Asheville NC Festivals in September
North Carolina Apple Festival
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Centered around Main Street Henderonville, NC
27 miles south of Asheville
August 29th - September 1st, 2008
Free
Four days of fun and excitement await visitors to Hendersonville's annual NC Apple Festival. This fall favorite, now centered around Historic Main Street, has been drawing locals and visitors alike for 60 plus years to enjoy an impressive array of events including music and dance, extensive arts and crafts, beauty pageants, mountain culture and heritage exhibits, apple orchard tours, and culminating the event, the King Apple Parade. The main stage is alive with sounds of local entertainers from 10:00 am - 10:00 pm Fri-Sun. This free festival begins with the opening ceremony on the Friday before Labor Day and ends Labor Day afternoon with the famed parade.
Organicfest 2008
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Battery Park Avenue
Asheville, NC
September 6th, 2008 (10:00am ~ 6:00pm)
Free
Organicfest 2008 is a celebration of everything organic! A FUNtastic day of live music, dancing, drawings for baskets of fabulous organic goodies and gift certificates, free organic samples and giveaways, an Organicfest Market on the Square featuring the finest organic: food and refreshments, clothing, herbs, flowers and natural arts and crafts. Environmental organizations will share informative conversation and help with organic living, organic gardening, farming and other earth care matters. Fun activities for kids including the Organicfest Bug Parade at 1pm. Join the celebration on Saturday, September 8th from 10am to 6pm on Battery Park Avenue in downtown Asheville!
North Carolina Mountain State Fair
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WNC Agricultural Center, Fletcher NC
13 miles south of Asheville across from the Airport
September 5th - 14th, 2008
Adults: $5.00, Children (6-12) and Seniors $2.00, Under 5 Free.
Grab your prize chicken and overalls and make your way the North Carolina's Mountain State Fair. This 10-day event draws over 150,000 folks each September to the WNC Agricultural Center to enjoy everything from "pig racing and pumpkin contests to lama shows" and all manor of live entertainment. With an extensive competition list, a wide range of entertainment at multiple venues, and endless carnival games and rides to pick from, choosing what to do first might be your biggest challenge at the NC Mountain State Fair. Check out their website for admission and competition information.
The Lexington Avenue Arts and Fun Festival
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Lexington Avenue
Downtown Asheville
September 7th, 2008, 11am to 10pm
Free
Lexington Avenue is known for its artsy culture, and this original street fair is focused on preserving and sharing that culture with the public. Wacky ideas abound, and anything goes is the name of the game here where the “creative strut their stuff and the rest of us can revel and gawk, and even get inspired and join in!” With a draw of over 10,000 in the past, LAAFF is a chance for local artists, vendors, and small businesses to showcase their wears and ideas and for the rest of us to enjoy the scenery. Monies raised support the efforts of Arts2People and the Asheville Mural Project.
Downtown After Five
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Pack Square
Downtown Asheville
September 19th, 2008
Also on June 20th, 2008; July 18th, 2008 and August 15th, 2008
Free
Pack Square Park comes alive on the third Friday of each month May thorough September for Downtown After Five, Downtown Asheville's free concert series. Come out and join the crowd that swells to over 3000 to hear a local favorite open for one of the Southeast's most popular jazz, rock, blues, funk and other family oriented bands. If your in downtown between 5-9pm on a third Friday in the summer, you won't be able to miss the sounds coming from the stage in Pack Square, and if your felling like dancing or just hanging out then make Downtown After Five part your evening.
Brewgrass Festival
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Park on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive
Downtown Asheville
September 20th, 2008
Noon - 7pm
General Admission: $30, Designated Driver: $15, Children under 7: Free
Each year in the beautiful mountains of Western North Carolina, over 30 American breweries gather to showcase more than 100 different beers. Brewgrass also features a lineup of national and regional bluegrass musicians that, in the past, has included such notables as Jimmy Martin, J.D. Crowe, The Osborne Brothers, Norman Blake, Tony Trischka, Bad Livers, Valerie Smith, Tony Furtado, Yonder Mountain String Band, and Sons Of Ralph. Put all these things together and you have the ingredients for the perfect beer day.
Fiesta Latina
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Park on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive
Downtown Asheville
Last Year's Festival was on September 22nd, 2007
Free
This fiesta is an all day celebration of Latin culture through live music, tantalizing food, storytelling, puppetry, Latin arts & crafts, and educational booths. Whether you are already a fan of these vibrant tastes and beats, or you just want to come out and experience them for the first time, make it a point to catch the Fiesta Latina at MLK Park in downtown Asheville.
Greek Festival
Martin Luther King, Jr. Park on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive
Downtown Asheville
September 22nd - 24th, 2008
11am - 4pm
Free
For three days each fall "it won't cost hundreds of dollars to go to Greece." That's because Asheville's vibrant Greek community will bring authentic foods, music and dancers in native costumes, booths with cultural education and games, and much more to Downtown Asheville's MLK Park. Take a trip to Greece this September 22 - 24th.
Friday & Saturday 11:00 am - 9:00 pm
Sunday 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
