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.

Bring the family and play in the Little River!  Great way to spend a summer day!

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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!

2026-06-27T00:00:00-04:00
  • 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.

  • Owen Grooms Presents Spalding McIntosh and Potluck

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

    “Spalding McIntosh is a singer songwriter and a Brevard native. Playing shows all across the southern states and beyond, he has put in the time and the effort to really have an original sounds. His writings of home, love and the challenges of manhood are sure to capture any audience.” -Pat Clements ...

  • 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!

  • 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 ...

  • Trivia

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

    Join us every other Friday from 6:30 to whenever as we enjoy a night of Trivia with host Tod Schmidt.  Always a lot of laughs.

  • 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.

  • Owen Grooms Presents Dave Desmelik and Potluck

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

    Dave Desmelik is a singer-songwriter and instrumentalist whose musical focus is on original compositions. What attracts listeners to Desmelik’s tunes, old and new, is the element of authenticity incorporated in them. There is no sugar coating involved. His songs are not wrapped in false smiles, rather they are stark and open and ...

  • 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!

  • 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 ...

  • 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.

  • Owen Grooms Presents Owen Walsh and Potluck

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

    Owen Walsh has been telling stories and performing music his entire life. Born and raised on the banks of the Lackawaxen River in Honesdale, Pennsylvania—a small, historic coal-mining town that spawned the American railroad—Owen grew up surrounded by relics of 19th Century American life and imagery ripe for musical exploitation. More than ...

  • 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!

  • 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 ...

  • Trivia

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

    Join us every other Friday from 6:30 to whenever as we enjoy a night of Trivia with host Tod Schmidt.  Always a lot of laughs.

  • 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.

  • Owen Grooms Presents Old Sap and Jackson Grimm + Potluck

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

    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. Folk. Folk Rock. Americana. Old Sap has just released a ...

  • 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!

  • Amateur Radio Class – Community Reliance – Communication Resilience & Potluck

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

    Join us and Greg Fenton for an overview on staying "Cedar Mountain Connected" using amateur radio.  The class will start at 5 pm.  Since it goes through dinner time we are hosting a potluck with the class.  If conditions are favorable, we will light a fire in our ring afterwards.  Looking forward ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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.

  • Owen Grooms Presents David Matters and Jackson Dulaney + Potluck

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

    David Matters of the band Life Like Water, and virtuoso multi-instrumentalist Jackson Dulaney take the stage at the Canteen! "Life Like Water has harvested a sound from the mountains of North Carolina that is uniquely suited to satisfy the needs of a world that is waking up. Some of their songs are ...

  • 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!

  • 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 ...

  • Trivia

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

    Join us every other Friday from 6:30 to whenever as we enjoy a night of Trivia with host Tod Schmidt.  Always a lot of laughs.

  • 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.

  • Owen Grooms Presents Alex Ball and Potluck

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

    Alex and Owen first met at old time parties in Asheville back in 2012 and formed a duo called the Franklin Rattlers soon thereafter. They have been playing old time and bluegrass tunes, Alex’s original music, and covers from folks like Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead, ever since. Alex’s vocals, guitar ...

  • 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!

  • 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 ...

  • 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.

  • Owen Grooms Presents Jackson Grimm and Potluck

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

    Jackson Grimm marries folk pop melodies with the lonesome sound of traditional Appalachian music. In a region with a strong music culture, it is no surprise that Grimm's songwriting is representative of his musical birthplace: Asheville, NC. His songs run the gambit from an homage to a traditional country waltz in "If ...