Leaf season in Leiper's Fork is over, and the December parade crowds haven't arrived yet. In between, the village calendar settles into a pattern. Wednesday is a show night and Thursday is open mic. Friday starts with a farm market at lunchtime and ends with another show. On weekend afternoons there's free music, fire pits and molten glass on Old Hillsboro Road.

The anchors stay the same from week to week, so November is less a list of one-off events than a schedule that repeats. Once you know which day carries what, the whole month is easy to plan.

The week, laid out

Fox & Locke sets most of the rhythm. The venue says its show nights are Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, with an open mic every Thursday. It also runs no-cover music on Saturdays from noon to 3 p.m. and Sundays from noon to 6 p.m. Add the other village anchors, and a November week looks like this:

Crown Winery's tasting room on Old Hillsboro Road is open Wednesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 4:30 p.m. That covers the same five days as everything above, so it fits around any of them.

Show nights fill the earliest

The ticketed nights are the part of the week that needs planning ahead. Fox & Locke recommends buying evening tickets well in advance and seats walk-ins first come, first served. Covers generally run $7 to $20 and go to the musicians and production. Tickets usually go on sale three to four weeks before a show.

So by the start of November, the whole first half of the month is already on sale. Here's what Fox & Locke has posted:

• Wednesday, Nov. 4: Rachel Summers feat. Allora, 7 to 9 p.m.
• Friday, Nov. 6: Charles "Wigg" Walker, 8 to 10 p.m.
• Saturday, Nov. 7: The Bicho Brothers, 8 to 10 p.m.
• Wednesday, Nov. 11: Diana's Mambo Maniacs, 7 to 9 p.m.
• Saturday, Nov. 14: Jake Burman & Co, 8 to 10 p.m.
• Wednesday, Nov. 18: The Young Fables, 7 to 9 p.m.

Fox & Locke's calendar currently runs through Nov. 19. With that three-to-four-week sales window, shows for late November and early December should start appearing on the venue's show page through the first half of November. That makes the page worth checking now if you want a December night out in the village.

Wednesday shows tend to start an hour earlier than Friday and Saturday shows on this lineup, so a 7 p.m. start leaves room for dinner first or an earlier night afterward.

Thursday has two things going on

Thursday's anchor is the open mic. Fox & Locke has it on the calendar for Nov. 5, Nov. 12 and Nov. 19, each from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.

On the first Thursday, Nov. 5, there's something earlier at the other end of the village. The Leiper's Fork Library at 5333 Old Hwy 96 is hosting Crafter's Night Out from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. You bring an unfinished project and work on it alongside others. The listing suggests checking with the library to confirm the date.

The craft night ends at 6:30, the same time open mic starts. You can do both in one evening.

Friday starts at lunchtime, a few miles south

Friday's daytime anchor sits south of the village center at the Davis General, 5600 Leipers Creek Rd. Every Friday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Farm Market Friday brings in local farmers and makers. Expect produce, beef, chicken, pork, sourdough, baked goods, dairy, eggs, canned goods, home decor and tallow products.

The dates are what make it useful in late fall. The market is listed for Nov. 6, 13, 20 and 27, then Dec. 4, 11 and 18. That makes it a weekly source of local meat, eggs and bread right through the holiday cooking season. The Nov. 20 market falls the Friday before Thanksgiving week. The Nov. 27 market is the day after Thanksgiving.

The building has been a store for a long time. According to Williamson Source, it has operated in the Boston community since at least 1928, and the Davis family took it over in 1960. The store reopened in 2018 after a renovation, Williamson Source reported, and Williamson Scene noted that the work kept original details like the door frames and wooden floors. A Friday market fits a building with that history.

The market's Facebook page is linked from the listing, and it's the place to check before driving down.

Friday can then end back in the village. On Nov. 6, the market closes at 2 p.m. and Charles "Wigg" Walker goes on at Fox & Locke at 8.

Weekend afternoons are free and built around fire

Weekend afternoons are the part of the week that costs nothing to attend. Fox & Locke's no-cover sets run noon to 3 p.m. Saturday and noon to 6 p.m. Sunday. Two November Sundays add a second stop a short walk up Old Hillsboro Road.

The Copper Fox Gallery is at 4136 Old Hillsboro Road, in a restored 1860s home that Visit Franklin says shows work by more than 90 Southeastern artists. The gallery describes its range as paintings, furniture, leatherwork, jewelry, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, wood, glass and metal. On its about page, the owners say John and Talbott Grimm bought it in September 2016 from David and Lisa Fox, who opened it in 2012.

This month, the gallery is putting glass and metal work out in front of visitors:

1. Sunday, Nov. 8: the Kristi Hyde Winter Trunk Show, paired with a Spees glassblowing demonstration, starting at noon. The listing gives both 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. as the end time, so plan on early afternoon.
2. Sunday, Nov. 15: Forged in Fire, glassblowing and metalsmith demonstrations from noon to 3 p.m.

Both of those dates are Sundays, so they overlap Fox & Locke's longest free set of the week, noon to 6 p.m. An afternoon of demonstrations and an afternoon of music can be the same afternoon.

Crown Winery is just down the road at 4165 Old Hillsboro Road. It's a satellite tasting room serving flights, glasses or bottles, and it's promoting fall visits by the creek and the fire pits. It also says its warm mulled wine is back. On Sundays it closes at 4:30 p.m., earlier than the music at Fox & Locke, so if you're doing both, go to the winery first. The winery's posted music lineup only runs through Nov. 1, so for November, plan around the fire pits rather than a band.

December's two big dates aren't posted yet

The weekly schedule is easy to plan around because it's already published. The two events most people in Leiper's Fork mark on the calendar for the season aren't.

The Leiper's Fork Christmas Parade is usually held on the second Saturday of December at 2 p.m. Last year it was Dec. 13 at 2 p.m., the Williamson Herald reported. If that pattern holds, it would land on Dec. 12, but no 2026 date has been posted yet.

The Leiper's Fork Holiday Market is the other one. In 2025 it was held Nov. 15 from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. at Pond Church of Christ and was free, with live music, more than 20 vendors, food, drinks, bonfires and a Christmas photo area. No 2026 date is listed so far.

Last year's market fell on Nov. 15, the same date as this year's Forged in Fire demonstration at Copper Fox. If the market comes back on a similar date, mid-November in the village could get busier than the rest of the month. Keep that weekend open until the organizers post the details.

Until then, the weekly schedule above covers November. The Davis General's Friday market runs through Dec. 18, so it will still be going when December's dates are finally posted.

If you know which day the Davis General market runs and what time the Sunday music starts, you already plan your weeks around Leiper's Fork. We think about our clients' homes the same way. They're part of the everyday routine in places like this village, and we treat them that way whether we're helping someone buy or sell. If you'd like to talk with someone who knows how the village calendar works, The Vande Kamp Group is glad to help. Get In Touch.