Celebrating 101 Years of Old-Time & Bluegrass Music! Youth and adult fiddle competitions followed by live performances, marking the beginning of the convention's second century.

Mountain City Fiddlers’ Convention

Heritage Hall Theatre

A different kind of Beatles experience that combines great Beatles classics with hilarious antics.

The WannaBeatles

This musical journey travels through a war that re-defined the world. The music is mingled with letters from the Front and headline news of the time. David zum Brunnen and Serena Ebhardt fill the stage with wartime memories and tunes.

War Bonds – the Songs and Letters of World War II

The Long Journey Home weekend will close with a traditional Sunday Singin’. You’ll hear traditional mountain gospel that will leave with your spirit filled with joy. Free to the public.

Long Journey Home – Sunday Singin’

As part of this year's Long Journey Home festival, Portraits of Home is an evening of authentic Appalachian storytelling and traditional music that celebrates the people, places, and memories that make Johnson County unique. Through a collection of short stories and timeless songs performed by community members, you'll experience the spirit of the mountains—from bean picking and tobacco farming to front porch music, family traditions, and the everyday moments that have shaped generations.

Long Journey Home – Portraits of Home

This intimate night of acoustic music with 3 time Grammy winner Linda Davis and hit songwriters Lang Scott and Bill Whyte will provide hits, humor and pure entertainment. These seasoned performers are regulars at the Grand Old Opry and never fail to please audiences!

Linda Davis and Evening in the Round

Bil Lepp is an American storyteller and humorist. He is also a five time winner of the West Virginia State Liars' Contest and a doggone funny guy.

Bil Lepp

Johnson County Community Theater presents "One Stoplight Town" by Tracy Wells. A story about people from a small town: a young boy and girl falling in love, a cantankerous grocery store owner coping with change, a son returning home while a daughter thinks about running away, and the town's handyman fixing what is broken. Produced by special arrangement with the Dramatic Publishing Company of Woodstock, Illinois.

One Stoplight Town

Nashville's premiere Motown, Funk and 80's band featuring the Kiss My Brass horn line, with a song list ranging from Chicago and Aretha Franklin to Earth, Wind and Fire, the Cranberries, The Ides of March and Stevie Wonder.

Stoopid Kool and Kiss My Brass

Heritage Hall's Summer Series, featuring local talent. Performers: Cameron Clawson (traditional country) and Just Chuck (acoustic Americana, Classic Country and Rock).

Summer Sessions #2

Heritage Hall's Summer Series, featuring local talent, returns to Heritage Hall Theatre in 2026! Featuring Chasing Joy with Karen Miller (blues, jazz, classic rock with gospel influence) and Sam Phipps and Bluegrass Sounds (bluegrass and gospel).

Summer Sessions #1

Concert by Kenny Price, a Johnson County musician, blending traditional mountain music with the stories behind the region's musical history.

Kenny Price

Jeff Jablonki and Jeff Radi discovered they had more in common than just their first names – both harbored a mutual passion for the music of the early years of rock and roll, specifically the folk music era. Their amazing ability to harmonize and recreate the sounds of music from a bygone era is profoundly synchronistic, and lends a magical touch to the lyrics and timeless rhythm of this tribute show.

Sounds of Simon & Garfunkel

The Kody Norris Show is a bluegrass music group known for their high energy performances and catchy tunes and the reigning SPBGMA Entertainers of the Year. Heritage Hall Theatre is Kody's home theatre for this locally grown product! $20 advance and $25 at the door – youth $5

The Kody Norris Show

The Johnson County Junior Appalachian Musicians (JAM) program is a year-long, community-based traditional music education initiative that provides weekly instruction to school-age children during the academic year supplemented with performance opportunities in the summer months. The program is dedicated to the preservation, transmission, and celebration of Appalachian old-time and bluegrass music using an instructional model rooted in the region's living musical traditions.

JAM Jamboree

Wayne, a luthier from Grayson County, VA, plays a unique finger picking style. He has performed all over the world and in 1995 was awarded the White House National Heritage Fellowship in recognition of his extraordinary instrument making.

Wayne Henderson and Friends

The story follows the grumpy ogre, Shrek, who just wants to live alone in his swamp, but finds it invaded by fairy tale creatures. Accompanied by a talkative donkey and the Princess Fiona he begins his quest.

Shrek, the Musical

Bluegrass/celtic infusion. Their diverse backgrounds in folk and classical have allowed them to hone their art embracing a wide range of genres.

The Fiddler and the Flutist

Annual Veterans Day Celebration honoring Johnson County veterans, featuring a ceremony with speeches from local dignitaries, veterans, and community leaders, patriotic musical performances by local talent, and a veterans recognition segment. Admission is free, first-come, first-served.

2025 Veterans Day Celebration

Local singers, dancers, comedians, and more showcase their unique skills at the Johnson County Community Foundation Talent Show. All proceeds go toward local initiatives and programs that benefit the community.

2025 Annual Talent Show

Matt Fore makes people laugh! The technique of hysterical one-liners and surprisingly impossible feats of magic make for a show whose motto is "not a dry seat in the house!"

Matt Fore

A young orphan named Billy discovers magic in a stolen hat, and when he places it on a snowman's head, that snowman comes to life! Can Frosty help Billy find his real family in time for Christmas? Join them on a thrilling quest through New York City as they discover the real magic of the Season is Love.

Frosty

Nashville Grammy nominated singer "Rowdy McCarran" brings the George Strait experience with hits like All My Exes, Check Yes or No and of course Amarillo by Morning plus many more of the timeless music of this country legend.

Amarillo by Morning – The George Strait Tribute

In our American culture It's a Wonderful Life has become almost as familiar as Dickens' A Christmas Carol. The story is a natural for a stage adaptation: the saga of George Bailey, the Everyman from the small town of Bedford Falls, whose dreams of escape and adventure have been quashed by family obligation and civic duty, whose guardian angel has to descent on Christmas Eve to save him from despair and to remind him that his has been, after all, a wonderful life. This faithful adaptation has all your favorite characters: George, Mary Hatch, Clarence, Uncle Billy, Violet and, of course, the Scrooge-like villain, Mr. Potter.

It's a Wonderful Life

A Christmas concert presented by the Johnson County Community Choir and Johnson County Young Artists under the direction of Marie-Jo Thum. The first half celebrates holiday parties, movies, and caroling with children and adult choristers; the second half, after intermission, rejoices in the birth of the Savior with Scripture, beloved carols, and sacred song. Admission is by donation of non-perishable foods for local food pantries.

Heritage Hall Theater

Nov 7, 2026

Matt Fore

Nov 9, 2026

Frosty

Nov 21, 2026

Amarillo by Morning – The George Strait Tribute

Dec 6, 2026

It's a Wonderful Life

Dec 13, 2026

The Happiness and Holiness of Christmas

Oct 3, 2026

Mountain City Fiddlers’ Convention

Sep 26, 2026

The WannaBeatles

Heritage Hall Theater