Things to do in North Carolina Mountains, North Carolina Mountains: The Best Performances

Brevard Music Center is, at once, a place, a summer institute, and a festival. The Music Center is situated on a wooded 180-acre campus in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina. Founded in 1936, the Music Center has matured into one of this country's premier summer training programs and festivals. More than 400 gifted students, ages 14 through post-college, come to the Music Center to study with members of a distinguished artist faculty and with renowned guest artists. For seven weeks, students participate in a vigorous program of instruction that includes ensembles, private lessons, and chamber music. Brevard's hallmark is the powerful sense of community that re-emerges every June, as faculty and students work together to present more than 80 concerts to the public. The total audience each summer numbers more than 30,000. For decades the Brevard Music Center has inspired devotion not only among its students and faculty but also among its listeners and among a vast corps of volunteers. That hundreds of persons have purchased homes in western North Carolina expressly to be near the Brevard Music Center gives some measure of the Center's significance to its community.

The Martin Lipscomb Performing Arts Center (Highlands PAC) offers live concerts, Broadway, Bluegrass, Retro Rock,Comedy plus the Live on HD Series featuring the MET Opera, the Bolshoi Ballet and the National Theatre of London. In addition we are home to two resident groups, Highlands Cashiers Chamber Music Festival(July & August)and Highlands Cashiers Players(theater group offering 4 shows a year)

Old Colony Players is a not for profit (501C3) performing arts company. Our mainstay has been the production of the outdoor drama, "From This Day Forward", during the summer months. We also produce various drama, comedy, and musical events throughout the year at The Old Rock School. Come out and see one of our shows. Just keep track of us at our website or on Facebook.

The 69th season of "Horn in the West" Outdoor Drama will be from June 19 to August 8, 2020. "Horn in the West" brings to life the famous frontiersman Daniel Boone and the hardy mountain settlers of the Blue Ridge Mountains in their struggle to preserve their freedom during the years before and during the War for Independence. The drama highlights those settlers who came to the region seeking freedom and escape from British tyranny. At times sweet and quiet, beautiful and emotional, exciting and grand, this story reminds us of how precious and special our country is.

2021 You can feel a slight chill run up your spine; but not from the mountain winds shifting their direction in anticipation of the coming dusk. It is from your anticipation of the coming drama. Unto These Hills drama is the tragic and triumphant story of the Cherokee that traces back to the years before the heartbreak of the Trail of Tears to the present day. Millions of people have witnessed America’s most powerful drama, which rewrites the Cherokee’s place in the world. A place based on traditional Cherokee values and modern sensibilities.

The 2014 Crest Mountain Dinner Show features SOUND OFF! A Musical Salute to the USO. The dinner and show begins at 6:00 p.m. and tickets can be reserved on the website. The best dinner show in Asheville is brand new and the views, food and show will WOW you.