Busy on the weekend? This Tuesday class will focus on several basic smithing fundamentals. Using the forge, anvil, and basic hand tools you will learn to draw a taper, bend, flatten or spread, twist, and punch holes.
Busy on the weekend? Let’s celebrate the coming of spring by making these fanciful fused glass birds. You will be able to choose from a variety of colors and patterns. This beginners class will include glass cutting and information about glass fusing.
Come join our beginners hand-building clay class. In this stress-free lesson, we will be making a garden mushroom that you can decorate for the upcoming spring season!
Wanting to enter your Granny Era and don’t know where to start? Come join us as we learn how to make a classic Granny Square! This is a three hour class where you will learn the step by step basic crochet stitches that make up the Granny Square.
Wire wrapping in jewelry can be found in a wide variety of techniques. In this 3 hour class, you will gain an introduction that is perfect for any skill level. At the end of class, you will have a beautiful bracelet.
Let’s celebrate the coming of spring by making these fanciful fused glass birds. You will be able to choose from a variety of colors and patterns for each bird. This beginners class will include glass cutting and information about glass fusing.
This workshop will introduce you to the basics of spinning your own yarn. Come meet our sheep, spend time learning how to use a drop spindle, and try your hand at a spinning wheel.
Join us to weave your own unique basket that is perfect for carrying or storing different items, especially Easter eggs! It also makes a beautiful accent piece for your home.
This class will focus on several basic smithing fundamentals. Using the forge, anvil, and basic hand tools you will learn to draw a taper, bend, flatten or spread, twist, and punch holes.
Face jugs have a long tradition in many cultures, including the American South. Styles of face jugs range from realistic to highly fantastical. In this class you’ll be provided with a basic wheel-thrown jug or mug (your choice) to decorate using hand-building techniques to create a face that is uniquely yours.
Easter Jubilee Saturday, March 30th 11:00am – 3:00pm Celebrate Springtime with Burritt on the Mountain at our annual Easter Jubilee! We will once again host a day of frolicking fun at this come-and-go event for kids and families. Grab your Easter basket and come collect eggs and treats from our frontier friends. Enjoy live folk music, pan for gems at our sluice, and make a couple of fun Easter crafts! If you don’t want the fun to stop, come experience our Blast in the Past scavenger hunt throughout the historic park.
View EventCome join us for a two part class to design and create a set of four spring-themed suncatchers!
Solar Eclipse Viewing Party & Lunch April 8th | 11:30am – 2:30pm Join us at Burritt for the best views in Huntsville! The festivities include fun and educational activities. Live music by Huntsville’s Mike Ball playing 70’s, 80’s and 90’s favorites. Have lunch before the viewing begins. Pre-Purchased Boxed Lunches include a solar themed menu. Boxed lunches can be picked up under the Pavilion.
Spring Farm Day Saturday April 13th | 10am-4pm Join us for a taste of springtime on the farm. Visit our barnyard animals, experience historic skills, and learn about life on the farm during the 1800’s. Visitors will be fascinated by the sheep-shearing and blacksmithing demonstrations. Come observe wool being spun into yarn, milk our faux cow – Boxy, see our sheep be sheared, and play with old-fashioned toys.
View EventBusy on the weekend? The class will cover all aspects of building a panel plus how to construct and attach an overlay. Two classes in one session! Beginners are welcome.
Busy on the weekend? This weekday class will focus on several basic forging fundamentals. Using the forge, anvil, and basic hand tools students will learn tapering, spreading, scrolling, bending, and riveting as they make a Three Hook Wall Coat Rack.
Students will continue to expand on wire wrapping skills in this intermediate level class to craft two new delicate style of bangle bracelets in sterling silver. One has a diamond shaped bead and the other a knot design.
This fun and relaxed three-hour workshop is great for anyone who has never used a potter’s wheel, but always wanted to give it a try.
The class will cover all aspects of building a panel plus how to construct and attach an overlay. Two classes in one session! Beginners are welcome.
his class will focus on several basic forging fundamentals. Using the forge, anvil, and basic hand tools students will learn tapering, spreading, scrolling, bending, and riveting as they make a Three Hook Wall Coat Rack.
Join us for an afternoon knitting your very own scarf! Made for you or as a gift, this class is great for someone seeking a refresher or just starting out.
Burritt on the Mountain invites you to join us for cocktails and heavy hors d’oeuvres in celebration and support of the 31st Season of City Lights and Stars! at the home of Danielle and Deke Damson Thursday, April 25th 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Enjoy the sounds of harpist Victoria Greer throughout the evening. Your support is pivotal to our educational programs, including camps, field trips, family festivals, and outreach. Your support assures the finances necessary for Burritt on the Mountain to build community through educational, artistic, and recreational experiences.
View Event2024 marks the 31st Season of the City Lights & Stars Concert Series at Burritt on the Mountain, and we have 8 concerts to celebrate! The band combines the musical influences of the Latin American and southern Louisiana regions that the brothers grew up visiting throughout their childhood. Mambo Gris Gris plays an eclectic mix of Salsa, Merengue, Cumbia, Latin folk Songs and Zydeco. Bring your chair, blanket and picnic to enjoy the evening. Food trucks will be onsite with food & dessert available for purchase. Beer and Wine available for purchase. Absolutely no outside alcohol please.
In this class you will learn how to hand build clay gnomes. It will be a step by step process, so no stressing! We will teach you a few different clay techniques and help you be creative with the finishing touches.
“Women’s Work, Women’s Wear” Saturday, May 11th | 10am – 4pm Join us as we travel back in time to discover what life was like for Tennessee Valley women in the 1800’s. Take a stroll through Burritt’s Historic Park and meet the ladies who once lived in our cabins. You will experience their day-to-day roles as wife, mother, teacher, and their work off the farm. As you wander through the 1800’s, see the changes in fashions, that the women of our cabin families would have worn and admired.
View EventBusy on the weekend? This Tuesday class will cover glass cutting, ’Tiffany style’ copper foil application, tinning and building dimensionally. You will take home a beautiful 3 dimensional star so that you always have a star to wish upon.
Students will create and design earrings out of Precious Metal Clay, when after firing in a kiln, will be 99.9% Fine Silver.
This beginners class will cover glass cutting, ’Tiffany style’ copper foil application, tinning and building dimensionally. You will take home a beautiful 3 dimensional star so that you always have a star to wish upon.
This beginner wheel throwing workshop will cover the basics of shaping clay using an electric pottery wheel. Your instructor will guide you through the essential steps of creating a wheel thrown vessel.
Make your own lampshade from kudzu vines! Using whole and split kudzu vines, students will learn the free-form open weave method to create their own unique kudzu lampshade. Beginners welcome!
2024 marks the 31st Season of the City Lights & Stars Concert Series at Burritt on the Mountain, and we have 8 concerts to celebrate! Iron Horse is a bluegrass band from Killen, Alabama, US. They are known for performing and recording bluegrass cover versions of rock songs, particularly their bluegrass treatments of heavy metal songs popularized by Metallica.[1] The band has two tracks on the tribute album Strummin‘ with the Devil: The Southern Side of Van Halen, which also features David Lee Roth, among other artists. Bring your chair, blanket and picnic to enjoy the evening. Food trucks will be onsite with food & dessert available for purchase.
2024 marks the 31st Season of the City Lights & Stars Concert Series at Burritt on the Mountain, and we have 8 concerts to celebrate! Utopia is an ensemble of talented performers and a culmination of some of the mid-south’s most respected, experienced and professional musicians. Exceptional musical arrangements, diversity and showmanship is their forte.
This two day “Master Level” class is a tribute to the master architect and glass designer Frank Lloyd Wright. Our concentration in this class will be on fitting the glass and on soldering. The geometric “Prairie Style” design is a classic and is classically beautiful. Must have previous cutting and foiling experience.
Join us for this beginner brush lettering class where students will learn everything they need to know to get started including basic strokes, basic brush lettering ideas, how to hold their pens, tips and tricks and more. Supply kit and markers included!
In this class, each students will learn how to remove, fold and begin to dry a piece of bark. They will also construct a basket of their own.
2024 marks the 31st Season of the City Lights & Stars Concert Series at Burritt on the Mountain, and we have 8 concerts to celebrate! MONTANA BRED FOLK MUSIC.NASHVILLE BASED MUSICIANS. Fast paced, high energy foot stompers. Ballads that’ll make you cry. It’s kind of like a rock band married old fashioned bluegrass and had a little baby. And named it TopHouse. Bring your chair, blanket and picnic to enjoy the evening. Food trucks will be onsite with food & dessert available for purchase. Beer and Wine available for purchase. Absolutely no outside alcohol please.
2024 marks the 31st Season of the City Lights & Stars Concert Series at Burritt on the Mountain, and we have 8 concerts to celebrate! Over a period of more than 32 years and 27 full length album releases, Eric Essix has not only maintained a steady flow of new music that continues to push the boundaries of contemporary jazz throughout his career. Eric shares his Birmingham Alabama southern roots through his compositions. His music reveals the soul of the man and his music. Bring your chair, blanket and picnic to enjoy the evening.
2024 marks the 31st Season of the City Lights & Stars Concert Series at Burritt on the Mountain, and we have 8 concerts to celebrate! This is the rare band that brings together the deep-pocket swing of the 1930s and 1940s and contemporary beats like Bruno Mars “Uptown Funk” and Lizzo’s “Juice!” A veteran on the Southeast music scene, Gwen is one of the busiest bandleaders in Atlanta, along the way being named “Favorite Jazz Artist” by the readers of Creative Loafing magazine and taking her act overseas to France, Eastern Europe and Turkey.
2024 marks the 31st Season of the City Lights & Stars Concert Series at Burritt on the Mountain, and we have 8 concerts to celebrate! “Calypso Vision hopes to bring folks a relaxed spirit of good ol’ rock and roll and a chance to dream.” Calypso Vision is in its 10th Year bringing folks that relaxed beachfront spirit, with a “Gumbo Mix” of Buffett-Style Trop and Classic Rock! The Calypso Vision is simple and easy to see, as it focuses on great music offering an escape from the mundane! Calypso Vision is a full band with a huge sound, rooted in a…
2024 marks the 31st Season of the City Lights & Stars Concert Series at Burritt on the Mountain, and we have 8 concerts to celebrate! Calling Huntsville “Hometown”, Huntsville’s In the Mood is an exciting 21 piece big band. Specializing in swing and jazz making every occasion an exciting event. Influences include Glenn Miller, Frank Sinatra, Henry Mancini, Cole Porter Bobby Darrin, Ella Fitzgerald and Count Basie. Bring your chair, blanket and picnic to enjoy the evening. Food trucks will be onsite with food & dessert available for purchase. Beer and Wine available for purchase.
Purchase your Car Passes for up to 6 people Today! Candlelight Christmas is Rain or Shine! All activities and musicians are inside the Mansion, Old Country Church, Baron Bluff or Historic Park Buildings to keep you warm and dry! Join us for a touch of Christmas past at Burritt on the Mountain’s annual favorite Candlelight Christmas. Burritt comes alive with the sights, sounds and smells of a traditional Christmas. Don’t wait, buy your tickets today.
View EventPurchase your Car Passes for up to 6 people Today! Candlelight Christmas is Rain or Shine! All activities and musicians are inside the Mansion, Old Country Church, Baron Bluff or Historic Park Buildings to keep you warm and dry! Join us for a touch of Christmas past at Burritt on the Mountain’s annual favorite Candlelight Christmas. Burritt comes alive with the sights, sounds and smells of a traditional Christmas. Don’t wait, buy your tickets today.
View EventDon’t miss this cherished 30-year tradition! Celebrate the season and support Burritt’s longest-running fundraiser. Experience the magic of the holidays at the historic Burritt Mansion. Join us for an elegant five course meal, complete with appetizers, soup, salad, entrée, and dessert, all complemented by wine and coffee. You will be serenaded by Huntsville’s Master Chorale with beloved holiday songs and Father Christmas will bring a special gift. Don’t miss this cherished 30-year tradition; celebrate the season and support Burritt’s longest-running fundraiser.
View EventFew tickets remain for this years performances. Already have a ticket? Don’t forget to add food to enjoy before the show! Sanders Family Christmas Play in the Old Country Church produced by Southern Rogue Theatre Company December 18th – 22nd | Tickets Information to Come… Performances: December 18th – 22nd at 7:00 p.m. and December 21st & 22nd at 2:30 p.m. The Sanders Family is back at Burritt this December. Southern Rogue Theatre Company and Burritt on the Mountain pair together to bring this hilarious musical favorite to the community.
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