annual events

Cider, Wine & Dine Weekend

Sip wine and cider, savor delicious food pairings and explore the Blue Ridge Mountain countryside during Hendersonville’s Cider, Wine & Dine Weekend. Held annually on a Friday, Saturday and Sunday in mid-April, the celebration welcomes people to vineyards and orchards where artisan craft beverages are produced in this thriving agricultural region. The event often coincides with budbreak in the vineyards and apple blossom season in the orchards — both signifying hope for a prosperous fall harvest. A variety of events take place throughout the weekend, including specialty tastings, dinners, tours, property hikes and lots of live music. The weekend highlights the seven wineries of the Crest of the Blue Ridge AVA, a federally designated wine region, and several area cideries that produce hard cider using fresh apples from local orchards. Events are both free and ticketed.

Summer Concerts

Hendersonville loves live music. Check out these fun, free concerts that take place downtown throughout the summer.

Garden Jubilee

Garden enthusiasts converge in downtown Hendersonville on Memorial Day weekend for Garden Jubilee. Held Saturday and Sunday, the event is one of the largest gardening shows in the Southeast. The two-day celebration of all things green fills Main Street with plants, yard tools and outdoor accessories. Approximately 150 vendors set up along seven blocks of Main Street. Local and regional nurseries sell thousands of plants, including annuals, perennials, vegetable and fruit plants, herbs, and unusual varieties.

Music on Main takes place one evening per week and features a diverse lineup of pop, oldies, rock and contemporary music – all of your old favorites, the tunes that make you want to get up and dance. This family-friendly event often happens in conjunction with food trucks and classic car shows.

For more than 100 years, Hendersonville has hosted its iconic Street Dances throughout the summer. They began in 1918, at the end of World War I, when the town welcomed home local soldiers by celebrating in the streets with impromptu music and dancing. The tradition is still alive and well.

Rhythm & Brews brings together live music, a variety of food trucks, and locally produced beer, wine and cider on the third Thursday of each month from May through September. Entertainers include established acts as well as up-and-coming artists from around the nation playing a wide variety of tunes.

Hendersonville Honeycrisps Baseball

The Honeycrisps are a summer collegiate baseball team playing in The Old North State League at the historic Berkeley Park – former home of the Berkeley Spinners, the local post-WWII textile mill team. Division Champions in 2022, the Honeycrisps’ ever-changing lineup offers a fun, energetic atmosphere at an affordable, family-friendly activity.

North Carolina Apple Festival

Every Labor Day weekend for nearly 80 years, the North Carolina Apple Festival has filled Main Street with merriment to celebrate the Hendersonville apple harvest. Hendersonville leads the state in apple production and consistently ranks within the top 10 producers nationwide. Beginning Friday and continuing through Labor Day, festivities include a street fair, live music, a parade, a kids’ carnival, pancake breakfasts, a recipe contest, apple taste testing, foot races, aircraft rides, and a gem and mineral show.

North Carolina Mountain State Fair

In mid-September, the North Carolina Mountain State Fair runs for 10 days at the Western North Carolina Agricultural Center. It celebrates the hallmarks of Blue Ridge Mountain heritage, including agriculture, music, and arts and crafts. More than 4,000 animals — from dairy and beef cattle to sheep, pigs, goats, chickens, rabbits, and llamas — strut their stuff for blue ribbons. Enjoy live demonstrations of molasses making, blacksmithing, pottery turning, and basket weaving. The centerpiece of the fair is a midway with more than 40 carnival rides and games, festival food, and live entertainment nightly on the Heritage Stage.

Art on Main

Hendersonville’s Main Street creates an ideal backdrop for more than 70 artisans to display and sell their works the last weekend of September. Art on Main is a juried event that attracts artists from throughout the Southeast and is regarded as one of the finest outdoor art shows in the region. A variety of media are represented, including oil and acrylic painting, clay, metal, wood, fiber, photography and jewelry.

Fiesta Hendersonville

Bright colors, savory aromas and rhythmic music fill Hendersonville’s Main Street for Fiesta Hendersonville.

The one-day street festival — held in late September or early October — celebrates Latin American culture. More than 20 Latin American countries are represented.

Home for the Holidays

Your days will be merry and bright during Hendersonville's Home for the Holidays event, held from early November through New Year’s Day. Enjoy carriage rides, visits with Santa, greenery markets, a festive Christmas parade, holiday-themed performances at the Flat Rock Playhouse and much, much more! Main Street’s shops, galleries and boutiques are decorated in holiday splendor, while large wreaths with big red bows hang from streetlights. Add in the lights and decorations along the serpentine street, and you get a scene straight out of a Hallmark movie.