Best Venue For Live Music: The Orange Peel | Strange Carolinas Best Of NC Awards 2020

After nearly five weeks of voting, the readers of Strange Carolinas have named Asheville's The Orange Peel North Carolina's Best Venue For Live Music for the second year in a row. Carrboro's Cat's Cradle came in second place and Charlotte's PNC Pavilion came in third.

For two weeks, readers of Strange Carolinas were invited to nominate their favorite North Carolina live music venues. From February 25th to March 15th, readers were invited to vote for their favorite venues for live music from the ten entries that received the most votes during the nomination period.

Here were the ten finalists as determined by the readers of Strange Carolinas:

• The Blind Tiger
• Cat's Cradle
• The Fillmore Charlotte
• The Haw River Ballroom
• Local 506
• Motorco Music Hall
• The Orange Peel
• PNC Music Pavilion
• The Ramkat
• Slim's Downtown

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