Start and end your Downtown Boone Art Crawl with live music this Friday, June 5. Roots performers The Lazybirds and folk-soul musician Crys Matthews perform in the first installment of the Concerts on the Lawn series at the Jones House at 5:00 p.m. Later, funk-hip hop band BPL rounds out the evening at Caf Portofino, beginning at 10:00 p.m.

With the N.C. House of Representatives approving a slight increase to the number of charter schools in the state, there could be room for expansion even as education funding is undergoing debate.

Can’t make it to the Watauga County Farmers’ Market on Saturday? Try the High Country Farmers’ Market, taking place on Sundays at Earth Fare in Boone.