Founded by Tom Nixon in 2005, Blue Ridge Music has an atmosphere all its own. Blue Ridge Music is 4 entities in one offering instrument and accessory sales, amp and instrument repair, a full service recording studio and a music academy offering instruction for most instruments including voice and music theory.

The Dillard Barbecue and Bluegrass Festival started in 1997 and has grown to what it is today through the hard work, dedication, and efforts of many volunteers and BBQ enthusiasts from around the country. Each year people come from across the nation to compete in this once a year event, and to listen to real Bluegrass [...]

North Georgia’s Premier Theater Company.  Dillard had long hoped to establish a Cultural Arts Center in one wing of the Dillard City Hall. The two groups were able to combine their hopes by NGCP leasing the auditorium and one wing of the Dillard City Hall (Old Dillard School).

With the goal of bringing to Rabun County some of the world’s top professionals in classical music, Gene Haywood, in 1999, formed an informal panel with fellow Sky Valley residents Sharon and John Hoppes to make this dream a reality. The Rabun County Music Festival started that year with three concerts. Rabun County Music Festival concerts [...]

The Reardon Theater is a state-of the art, beautiful 600-seat theater on the campus of the Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School. RGNS is a private college preparatory school nestled in 1,400 acres of northeast Georgia. It provides a boarding and day school student educational experience of the highest quality. Reardon Theater is a perfect venue for music, [...]