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

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MUSIC

Name: Scott Freeman & Willard Gayheart
Start: 2025-05-08
End: 2025-05-08
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 is closed for the 2024 season, and will reopen in May 2025. Midday Mountain Music will resume when the Music Center reopens.

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

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

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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

June 14: Shadowgrass

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

June 28: Wyatt Ellis

July 5: An Evening with the Steep Canyon Rangers

July 12: Lorena Guillén Tango Ensemble

July 19: Wonder Women of Country + Redd Volkaert

July 26: Jeff Little Trio

August 2: Donna The Buffalo + Joe Thrift Trio

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:

National Infantry Museum & Soldier Center
Saint Louis Science Center
North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
California Science Center
Blue Ridge Music Center
Baltimore Museum of Art
North Carolina Museum of Art
Wagner Free Institute of Science
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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Sample Virginia Parkway License plate featuring a sunset on the Parkway

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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