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29-June 1

- Keith Urban
ranks among the top performers at
this year's Riverbend Music
Festival in Chattanooga, Tennessee
(riverbendfestival.com).

30-June 1 - Lift up to the air

with the Helen to the Atlantic
Hot Air Balloon Race in Helen,
Georgia (helenballoon.com).

30-June 2

- Mountain
Music Festival comes to West

Virginia's ACE Adventure Resort in Oak
Hill with over 25 bands including The
Floozies and Big Something (833-2750966).

31-June 2

- Toe River
Spring Studio Tour offers a
chance to meet artists across Yancey
and Mitchell counties in North Carolina
(toeriverarts.org). NC Trail Days
comes to Elkin, North Carolina, at the
juncture of three great trails for bikes,
boats or boots (nctraildays.com).

JUNE
June 8-9
BLAIRSVILLE'S SCOTTISH
FESTIVAL & HIGHLAND GAMES in
Georgia features music, dancing
and food with a Scottish flair. You
can also watch border collies herd
sheep and falcons swoop down
on prey (706-745-5789).

1 - North Carolina Gold

Festival rolls into the Mountain
Gateway Museum at Old Fort
(828-668-9259) while, in Virginia,
the Alleghany Highlands

Heritage Day & Railway
Festival cruises into Clifton Forge

(alleghanyhighlandsheritageday.
com). Also in Virginia: Winchester

Wings & Wheels Festival

makes a landing at the Winchester
Regional Airport (540-662-5786).

Flatwater Tales Storytelling
Festival features Bil Lepp and Bobby

Norfolk at the Historic Grove Theatre in
Oak Ridge, Tennessee (flatwatertales.
com). Also in Tennessee: Nine Lakes
Wine Festival showcases more
than 100 kinds of Tennessee wine
(ninelakeswinefestival.com).

6-8 - Come for the carnival and

circus at the Poke Sallet Festival
in the heart of Harlan, Kentucky. You'll
also find a food court and bungee
jumping (606-573-4156).
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7-8

- Smoky Mountain
Antique Engine & Tractor
Festival revs up at the Anderson

County Career & Tech Center with
antique tractors, slow tractor race, arts,
crafts and music at Clinton, Tennessee
(smaeta.org). Also in Tennessee:
Secret City Festival offers
arts, history, science, food and
music at Oak Ridge's A.K. Bissell
Park (secretcityfestival.com). On the
same weekend, rosin-up your bow
for the Fiddlers Convention

at Veterans Memorial Park

at Mount Airy, North Carolina
(mtairyfiddlersconvention.com) or
discover the new Laurel Cove
Music Festival at the Cove
Amphitheater inside Kentucky's Pine
Mountain State Resort Park (606-3373066).

7-9

- Plein Air - Art in the
Mountains comes to Ellijay, Georgia,

with an outdoor painting event (www.
gilmerarts.com).

7-15 - The Crooked Road's

Mountains of Music
Homecoming is a celebration of all

the communities in southwest Virginia
- their traditional music, cuisine, arts
and craft, history and great outdoors
(mtnsofmusic.com).

8

- All things outdoors can be found
at XtremeFest of the Blue Ridge in
Waynesboro, Virginia - with rock climbs,
trick cycling, bungee jumping, kayaking
and knockerball (waynesboro.va.us).
Also in Virginia: Hop Blossom
Craft Beer Festival comes to Old
Town Winchester (visitwinchesterva.
com). The Mermaid Parade
and Festival swims into Marshall,
North Carolina (downmarshallnc.com).
State of Origin Beer Fest

bubbles in downtown Morganton,
North Carolina (fontaflora.com).

8-9 - Blairsville's Scottish

Festival & Highland Games

in Georgia features music, dancing
and food with a Scottish flair. Also see
border collies herd sheep and falcons
swoop down on prey (706-745-5789).

13-16

- Ansted Hometown
Festival features a coal-shoveling
contest in Ansted, West Virginia (304632-1002).

14-15 - Henry Reed

Memorial Fiddlers
Convention celebrates the life of

an old-time fiddler who lived at Glen
Lyn in Giles County, Virginia. This year's
festival is held at the nearby Newport
Community Center in Newport, Virginia
(540-921-0166).

14-16 - West Virginia's

Ronceverte River Festival

offers food, music and the Great
Rubber Ducky Race at Island Park
on the banks of the Greenbrier River
(cityofronceverte.com). Also in West
Virginia: Cass Homecoming
steams into Cass Scenic Railroad State
Park (304-456-4300).

14-23

- History comes alive
with costumed performances at
the Chautauqua Festival
of Greenville, South Carolina
(greenvillechautauquafestival.org).

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- Also in Tennessee:
Lavender Festival fills up Historic
Jackson Square at Oak Ridge
with artisans, live music, food
and informative presentations
(jacksonsquarelavenderfest.org). Over
in Kentucky, Firkin Fest features
more than 100 craft beers and live
music at Ashland (visitashlandky.
com). For music lovers: Wayne C.

Henderson Music Festival
and Guitar Competition

visits Grayson Highlands State Park
near Mouth of Wilson, Virginia
(waynehenderson.org). Also in
Virginia: Blue Ridge Herb Lore
Gathering comes to the Ferrum
College campus (blueridgeinstitute.
org); High Knob Music Festival
hits the High Knob Recreation Area near
Norton, Virginia (nortonva.gov); and
Blacksburg's Summer Solstice
Festival includes a crafts fair and
beach party (downtownblacksburg.
com).

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