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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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23rd Annual Asheville Herb Festival

The WNC Chapter of the NC Herb Association represents the incredibly wide variety of herbalists and herb businesses in North Carolina: herb growers and vendors, natural gardening and landscaping specialists, and makers of herbal ointments, balms, soaps, teas, medicines, and other products. We hope you'll join us and more than 25,000 other herb lovers when we celebrate our 23rd annual Asheville Herb Festival.

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24th Annual Comedy Classic Weekend

  • March 9, 2012 - March 11, 2012
  • Location: Grove Park Inn Resort & Spa
  • Address: 290 Macon Avenue, Asheville, NC 28804
  • Venue:  Grove Park Inn Resort & Spa
  • Recurrence: Recurring daily

Join us for two days and nights of laughter as we celebrate our 24th Annual Comedy Classic Weekend, hosted by actor, comedian, writer and all-around funnyman Jeff Jena!  Friday night kicks off with more comedians than you can shake a stick at - including Andrew Kennedy, Rachel Feinstein, Mike Armstrong, Mike Green and Ralph Harris.  Saturday night, the laughs keep on coming with one of the country's funniest and best known performers, Kathleen Madigan, joined by funnymen Ryan Hami...

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25th Anniversary Heritage Classic DanceSport Championships

  • February 28, 2012 - March 3, 2012
  • Location: Grove Park Inn Resort & Spa
  • Address: 290 Macon Avenue, Asheville, NC 28804
  • Venue:  Grove Park Inn Resort & Spa

Say you like to dance yet you've always been curious about how good you are? Perhaps it's time to find out. Our 25th Anniversary DanceSport Championship weekend is a wonderful way to compete and have a great time.

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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: Asheville Civic Center
  • Address: 87 Haywood Street, Asheville, NC 28801
  • Venue:  Asheville Civic Center

Over 200 exhibitors, craft demonstrations, and live regional music and entertainment! For four days each July and October, the Civic 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 Highla...

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65th Annual Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands

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

Over 200 exhibitors, craft demonstrations, and live regional music and entertainment! For four days each July and October, the Civic 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 Highl...

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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 Montford Music and Arts Festival

  • May 19, 2012
  • Location: Montford Historic District
  • Address: Montford Historic District, Asheville, NC 28801
  • Venue:  Montford Historic District

The largest one day free music and arts festival in WNC held on two streets- Montford and Soco; with over 100 vendors of art, crafts, plants and food; two stages with non stop entertainment from 20 groups and a children's area.  Located down from Asheville Visitors Center in Historic Montford with on street parking, bike corral. Held rain or shine.

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ActionFest 2012

  • April 12, 2012 - April 15, 2012
  • Location: Various Location in Asheville

Fact: Action movies, backed by a dedicated, worldwide fan base easily take top honors as the number one film genre. Sharing the need for speed, rabid fans crave movies where cars crash, buildings explode and faces get kicked six ways to Sunday. More than a joyride gone amuck, action films account for six of the top ten highest grossing films of all ti...me. However, in the world of film festivals, action films are often relegated to midnight screenings and are constantly snubbed by critics. U...

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Arts & Crafts Antique Show and Conference

  • February 17, 2012 - February 19, 2012
  • Location: Grove Park Inn Resort & Spa
  • Address: 290 Macon Avenue, Asheville, NC 28804
  • Venue:  Grove Park Inn Resort & Spa

Recognized for its dedication to the education of the collector, the weekend blends informative talks with an immense show of furniture and collectibles. Providing inspiration is The Grove Park Inn's own rich Arts & Crafts tradition, which lives on throughout the resort, from our Old Hickory rockers to the Roycroft chandeliers.

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Asheville Arts & Crafts Heritage Week

  • February 12, 2012 - February 18, 2012
  • Location: Various establishments in Asheville

The Arts & Crafts movement is alive, well and flourishing in Asheville today, evidenced by number of artisan galleries, studios and workshops in the area, as well as by the popularity of new homes and businesses still being built in the Arts & Crafts style. The iconic Grove Park Inn, built and furnished in 1913 in the Arts & Crafts style, has for the past quarter of a century hosted the National Arts & Crafts Conference and Antiques Show, and will again welcome more than&nb...

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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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LEAF - Lake Eden Arts Festival

  • May 10, 2012 - May 13, 2012
  • Location: Camp Rockmont
  • Venue:  Black Mountain
  • Recurrence: Recurring daily

LEAF is one of the treasured traditions for families and friends across the southeast and beyond the weekend of May 10-13 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 and music, ...

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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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17th Annual Bluegrass First Class

The 17th Annual Bluegrass First Class Festival has some of the best bluegrass acts in the country rocking out all over the hotel, all weekend. Lineup - Friday:  Dailey & Vincent (2 BIG days), Rhonda Vincent & The Rage, Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out, & The James King Band. Saturday: Dailey & Vincent (again!), The Seldom Scene, Lonesome River Band, & Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice featuring the phenomenal Wyatt Rice on guitar, and more all weekend long!

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Asheville Oktoberfest

  • October 13, 2012
  • Location: TBA

On Saturday, October 13 downtown Asheville will transform into “Little Germany” for the Asheville Downtown Association’s 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. Many brewers are...

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Carolina Mountain Ribfest

  • July 13, 2012 - July 15, 2012
  • Location: WNC Agricultural Center
  • Address: 1301 Fanning Bridge Road, Fletcher, NC 28732
  • Venue:  WNC Agricultural Center

The Carolina Mountain Ribest 2012 will be celebrating our sixth year at the Fairgrounds July 13,14,15 2012. The festival features World Class professional barbecue competition Chefs from all over the country. They will be serving mouth watering, award winning BBQ Ribs, Chicken, Brisket, and Pulled Pork with all the traditional side dishes. A variety of scrumptious desserts and specialty comfort foods will also be available. The festival is packed with Fun For The Whole Family including a full sc...

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