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Award Winning Christian Worship Leader, Singer, Songwriter, Travis Cottrell, Coming Home for Benefit Concert on September 27

September 5, 2024 For three decades, Boone native Travis Cottrell has risen in the ranks in the world of contemporary Christian music, and is coming home again for a good cause. On Friday, September 27, Cottrell will appear in concert at Alliance Bible Fellowship in Boone as a fundraiser for The Hope Center of Boone. Excitement is building around Cottrell’s return to his hometown and those closest to the event realize what a unique opportunity it is to have him back on a local stage. In a recent interview with Cottrell, High Country Press was reminded that, regardless of the time and distance between Boone and his current residence in the Nashville area, that he will always have a special place in his heart for the High Country. By Sherrie Norris

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Lees-McRae College to Host Homecoming 2024 Celebrations for Campus and Local Community Beginning October 4th

September 4, 2024 Lees-McRae College will host the annual Homecoming celebrations this year Friday, Oct. 4 through Sunday, Oct. 6. The weekend is scheduled full of athletics events, family fun, and Bobcat cheer for all ages, and this year, Lees-McRae extends an invitation to the community to join in on the celebration. Local organizations and businesses will have booths to promote their products and services, and all-ages events will be held throughout the day on Saturday. Community events throughout the weekend are as follows:

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High Country Caregivers to hold “A Night at Chetola” on Thursday, September 12

September 3, 2024 Sponsored by one of the North Carolina Mountains’ most worthwhile and needed charitable organizations—High Country Caregivers (HCC)–the 5th Annual “A Night at Chetola” will be held on Thursday, September 12, 2024. This much-anticipated event will begin at 5:30 p.m. under the tent by the lake at the Chetola Resort, located at 185 Chetola Lake Drive in Blowing Rock. This exclusive fundraising event, set against the majestic and picturesque backdrop of Chetola Resort’s lakeside, promises to be an extraordinary experience with a delectable meal, an open bar, a captivating silent auction, and live music with dancing entertainment.

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Hospitality House Celebrates 40 Years by Buying Boone Lunch at F.A.R.M. Café and Throwing a Birthday Party at The Appalachian Theatre

September 2, 2024 Hospitality House of Northwest N.C. officially turns forty years-old on September 7th and to celebrate they are hosting two fun and free events in the coming days. On Thursday September 5th they are buying Boone lunch at F.A.R.M. Café (located at 617 W. King St.) from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. “Buy Boone Lunch” is a F.A.R.M. Café sponsorship program where a business covers the average daily cost of food and operations. Every additional dollar donated for the meal is utilized to fight food insecurity in the High Country.

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Avery County Agriculture & Horticulture Fair will Hold a Draft Pull on Saturday, August 31

August 30, 2024 On Saturday, August 31, the Avery County Agriculture & Horticulture (A&H) Fair will hold its Sixth Annual Draft Pull on the Avery Extension Service Grounds, located at Heritage Park, 661 Vale Road in Newland. The draft pull is a family-friendly event involving large draft horses and ponies pulling weighted sleds in competition. These horses are cared for immaculately and loved by their owners. Avery Livestock agent and Draft Pull Coordinator Michelle South said: “Both owners and horses enjoy competing in draft pull events.”. By Tim Gardner

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23rd Annual Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion Music Festival Slated for Sept. 13-15

August 30, 2024 Plan your strategy for the 23rd annual Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion music festival! The event’s free mobile app has dropped, along with the full schedule, and single day passes are on sale now! The three-day event is slated for Sept. 13-15 along State Street, where Tennessee and Virginia meet and the 1927 Bristol Sessions created the “big bang of country music.” Produced by the nonprofit Birthplace of Country Music and presented by Ballad Health, Bristol Rhythm is listed among USA Today’s top 10 music festivals in the country.

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Milepost Music Brings Live Music to The Bluffs Restaurant at Doughton Park in September

August 29, 2024 Milepost Music is bringing live mountain music to The Bluffs Restaurant at Doughton Park, located at milepost 241 on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Laurel Springs, N.C. Free outdoor concerts will take place from 2 to 4 p.m., on the second and fourth Sundays in September. These will be the final concerts of this year’s Milepost Music season to take place at Doughton Park.

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Groovy Nights 2024 Videos! – Show Stopping Performances to Benefit the Blowing Rock Community Foundation: See Videos Here!

August 26, 2024 The Blowing Rock Community Foundation presented its long running benefit “Groovy Nights” over three nights in August at the Blowing Rock Country Club. Thirteen acts took to the stage to lip sync their way through hilarious skits that entertained sold-out audiences. Groovy Nights started with an idea from Karen Curlin in 2008. This was the 13th year of performances.

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Mountain Home Music Celebrates 30 Years with a Big Celebration September 7 at the Valle Crucis Apple Barn Beginning at 4:30

August 26, 2024 Joe Shannon’s Mountain Home Music, a cornerstone of Appalachian performing arts since 1994, is thrilled to announce its 30th anniversary celebration! Join us on Saturday, September 7, from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the picturesque Valle Crucis Apple Barn for an unforgettable evening of music, dance, and community spirit, sponsored by the Appalachian State University Center for Appalachian Studies. 

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App State’s “The Schaefer Center Presents” Series Announces the Fall 2024 Season

August 21, 2024 The Schaefer Center Presents (SCP) performing arts series, presented by Appalachian State University’s Office of Arts Engagement and Cultural Resources, announces its Fall 2024 season, which runs October 4 – December 12. The series offers a diverse array of music, theatre and dance designed to enrich the cultural landscape of the campus, community and region. Featured this fall are a modern dance ensemble comprised of some of the company’s finest talent, a masterful Americana folk duo, a genre-busting musical fusion group, and a legendary New Orleans band celebrating the holidays. All events will be held at the Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts at 7:30pm. Tickets on sale Wednesday, August 28 at 10am.

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Ensemble Stage Makes It Snow in Banner Elk During Their Current Performance thru Aug. 25th

August 21, 2024 Who says it can’t snow in Banner Elk during August? It happens for a solid hour and a half during every performance of our current production, “Distant Music.” There’s only four more performances until it all melts away, so get your tickets now. This play is so much more than just a “witty drama.”. It’s profound, insightful, endearing, and at times very funny. So much so, that a description of the play could very easily start like a joke, “A law professor, a religious woman, and an Irish immigrant walk into a bar…” Each of the characters are at a crossroad in their respective lives and have their own demons that have long needed exorcising.

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Toe River Arts’s Music In the Mountains Folk Festival in Burnsville is September 1

August 16, 2024 Toe River Arts is excited to announce that this year’s Music In the Mountains Folk Festival will be on Saturday, September 14, 2024 at Homeplace Beer Company & Hog Hollow Pizza in Burnsville, North Carolina. This year’s festival honoree is local legend, Terry McKinney. We’re thrilled to have the opportunity to celebrate his many contributions to our local music tradition. Terry McKinney was born in Spruce Pine and grew up in Mitchell and McDowell counties surrounded by traditional mountain music, and he has been singing and playing music most of his life.

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Boone Area Chamber of Commerce 75th “Spirit of Boone” Annual Membership Gathering Sept. 12

August 15, 2024 The Boone Area Chamber of Commerce is excited to invite you to our highly anticipated “Spirit of Boone” Annual Meeting, a celebration of our community’s vibrant spirit and shared accomplishments over the past year. This event is more than just a gathering—it’s an opportunity to connect, collaborate, and contribute to the growth and prosperity of our beloved Boone community.

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Don your Dirndl and Lace up Your Lederhosen for Sugar Mountain Resort’s 34th Annual Oktoberfest, October 12 & 13

August 14, 2024 Lace up your lederhosen and don your dirndl for Sugar Mountain Resort’s 34th annual Oktoberfest celebration, Saturday & Sunday, October 12 & 13. Take in Sugar’s cool and comfortable mountain temperatures, its beautiful fall foliage, and a weekend full of festival activities from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. Be sure to bring the kids because Sugar’s Oktoberfest is yodels-n-yodels of fun for the whole family. Admission, parking, and shuttle service are free of charge.

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St. Mary of the Hills Brings Trio to Next Summer Concert on Sunday, August 11 at 3 pm

Join the Friends of Music at St. Mary of the Hills for a lovely afternoon tour of musical poetry this Sunday, August 11, at 3 pm. Alicia Chapman, oboe, Eric Koontz, viola, and pianist Mi-Jin Kim will present a program they’re calling Loeffler, Bax, Manet, a Spirit and the Moon, the next performance in the St. Mary’s Summer Concert Series. Music for this concert includes Deux Rhapsodies (1905) by Loeffler, Silvestrini’s Le Ballet Espagñol, Gluck’s Dance of the Blessed Spiritsfrom Orfeo ed Eurydice, and Claire de Luneby Debussy

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Milepost Music brings Live Music to The Bluffs Restaurant at Doughton Park on August 11 & 25

August 5, 2024 Milepost Music is bringing live mountain music to The Bluffs Restaurant at Doughton Park, located at milepost 241 on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Laurel Springs, N.C. Free outdoor concerts will take place from 2 to 4 p.m., on the second and fourth Sundays in August. The Almost Irish Band will perform Sunday, Aug. 11. Hailing from Mount Airy, N.C., the group plays Irish and other Celtic music, as well as oldies, The Beatles, and lots of other gems from past decades.

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America’s Favorite Cowboys “Riders In The Sky” are Coming to Tweetsie Railroad August 10 & 11

July 31, 2024 Once again, Tweetsie Railroad is hosting Grammy Award-winning Riders In The Sky (a.k.a “America’s Favorite Cowboys”) for a weekend of Western music and comedy performances, August 10 and 11. “This is one music performance you don’t want to miss,” said Cathy Robbins of Tweetsie Railroad. “Riders In The Sky are very talented musicians. They bring lots of energy, laughs, and their spirit is infectious.”

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Dinner In The Gap Auction Raises  $13,700 In Support of F.A.R.M Café

July 26, 2024 Three years and counting and Dinner in the Gap has done it again —  successfully bridging the gap between local agriculture, growers, consumers, some of the best chefs in the state and the High Country community, in general.  During the 2024 annual farm-to-table gala, which from the onset has been a statewide collaborative with special emphasis on the High Country, a live auction raised the largest amount yet for F.A.R.M. Café in Boone. Organized by Daniel Brown and hosted by BFR Meats and the Brown Family on part of their farm in Deep Gap, the July 21 event welcomed 324 attendees, representing a wide spectrum of farmers, friends, food industry leaders and supporters from the mountains to the coast. By Sherrie Norris

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Doc & Rosa Lee Watson Music Fest Brings Out The Best – Three Area Pickers Among Winners in the Inaugural Terry Baucom Banjo Competition

July 26, 2024 The 22nd Doc & Rosa Lee Watson MusicFest, July 19-20, saw hundreds of musicians, fans, vendors and volunteers crowding into the picturesque community of  Sugar Grove for a two-day event to remember. While most of the entertainment was on the Explore Boone-sponsored center stage, the inaugural Terry Baucom Banjo Championship, held in the adjacent Old Cove Creek School on Saturday morning, attracted much attention and thrust three local banjo players into the coveted winner’s circle. Plus, an impromptu workshop by the Kruger Brothers in the school’s Red Raider Room, also on Saturday, drew a standing-room only crowd. Their scheduled concert later in the afternoon sealed the deal for many fans, said Danny Platt, MusicFest chair and promoter. By Sherrie Norris

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Dance and Country Legends Wrap Up An Appalachian Summer Festival this Week

July 24, 2024 Paul Taylor Dance Company has been transforming modern dance since 1954. Founder Paul Taylor, who created 147 dances over the course of 64 years, is noted for the inventive, sometimes sardonic and frequently humorous dances he choreographed for his company. Brad Paisley is one of country music’s most talented and decorated singer-songwriters (as well as a highly acclaimed guitarist), boasting Grammy Awards, American Music Awards, Academy of Country Music Awards, and Country Music Association Awards, including an Entertainer of the Year honor. A member of the Grand Ole Opry since 2001, the West Virginia native has written 21 of his 25 No. 1 hits, his past works amassing nearly five billion streams.

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Paul Taylor Dance Company and Brad Paisley Wrap Up An Appalachian Summer Festival

July 19, 2024 An Appalachian Summer Festival concludes its milestone 40th anniversary season with performances by two legends of their respective genres: Paul Taylor Dance Company, one of the modern dance world’s most celebrated troupes who is returning to the festival for a remarkable eighth time on July 24, and country-Americana singer-songwriter Brad Paisley, who brings his Son of the Mountains World tour to Boone to play in front of a packed Kidd Brewer Stadium for the festival finale on July 27. A special behind-the-scenes informal chat with some of PTDC’s artistic visionaries will be held on July 23. For information and tickets to the festival’s final events, visit AppSummer.org.

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Mountain Home Music Announces Next Matinee Concert Series on July 23 from 2:00 to 3:15

July 17, 2024 Mountain Home Music is excited to announce the next 2024 Matinee Concert series to be held at Grace Lutheran Church, 115 E King St, Boone from 2 to 3:15 pm.  Join us on July 23 for Tucker Connor and Steve Lewis. Twelve year old Tucker Conner is a long-time member of the Boone Junior Appalachian Musicians and wowed audiences at the inaugural Boone’s Got Talent showcase! He will be joined by national banjo champion Steve Lewis who also holds the title of Walnut Valley National Bluegrass Banjo Champion, and he placed second in their guitar competition in. Lewis is a member of the Mountain Home Bluegrass Boy’s and Tucker’s guitar teacher.

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Celebrate National Farmers Market Week and USA Olympic Team at Beech Mountain’s Farmers Market on Friday, August 2nd

July 17, 2024 We will celebrate National Farmers Market Week and the USA Olympic Team on Friday, August 2nd at the Beech Mountain Farmers’ Market.  40 vendors will showcase their local fresh organic produce, honey, baked goods, plants, flowers, microgreens, gourmet dog treats, fine art, homemade crafts, jewelry, body and hemp products, leather, woodwork, farm raised beef/pork, ice cream and much more. And celebrate with a sample of Mookie’s Kettle Korn while supplies last! Ample parking, Doggie Hospitality, Town Welcome Station and music add to your market experience.

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