The time has come, mark your calendars for Saturday February 21, 2026 at The Appalachian Theatre in Downtown Boone, NC.
Join us for a visual chronicling of the 2025 Boonerang Music & Arts Festival. The film will explore the origins of the term “Boonerang,” the music & arts festival itself, why people come back to the area, the regional impacts of Hurricane Helene, and the importance of the 2025 festival being the first one since the community faced the tragedy of a natural disaster.
Through the lens of local leaders, musicians, artists, and festival organizers we learn what makes this creative community so tight knit, and why people are drawn back to Boone and the surrounding areas.
We hope you will join us! Please spread the word!
Visit Boonerang: Returning to the High Country to learn more.
The Town of Boone is a North Carolina Main Street community, designated by the N.C. Department of Commerce Main Street & Rural Planning Center.
The Downtown Boone Development Association is charged with administering the program at the local level and building public-private partnership to spur economic development that achieves measurable results such as investment, business growth, and job creation.
Nationally recognized. Locally powered.
Main Street America™ has been helping revitalize older and historic commercial districts for more than 35 years. Today it is a network of more than 1,600 neighborhoods and communities, rural and urban, who share both a commitment to place and to building stronger communities through preservation-based economic development. Main Street America is a program of the nonprofit National Main Street Center, a subsidiary of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.