Events

Colorful Characters of the Great Smoky Mountains with Bob Plott Please join us for yet another informative, entertaining and fun afternoon and evening of history, food and music in Part IV of our Heritage Book Series, as award winning author [...]

MOTHER NATURE’S NATURAL GARDEN PROGRAMS ILA HATTER.  The event starts on Saturday, July 9th at 10:00AM` with a program featuring the legendary wildcrafting expert, renowned author, filmmaker, instructor and tour guide for the GSM National Park’s elite GSM Field School [...]

The Meadowlark Smoky Mountain Heritage Center and Meadowlark Motel proudly announce another great mountain heritage event for 2022 – an evening of dinner and dancing with the legendary Jonathan Creek Cloggers on Saturday night, Nov 12th. Our evening begins with [...]

Please join us in spending an intimate and enchanting afternoon with a true Appalachian treasure, Davy Arch. Davy is a world-famous Cherokee tribal historian and award-winning craftsman of traditional Cherokee crafts, specifically masks and baskets—and beloved spokesman for the eastern [...]

SONGWRITERS CAMP AND CONCERT WITH GRAMMY WINNING ARTISTS JIM LAUDERDALE AND CHARLES HUMPHREYS III, ALONG WITH AWARD WINNING ARTISTS DARREN NICHOLSON, CLAY MILLS AND CHARLES CHAMBERLAIN. A two-day event of interactive songwriting instruction with world class musicians, a demo tape [...]

The Meadowlark Motel & Smoky Mountain Heritage Center are proud to announce a world-class heritage cooking event curated and hosted by Haywood County native and Motel owner, Joseph Franklyn McElroy. Join Joseph and his guests: Meadowlark Motel GM Boyd Burton, [...]

Steve began playing piano at age 3 and there has been some slight improvement. After high school he performed in clubs, restaurants, honky tonk bars, and anywhere else he could play for food, tips, drinks, and various other  assorted methods [...]

Martin Vee is a multi-stylist. He plays eclectic-acoustic. Americana, acoustic rock and folk. Latin stylings and World Music. Martin has been singing and playing guitar/violin from an early age. He grew up in the tradition of East European blues and [...]

The Blaxcotsman (aka Mike Ogletree) was born and grew up in Scotland. His mother was a Scottish woman and his father, an African/American, was from Birmingham, Alabama. The blend of these cultural influences over time have given him a unique [...]