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Thu, Oct. 1. The Haint List is up, with art by Birdie. It's every Halloween thing we could find in the High Country, from Tweetsie's Ghost Train to a Rockabilly Old-Time Halloween Concert in Lansing, and it keeps growing through Oct. 31. Tell us what we missed. October has five Saturdays, Halloween lands on one of them, and the clocks fall back that night, so you get an extra hour. Doesn't line up like this again for eleven years.

Boone's own Cigarettes @ Sunset bring their Appalachian possum rock to AMB at 6, with Yesterday's Clothes. At 7, Cate Mayhew hosts the first reading at Huzzah Books with Zion Main, Vanessa Barlow and Sarah Laux, and the Old-Time Jam at the Jones House runs till 10. Bring a banjo, fiddle, guitar or mandolin, every skill level plays, and with Thursday sunny and 77 the circle should be out on the lawn and porch. Late, Ovven, Will Slater and a solo Real Companion play Lily's Snack Bar, doors at 8, show at 9, 21+, $15 advance. Sunday at 7, the Watauga County Computer Music Center teaches synths at Huzzah. No experience needed, just a laptop and headphones.

The Watauga County Meet the Candidates Forum runs 5:30 to 8:30 at the Appalachian Theatre. Free and open to the public, doors at 5:15. Every candidate answers the same questions, and campaign signs and literature stay outside. It also streams live on YouTube and local radio.