Music on Main 2025 Social District
You can now purchase an alcoholic beverage “to go” from Main Street Grill, Twisted Laurel, and Maggie B’s during Music on Main and consume it on the street inside the event boundary.
We are excited to have a social district in place this year! This is an effort to improve, adapt, and create an overall safer event. The ABC Commission approved “to go” drinks, which comes with some rules. Please follow the rules. Everyone’s cooperation is what allows the event to return every year. Here are the guidelines that we all need to follow so that Music on Main can come back next year.
Date and Time
You can order a “to go” beer or wine only on June 14th, 2025 from 3:30pm to 9pm. You cannot buy a drink “to go” at any other time or on any other day.
Boundary and Map
You can only have your beer or wine inside the Music on Main special event boundary. This is where the road is closed on South Main between Merrimon and Town Hall (detailed picture below). You cannot bring your drink up N. Main Street past the road closure, south of the Stage, to your car in the ball field, to your home downtown, etc. You must discard it before leaving the special event boundary. This is perhaps the most crucial part of the event and impacts all future events in our lovely town.
We will have many “NO ALCOHOL BEYOND THIS POINT” signs. Please follow them!
Cups
All “to go” beer & winedrinks must be in a plastic cup with the special event sticker on them, as provided by your bartender. When ordering a drink at Twisted Laurel, Maggie B’s, and Main Street Grill, ask for it “to go” so they pour it in the plastic cup with the special sticker. These establishments are still open for sit down business, so you can still order a “for here” drink in a glass. However, you can’t carry that glass outside. If you have a glass, you must stay inside the individual business boundary. If you want to carry that drink out, go to the bar and ask for it to be put into a plastic cup with the special sticker.
Hint: No opened alcohol should be in a glass, can, or bottle on the street.
Two drinks at a time
You can only order two “to go” drinks per person at a time.
Important ABC Reminder: No Outside Alcohol Allowed
Please help us keep Music on Main safe, fun, and legal! Our event operates under both a special ABC event permit and Weaverville’s designated social district—each of which is closely monitored by ALE. With both in effect, we know there will be extra eyes on us.
That means absolutely no outside alcohol is allowed in the event space. Bringing your own alcohol not only violates state law, but puts the event—and our ability to keep hosting it—in jeopardy.
Music on Main is a free, community event organized by a small nonprofit (that’s us!) simply because we love Weaverville. Let’s keep it going for years to come by following the rules.
You’re welcome to bring nonalcoholic beverages, but if you’d like to enjoy a drink, it must be purchased and poured by one of our approved vendors: the WBA Beer Tent, Maggie B’s, Main Street Grill, or Twisted Laurel.
Thanks so much for helping us keep it legal and lively!
Retail
A quick but important reminder about alcohol service: under ABC law, retail alcohol cannot be self-served or consumed off-premise—even within the event space.
For example, if you buy a bottle of wine from Maggie B’s and carry it to your lawn chair, you cannot open and pour your own drink. If you want to enjoy wine during the event, it must be poured by staff at Maggie B’s into an approved plastic cup with the required sticker.
You’re welcome to order a bottle and enjoy it on-premise at Maggie B’s (where you can refill your own glass). But once you step into the street, that bottle must remain sealed.
Hint: All unopened bottles, cans, and retail alcohol must stay sealed while you’re in the social district area.
Thanks for helping us keep Music on Main legal and enjoyable for everyone!
Beer, Wine Only – No Mixed Drinks
Beer, Wine are allowed in the Social District this year.
Mixed Drinks will NOT be allowed to be ordered “to go”.
Beer Tent
The usual Beer Tent will still be set up at the north end of the event, which is at the corner of Central and S. Main. We will be selling beer and wine from the beer tent. The Beer Tent beer and wine will be served in specially marked plastic cups.
No “to go” drinks in/on a vehicle
You cannot bring your “to go” drink in or on any type of vehicle, even if the vehicle stays inside the event space. This includes a non-running car, bicycle, scooter, etc.
To learn more, the Weaverville Social District Management and Maintenance Plan is the detailed and comprehensive guide to our legally enacted, one day social district.
