Mills River Day is a free-to-attend large-scale community event that highlights agriculture, natural resource management, water quality, and the talents and related businesses in and around the Mills River Community. It features live music, vendors, food trucks, a kid zone with bounce houses, a tractor show, a horse show, a farm tour, hands-on activities, and more!
*We love your pets, but please leave them at home for this event. Trained service animals are welcome*
Cider, Wine & Dine Weekend is an annual celebration of Hendersonville’s wine & cider, and takes place every spring, often while the area’s thousands of acres of apple trees are blooming their delicate, pale pink blossoms. Find festivities, food and fun at all of the area’s wineries & cideries.
Gather up your green gear and head over to Mills River Brewery this St. Patrick’s day for our Shamrockin’ Bash! Enjoy live music, green beers and some delicious food specials! Toasted and Sauced will be cooking up Corned Beef and Cabbage, as well as, Potato and Caraway Seed Pizza
Calling all Star Wars fans!! Break out the lightsabers and helmets, we are hosting an all day Star Wars event for May 4th! Star Wars Marathon on all TVs, trivia, prizes, Star Wars themed music, photo areas, live music, and more!! Dress up and bring the whole family! This is the way!
Giveaways, new beer releases, music and food! Don’t miss out on this years St. Patricks Day Weekend at Blue Ghost Brewing. Irish-inspired food specials from The Hungry Ghost including Shepherd’s Pie egg rolls, Fish ‘n Chips, & Loaded Pot o’ Tots! First 44 visitors will get a free St. Paddy’s themed logo mason jar featuring the Blue Ghost Logo, an Irish Poem, & an etched shamrock on the bottom of the glass!
Grab your partner and come on out to Sideways Farm & Brewery the 2nd Saturday of each month for our Bocce Ball Tournament.
Don’t know what Bocce is? No problem…. we will teach you how to play. It is a fun outdoor game that is easy to learn and very fun to play.
$25 per team to play. ALL ENTRY MONIES DONATED TO BLUE RIDGE HUMANE SOCIETY! PRIZES for the winning team. A great way to support a great cause AND have fun!
A short 15 minute drive from downtown Hendersonville you will find Sideways Farm & Brewery. Specializes in delicious small craft beers and hard jun, and a food truck truck is always on site.
We play rain or shine!
The spacious farm makes for a beautiful back drop and plenty of space for the family to explore. Numerous outdoor games to play on ample grassy fields, pollinator garden with bee hives (21 and older), picnic tables and covered patio with heaters ensures a great place to spend the day.
ST. PATRICKS DAY celebration with a dynamic musical duo, Celtic Confusion! A short 15 minute drive from downtown Hendersonville, enjoy delicious small craft beers and hard jun, and tasty bites from the food truck (PIG IN A BASKET).
Family and dog friendly (leashed please).
The annual NC Apple Festival includes a street fair, arts & crafts, live music and entertainment, children’s activities and rides, parade, food & much more, there are other special events that take place throughout the weekend across town, See website for details, The Street Fair is located on Main Street from 6th Ave-Caswell St., the King Apple Parade is on Labor Day at 2:30pm, Free, Downtown Hendersonville, 828-697-4557, NCAppleFestival.org
Join on the 2nd Sunday of November & December for a curated Holiday Shopping Experience! Enjoy 20+ local makers, local food trucks, live music all day, and tasty beverages! Support local and handmade this holiday season.
Come out to this family fun day to celebrate the community’s history, arts, culture and agriculture. It will be held at the beautiful Tuxedo Park. There will be entertainment by DJ Sgt. Rock and Ballard Bluegrass, various raffle items for all age ranges, the GLO Mobile Preschool, over 20 talented vendors, inflatables, food and more! It will be fun for everyone!
8th Annual Pumpkin Fest at Silvermont Returns to Brevard, North Carolina- 4 Weekends in October!
Dates and Times: Fridays and Saturdays, Oct 6-7, 13-14, 20-21, and 27-28 from 6-9 pm.
(Note: Oct 28 follows Halloweenfest from 10-5 in downtown Brevard)
Pumpkin Fest is a fun, family friendly and fantastic artistic event or great date night with 18 beautiful artist-designed lighted carved pumpkin displays on a newly-paved short walking trail. The event includes talented local musicians, food trucks and coffee house, games, storytelling, face painting, white squirrel scavenger hunt, games, dress ups, and the Silvermont historic mansion and second floor museum open for tours. New exhibits from 2022 (“Syd’s Silvermont Adventure”) and 2021 (the spectacular “White Squirrel Circus”) are returning, as well as 16 other lighted pumpkin displays such as Butterfly Garden, Pirates Cove, Under the Sea, Witches Garden, Ghost Circle, Totem Garden, and more.
A new 2023 exhibit has been developed by Friends of Silvermont’s Pumpkin-teers: “Land of Waterfalls”, featuring the unique places and features that make Transylvania County so beautiful and special for locals and tourists alike. A new social media photo-op site with a Silvermont Pumpkin Fest background will also be set up between the dress up and face painting areas near the tennis courts. There will be lots of activities for young and old alike- with fun for all ages! Silvermont Park has a newly paved 1/3-mile trail that works much better for strollers, walkers and wheelchairs.
Pumpkin Fest is a Fundraiser for Friends of Silvermont to help maintain and improve the Silvermont Park and the 106-year-old historic mansion, which houses the county senior center and a history museum. Friends of Silvermont was in 1981 to help save the mansion and has continued to make significant financial contributions to both the mansion and park each year.
Location- Silvermont Park 364 E. Main St. Brevard, NC 28712.
Admission $7 per person (ages 13 and over), $5 ages 3-12, and under 3 is free. We accept cards, cash or check with ID. Volunteers receive free admission. Contact [email protected] if interested in volunteering for event nights or setup/teardown starting Sept. 23 thru Nov 3.
Onsite parking cost is $5 cash per car. Free parking is available offsite on nearby streets and at churches and the Comporium and church parking lots 1 block away. Handicap sticker- free parking onsite.
Music and Food Schedule:
Date Time Music Schedule Food Trucks plus Cup and Saucer
Oct. 6 Friday 6-9 pm Two Step Too Feta Flav, Jenny’s Mini Donuts
Oct. 7 Saturday 6-9 pm Big Eyed Rabbit Southern Hawg BarBQue, Jenny’s Mini Donuts
Oct. 13 Friday 6-9 pm Nikki Talley and Jason Sharpe Feta Flav, Jenny’s Mini Donuts
Oct. 14 Saturday 6-9 pm Andrew Thelston and Carrie Morrison Haus Heidelberg
Oct. 20 Friday 6-9 pm Nikki Talley and Jason Sharpe Toasted Cuban, Jenny’s Mini Donuts
Oct. 21 Saturday 6-9 pm Unpaid Bill and the Bad Czechs Feta Flav
Oct. 27 Friday 6-9 pm McIntosh and the Lionhearts BBQ Shed, Jenny’s Mini Donuts
Oct. 28 Saturday 6-9 pm McIntosh and the Lionhearts Toasted Cuban, Feta Flav
Website: Pumpkin Fest | Friends of Silvermont https://silvermont.org/pumpkinfest/ Facebook: SilvermontPark: https://www.facebook.com/silvermontpark/
Contact: Maury Bandurraga 828-393-5785, [email protected]
