Visitor Center and Seasonal Hours

Seasonal Hours and Offerings at the Music Center

The Music Center is open daily through October 30, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Things to do while you are visiting the Music Center:

  • Listen to Midday Mountain Music, FREE informal presentations featuring local and regional traditional mountain musicians held in our covered breezeway, from noon – 4 pm.
  • Spend time viewing the Roots of American Music exhibit in the museum
  • Visit the gift shop
  • Go hiking

The hiking trails are always open, please use the Trailhead parking lot on Foothills Road. For more information about the Blue Ridge Music Center hiking trails, visit the Hiking Trails page.

Check the schedule on the Events page for upcoming concerts and other events, and to verify who’s playing for Midday Mountain Music during your visit.

2023 Daily Midday Mountain Music Schedule

  • Sundays: Stu Shenk and the Fisher Peak Timber Rattlers
  • Mondays: The Buck Mountaineers
  • Tuesdays: 1st -Guest band; 2nd-Jackson Cunningham & Friends; 3rd -Cedar Ridge; 4th-Jackson Cunningham & Friends
  • Wednesdays: Bill and Maggie Anderson
  • Thursdays: Willard Gayheart and Scott Freeman
  • Fridays: Bluegrass Jam with Lynn Wolf and Jim Purcell
  • Saturdays: 1st-Cedar Ridge; 2nd-Blue Ridge Ramblers; 3rd- Sugar Loaf Mountain; 4th-Guest Artists

For More Information

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