Community Calendar

One of the country’s longest-running film festivals, Mountainfilm on Tour, returns for another season of the Lees-McRae High Country Adventure Film and Speaker Series, this year featuring a live music performance before the screening of the latest lineup of documentary short films.

Mountainfilm’s mission is to use the power of the film medium to inspire audiences to create a better world. Each year they showcase the most inspiring, culturally rich, and adventurous documentary short films that highlight some of the best parts about the outdoors.

Join us on Friday, February 21, 2026 at 7:00 pm for Kelsey Waldon and Gabe Lee at the Jackson Theatre in Historic Jonesborough, TN.

Kelsey Waldon has earned wide praise for her “self-penned compositions [with] the patina of authenticity” (Rolling Stone). On her new album, Every Ghost, she confronts addiction, grief, generational trauma, and even herself — and comes through it stronger and at peace. Her fearlessness is among the reasons she landed at Oh Boy Records in 2019, as the independent label’s first new signee in 15 years. It’s attracted fans to her headline tours and her festival sets, and prompted artists including Tyler Childers, Charley Crockett, Robert Earl Keen, Margo Price, and Lucinda Williams to invite her on tour. It helped earn her both the title of “Kentucky Colonel” — an honor recognizing goodwill ambassadors of Kentucky’s culture and traditions — and a spot in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s annual American Currents exhibit in 2024.

Storytelling has been an anchor of Gabe Lee’s music since the very beginning. He launched his career as a genre-bending musician after returning to Tennessee, quickly progressing from dive bar gigs to high-profile opening slots (including shows with Jason Isbell, Los Lobos, and other artists who, like him, blurred the lines between roots-rock, country, and other forms of American folk music) to his own headlining shows. Lee isn’t just writing songs about himself; he’s writing songs about all of us. And maybe, in doing so, he can bring us a little closer together.

Tickets are between $15-$25 for reserved seating and can be purchased at THEJACKSONTHEATRE.COM

Join us on Friday, February 27, 2026 at 7:00 pm for Uptown Dueling Pianos at the Jackson Theatre in Historic Jonesborough, TN.

From North Carolina to South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and beyond — Uptown Dueling Pianos brings the ultimate interactive, all-request, sing-it-loud, dance-all-night entertainment. Since 2009, they’ve entertained the Southeast with everything from Billy and Elton to Taylor and Tupac. Their three-hour high-energy show combines the energy of a rock concert with the intimacy of a piano bar — every song is driven by audience requests, every show is unique, and every guest leaves singing.

Live Music by Mic Harrison and The High Score

Supporting their new record "Peach Blossom Youth"

Mic is formerly from The V-Roys