ASHE, N.C. — Music is in Arvill Scott's blood. 

What to know 

The Blue Ridge Theater and Event Center is back open in Ashe County. 

Arvill Scott built the theater in 2002. It was sold twice unti it was shut down during the pandemic 

Scott came back in and saved the theater, bringing it back to life 

"My grandmother and uncles and aunts played gospel music. My grandma would hammer out songs on the piano," he said.

He picked up a guitar when he was a teenager. 

Scott spent the next 14 years in a band, and he realized there weren't many places for people to play along the Blue Ridge.

"If there's a place to play, if there's a place to exhibit their talent, they are going to try to be better," Scott said.

He opened the Blue Ridge Theater and Event Center in 2002, and he owned it until 2009. The building was sold twice before pandemic impacts hit the venue hard, and the previous owner shut it down.

Scott came in and brought the building he built back to life. 

"In many ways, I feel like I'm supposed to be here," Scott said. "It would have been a terrible shame if [I] put a lot into this facility but that's not [as] important as what it does to the community and people that come. We continue to play a lot of music," Scott said.

The theater has now reopened, bringing music back to the Blue Ridge.

"There are so many great musicians in this region that it would be a shame for them not to be able to play and perform and show what they can do," Scott said.