Culture while staying at this Blowing Rock Bed and Breakfast

The Appalachian Cultural Museum
Experience the premiere museum of the Appalachian region. The Appalachian Cultural Museum features exhibits ranging from fossils to mountain music, looms and weaving to self-portraits by mountain people. Spend an hour or an afternoon exploring Appalachian natural and cultural heritage. The Appalachian Cultural Museum is open year-round. Located in Boone on University Hall Drive, just off Blowing Rock Road.
828-262-3117

Appalachian Summer Festival
An Appalachian Summer Festival, presented annually by Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, is emerging as one of the nation's most innovative and highly regarded regional, multidisciplinary arts festivals. Now entering its twenty-second season, the festival is committed to showcasing American talent, commissioning new works, and building new audiences for the fine arts. Offering world-class entertainment in a picturesque mountain setting, An Appalachian Summer Festival presents art at a higher altitude!

Barter Theatre
Located off I-81, exit 17 between Bristol and Wytheville. Barter Theatre, The State Theatre of Virginia, is located in the historic and charming town of Abingdon. Barter Theatre offers dramas, comedies, musicals, and more all year round! The theatre's alumni included Hume Cronyn, Patricia Neal, Fritz Weaver, Ernest Borgnine, Gregory Peck, and Ned Beatty. While visiting Barter, be sure to stop in The Cafe' at Barter Stage II for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. 133 W. Main Street.

Blowing Rock Art and History Museum
Our mission is to promote the visual arts and history and to celebrate the rich heritage of the mountains. The Board of Directors of the museum is currently engaged in planning for a permanent building to be completed in Blowing Rock by 2008.

The Blowing Rock Community Arts Center
The Blowing Rock Community Arts Center (BRCAC), a 25,500 square foot facility, will benefit the entire community by providing a permanent home for a multitude of arts groups in a facility in which to host live theatre, dance groups, a variety of musical performances, visual arts displays, and children's theater workshops. In addition, it will offer a gathering place for civic and cultural activities as well as a resource for local commercial interests.

The Blowing Rock Jazz Society
A non-profit society to present live jazz concerts, promote, preserve, educate and encourage the development of jazz talent and maintain jazz as America's own art form. Live jazz concerts are presented every second Sunday of the month at the Meadowbrook Inn, Blowing Rock. Concert time is 7pm til 9pm. The public is welcome, admission at the door. Cash bar and food available. You are welcome to become a member for an annual dues.
828-265-3242

The Blowing Rock Stage Company
Professional theatre June-September and special holiday productions. Enjoy comedies, musicals, classics, new works, and children's theatre. Matinees and evening performances. Theatre located at 152 Sunset Drive. For tickets visit the Maple Street Box Office or call 828-295-9627. Theatre located at 152 Sunset Drive. Season ticket packages, group rates, and student rates available.

Farm House, Live!
This 50 year tradition continues in spirit and song with town sponsored concerts in the Broyhill Gazebo on the Lake. e.j. & shirl's Farm House, Live! Singers return with great vigor & variety, and the "magic" of the music, always the music, that brings us all together. Also available for dinner concerts & very special occasions. Contact Amy Young, Director, e-mail: ayverismo@hotmail.com, phone 828-266-1676; or Shirl Blackwell, Producer, e-mail etsonb@earthlink.net, winter phone 954-782-5696, summer phone 828-262-5864.

Horn in the West
105 Extension, Boone. Open late June to mid-August. Shows nightly except Monday at 8pm. Exciting family entertainment of the history of the area. Admission includes Hickory Ridge Homestead Living History Museum. All seats reserved, walk-ups welcome.

The Mast General Store®
Nestled in a secluded mountain valley, you'll discover a place Charles Kuralt calls"...a destination." Mast General Store in Valle Crucis. Outfitting the Appalachian since 1883 with traditional mercantile goods, comfortable clothing, rugged footwear and quality outdoor gear for all mountain seasons. Warm up by our potbellied stove, mail a letter at our antique post office, and discover why some times are just too good to leave behind. Original Store/Mast Store Annex, Hwy 194, Valle Crucis. Also, King Street, Boone.

Mountainhome Music
A concert series and radio show which presents the best of traditional Appalachian musicians and performers. The series runs each summer in Boone and each fall in Blowing Rock. Contact Joe Shannon, PO Box 572, Boone, NC 28607.828-264-8118

The Orchard at Altapass
The Orchard at Altapass is a hundred year old historic apple orchard directly on The Blue Ridge Parkway at Mile Marker 328.3 near Spruce Pine, NC. A preservation project, it specializes in family entertainment and activities, featuring old time mountain apples, storytelling, hayrides, live local music on weekends, and demonstrations by local artists. Orchard made fudge, books, and naturalists activities. It hosts groups of all kinds.
Open late May-October, 7 days a week.

Turchin Center for the Arts - The Turchin Center for the Visual Arts supports the teaching mission of Appalachian State University by providing regionally significant exhibitions, education, and outreach programs which assist the students, faculty, staff, and community in the realization of their creative and critical potential. Underlying the teaching mission of the Turchin Center is the belief that the arts play a vital role in experiencing, interpreting, understanding, recording, and shaping culture. The Turchin Center supports this role by building a program that engenders and strengthens community participation in - and ownership of - the arts. The exhibition program, specialized educational services, and collaborative programs expand Appalachian State University's role as a key regional educational and cultural resource, and create a vital space where the community experiences and incorporates the power and excitement of the arts into their lives.