Alair Concert in the Park
Mark your calendars for the 2026 Alair Homes High Country Summer Concert Series! Hosted in Downtown Blowing Rock at Memorial Park...
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Memorial Park 1036 Main Street, Blowing Rock, NC, United States
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Artists in Residence: Marcia Molnar & Susan Harris
Edgewood Cottage 115 Ginny Stevens Ln., Blowing Rock, NC, United StatesCome to Edgewood Cottage and see local artists work in person! Talk to them and learn more about their process. Purchase their art directly and support them and the Artists in Residence program!
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Monuments & Mythmaking: Creating the American Landscape
Blowing Rock Art & History Museum 159 Ginny Stevens Lane, Blowing Rock, NC, United StatesArt allows humans to imagine people and places they’ve met or visited, but that imagining is always mediated by the artist and their own perspective. As early as the beginning of the nineteenth century, Americans used visual art to imagine North American environments and their place within those landscapes.
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Called to Response: Roger Zare Explores Horizon Line
Blowing Rock Art & History Museum 159 Ginny Stevens Lane, Blowing Rock, NC, United StatesComposer Roger Zare responds to the Horizon Line exhibition with a concert of his original compositions. Zare will be joined by musicians from the Hayes School of Music and clarinetist Lucas Gianini, who will perform works inspired by landscapes near and far.
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Artists in Residence: Randi Robeson & Scott Ballard
Edgewood Cottage 115 Ginny Stevens Ln., Blowing Rock, NC, United StatesCome to Edgewood Cottage and see local artists work in person! Talk to them and learn more about their process. Purchase their art directly and support them and the Artists in Residence program!
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Railroad Heritage Weekend
Tweetsie Railroad 300 Tweetsie Railroad Lane, Blowing Rock, NC, United StatesThis special event honors the East Tennessee & Western North Carolina Railroad—the origin of the famous “Tweetsie”—with a full weekend dedicated to railroad history.
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Artists in Residence: Wen Redmond & Beth Lyons
Edgewood Cottage 115 Ginny Stevens Ln., Blowing Rock, NC, United StatesCome to Edgewood Cottage and see local artists work in person! Talk to them and learn more about their process. Purchase their art directly and support them and the Artists in Residence program!
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Live Gem Cutting Demonstration
McCoy Minerals 537 Main St., Blowing Rock, NC, United StatesHead over to McCoy Minerals and see a rough stone cut into a brilliant gem! The demonstration will be from 11am-2pm and the gemstone will be raffled off to a lucky winner!
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Art in the Park
Blowing Rock Chamber of Commerce 132 Park Ave, Blowing Rock NC, NC, United StatesBlowing Rock Art in the Park celebrates six decades of shows! Enjoy fine art and handcrafts from award-winning and acclaimed artisans. Artists are jury-selected and each show features a different set of artists, curated to present a wide variety of mediums. Find gifts and works for personal collections, functional beauties like furniture and cutlery, and wearable art like handcrafted jewelry and textiles. Artists’ tents line Park Avenue right in downtown Blowing Rock.
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Alair Concert in the Park
Mark your calendars for the 2026 Alair Homes High Country Summer Concert Series! Hosted in Downtown Blowing Rock at Memorial Park, this year’s concert series benefits @HungerHealthCoalition’s A Simple Gesture Program.
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Plein Air Festival
Blowing Rock Art & History Museum 159 Ginny Stevens Lane, Blowing Rock, NC, United StatesThe Blowing Rock Plein Air Festival is a four-day, open enrollment plein air painting event. It takes place in the beautiful mountainous area surrounding the town of Blowing Rock in western North Carolina, from September 15 to September 19, 2026.
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Tweetsie’s Ghost Train®
Tweetsie Railroad 300 Tweetsie Railroad Lane, Blowing Rock, NC, United StatesThe spooktacular season of Tweetsie’s Ghost Train® Halloween Celebration, a popular fall family tradition, begins Friday, September 25, and continues every Friday and Saturday night through October 31. It’s safe, spooky fun for the whole family.
$45 – $65