This may be the first time you’ve heard of The Sentimental Gentlemen. But, if you’re a music freak for Americana, bluegrass, country and folk, chances are you’ve either listened to them before or actually witnessed their melodic magic onstage. 

Regional blues/folk singer-songwriter Heidi Holton will perform at 5 p.m. Sunday, April 6, at Mountain Layers Brewing in Bryson City. 

Vermont-based Americana/indie act Jaded Ravins will hit the stage at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 5, at The Scotsman Public House in Waynesville. 

Americana/folk singer-songwriter Woolybooger will perform at 8 p.m. Friday, April 4, at Lazy Hiker Brewing in Sylva. 

A community jam will be held from 6-7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 3, on the front patio of the Marianna Black Library in Bryson City.

Anyone with a guitar, banjo, mandolin, fiddle, dulcimer or anything unplugged is invited to join. Singers are also welcomed to join in or you can just stop by and listen. 

Folkmoot Live will present an evening of traditional Irish music with Andrew Finn Magill & David McKindley-Ward (Celtic/world) at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 3, at the Folkmoot Friendship Center in Waynesville. 

Eddie Huffman will share his new book, “Doc Watson: A Life in Music.” and also be accompanied by musician Jerad Davis at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 27, at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva. 

When it comes to the vast, vibrant landscape of American blues guitarists, few six-string aces have had as varied and as illustrious a career over the last 30 years as that of Jimmy Vivino. 

With her latest album, “Highlander,” bluegrass/Americana icon Missy Raines takes inventory of where she stands at this current juncture in her storied career — this melodic ode to her native West Virginia, which simultaneously serves as an ideal prism of time and space Raines peers through into the unknowns of tomorrow. 

The Waynesville Rotary Club will offer a Poor Man’s Supper from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. March 6 at the First United Methodist Church to benefit Waynesville Rotary community projects.