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The Blue Ridge Music Center is where harmony & heritage unite.

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Welcome to the Blue Ridge Music Center

Visitor Center Hours

The Blue Ridge Music Center opens Thursday through Monday on Thursday, May 15, and will be open daily beginning Thursday, May 22. Open hours are 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Free Midday Mountain Music concerts are held on the breezeway noon-3 p.m. every day the Music Center is open.

2025 Midday Mountain Music Schedule

  • Sundays: Fisher Peak Timber Rattlers
  • Mondays: Buck Mountaineers
  • Tuesdays: Cedar Ridge
  • Wednesdays:
    • 1st & 3rd: Guest Artists
    • 2nd & 4th: Bill Kunz & Friends
  • Thursdays: Willard Gayheart & Scott Freeman
  • Fridays: Bluegrass Jam with Jim Purcell & Lynn Wolf
  • Saturdays:
    • 1st: Guest Artists
    • 2nd: Guest Artists
    • 3rd: Sugarloaf Mountain Band
    • 4th: Blue Ridge Ramblers

We’re thrilled to announce the complete lineup of performers in our 2025 Deep Roots, Many Voices summer concert series!

May 24: Amythyst Kiah + Joe Troop’s Truth Machine

May 31: Melissa Carper + Martha Spencer & the Wonderland Country Band

June 7: The Dirty Dozen Brass Band + DaShawn & Wendy Hickman

June 14: An Evening with Shadowgrass

June 21: Sierra Green & The Giants + Sam Fribush Organ Trio

June 28: Wyatt Ellis + Laura Leigh Jones

July 5: An Evening with the Steep Canyon Rangers

July 12: Lorena Guillén Tango Ensemble + Onyx Club Boys

July 19: Wonder Women of Country + Redd Volkaert

July 26: Jeff Little Trio + Dori Freeman

August 2: Donna The Buffalo + Joe Thrift & the Hotz

August 16: Sister Sadie + Foreign Landers

August 23: Paul Thorn + Time Sawyer

August 30: Del McCoury Band + Wayne Henderson & Friends

Summer Concert SEries

USA Today’s 10Best  Free Museum Poll

Thank you to everyone who voted for the Blue Ridge Music Center in USA TODAY’s 10Best poll. Because of your support, our Roots of American Music Museum placed sixth in the Best Free Museum category!

Nominations were curated by a panel of subject matter experts and editors before the public voted, so the Music Center was in esteemed company. Here is the final top 10 list:

  1. National Infantry Museum & Soldier Center
  2. Saint Louis Science Center
  3. North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
  4. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
  5. California Science Center
  6. Blue Ridge Music Center
  7. Baltimore Museum of Art
  8. North Carolina Museum of Art
  9. Wagner Free Institute of Science
  10. National Museum of American History

Congratulations to all the great museums in the Top 10!

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Matching Opportunity

Gifts to make transformative improvements at the Blue Ridge Music Center will be doubled by a $170,000 grant from the National Park Foundation, doubling your gift dollars! Your gift will repair masonry seating and retaining walls, sidewalks and curbs to improve safety and extend the operational life of this infrastructure, provide audio equipment  on the breezeway and in front of the Visitor Center and Luthier Shop, expand public Wi-Fi at the museum and visitor center, and more.

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2025 Season Passes

Season passes are available for purchase now – Full Season (all 14 concerts), Half Season (7 concerts), and Pick 3 (3 concerts) – and will be mailed in March. Passes make great holiday gifts!

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Get the Plate!

You can support the Blue Ridge Parkway to protect the national park in your backyard with a license plate in Virginia or North Carolina. And motorcycle plates are now available in Virginia! Visit GetThePlate.org for more information.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

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Blue Ridge Music Center

THE HOME OF MOUNTAIN MELODIES

The sounds of the fiddle, banjo, and guitar welcome you when you visit. We invite you to clap along to bluegrass, old-time, blues, and Americana concerts in our scenic amphitheater, learn about the region’s musical heritage at the Roots of American Music Museum, sit a spell on the breezeway while you enjoy live music everyday during our Midday Mountain Music sessions, and go for a walk on one of our hiking trails.

While the Music Center is open May through October, the music continues year-round with our On the Road series, when we partner with regional venues to host off-site performances, exhibits, conferences, and additional events.

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“A perfectly set stage among the mountains! Beautiful scenery! Amazing music! Loved the museum…and the staff is friendly & very helpful.”
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THANK YOU TO OUR 2023 SPONSORS AND SUPPORTERS

W.L.A. Trucking. Coast to coast distribution.
Yadkin Arts Council
Triad City Beat
88.5 wfdd
National Council for the Traditional Arts
The Galax Smokehouse

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