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Galleries & Performances
Blue Ridge Music Trails of North Carolina
honors traditional music that is part of the
fabric of community life. Ballads are sung as
they were hundreds of years ago. Fiddlers,
banjo players, and other musicians play from
porches to stages and keep the music alive.
The definitive guidebook for seeking these
musical experiences is updated by the Blue
Ridge National Heritage Area Partnership and
the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of
the North Carolina Department of Cultural
Resources. Learn more: blueridgemusicnc.com

The Stone Center for the Performing Arts
is 8,000 square feet of performance, banquet,
dance, and meeting space for Wilkes County
public school students. The Center also
houses the Wilkes County Hall of Fame. The Heritage Museum
adjacent Wilkes County Schools Central Office
holds a large art gallery displaying the work of
K-12 students.
613 Cherry St., North Wilkesboro, NC 28659 Bleu Moon Productions presents stage The Walker Center is a 1,130-seat
(336) 667-1121 | wilkescountyschools.org
productions, and children’s, dessert, and performing arts auditorium and 38,731 square
dinner theater performances. The troupe’s feet of multi-purpose meeting space on the
most notable annual performance, “Tom campus of Wilkes Community College. It is
Baseball is Back Dooley: A Wilkes County Legend,” is held used for management training, business and
civic meetings, and cultural activities including
outdoors and attracts an audience from
in Wilkes County! around the region. concerts and other shows.
216 9th St., North Wilkesboro, NC 28659 1328 S. Collegiate Dr., Wilkesboro, NC 28697
(336) 426-2538 (336) 838-6260 | walkercenteronline.org

Come out to cheer the Wilkes
County Moonshiners, a new
collegiate wood bat baseball
team! Part of the Old North
State League in the Western
Division, the Moonshiners’
inaugural season swings in this
summer from late May through
July. Season tickets and more:
wilkescountymoonshiners.com

10 Arts/Culture/History Wilkes Chamber of Commerce