The Free Rein Center for Therapeutic Riding and Education will host its annual "The Mane Event" fundraising gala from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13, at the newly renovated... — Updated 9/5/2018

The 13th Annual Mountain Song Festival will return to the Brevard Music Center Sept. 7-9, featuring singer-songwriter Robert Earl Keen, blues icon Taj Majal and host band the Steep... — Updated 8/24/2018

Banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck will host a one-of-a-kind concert at Brevard Music Center, featuring himself and four of today's greatest banjo players, on Saturday, Aug. 18. The... — Updated 7/23/2018

On Wednesday, May 30, from 6-10 p.m. at the Brevard Lumberyard, the fourth annual JAM Jam will raise most of the year's budget for the Junior Appalachian Musicians (JAM) Program at... — Updated 5/23/2018

Editor's Note: The following are some of the top news stories that appeared in The Transylvania Times during 2017. OCTOBER •The Transylvania County Historical Society announced... — Updated 12/29/2017

Editor's Note: The following are some of the top news stories that appeared in The Transylvania Times during 2017. JANUARY •John Johnson would have to wait roughly 12 months to tr... — Updated 12/29/2017

Steep Canyon Rangers were inducted into the N.C. Music Hall of Fame Thursday during a ceremony in Kannapolis. "It was an amazing honor to be inducted into the Hall of Fame," said... — Updated 10/24/2017

The lineup for the 12th Annual Mountain Song Festival has been announced, and will feature up-and-coming female bluegrass stars Molly Tuttle and Sierra Hull, a rare appearance by... — Updated 8/7/2017

Carolina Blue takes the stage at the DFR room on Saturday, June 10, at 7:30 p.m. The Brevard based bluegrass band has roots that run deep in the tradition of Bill Monroe and Flatt... — Updated 6/7/2017

On Tuesday, May 9, from 6-10 p.m. at the Brevard Lumberyard, the third annual JAM Jam will raise most of the year's budget for the Junior Appalachian Musicians (JAM) Program at the... — Updated 5/1/2017

"I would like to make that my home one day," Woody Platt would say, as he passed by the white 1930s farmhouse nestled between rolling hills with the East Fork of the French Broad... — Updated 3/1/2017

Two neighboring local landowners recently teamed up to return a section of the East Fork of the French Broad River to a more natural state. The severely eroded stream bank was... — Updated 11/29/2016

Some say bluegrass music was born in the mountains of Appalachia. It's fitting that the man some consider to be the greatest banjo player on earth is headed back to the mountains,... — Updated 6/20/2016

Mountain Song Productions and the Can'd Aid Foundation will present Jam for JAM, a fundraiser for the Junior Appalachian Musicians of Transylvania County, to be held May 18 at 5:30... — Updated 5/9/2016

There was plenty of celebrating and a few smooches as the clock struck midnight and revelers at the Oskar Blues Hootenanny said goodbye to 2015 and welcomed in the New Year. The... — Updated 1/4/2016

Mountain Song Productions and Brevard College present two performances by Brevard's own, Grammy Award winning Steep Canyon Rangers at the Porter Center for Performing Arts on the ca... — Updated 11/9/2015

Western North Carolina's own Steep Canyon Rangers will be performing songs from their new top-selling album "Radio" when they come to Western Carolina University Monday, Oct. 19, to... — Updated 10/12/2015

Grammy Award-winning bluegrass supergroup Steep Canyon Rangers will perform at a membership concert for the Western Carolina University Friends of the Arts at 7:30 p.m. Monday,... — Updated 9/2/2015

Ten years ago, local musicians John Felty and Woody Platt were looking for a way to raise needed money for the Cindy Platt Boys & Girls Club of Transylvania County and host a... — Updated 8/12/2015

The worlds of bluegrass and classical music will collaborate, not collide, Tuesday evening when Steep Canyon Rangers are joined onstage by the Brevard Sinfonia under the direction... — Updated 6/24/2015