The festival is hosted by the Pisgah Brewing Company in Black Mountain, which regularly presents live music in its taproom and on an outdoor stage during warmer months. We went on Saturday of the inaugural Jam in the Trees in August 2016 and both days of the 2017 and 2018 editions of Jam in the Trees.
The festival runs Friday and Saturday, with shows indoors Friday evening, and shows on both stages Saturday afternoon and evening. Late Saturday, the after-hours jam continues indoors.
The large outdoor stage sits behind the brewery across a small creek on a partially wooded lot.
The taproom is typical of any live music/bar venue. Below are Patrick Sweaney (and the bar against the wall to the left) and, from back in the crowd, Jim Lauderdale during the 2016 festival.
Unfortunately, the taproom can become too crowded to enter. Below is the overflow crowd on the patio during Peter Rowan's 2017 show.
For Jam in the Trees, chairs are prohibited in the large area covered with woodchips just in front of the outdoor stage, which filled in with a standing crowd later in the day. It was a friendly crowd of older and younger music fans with a few kids.
From 2016, The Burrito Brothers are onstage immediately below and Chatham County Line gathers around the mic in the following photo.
A few food trucks and other vendors set up to the left of the stage (note tents to the left of the stage in the view from the bridge above). A couple more food vendors were on the patio outside of the taproom.
The Brewery was intent on selling its own drinks, as you might expect, so there were no drink vendors, and festival goers were not supposed to bring in their own drinks. If you don't like beer, Pisgah Brewing Co. offers some hard ciders, but there were few options for nondrinkers.
VIP ticket holders had access to seating in a fenced-off area to the right of the stage where beer was served, saving them a trip to the bar inside.
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