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Blue Ridge Music Trail Performance
Jarrett Wildcatt Blue Ridge Music Trail Performance

Wilkes culTivATes culTure: gAlleries & perForMAnces
Just try to keep your foot from tapping! Blue Ridge Music Trails of The Understudies Production Company is committed to
North Carolina honors traditional music that is central to the fabric of keeping theatre in the community and the community in theatre,
our community life. Fiddlers, banjo players, and other musicians play sharing a percentage of ticket sales with nonprofit partners in the
from porches to stages and keep the music alive. To find these musical community. Performances take place at various venues in the county.
experiences, visit blueridgemusicnc.com theunderstudies.org
A new curtain has parted at Benton Hall in North Wilkesboro. Wilkes The Walker Center is a 1,029-seat performing arts auditorium
Playmakers and Bleu Moon Productions of Wilkesboro have joined and multi-purpose event space on the campus of Wilkes Community
forces, creating a unified organization to showcase and foster local College. walkercenteronline.org
arts. Following a ribbon-cutting ceremony last fall, the partnership Inside a 1925 post office building, the Wilkes Art Gallery (WAG),
has strengthened community engagement, offering broader artistic offers classes, workshops, meet-the-artist events, and special
programming and more dynamic performances. The two organizations outreach projects. WAG hosts exhibitions for community artists to
will co-produce the annual “Tom Dooley: A Wilkes County Legend.” show their work; admission is always free. Enjoy the gift shop with
wilkesplaymakers.com works for sale from more than 60 regional artisans. wilkesartgallery.org

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