PINEPITCH
PinePitch
August 2026
Live After 5
Dance at least part of the night away to the Chapel Hill-based, 10-piece band Liquid Pleasure at Live After 5 on Friday, Aug. 14, at the Village Arboretum, 375 Magnolia Road, Pinehurst. Scarlet Tantrum cranks things up at 5:15, and the music ends at 9 p.m. There will be stuff to keep the kids happy and food trucks for anyone who works up an appetite. For more information go to www.vopnc.org.
Money Monsters
Ever wonder where all that money went? Well Doug Lynam, the author of Taming Your Money Monster will break your problem down into nine “personalities” and offer a way to tame each one of them at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 29, at the Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. For more information go to www.sppl.net.
Hot Time in the Old Town
If it’s August it must be First Friday. Florencia & The Feeling, a funk, jazz, Latin-flair pop quintet from Johnson City, Tennessee, takes the stage at 5 p.m. (or thereabouts) on the greenspace beside the Sunrise Theater, 250 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines, on, yes, Friday, Aug. 7. The band starred at the 2025 FloydFest and the 2024 MerleFest, if all that festing sounds good to you. The local rules don’t change just because it’s hot as you-know-what. No doggies, no outside moonshine. Well, fact is, there isn’t even any inside moonshine, but there will be beer and wine for sale. For more information you can always check out www.sunrisetheater.com
Double Vision
The dueling art openings for August happen on Friday, Aug. 7. The Arts Council of Moore County’s opening reception for the Fine Arts Festival is from 6 – 8 p.m. at the Campbell House, 482 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. The art will remain on display through Aug. 26. For more information go to www.mooreart.org. The Artists League of the Sandhills’ opening reception for “More Than Miniatures — Small Wonders” is from 5 – 7 p.m. at 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. The art hangs until Aug. 28. Get more information at www.artistleague.org.
Wrap Your Arms Around This
Weymouth Equestrians will hold two sessions of “Hug-a-Horse” at 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 22, at the Weymouth Center barn, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. The squeezing, hugging and patting are free, but tickets are required and limited to 15 per session. For more information go to www.weymouthcenter.org
Pinkie Fingers Up
Enjoy a spot of tea and a gallery crawl in Seagrove on Saturday, Aug. 8, visiting Blue Hen Pottery, Dean & Martin Pottery, Eck McCanless Pottery, From the Ground Up, Red Hare Pottery and Thomas Pottery. You can run hot and cold with fancy new tea ware or iced tea pitchers and tumblers. Shops are open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. along the N.C. Pottery Highway. Maps are available at all the shops. Each stop will have tea from Carriage House Tea, and homemade treats and samples from The Table in Asheboro and the Seagrove Café.
Get Your Pollen On
On Friday, Aug. 7, the Southern Pines Public Library and Moore County Master Gardeners will give a presentation at SPPL, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., at 10:30 a.m. on what a pollinator is and why they’re important. Then you can put that knowledge to good use on Saturday, Aug. 22, at 9 a.m., by joining citizen scientists all across the Southeast when you gather data counting pollinators in the gardens at Sandhills Community College. Registration is required. For info on the pollinator presentation go to www.sppl.net, and to join the pollinator census go to www.sandhills.edu/gardenevents.
All Jazzed Up
The Come Sunday Jazz series presents the Brian Felix Organ Trio on Sunday, Aug. 23, at 2 p.m. on the lawn of the Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Rooted in organ-driven jazz, funk and soul, the trio blends reggae, samba, gospel and surf rock into its distinctive, unified vision. For additional info go to www.weymouthcenter.org.
Cruising Altitude
The Nashville-based jam band Airshow performs live with special guest Retrograde at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 22, at The Jive Hive, 2151 Vass-Carthage Road, Carthage. Formed by Cody Chelius and Steve Gallagher, along with Bill Baker and John Rodrigue, the foursome delivers a unique contrast of acoustic and mind-bending electric sounds. For information and tickets go to www.ticketmesandhills.com.
End the Summer Swingin’
The Sandhills Community College Jazz Band takes the stage at BPAC’s Owens Auditorium, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 10, for “Swingin’ Under Blue Skies.” The concert is free but tickets are required. For info and tickets go to www.ticketmesandhills.com.