Root Bar

04/21/2026

Update! : Jason Brake is the new man to beat 😉

Happy 420 Root Ball family! 🌘

12/24/2025

Happy holidays family. Don’t you worry, we are training our youngsters for the future

10/31/2025

Happy Halloween y’all 🎃👻💀
Come see us

10/04/2025

Read my article here
https://open.substack.com/pub/terrildolan/p/you-have-a-strong-base?r=58oelj&utm_medium=ios
“The Root Bar is a real life metaphor for me. It’s an actual tangible example of how the recovery of the Swannanoa Valley has been going. It’s moving at a snails pace.“

08/26/2025

07/16/2025

We just re-stocked our sets. You can purchase them any day from 3pm-2am at

As always, we love you and we miss you friends. Please know we look forward to seeing you all again soon 💙

03/08/2025

The radio show Is doing an instrument giveaway for folks who lost their instruments due to hurricane Helene. Tomorrow, Sunday March 9th from 2:00 p.m. To 6:00 p.m., at the Kittredge Arts Center at Warren Wilson College

They’re donating over 1,400 instruments! Attached are several photos to give you an idea of the sheer volume of instruments.

This is not even all the instruments....... There are still three haul trucks coming from Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee with tons more

Please please please spread the word about this. We want to help folks who lost their instruments.

If anybody has additional questions or needs more information they can contact me directly at 828-273-8254 or email me at [email protected]

01/08/2025

Tomorrow, (Thursday) if you squint your eyes you can order a cold PBR from at the and pretend your didn’t float down the river.
We love you all and we are doing our best to make sure everyone has everything they need to win.

12/22/2024

It has been 12 weeks since the rain (and wind) that changed all of our lives stopped. 85 days since we each had to look at our mountains, neighbors, family’s and lives with an entirely new perspective. The good news is we can probably stop anxiously awaiting the next shocking thing, we know now how bad it is, the things still buried now most likely won’t surface.
The shock has calmed and we have worked the new reality into our bodies. We still wear the scars but they are starting to scab over. The look in our eyes has calmed and the adrenaline that was rushing though our blood streams has slowed. Now we can try to slow down and transition into knowing that each day will slowly grow longer and longer. We have reached down and found all the ugly hidden parts of a ‘disaster,’ no more big surprises.
100 years ago, the ppl of WNC had a storm very similar, they also had the same transitions of light and nature. Mother Earth doesn’t change as quickly as humans do. She moves slowly and consistently. Now you and I both know that she can change quickly and without warning, but that has passed. Now we go back to the typical, predictable changes we have seen and witnessed every year of our lives since our birth.
I personally have never been so ready for the Winter Solstice. I am ready for the deep reflection and the calm slow pace of Winter. I am ready for the slow growth my community needs to heal from the drastic changes we experienced. I am ready to sit in a room with my family and just be. I am ready to cook slow things on my stove and feed the bellies I grew, again.
WNC is not afraid of the outside world, we celebrate it and live amongst it with a new type of caution. But we now have all winter to notice the sun rise a little earlier every day. We have an entire season to reflect on the new feelings we now have about life and plan for the next phase to bloom. How will we be quiet together while also planning our re-awakening?
Valleystrong