The High Country Jazz Festival presented by Mast General Store with additional support from Explore Boone has a fabulous line-up for its third annual festival including the Brubeck Brothers Quartet (June 7), Jazzmeia Horn (June 8), and Ziad (June 9). The three headliners will perform on the stage at the Appalachian Theatre of the High Country, a historic Art Deco theatre built in 1938, renovated, and restored to a 629-seat state-of-the-art performance venue which reopened to audiences in October 2019. Other events will include a lecture at the Blowing Rock Art & History Museum, a free performance on the lawn at the Jones House Cultural & Community Center in Downtown Boone, jazz brunches and lunches, and a jam session after the performances on Friday and Saturday evenings (so bring your horn! and sit in on a set).

The High Country Jazz Festival benefits the community programs of the Boone Sunrise Rotary Club, the Appalachian Theatre, and the Jazz Studies Program at Appalachian State University.