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July 2023
Center Stage Concert Series: The Barefoot Movement
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, is the brainchild of founding members Noah Wall and Tommy Norris. Emerging on the acoustic scene in 2011, they have continually navigated the alt-bluegrass waters through the years while refining that which gives them their particular sound. Invigorating and infused with a captivating honesty, The…
Find out more »Hiroya Tsukamoto Concert at Dragonfly Wine Market
Shelby, NC 28150 United States + Google Map
Saturday, July 22 7:00pm - 9:00pm We're thrilled to partner with Dragonfly Wine Market to host Hiroya Tsukamoto. Hiroya Tsukamoto is an innovative guitarist and composer who fuses folk, jazz, and world music. Born and raised in Japan. In 2000 he received a scholarship to Berklee College of music and came to the U.S. Tsukamoto’s instrumental abilities are indeed breathtaking and astounding, but his performances are so much more than that. He has the unique capability of engaging an audience…
Find out more »August 2023
Coffee & Catawba Pottery: Exhibit Opening Celebration
Join us Tuesday, August 8, from 10am - 12pm as we celebrate our new exhibition, Language of Clay: Catawba Indian Pottery and Oral Tradition. View the exhibit, chat with the curator, and enjoy coffee and pastries. Click here to RSVP to the exhibit opening.
Find out more »SOLD OUT – Center Stage Concert Series: Mark & Maggie O’Connor
Thursday, August 10 6:00 PM $30 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 of String Playing. Mr. O’Connor has won three Grammys, seven…
Find out more »August Pickin’ on the Square
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…
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Coffee with the Curator
All aboard! If you are a railroad enthusiast or even just curious about the impact that railroads have had on Cleveland County, you won’t want to miss Coffee with the Curator on August 16 at 10:30 am. Earl Scruggs Center Assistant Director Zach Dressel will be joined by Tommy Forney and Ladley Burn, two local railroad experts and co-authors of the book The Lawndale Railway and Industrial Company, in a discussion about how trains changed the entire Cleveland County economy…
Find out more »September 2023
Earl Scruggs Music Festival
Mill Spring, NC 28756 United States
The Earl Scruggs Music Festival honors the life and legacy of American icon and musical legend, Earl Scruggs, who was born in the small Flint Hill community of nearby Cleveland County, NC. It was here in this region, surrounded by a musical family and a host of influences, where Mr. Scruggs laid the foundation for his influential and groundbreaking career. Best known for bringing the “Scruggs style” of playing the 5-string banjo to the world, he crossed musical boundaries and…
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM FREE Curious about the cultural impact of Native Americans on Cleveland County? For September’s Coffee with the Curator join Earl Scruggs Center Assistant Director Zach Dressel and Dr. Stephen Criswell, Director of Native American Studies at USC-Lancaster, for an examination of the tradition of Catawba Indian Pottery. This Coffee with the Curator is programmed in conjunction with the Language of Clay exhibit currently on display at the Earl Scruggs Center. …
Find out more »October 2023
Coffee with the Curator
Shelby, NC 28150 United States + Google Map
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM $10 Get in the mood for spooky season with the ESC’s Zach Dressel and special guests Joe Depriest and Dr. June Hobbs with a curated tour of Sunset Cemetery in Uptown Shelby. One of Cleveland County's oldest burial places, Sunset Cemetery has been operating continuously since the early 1840s. Preeminent scholars of Shelby's historic hallowed ground and authors of Tales and Tombstones of Sunset Cemetery, Depriest and Dr. Hobbs look…
Find out more »November 2023
Coffee with the Curator
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM FREE In a belated commemoration of Veteran’s Day, embark on a journey through nearly 200 years of Cleveland County military history. This month's Coffee with the Curator will feature a pop-up exhibit showing dozens of military artifacts from the Cleveland County Historical Collection. Highlights include a vest owned by a Revolutionary War veteran, a drum carried through the Civil War, a Spanish-American War uniform, German radio equipment from World War I, a Bomber…
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