Upcoming Events

Do you enjoy local history? Grab your coffee and join us Wednesday, June 21, at 10:30 AM for Coffee with the Curator in our Great Hall! Many of us have an original copy of Architectural Perspectives of Cleveland County, North Carolina in our homes.  This book serves as one of the greatest individual documentations of Cleveland County’s beautiful historic structures.  Now after twenty years the Historic Shelby Foundation is working on a second volume which will focus mainly on structures…

Thursday, June 22 6:00 PM $25   Click here to purchase tickets to Andrew Finn Magill Jazz Quartet     Cash bar will be available.   About Andrew Finn Magill Jazz Quartet:   North Carolina violinist/fiddler Andrew Finn Magill is a Fulbright Fellow, a South Arts Emerging Traditional Artist, a North Carolina Arts Council Fellow, an All- Ireland Fiddle finalist, and a Ropeadope Records recording artist. He has been featured on MTV-U, PBS, and multiple times on NPR. His 2016…

Join us Saturday, July 8th from 5:00pm - 7:00pm for our 9th Annual Pickin' on the Square Series!   Pickers, come jam informally around the square! All playing levels welcome. Secure instrument check is available.   Not a picker? Come and bring your family and friends and sit back and enjoy as we celebrate the tradition of bluegrass music.     The Earl Scruggs Center Gift Shop will be open during the event for guests to purchase refreshments and souvenirs.…

Thursday, July 20 6:00 PM $30   Click here to purchase tickets to The Barefoot Movement     Cash bar will be available.   About The Barefoot Movement:   “Acclaimed Americana group “The Barefoot Movement” has carved out an indelible space in the acoustic scene since their 2011 debut album, Footwork. Their sound is invigorating, infused with a captivating honesty that transports audiences to a place of complete enthrallment.   The band officially formed in North Carolina in 2006, after front…

Thursday, August 10 6:00 PM $30   Click here to purchase tickets to Mark & Maggie O'Connor   Cash bar will be available.         About Mark & Maggie O'Connor:   Mark O'Connor began his creative journey at the feet of American fiddling legend Benny Thomasson, and the iconic French jazz violinist Stéphane Grappelli. Now, at age 55, he has melded these influences into a new American classical music, and is perpetuating his vision of an American School…

Join us Saturday, August 12th from 5:00pm - 7:00pm for our 9th Annual Pickin' on the Square Series!       Pickers, come jam informally around the square! All playing levels welcome. Secure instrument check is available.   Not a picker? Come and bring your family and friends and sit back and enjoy as we celebrate the tradition of bluegrass music.     The Earl Scruggs Center Gift Shop will be open during the event for guests to purchase refreshments…