Name: Tunes at the Trout – Thursdays
Start: 2025-09-11T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-09-11T20:00:00-04:00
Location: The Speckled Trout Restaurant & Bottle Shop

September 2025
Exhibition: Daingerfield & The Tonalist Instinct

August 6, 2025 @ 11:00 am - October 19, 2025 @ 6:00 pm

Blowing Rock Art & History Museum 159 Ginny Stevens Lane, Blowing Rock, NC, United States

Daingerfield & The Tonalist Instinct explores the development of Tonalism, a distinctly American artistic movement responding to early modernist impulses in painting. Emerging in the latter half of the 19th century, Tonalism was characterized by subtle color harmonies, soft atmospheric effects, and contemplative, mood-driven scenes. Often emphasizing twilight or dawn landscapes, tonalist works evoke introspective, serene, or even ominous atmospheres, prioritizing mood and emotional resonance over detailed realism.

Free Entry
Exhibition: The Shape of Color – Understanding Color Theory in BRAHM’s Collection

August 6, 2025 @ 11:00 am - December 27, 2025 @ 6:00 pm

Blowing Rock Art & History Museum 159 Ginny Stevens Lane, Blowing Rock, NC, United States

This exhibition explores key milestones in the history of color theory through seven case studies, each centered on a single work of art from BRAHM’s Permanent Collection. Alongside these works, diagrams and historical models illustrate how color has been classified, studied, and understood over time. By examining these varied approaches, The Shape of Color invites us to consider the ways in which color influences our perception, emotions, and the visual world around us.

Free Entry
Exhibition: Mary Lou Higgins – Sibylline Faces

August 6, 2025 @ 11:00 am - November 15, 2025 @ 6:00 pm

Blowing Rock Art & History Museum 159 Ginny Stevens Lane, Blowing Rock, NC, United States

This exhibiton presents a selection of ceramic works and drawings by MaryLou Higgins (1926–2012), an artist active in North Carolina throughout her prolific career. Best known for her illustrative approach to ceramics, Higgins worked across multiple media, creating a body of work defined by intricate draftsmanship and a focus on the female figure.

Free Entry
Exhibition: Arlee Mains – A Life in Watauga

August 6, 2025 @ 11:00 am - November 29, 2025 @ 6:00 pm

This intimate installation of ten “memory paintings” by Arlee Mains (1935–2019) offers a vivid and affectionate portrait of early 20th-century life in the mountains of western North Carolina. A lifelong resident of Watauga County and a self-taught artist, Mains drew upon family stories, personal recollections, and regional traditions to create painted scenes of everyday Appalachian life.

Free Entry
Hawk Watch

September 1, 2025 @ 10:00 am - September 30, 2025 @ 5:00 pm

Grandfather Mountain 2050 Blowing Rock Highway, Linville, NC

All throughout September, guests are invited to join the mountain’s naturalists as they count and celebrate the annual spectacle of fall raptor migration.

Included with Admission
Music on the Lawn

September 5, 2025 @ 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm Music on the Lawn

Inn At Ragged Gardens 203 Sunset Drive, Blowing Rock, NC

“Music on the Lawn” at The Inn at Ragged Gardens has become a much beloved outdoor concert series. Held each Friday from May through September (weather permitting), the event draws locals and visitors alike.

Free Entry
Grandfather by Night – Twilight Hike

September 5, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Grandfather by Night – Twilight Hike

Grandfather Mountain 2050 Blowing Rock Highway, Linville, NC

The Twilight Hike version will include a hike after sunset to discuss and look for the creatures that are more active after the sun goes down. The group will explore a unique forest ecosystem from top to bottom in search of salamanders, owls, flying squirrels, fireflies and any other creatures they might come across.

$50
Full Moon Paddle on Price Lake

September 5, 2025 @ 8:00 pm - 10:30 pm Full Moon Paddle on Price Lake

Price Lake Boat Rentals 3636 Blue Ridge Parkway, Blowing Rock, NC, United States

Price Lake Boat Rentals will be offering canoes, double kayaks, and single kayaks for rent to enjoy paddling around Price Lake under the full moon! See Price Lake and the Blue Ridge Parkway in a whole new light. Registration is required ahead of time.

$35 – $45
ASU Home Football Game

September 6, 2025 @ 3:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Kidd Brewer Stadium 733 Rivers Street, Boone, NC

Appalachian State Football returns for the 2025 Season.
Mindfulness Meditation Group at BRAHM

September 10, 2025 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Blowing Rock Art & History Museum 159 Ginny Stevens Lane, Blowing Rock, NC, United States

Make time for yourself on Wednesday evenings for a weekly mindfulness and meditation Group. The gatherings will explore meditation, mindfulness and consciousness. Combining years of meditation practice experience with his lifelong passion of living in service to others, Eric DeVere will be guiding the weekly meditation group.

Free
Revisiting the “Brown Decades”: Tonalism and the American South

September 11, 2025 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Blowing Rock Art & History Museum 159 Ginny Stevens Lane, Blowing Rock, NC, United States

Following the American Civil War, American artists quieted their paintings, embracing blurred contours, muted palettes, and introspective atmospheres. Often considered the moody counterpoint to Impressionism’s vibrant and light-filled canvases, Tonalism offered a harmonious space for respite and reflection in a rapidly changing world.

$8.00
Tunes at the Trout – Thursdays

September 11, 2025 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

The Speckled Trout Restaurant & Bottle Shop 922 Main Street, Blowing Rock, NC

Head over to The Speckled Trout Restaurant & Bottle Shop to get your tunes fix and hear some live music! Thursdays from 6-8pm.

September 2025