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20-21

- Butternut Creek
Festival at Meeks Park in Blairsville,

Georgia, includes live music and craft
demonstrations (706-781-1221).

24-28

- FloydFest offers a
five-day music event on the Blue Ridge
Parkway, near Milepost 170.5, on the
outskirts of Floyd, Virginia (floydfest.
com).

26-Aug. 4

- The longrunning Virginia Highlands
Festival in Abingdon mixes
antiques and art, hiking and biking
(vahighlandsfestival.org).

WWW.VISITKNOXVILLE.COM

August 24-25

11-14 - Grandfather

THE KNOXVILLE ASIAN FESTIVAL
celebrates such Asian countries as
Thailand, Korea, China, Japan and
Vietnam with martial arts, food
and dance (knoxasianfestival.
com).

celebrates Scottish heritage in North
Carolina (gmhg.org).

Mountain Highland Games

11-21

- Gatlinburg
Craftsmen's Fair features
art, crafts and music with more than
200 booths in Tennessee's Smoky
Mountains (865-436-7479).

12-13 - Tazewell County
Old Time & Bluegrass
Fiddlers' Convention is being

held at Crab Orchard Museum in
Tazewell, Virginia (276-988-6755).

12-14 - Red Wing Roots

Music Festival at Mount Solon,
Virginia, features craft beer, food
and kid's activities near the Natural
Chimneys (redwingroots.com). In
West Virginia, John Henry Days
remembers - with craft vendors and
a rubber ducky race - the legend of
how John Henry beat the steam drill
with his hammer while workin' on the
railroad in Summers County more than
a century ago (304-466-5420).

Dr. Charles Taylor Pepper inspired the
name of the famous "Dr Pepper" soft
drink while also serving arts, crafts
and live music in southwest Virginia
(townofruralretreat.com).

- The Craft Fair of
the Southern Highlands
comes to the U.S. Cellular Center
in Asheville, North Carolina
(southernhighlandsguild.org).

provides Parsons, West Virginia, a
celebration of bluegrass and hillbilly
music (304-478-3515).

18-21

18-28

- Enjoy rich cultural
experiences at Waynesville, North
Carolina's Folkmoot (folkmoot.org).

19 - The long-running

Shenandoah Valley Music
Festival begins at Orkney Springs,

Virginia, with performances that span
into September (musicfest.org).

19-21 - Hungry Mother

12-20 - FunFest of

on outdoor outings, music and food
(funfest.net).

Thurmond Train Day to

13

- Horse and Hound Wine
Festival returns to Virginia's Peaks of
Otter Winery in Bedford County (540586-3707).

BLUERIDGECOUNTRY.COM

- Georgia's Rabun
County hosts the Painted Fern
Festival of Art with a variety
of painting, photography, pottery,
jewelry, art glass and folk art.
northgeorgiaartguild.com. Clayton
(678-467-2697).

Festival spans three days in Marion,
Virginia, at Hungry Mother State Park
and coincides with a Friday night street
dance followed by Saturday's Chili
Cook-Off in downtown Marion
(marionva.org).

Kingsport, Tennessee, focuses

40

13-14

27

- Rural Retreat's Dr. Pepper
Heritage Day features tales of how

20 - Come to West Virginia for

experience railroad history near the
New River (304-465-0508).

30-Aug. 3

- Pickin'
Parsons Bluegrass Festival

AUGUST
2-3

- Mt. Mitchell Crafts
Fair annually attracts more than 200
craftsmen to Burnsville Town Square
in North Carolina (yanceychamber.
com). Also in North Carolina:
Reevestock enlivens downtown
Elkin with an outdoor music festival
(reevestock.com). Over in West Virginia,
the Lewisburg Literary
Festival celebrates the written
word (lewisburgliteraryfestival.
com). In Virginia, Steppin' Out
offers music and more in Blacksburg
(blacksburgsteppinout.com).

2-4 - West Virginia Peach

Festival ripens in Romney (681-231-

2400).

5-9

- Old Fiddler's
Convention brings musical
competitions to Galax, Virginia
(oldfiddlersconvention.com)

http://www.vahighlandsfestival.org http://WWW.VISITKNOXVILLE.COM http://www.gmhg.org http://www.townofruralretreat.com http://www.northgeorgiaartguild.com http://www.southernhighlandsguild.org http://www.folkmoot.org http://www.redwingroots.com http://www.musicfest.org http://www.reevestock.com http://www.blacksburgsteppinout.com http://www.marionva.org http://www.funfest.net http://www.oldfiddlersconvention.com http://www.BLUERIDGECOUNTRY.COM

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