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Brushy Mt. Apple Festival, Wilkesboro
Festival scenes from previous issues
Welcome to autumn…it’s apple time in the NC mountains and the Annual Brushy Mountain Apple Festival in North Wilkesboro.
Labeled as one of the Southeast’s oldest and biggest one-day arts and crafts festivals is owned and operated by the Brushy Mountain Ruritan Club. Traditionally held the first Saturday in October, this year October 2, from 8a to 5p.
Enjoy live music Friday evening at the Apple Jam at 6p in the Brushy Mountain Ruritan Club’s Brushy Mountain Apple Festival Park on the corner of 10th and Main streets. Bring your chairs, family and friends, for great entertainment, food vendors and local restaurants in downtown North Wilkesboro.
With over 425 arts and crafts, 100 food concessions filling the air with aromas to please all tummies, four different music stages offering Blue Grass, Country, Folk and Gospel as well as an Appalachian Heritage area. Toe tap with cloggers, folk dancers, rope skippers and square dancers. Listen for Appalachian dulcimers as you walk the festival. Appalachian Heritage spotlights crafts such as woodcarving, chair making, soap making, pottery throwing and quilting.
And don’t forget there will be everything apple from the Northwestern NC apple orchardists...apples and apples from favorite freshly harvested varieties, apple cider and dried apples.
Get your FREE Souvenir Program and Guide filled with schedules of music, dancing, locations of exhibitors, food concessions, apple recipes, stories and tales about the community and more at the Brush Mountain Ruritan Club Information Booth at the intersection of Main and 9th streets.
This mammoth festival with an estimated number of 100,000 people is Wilkes County’s largest one-day festival and is a fundraiser for not only The Brushy Mountain Ruritan Club but over the 100 civic, church and other non-profit organizations participating in the event.
www.applefestival.net
