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MUSIC

Name: Scott Freeman & Willard Gayheart
Start: 2025-05-15
End: 2025-05-15
Location: Covered Breezeway

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MUSIC

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MUSEUM

Learn about the Roots of American Music.

MUSEUM

Learn about the Roots of American Music.

MOUNTAINS

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MOUNTAINS

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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

Kids & Family Fun Dayl
Saturday, May 17, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Breezeway, plaza and indoor theater, free

Please join us for a fun day for the whole family! This free event is open to all ages and includes performances, an instrument “petting zoo,” a museum scavenger hunt, art activities, a guided hike, and more.

Youth bands will perform throughout the day, followed by a free concert by Grammy winners Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer.

Performance schedule:
* 11:30 a.m. – The Brothers Young
* 12:30 p.m. – Ettore Buzzini
* 1:30 p.m. – Newfound Gap
* 3 to 4 p.m. – Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer

This event is supported by the generosity of a group of anonymous donors who advocate for youth engagement in traditional mountain music.

Kids & Family Fun Day

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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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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