Cedar Mountain Canteen Public House & Appalachian Cultural Center, a zero-waste, employee-owned pub, bottle shop and listening room rooted in Transylvania County, North Carolina.  We welcome everyone.  We love diversity and enjoy the richness it brings.  Please visit.

Cedar Mountain Canteen Appalachian Cultural Center

Live music at least 4 days a week – 3 community jam sessions – join in!

Over 150 craft beverages, alcoholic & non-alcoholic.  Best prices on the mountain!  Free vegan food daily.

Now serving hand-dipped ice cream!  Locally-made by Artesana.

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We are deeply honored to be included as a venue on the Blue Ridge Music Trail.

Thank you to everyone who supports our music program. We are so grateful!

  •   Click here to view the live stream or recording. Poet from Chicago, rambled out to Montana, cut a banjo from a tamarack, strings across the country, foot like a freight train, voice rushing down over lush Appalachia, sings a thrush tune through the rush hour and into your long-forgotten prairie dreams. ...

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  • Song Swap with Paddle Faster

    Song Swap with Paddle Faster
    Cedar Mountain Canteen 10771 Greenville Hwy, Cedar Mountain, NC, United States

    Got a song (or three) to share? Come to the Cedar Mountain Canteen's Song Swap. Prepare your songs to bring to the group, and help lead those who want to join you. All acoustic genres and instruments welcome.

  • Bluegrass Jam with Bruce Threlkeld

    Bluegrass Jam with Bruce Threlkeld
    Cedar Mountain Canteen 10771 Greenville Hwy, Cedar Mountain, NC, United States

    Join us every Saturday afternoon from 2:00-4:00 for some fun singing, pickin’ and grinning! This jam will cater to musicians who love Bluegrass music, in it’s traditional and non-trad styles. We will focus on songs that feature vocal melodies, harmonies and instrumental breaks. Typical instrumentation includes guitars, banjos, mandolins, Reso phonic guitars ...

  • Mountain Music Jam

    Mountain Music Jam
    Cedar Mountain Canteen 10771 Greenville Hwy, Cedar Mountain, NC, United States

    This is an acoustic jam featuring mostly old time fiddle tunes led by different community members. Come bring an instrument and join in on the fun, or just sit back, listen, and enjoy!

  • Owen Grooms Presents Jacob Goins and Potluck

    Owen Grooms Monday Music Series and Potluck
    Cedar Mountain Canteen 10771 Greenville Hwy, Cedar Mountain, NC, United States

    about jacob: Jacob Goins is a folk songwriter, performer, and producer from the far west of North Carolina. His writing is born of woods, of the emergence and recession of light, and of the silence in which he lingers. He strives to make art that doesn’t sing over the quiet, but sings ...

  • Song Swap with Paddle Faster

    Song Swap with Paddle Faster
    Cedar Mountain Canteen 10771 Greenville Hwy, Cedar Mountain, NC, United States

    Got a song (or three) to share? Come to the Cedar Mountain Canteen's Song Swap. Prepare your songs to bring to the group, and help lead those who want to join you. All acoustic genres and instruments welcome.

  • Bluegrass Jam with Bruce Threlkeld

    Bluegrass Jam with Bruce Threlkeld
    Cedar Mountain Canteen 10771 Greenville Hwy, Cedar Mountain, NC, United States

    Join us every Saturday afternoon from 2:00-4:00 for some fun singing, pickin’ and grinning! This jam will cater to musicians who love Bluegrass music, in it’s traditional and non-trad styles. We will focus on songs that feature vocal melodies, harmonies and instrumental breaks. Typical instrumentation includes guitars, banjos, mandolins, Reso phonic guitars ...

  • Mountain Music Jam

    Mountain Music Jam
    Cedar Mountain Canteen 10771 Greenville Hwy, Cedar Mountain, NC, United States

    This is an acoustic jam featuring mostly old time fiddle tunes led by different community members. Come bring an instrument and join in on the fun, or just sit back, listen, and enjoy!

  • Owen Grooms Presents Wayne Bishop and Jenn Linville + Potluck

    Owen Grooms Monday Music Series and Potluck
    Cedar Mountain Canteen 10771 Greenville Hwy, Cedar Mountain, NC, United States

    Owen brings us a wonderful night of music with Wayne Bishop and Jenn Linville. Wayne Bishop was born and raised in Cedar Mountain, NC and majored in music at Brevard College. He traveled across the country and Canada singing a variety of music for 20 years with his brothers. Wayne has played shows ...

  • Song Swap with Paddle Faster

    Song Swap with Paddle Faster
    Cedar Mountain Canteen 10771 Greenville Hwy, Cedar Mountain, NC, United States

    Got a song (or three) to share? Come to the Cedar Mountain Canteen's Song Swap. Prepare your songs to bring to the group, and help lead those who want to join you. All acoustic genres and instruments welcome.

  • Bluegrass Jam with Bruce Threlkeld

    Bluegrass Jam with Bruce Threlkeld
    Cedar Mountain Canteen 10771 Greenville Hwy, Cedar Mountain, NC, United States

    Join us every Saturday afternoon from 2:00-4:00 for some fun singing, pickin’ and grinning! This jam will cater to musicians who love Bluegrass music, in it’s traditional and non-trad styles. We will focus on songs that feature vocal melodies, harmonies and instrumental breaks. Typical instrumentation includes guitars, banjos, mandolins, Reso phonic guitars ...

  • Mountain Music Jam

    Mountain Music Jam
    Cedar Mountain Canteen 10771 Greenville Hwy, Cedar Mountain, NC, United States

    This is an acoustic jam featuring mostly old time fiddle tunes led by different community members. Come bring an instrument and join in on the fun, or just sit back, listen, and enjoy!

  • Owen Grooms Presents Voodhamma and Potluck

    Owen Grooms Monday Music Series and Potluck
    Cedar Mountain Canteen 10771 Greenville Hwy, Cedar Mountain, NC, United States

    Voodhamma is the collaborative effort of John Trufant, JT Linville and Owen Grooms. With songs that run the gamut from Doc Watson and Bill Monroe to country, blues and soul, this trio is sure to entertain with 3 part harmonies and some electrifying pickin’. -------------------------------------------------- We will be hosting a potluck dinner this evening.  Please ...

  • Song Swap with Paddle Faster

    Song Swap with Paddle Faster
    Cedar Mountain Canteen 10771 Greenville Hwy, Cedar Mountain, NC, United States

    Got a song (or three) to share? Come to the Cedar Mountain Canteen's Song Swap. Prepare your songs to bring to the group, and help lead those who want to join you. All acoustic genres and instruments welcome.

  • Bluegrass Jam with Bruce Threlkeld

    Bluegrass Jam with Bruce Threlkeld
    Cedar Mountain Canteen 10771 Greenville Hwy, Cedar Mountain, NC, United States

    Join us every Saturday afternoon from 2:00-4:00 for some fun singing, pickin’ and grinning! This jam will cater to musicians who love Bluegrass music, in it’s traditional and non-trad styles. We will focus on songs that feature vocal melodies, harmonies and instrumental breaks. Typical instrumentation includes guitars, banjos, mandolins, Reso phonic guitars ...

  • Mountain Music Jam

    Mountain Music Jam
    Cedar Mountain Canteen 10771 Greenville Hwy, Cedar Mountain, NC, United States

    This is an acoustic jam featuring mostly old time fiddle tunes led by different community members. Come bring an instrument and join in on the fun, or just sit back, listen, and enjoy!

  • Owen Grooms Presents Haden’s Birthday Fiddle Fest and Potluck

    Owen Grooms Monday Music Series and Potluck
    Cedar Mountain Canteen 10771 Greenville Hwy, Cedar Mountain, NC, United States

    Come one, come all, to celebrate Haden's 18th Birthday with an evening of great fiddling and song! Several of Haden's fiddle heroes will be in attendance: Mark Wingate, Adam Masters, Brian VanAntwerp and others will be our special guests for the evening. We will be outside if at all possible and have ...

  • Andrea Randa – “As Above So Below” – Album Release Show

    Cedar Mountain Canteen 10771 Greenville Hwy, Cedar Mountain, NC, United States

    Folk, Americana, Rock, and a dash of Jazz, are the musical vehicles for the expression of life’s journey in As Above So Below. Stories and lessons of passion, personal love, compassion, standing in one’s truth, and ultimately the recognition of Spirit moving in, through, and all around us, remind us of who ...

  • Song Swap with Paddle Faster

    Song Swap with Paddle Faster
    Cedar Mountain Canteen 10771 Greenville Hwy, Cedar Mountain, NC, United States

    Got a song (or three) to share? Come to the Cedar Mountain Canteen's Song Swap. Prepare your songs to bring to the group, and help lead those who want to join you. All acoustic genres and instruments welcome.

  • Bluegrass Jam with Bruce Threlkeld

    Bluegrass Jam with Bruce Threlkeld
    Cedar Mountain Canteen 10771 Greenville Hwy, Cedar Mountain, NC, United States

    Join us every Saturday afternoon from 2:00-4:00 for some fun singing, pickin’ and grinning! This jam will cater to musicians who love Bluegrass music, in it’s traditional and non-trad styles. We will focus on songs that feature vocal melodies, harmonies and instrumental breaks. Typical instrumentation includes guitars, banjos, mandolins, Reso phonic guitars ...

  • Mountain Music Jam

    Mountain Music Jam
    Cedar Mountain Canteen 10771 Greenville Hwy, Cedar Mountain, NC, United States

    This is an acoustic jam featuring mostly old time fiddle tunes led by different community members. Come bring an instrument and join in on the fun, or just sit back, listen, and enjoy!

  • Owen Grooms Presents Nicholas Edward Williams and Potluck

    Owen Grooms Monday Music Series and Potluck
    Cedar Mountain Canteen 10771 Greenville Hwy, Cedar Mountain, NC, United States

    Nicholas Edward Williams is an Asheville, NC based multi-instrumentalist, storyteller and musicologist who is dedicated to preserving America's music history. He's the producer and host of the roots music history podcast American Songcatcher as well as WNCW's live radio show Roots Music Revue. He's also a front man in the Appalachian old time trio Pickers Anonymous, ...

  • Song Swap with Paddle Faster

    Song Swap with Paddle Faster
    Cedar Mountain Canteen 10771 Greenville Hwy, Cedar Mountain, NC, United States

    Got a song (or three) to share? Come to the Cedar Mountain Canteen's Song Swap. Prepare your songs to bring to the group, and help lead those who want to join you. All acoustic genres and instruments welcome.

  • Bluegrass Jam with Bruce Threlkeld

    Bluegrass Jam with Bruce Threlkeld
    Cedar Mountain Canteen 10771 Greenville Hwy, Cedar Mountain, NC, United States

    Join us every Saturday afternoon from 2:00-4:00 for some fun singing, pickin’ and grinning! This jam will cater to musicians who love Bluegrass music, in it’s traditional and non-trad styles. We will focus on songs that feature vocal melodies, harmonies and instrumental breaks. Typical instrumentation includes guitars, banjos, mandolins, Reso phonic guitars ...

  • Mountain Music Jam

    Mountain Music Jam
    Cedar Mountain Canteen 10771 Greenville Hwy, Cedar Mountain, NC, United States

    This is an acoustic jam featuring mostly old time fiddle tunes led by different community members. Come bring an instrument and join in on the fun, or just sit back, listen, and enjoy!