Bele Chere

This weekend is the 30th year of the Asheville downtown street festival Bele Chere. Most of downtown Asheville is blocked off and over 350,000 people are estimated to attend. Bele Chere is always full of great music, local arts and crafts, children and many other events and it's free ... or mostly free - A couple of the big headliners will have a cover charge but there is plenty of free activities. See the official Bele Chere website at http://www.belecherefestival.com.

• Entertainment Schedule
• 30 Years of Bele Chere Poster Artwork

Over the past couple of years Bele Chere has been working on 'greening' the festival. This includes a couple hundred recycling and composting bins, using corn cups (that look and felel just like plastic but are plant material) as well as recycling gray water and oil.

This year promises to be even greener with the new EcoTrips shuttle service working the festival with their electric cars. Call for reservations at 828.699.1623 or 828.699.1624