It’s time to resurrect your festival fits, Asheville. We rounded up 14 regional festivals that will be returning (or debuting) in the Asheville area this spring.

Have a festival you'd like to add to the list? Email us. And stay tuned for our next installment of this series, where we'll share summer festivals.

Camping at LEAF Festival | Photo courtesy of LEAF Community Arts

Music

Bear Shadow | Friday, April 28-Sunday, April 30 | Winfield Farm, 250 Winfield Farm Rd., Highlands | $150-$775 | Headliners for this music festival include Spoon, The Head And The Heart, & Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit.

Asheville Amadeus Festival | Thursday, May 11-Saturday, May 20 | Prices, locations, and times vary | This annual music festival is taking an Americana and Bluegrass theme this year, with headliners Béla Fleck and Kishi Bashi.

LEAF Retreat | Thursday, May 11-Sunday, May 14 | 377 Lake Eden Rd., Black Mountain | $164-$239 | Embrace the “old school magic” of this iconic camping festival with a smaller, more intimate gathering. The lineup includes musicians such as The Headhunters and Arise Roots — plus workshops, panel discussions + other culture-focused activities.

A star loaf of bread from the Asheville Bread Festival. | Photo via @ashevillebreadfest

Food

Asheville Bread Festival | Saturday, April 22-Sunday, April 23 | Prices, locations, and times vary | The 16th edition of this annual event includes workshops, tastings, demos, and other bread-centric events.

Cider, Wine & Dine Weekend | Friday, April 21-Sunday, April 23 | Various times, locations, and prices | Several local wineries and cideries will partner for this weekend of cider, wine, and food.

Arts and culture

369 Short Play and Monologue Festival | Thursday, April 6-Saturday, April 22 | Tina McGuire Theatre, 18 Biltmore Ave. | Various times and prices | See nine heartwarming, dramatic, funny, and provocative original works from emerging Black Playwrights over the course of three weekends.

Asheville Ideas Fest | Tuesday, June 13-Saturday, June 17 | Various locations | $1,350+ | Check out discussions and lectures by global thought leaders such as Sanjay Gupta, Juju Chang, and Tom Friedman.

The Asheville Herb Festival. | Photo by Stephanie Rogers

Plants and nature

Asheville Orchid Festival | Saturday, April 1-Sunday, April 2 | 9 a.m.-5 p.m. | The North Carolina Arboretum, 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Wy.| $5 | This annual fest features world-class orchid growers and breeders, with hundreds of orchids on display, plus other programs + learning opportunities.