High Country Events Calendar: This Week 2021 - events and festivals for Boone, Blowing Rock, Banner Elk, Beech Mountain, West Jefferson and Wilkesboro
This events calendar is updated weekly every Monday by the NC High Country Regional Visitor Center staff.  The newest print version is also available for pick up every Monday in the visitor center located between Boone & Blowing Rock.  Download to your phone for easy reference!

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KING STREET MARKET             
May 11, 4-8pm,126 Poplar Grove Connector, Boone      
Offering fresh produce, eggs, meats, goat cheese, baked goods and value added foods from local farms, many of which, you won't see anywhere else in Watauga county. Local artists include scroll art and baskets, photography, tye dye, and organic skincare. There's music, special events, and food trucks too! 

WILKESBORO FARMERS MARKET             
May 11 & 15, Saturdays 7:30am-12noon & Tuesdays 3:30p-5:30pm, Yadkin Valley Marketplace, Wilkesboro      
Offering locally grown produce, meats, eggs, dairy, baked goods, canned goods, crafts and handmade items.

BOONE FARMERS MARKET
May 15: 8-12, Horn in the West, Boone
Features a wide array of vendors offering fresh produce, meats, cheeses, breads and pastries, crafts, potted plants, fresh cut flowers and more! Live music, food trucks, and a special kids farmers market in place also.

ASHE COUNTY FARMERS MARKET             
May 15, 8am-1pm, Backstreet, West Jefferson
Find plenty of fresh veggies, leafy greens, berries, eggs, honey, homemade granola, teas, sourdough bread, amish friendship breads, goat cheese, dairy milk, kruegers, Russian tea balls, lamb, beef, pork and chicken. Also find handmade crafts such as birdhouses, cutting boards, pottery, alpaca goodies, jewelry, and soaps. We also have shrubbery, fresh cut flowers, and herbs.

NEW RIVER FLY FISHING TOURNAMENT + ZALOOFEST           
May 15-16: 7am-5pm, Zaloo’s Canoes, Jefferson
Local Vendors, Food and Live Music! Help us celebrate 45 years on the New River. *Proceeds to support the New River Conservancy*

TRYONS WAR EVENT             
May 15: 12pm, Hickory Ridge Living History Museum, Boone
Celebrate the 250th Anniversary of the 1771 Battle of Alamance and the Regulator Movement! Through immersive scenarios you will witness the events leading up to, during and after the Battle of Alamance. At 12,1,2 and 3pm a group will be taken through the museum posing as new English and Scottish settlers where history will come to life!

KOOL NIGHTS & HOT RODS CRUISE IN             
May 15: 4pm-until, Downtown West Jefferson
Bring a chair and your car for a night of socializing in Downtown West Jefferson! Stores and restaurants will stay open late.

HIGH COUNTRY CARS & COFFEE             
May 16, 10am-12pm, Boone Mall
We will meet in front of Hobby Lobby at Boone Mall from 10 to Noon, and will then line up for our cruise on the Blueridge Parkway! Please no burnouts or fast accelerating in the parking lot, or you will be asked not to come to future meets. We are grateful Boone Mall gives us permission to use their parking lot. Coffee and breakfast is available inside at Panera Bread.

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