Upcoming events and things to do in Asheville, NC. Below is a list of events for festivals, concerts, art exhibitions, group meetups and more.

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Friday, August 22, 2025
2025 Block Party
Aug 22 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Pack Square Park

Get Ready for the United for Youth Community Engagement Block Party

Friday, August 22nd, 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, Pack Square Park

 

 

We’re taking the block party to the next level — with live youth performances, mouthwatering food trucks. a DJ keeping the beat, 50+ community info. booths, interactive STEAM and Resiliency zones, kids’ activities, and surprises around every corner.

It’s a celebration of resilience, connection, and community power! Join us for this FREE event where families, friends, neighbors, and partners come together to celebrate what makes our community strong and the unstoppable spirit of United for Youth.

 

Starseed Sound Bath with Levi Reynolds
Aug 22 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Moldavite Life

Starseed Sound Bath with Levi Reynolds

Calling all Starseeds, lightworkers, and cosmic travelers—this is your invitation to a high-frequency sound healing experience designed to awaken your celestial essence and realign your energy with the cosmic flow.

Levi Reynolds will guide you through a multidimensional sound journey using upgraded gongs, sound bowls, and celestial vibrational instruments infused with meteorites and tektites from Mercury, Mars, the Moon, and asteroid Vesta (Tatahouine). These high-vibration frequencies resonate with starseed DNA, activating deep inner wisdom, light codes, and cosmic remembrance.

This experience is designed to help you:
✨ Connect with the cosmic origins of your soul
✨ Activate starseed light codes and higher consciousness
✨ Release stagnant energies and realign with your soul’s mission
✨ Journey through celestial frequencies in a deeply immersive soundscape

Our space is small and cozy, creating an intimate setting for this powerful experience. Arrive early to claim a spot lying down—otherwise, chairs will be available for seating.
Please bring any comfort items you may desire: blankets, pillows, bolsters, eye mask, etc. We also have some community items available for use.

🔹 Tickets: $33 per person
🔹 Purchase upon arrival

Come and bathe in the frequencies of the stars—your soul will remember the way home. 🌌✨

BASK “The Turning” Album Release
Aug 22 @ 7:00 pm
The Orange Peel

BASK “The Turning” Album Release

with
Secret Shame
Generation of Vipers
Tombstone Poetry
Cliff B. Worsham

Friday, August 22
Show: 7pm | Doors: 6pm

The Orange Peel
FREE SHOW!
Five Eight LIVE: Weirdo Movie Screening + PINKEYE Album Release Party
Aug 22 @ 8:00 pm
The Grey Eagle

The Grey Eagle and Worthwhile Sounds Present

Five Eight LIVE: Weirdo Movie Screening + PINKEYE Album Release Party

Doors: 7pm // Show: 8pm
$14.76

Grey Eagle Music Hall
ALL AGES
FEATURING PERFORMANCES FROM FIVE EIGHT & PINEYE, PLUS A SCREENING OF WEIRDO & Q&A WITH THE BAND
Saturday, August 23, 2025
Asheville Community Plant Market
Aug 23 @ 11:00 am – 4:00 pm
Asheville Hydroponics & Organics

Join us for our monthly market, where you’ll discover local vendors offering a variety of houseplants, garden plants, and planty-related items, including crafts and jewelry. Show your support by visiting our social table, where we will have branded merchandise for sale to help fund the event, as well as tags for social media pages to follow your favorite vendors. Enjoy live music and a welcoming, family-friendly atmosphere.
🅿️Free parking is available! Please park at the front of the building and enter through the hydroponics shop. Vendors will be set up inside the shop as well as outside the back of the shop.

HarvestFest Supporting ASAP
Aug 23 @ 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Olivette Riverside Community and Farm

Join us at Olivette’s Riverside Park on Saturday August 23rd for a very special benefit show in support of ASAP’s Double SNAP for Fruits and Vegetables program. HarvestFest is a celebration of local farmers, community and music. Doors open at 3pm with family games and activities and live music.
In honor of our local farmers and all they do to sustain our community, all farmers and their families will have free entry to the event. All ticket proceeds will go towards the ASAP Double SNAP for Fruits and Vegetables program.

Leanne Morgan: Just Getting Started
Aug 23 @ 3:00 pm
Harrah's Cherokee Center Asheville

Leanne Morgan is coming to the ExploreAsheville.com Arena at Harrah’s Cherokee Center – Asheville on August 23-24, 2025 for three performances.

Good Morning God
Aug 23 @ 5:00 pm
Diana Wortham Theatre

Good Morning God

August 23, 2025 at 5:00 p.m.

Praise and Worship Recording is an evening of praise and worship to God through songs, a service found in a Christian setting as a way that the community can come together and be a part of the live recording as we connect with God through music and songs for praise and worship to our God.

Lakeside Fantasia
Aug 23 @ 7:00 pm
Kenmure Country Club

Experience the magical music of stage and screen at the Four Seasons Chamber Orchestra Summer Concert, “Lakeside Fantasia.” This event will feature musical selections including; The Barber of Seville, Chicago, Fritiof’s Saga, Frozen, Howl’s Moving Castle, Star Wars and Jurassic Park.

Leanne Morgan: Just Getting Started
Aug 23 @ 7:00 pm
Harrah's Cherokee Center Asheville

Leanne Morgan is coming to the ExploreAsheville.com Arena at Harrah’s Cherokee Center – Asheville on August 23-24, 2025 for three performances.

Shindig On the Green
Aug 23 @ 7:00 pm
Pack Square Park

2025 will be the 59th Season of Shindig On the Green!

Bring your instruments, families, friends, lawn chairs and blankets and join us for good times at the Bascom Lamar Lunsford Stage. In 2025 Shindig on the Green, which features a stage show and informal jam sessions around the park, continues at its original location — formerly known as City County Plaza, now transformed into the new Pack Square Park. Locals and visitors alike come together downtown “along about sundown,” or at 7:00pm for those who wear a watch, until 10:00p.m. Concessions are available. Come experience the beautiful music and dance traditions of Southern Appalachia on a summer evening in the mountains.

Leon Timbo & The Family Band
Aug 23 @ 7:30 pm
Hendersonville Theatre

Hendersonville Theatre welcomes Leon Timbo & the Family Band as August’s intimate HT’s Hometown Sound Music Series concert! For country-soul singer-songwriter Leon Timbo, music is used as a form of growth and healing. Timbo’s country sound incorporates equal measures of vintage soul, gospel, folk, R&B, and even modern blues making for a unique experience that some have described as “transparent soul.”

After years of spreading his Gospel roots, Timbo set his eyes on Country and Americana territory with his 2021 release, Lovers and Fools. The album explored themes of love, loss, and letting go. Timbo released the follow-up, Lovers and Fools Vol 2, in June 2022. He also released a Christmas album, Carols of Love and Healing, in 2022.

Timbo is currently on the road supporting his new music and has just finished touring with two-time Grammy Award®–winning bassist, Marcus Miller, during his residency with Blue Note New York. Timbo will continue touring with Miller along with The Black Opry as well as playing festivals, including American Roots Festival and Newport Folk Festival, throughout the summer.

You can learn more about Leon Timbo & The Family Band at leontimbolove.com.

Sunday, August 24, 2025
America: The Encore Tour 2025
Aug 24 @ 7:00 pm
Peace Center

The iconic multi-platinum-selling group AMERICA celebrates their 55th anniversary with the “Encore Tour 2025.” Known for their timeless magic and powerful performances, the Grammy Award-winning favorite will draw on their deep catalogue of hits, including signature song “A Horse With No Name,” which skyrocketed to No. 1 on the Billboard‘s Hot 100 list in 1972.

Leanne Morgan: Just Getting Started
Aug 24 @ 7:00 pm
Harrah's Cherokee Center Asheville

Leanne Morgan is coming to the ExploreAsheville.com Arena at Harrah’s Cherokee Center – Asheville on August 23-24, 2025 for three performances.

 Fiddle Forward with Casey Driessen
Aug 24 @ 7:30 pm
Brevard Music Center
 Fiddle Forward with Casey Driessen

Curated by visionary fiddler Casey Driessen, Fiddle Forward is the concluding celebration of our Blue Ridge Fiddle Camp. This dynamic concert showcases an eclectic mix of styles—from bluegrass to world music, jazz to folk—performed by camp instructors, special guests, and some of the most innovative fiddlers today.

 

Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Docent Led Tours at The Learning Garden
Aug 27 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Buncombe County Extension Office — Learning Garden

Tours on the last Wednesday of the month, May through October: May 28, June 25, July 30, August 27, September 24, October 29
10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

This is an in-person program, held at The Learning Garden. Visit and Learn!

Visit informally Monday through Friday
9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. (no docents or tours)

Docents and Presenters: Extension Master Gardener volunteers working in the garden.
Program Description: On the last Wednesday of the month from May to October you can join a more formal tour and be led through the gardens by a master gardener docent as you watch the other gardeners caring for the plants. See beautiful and interesting plants, delicious vegetables, native plants for beauty and pollinator interest.
The tours start at 10:00 a.m. and should last approximately an hour. The tours will begin outside the front door of the Buncombe County Extension Office.

Wear appropriate attire (hat, sunglasses and sturdy shoes and bring some water) as this event will be held outside. In the event of steady rain in West Asheville, the workday and the tour will be canceled.

The tour is free and registration is not necessary.
If you have questions, call 828-255-5522.

NOTE: The Learning Garden is open for informal visits Monday through Friday throughout the year, but if you visit on a Wednesday, during the growing season, you can meet the Master Gardeners working in the gardens and ask questions about the plants and their care. We invite you to visit often, observe the gardens, and ask questions as the Master Gardeners tend the gardens through the growing season. If you have questions, call 828-255-5522.

Arbor Evenings
Aug 27 @ 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm
North Carolina Arboretum

Sip and stroll through the Arboretum’s gardens in the glow of the golden hour, all while listening to live music from a variety of local and regional artists! ArborEvenings runs Wednesdays and Thursdays through September 18, 2025 from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.

**Please note: Outside alcohol is prohibited on the campus of The North Carolina Arboretum.**

There is no additional cost to attend ArborEvenings beyond our standard parking fee. As always, Arboretum Society members and their accompanying guests can enter for FREE (guests must be in member vehicles to receive free entry). Proceeds from ArborEvenings help support the The North Carolina Arboretum Society and further advance the Arboretum’s mission.

Raise Your Vibraton with a Serenity Sound Bath!
Aug 27 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Center for Spiritual Living Asheville

Immerse yourself in the healing power of sound. This restorative Sound Bath is designed to clear energetic blocks, uplift your spirit, and elevate your vibration. Let the soothing frequencies of crystal bowls and sacred tones guide you into deep relaxation, alignment, and renewal. Step into your highest frequency—peace, clarity, and inner radiance await.

Join your host Kristin Hillegas, for a one-hour Serenity Sound Bath and experience a deeply immersive, full-body sound and vibrational experience.

Note: Please bring a yoga mat/pillow/blanket since you will be lying on the floor. Wear warm, comfortable, and flexible clothing.

The Sound Bath will take place upstairs in the Education Building. Choose your space starting at 6:15 PM, doors close promptly at 6:30 PM.

This service is on a sliding scale of $10-20

Accessible parking is available in the Center for Spiritual Living Asheville upper parking lot. The entrance to the upper parking lot is off of S. Bear Creek Rd between Science of Mind Way and Sand Hill Rd.
There is a boardwalk from the upper parking lot to the building entrance.

New Dawn Starkestra
Aug 27 @ 8:00 pm
The Grey Eagle

Grey Eagle Events Presents: New Dawn Starkestra

Ages 18 and up
Wednesday, August 27
Doors: 7pm // Show: 8pm
$16.06

Grey Eagle Music Hall – Special Event
ALL AGES
STANDING ROOM ONLY
Thursday, August 28, 2025
Arbor Evenings
Aug 28 @ 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm
North Carolina Arboretum

Sip and stroll through the Arboretum’s gardens in the glow of the golden hour, all while listening to live music from a variety of local and regional artists! ArborEvenings runs Wednesdays and Thursdays through September 18, 2025 from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.

**Please note: Outside alcohol is prohibited on the campus of The North Carolina Arboretum.**

There is no additional cost to attend ArborEvenings beyond our standard parking fee. As always, Arboretum Society members and their accompanying guests can enter for FREE (guests must be in member vehicles to receive free entry). Proceeds from ArborEvenings help support the The North Carolina Arboretum Society and further advance the Arboretum’s mission.

The Dave Matthews Tribute Band – Sun’s Embrace Summer Tour
Aug 28 @ 8:00 pm
The Grey Eagle

The Grey Eagle and Worthwhile Sounds Present: The Dave Matthews Tribute Band – Sun’s Embrace Summer Tour

Doors: 7pm // Show: 8pm
$24.60

Grey Eagle Music Hall
ALL AGES
STANDING ROOM ONLY
Friday, August 29, 2025
Garden and Adventure Photography
Aug 29 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
NC Arboretum

Garden and Adventure Photography Basics

with Cami Calnan

Friday, August 29  |  10 am – 1 pm

Elevate your photography from the level you are currently working from. In this immersive workshop, we will explore the technical aspects of the camera you photograph with. Bring your phone, your slr or point and shoot digital or film camera, and we will explore the concepts behind taking the kinds of photos you are hoping to capture.

This program will take place outside and will follow easy trails and paved walkways. Dress for the weather and prepare to be outside for the entire program time.

Live Music at All Day Darling
Aug 29 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
All Day Darling

All Day Darling, the all-day eatery in Asheville’s historic Montford neighborhood, invites the community to enjoy live music from local musicians every Friday and Saturday from 6-9pm on their patio. Guests are encouraged to come for dinner, drinks and good vibes as local musicians set the tone for the weekend.

Upcoming performance schedule:
Friday, August 29 – Leo Johnson (jazz trio)
Saturday, August 30 – Brent Riddle
Friday, September 5 – Leo Johnson (jazz trio)
Saturday, September 6 – Ryan Furstenberg
Friday, September 12 – Dinah’s Daydream (jazz trio)
Saturday, September 13 – Adam Rose (jazz trio)
Friday, September 19 – Leo Johnson (jazz trio)
Friday, September 26 – Dinah’s Daydream (jazz trio)
Saturday, September 27 – Adam Rose (jazz trio)

The rotating dinner menu features crave‑worthy offerings like the Thunderbird fried‑chicken sandwich with Harissa aioli and fermented vegetables, the Darling Burger with chop‑shop beef and house aioli, hearty salads and bowls, and seasonal specials – all served in a warm and laid‑back atmosphere.

Admission is free – no tickets or reservations required to enjoy Asheville’s live‑music scene alongside thoughtful, market‑driven fare.

Drivin N Cryin
Aug 29 @ 8:00 pm
The Grey Eagle

The Grey Eagle and Worthwhile Sounds Present: Drivin N Cryin

with Laid Back Country Picker

All Ages
Friday, August 29
Doors: 7pm // Show: 8pm
$27.06

Grey Eagle Music Hall
STANDING ROOM ONLY
Plies and Big Boogie
Aug 29 @ 8:00 pm
Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium

Doors open at 7pm. Come on over for the fun. Labor Day weekend EME fest.

Saturday, August 30, 2025
Blue Country Line Dance’s Giddy-Up Brunch
Aug 30 @ 11:00 am
The Grey Eagle

The Grey Eagle Presents: Blue Country Line Dance’s Giddy-Up Brunch

Saturday, August 30
Doors: 11am // Show: 11am
$11.74

Grey Eagle Music Hall – Special Event
ALL AGES
Live Music at All Day Darling
Aug 30 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
All Day Darling

All Day Darling, the all-day eatery in Asheville’s historic Montford neighborhood, invites the community to enjoy live music from local musicians every Friday and Saturday from 6-9pm on their patio. Guests are encouraged to come for dinner, drinks and good vibes as local musicians set the tone for the weekend.

Upcoming performance schedule:
Friday, August 29 – Leo Johnson (jazz trio)
Saturday, August 30 – Brent Riddle
Friday, September 5 – Leo Johnson (jazz trio)
Saturday, September 6 – Ryan Furstenberg
Friday, September 12 – Dinah’s Daydream (jazz trio)
Saturday, September 13 – Adam Rose (jazz trio)
Friday, September 19 – Leo Johnson (jazz trio)
Friday, September 26 – Dinah’s Daydream (jazz trio)
Saturday, September 27 – Adam Rose (jazz trio)

The rotating dinner menu features crave‑worthy offerings like the Thunderbird fried‑chicken sandwich with Harissa aioli and fermented vegetables, the Darling Burger with chop‑shop beef and house aioli, hearty salads and bowls, and seasonal specials – all served in a warm and laid‑back atmosphere.

Admission is free – no tickets or reservations required to enjoy Asheville’s live‑music scene alongside thoughtful, market‑driven fare.

The Return Of The King: An Unrivaled Tribute To Elvis
Aug 30 @ 7:00 pm
Wortham Center For The Arts

The Return Of The King is an internationally acclaimed Elvis Tribute Show, starring multi award-winning Elvis Tribute artist Tyler Christopher and The Roustabout Showband.

Sunday, August 31, 2025
SpiritFest 2025
Aug 31 @ 5:00 pm
Bon Secours Wellness Arena

Join us for the 33rd Annual SpiritFest at Bon Secours Wellness Arena!

Featuring: Yolanda Adams, Shirley Caesar, Tasha Cobbs Leonard, Ricky Dillard, Luther Barnes, Doc McKenzie & The Hi-Lites.

Tickets are available at the GSP International Airport Box Office located at the arena from the on sale through show day while supplies last. Box Office hours vary but we are generally open Monday-Friday from 10AM-2PM.

MaMuse
Aug 31 @ 7:00 pm
The Grey Eagle

The Grey Eagle and Worthwhile Sounds Present: MaMuse

Sunday, August 31

Doors: 6pm // Show: 7pm

$35.90 to $51.35

Grey Eagle Music Hall

ALL AGES

SEATED SHOW

LIMITED NUMBER OF PREMIUM SEATING TICKETS AVAILABLE

Join MaMuse for an evening of music and song to uplift the spirits and rejuvenate the soul.

MaMuse (“Ma” as in Mamma; “Muse” as in the one who inspires) is returning to Asheville with their band to share harmonic, uplifting, luscious, folk-soul: a musical tune-up for the heart.