The Blue Ridge Music Center, in partnership with the North Carolina Arts Foundation, Rivermont Records and music historians Tony Russell and Ted Olson, is honored to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the August 1925 OKeh Record Company recording sessions held on the rooftop of the George Vanderbilt Hotel in downtown Asheville by announcing the release of 鈥淢usic from the Land of the Sky.鈥
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Carter County's oldest festival, the Roan Mountain Rhododendron Festival, will take place on June 21 and 22 this year in Roan Mountain State Park.
The region鈥檚 rising bluegrass musicians showed off their skills Saturday at the 鈥楶ickin鈥 in the School-Yard鈥 fundraiser held at University School.
The seventh annual Upper East Tennessee Fiddlers Convention returns to Flag Pond in April.聽
The Blue Ridge Music Center will present two concerts in its fall series celebrating folk and old-time music icons Willard Gayheart and Alice Gerrard in October in the indoor theater.
In May 1925 the Town of Mountain City hosted the first Fiddler鈥檚 Convention, a musical gathering that was the first fiddle contest of its kind at that time.
Local musician Ryder Casey will hold a release party for his 鈥淭all Tales鈥 EP at the Farmhouse Gardens and Gallery in Unicoi on Saturday, Aug. 24.
The Burnett Sisters Band will perform for the Nolichucky Opry on Friday, July 19, for a free, family-friendly outdoor concert at the Gathering Place.聽
鈥淎 History of Appalachian Music鈥 will be presented by William Ritter, an Appalachian musician and "songkeeper," on Tuesday, July 9, at the Ebbs Chapel Performing Arts Center in Mars Hill, North Carolina.