day activities and ceremonies in the nature park, plus entertain our visitors with gospel music and other sacred music. On Memorial Day, May 28th, our roots will be celebrated by honoring tho...

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