Brushy Mountain Apple Festival
Sat, Oct 05
|Wilkesboro
The Annual Brushy Mountain Apple Festival is one of the largest one-day arts and crafts festivals in the Southeast. The Brushy Mountain Ruritan Club owns, operates, and organizes the event each year. The Brushy Mountain Apple Festival is not just this club's largest fundraiser, but has become one
Time & Location
Oct 05, 2024, 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM EDT
Wilkesboro, 115 E Main St, Wilkesboro, NC 28697, USA
About the event
The Annual Brushy Mountain Apple Festival is one of the largest one-day arts and crafts festivals in the Southeast. The Brushy Mountain Ruritan Club owns, operates, and organizes the event each year. The Brushy Mountain Apple Festival is not just this club's largest fundraiser, but has become one of Wilkes County's biggest fundraisers. Over 100 civic, church and other non-profit organizations participate in the festival. For many of them, the festival has become the biggest fundraiser of the year. Over 100,000 people visit this festival during the day and it's FREE.
The streets of downtown North Wilkesboro, NC are filled with over 300 arts and crafts, 50 food concessions, 3 different music stages consisting of Blue Grass, Country, Folk, Gospel, and Appalachian Heritage. Cloggers, folk dancers, rope skippers, and square dancers provide additional entertainment venues for festival goers. Appalachian Heritage crafts are highlighted such as woodcarving, chair making, soap making,…