Calendar of Events
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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The Hendersonville Lightning has released it’s 7th annual issue of our Apple Festival Special Issue. It will be available at the regular Lightning distribution locations as well as the Visitors Centers in Henderson, Transylvania and Polk counties. Pick up a copy to learn about all the events and entertainment happening this weekend, as well as other fall events.
A special thanks to the NC Apple Festival and all of our advertising partners for helping to make this issue happen. And, of course, thank you to all of our Lightning readers!
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The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy Asheville Weekend is back for 2018! The Chapel Hill & Asheville Senate Social & Wellness Chairs invite you to join us in Asheville, North Carolina on Labor Day Weekend (Friday, August 31st- Monday, September 3rd, 2018) for a fun-filled weekend of activities! This collaboration between the Chapel Hill and Asheville campus will help bring us all together as we kick off another academic year. Here is the agenda for the weekend (see a detailed itinerary on the post in the event Discussion)!
Friday, August 31st:
6:00pm Salvage Station- Meet & Greet dinner and drinks with Asheville Faculty and Students
(466 Riverside Drive, Asheville, NC)
Saturday, September 1st:
12:00pm Triple Falls Hike (Meet at UNC Asheville Campus)
8:00pm Walking Tour of Downtown Asheville
Sunday, September 2nd:
1:00pm Tubing at French Broad River (Zen Tubing Midtown- 608 Riverside Drive, Asheville, NC 28801)
5:00pm Sierra Nevada Brewery
We hope that you can join us for all of these activities throughout the weekend, but please know these are all optional and to be enjoyed at your own pleasure! Look for an announcement regarding individual event sign-up as the weekend gets closer
Chapel Hill students looking for housing, you have a few options: book a hotel room or AirBnB with some friends, or some Asheville students have been kind enough to offer housing for the weekend. We will be releasing a survey for Chapel Hill students to fill out if they would like to stay with Asheville students in the coming weeks, so start thinking about where you would like to stay!
Please reach out to your social chairs for any questions or clarifications!
Chapel Hill Social Chairs:
Erin Mays ([email protected])
Taylor Easley ([email protected])
Asheville Social Chairs:
Peter Thao ([email protected])
Morgan Phillips ([email protected])
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Who: Caldwell Arts Council, Lenoir, North Carolina
When: Labor Day Weekend: August 31, September 1 and 2, 2018.
Where: Jones Farm, 3590 NC-268, Historic Happy Valley, Caldwell County, NC
Cost: Friday $5, Saturday $10, Sunday $15
Experience a perfect Labor Day Weekend on the banks of the Yadkin River being surrounded by mountain music, dance, food and beautiful scenery. Festival music begins at 7:00 PM Friday featuring Pam and Brett Riggs, The Sunny Mountain Serenaders, and Jason Cade along with cakewalks and simple mountain dances ($5 adults, 15 & under free). Gates open for primitive camping on Thursday.
Saturday is packed with great entertainment! The music competition begins at 10:00 AM and includes 12 separate categories. The Youth Tent offers music performances by some extremely talented youngsters. Non-music and children’s activities include hayrides, storytelling, children’s crafts, and rock stacking in the river.
The weekend ends with a Sunday concert starting at 10:00 AM featuring an all-star lineup of folk, blues, gospel, old-time, Cajun and bluegrass musicians including the Kruger Brothers, The Harris Brothers, Strictly Clean and Decent, Irish folk music plus other performances and workshops. This fantastic weekend ends approximately 5:00 PM on Sunday. Friday $5, Saturday $10, Sunday $15, $25 for Weekend Pass, children under 16 free.
When was the last time you had the privilege of sitting on the banks of a mountain river with music echoing throughout the hills around you. So come for a day or camp for the weekend.
Check out the details and directions at www.happyvalleyfiddlers.org
Learn about the historic Happy Valley at http://explorecaldwell.com/
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From the writing team behind last year’s smash sensation The Dixie Swim Club. In this rollicking comedy, four friends have sworn to keep the promise they made on the night of their Senior Prom: to be in each other’s weddings, and hilarity ensues. If you’ve ever elbowed a stranger to catch a bride’s bouquet or have been forced to wear the world’s ugliest bridesmaid dress, this deliriously funny play by Jones Hope Wooten is definitely for you…and your dearly beloved.
Matinees: Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays at 2:00PM
Evenings: Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7:30PM. Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00PM
Flat Rock Playhouse Mainstage
2661 Greenville Highway Flat Rock, NC 28731
Students at the Visual Arts Preschool at Roots + Wings School of Art and Design engage with pre-K education fundamentals through a dynamic, arts based curriculum. Literacy, numeracy, social skills, community building, cultural and environmental studies are approached through an art and design thinking lens, as students explore learning concepts experientially across multiple platforms.
The Roots + Wings Visual Arts Preschool ‘Best of 2018’ collection is a cross section of the diverse pre-K education program and includes investigations into art movements, community and culture, storytelling, and creative play.
The Biltmore Estate has been planning the largest exhibition in its historic gardens for almost a decade. And finally, last week, Chihuly at Biltmore opened with a mega installation of glass sculptures from the famous artist Dale Chihuly. Tens of thousands of glass pieces from all around the world reside in 14 locations around the Estate (which is the very first large-scale N.C. Chihuly installation).
The exhibition is up from now until Oct. 7th, free admission with a Biltmore day pass (and free for annual pass holders). Chihuly at Nightis a special, ongoing event where the glass sculptures are lit up, plus live music in the gardens + a wine bar. Tickets are $37.50 for kids + range from $65 – 75 for adults ($10 discount for pass holders).
Three new works were blown just for Biltmore, and 6 new compositions were put together.
Program Highlights:
The evening will feature pianist, Christopher Tavernier. “Exploring New Horizons” with the “Great Piano Classics” and Christopher will astound the classical purists with his grace and technique. The program will begin with some of the most demanding classical music written by the world’s greatest composers and will combine his passion for classical music with today’s musical themes from Hollywood’s Greatest Mega-Hits.
The Music Foundation of WNC is sponsoring its Sixth Annual World Masterwork Series – Exploring New Horizons… the Great Piano Classics from Classical Music to Popular Hollywood Mega-Hits. The performance, an unprecedented and technically challenging piano concert is sure to sell out weeks prior before it comes to the Diana Wortham theatre on Saturday September 1, at 6:45 p.m.
“We are doing something that is very seldom done anywhere in the world,” says Joann Freeburg, Music Foundation of Western North Carolina founder. “You won’t have to be a classical music fan to enjoy this concert. You can appreciate it from a historical, technical and performance perspective. It is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity where you can experience the classical style with today’s current popular music.
The evening will feature pianist Christopher Tavernier. “Exploring New Horizons” with the “Great Piano Classics” and Christopher will astound the classical purists with his grace and technique. The program will begin with some of the most demanding classical music written by the world’s greatest composers and will combine his passion for classical music with today’s musical themes from Hollywood’s Greatest Mega-Hits.
The piano that Tavernier will be playing on is especially noteworthy. Made in Boston, MA provided by Freeburg Pianos in Hendersonville, is the latest American-made Mason and Hamlin model CC-94 Concert Grand piano and is making its premier “Main Stage” performance at the Diana Wortham Theatre this September. It is the third longest handmade piano in the world at nine-feet-four-inches long. The piano will be tuned to the Equal-Beating Victorian temperament, a tuning method that was preferred in Europe during the 1800s and still by many classical performers. The resulting rich sound to both the trained and untrained ear is often described as more vibrant that tuning commonly used today.
Christopher Tavernier made his orchestral debut with the Tar River Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of thirteen in Rocky Mount, NC, performing Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in the opening concert of the orchestra’s Fall 2013 season. Since then he has won the Hendersonville, Asheville, Augusta, and Charlotte Symphony concerto competitions, and second prize in the National Elizabeth Harper Vaughn Concerto Competition in Kingsport, Tennessee, where he was the youngest performer in the history of the competition. In the summer of 2017 he was one of two pianists who won the Brevard Music Festival Jan and Beattie Wood Concerto Competition, competing in a field that included college undergraduate and graduate students.
In addition to a growing solo repertoire, Christopher has performed concerti by Bach, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, and Prokofiev. Also, a dedicated chamber musician, he performs frequently with the Rutherford Chamber Consort. In addition, he has performed benefit concerts in support of the Mission Foundation’s “Ladies Night Out” — a collaboration of women helping women who provide free mammograms and health screenings for uninsured/underinsured women, the Hunger Coalition of Henderson County and Music Education Programs throughout Western North Carolina.
Christopher has been featured on ABC affiliate television station WLOS, CBS affiliate WSPA in Spartanburg (Scene on 7), Carolinas CW62 (Studio 62), and Carolina Live NPR radio, and WCQS in Asheville, NC. In 2015 he was named the first International Perzina Artist in the company’s 147 year history. Christopher has published recordings in DVD and CD formats.
Back by popular demand our BBQ & Brews now featured on the Fontana Trestle Train, will roll out this Summer! Featuring slow-cooked BBQ prepared fresh and beer tastings showcasing our local breweries! Family friendly seating is be available on this experience!
Departing from Bryson City, these trains will travel to the Fontana Trestle and arrive just around sunset for a spectacular view! A delicious BBQ meal will be served during the trip. Returning back to the Bryson City Depot at 9pm.
In the Basket
Each of you will get your own basket of Southern-style barbeque goodness with hand-pulled pork slider, a couple pork ribs, and chicken drumstick accompanied by baked beans and house-made coleslaw.
And, of course, no respectable Southern barbeque would forget to warm up some apple cobbler for dessert.
Back by popular demand our BBQ & Brews now featured on the Fontana Trestle Train, will roll out this Summer! Featuring slow-cooked BBQ prepared fresh and beer tastings showcasing our local breweries! Family friendly seating is be available on this experience!
Departing from Bryson City, these trains will travel to the Fontana Trestle and arrive just around sunset for a spectacular view! A delicious BBQ meal will be served during the trip. Returning back to the Bryson City Depot at 9pm.
In the Basket
Each of you will get your own basket of Southern-style barbeque goodness with hand-pulled pork slider, a couple pork ribs, and chicken drumstick accompanied by baked beans and house-made coleslaw.
And, of course, no respectable Southern barbeque would forget to warm up some apple cobbler for dessert.
This exquisite, interactive exhibit is designed to inspire and educate visitors about the storied history and evocative power of scent while taking them on a full sensory journey, literally! Blending flora, fashion and science, Making Scents showcases some of Mother Nature’s most fragrant botanicals and unveils the plants and flowers behind some of the world’s most iconic perfumes. Visitors will explore the mysterious power of the sense of smell, learn about the artistry and science behind the fragrance industry and even compose their own basic fragrance.
From traditional harvest and extraction methods to chemical combinations of synthetic fragrances, Making Scents uncovers the technical processes behind fragrance creation through an immersive, multisensory experience. Art, passion and craft come together inside the exhibit’s iconic bottle display, which showcases the unique designs of more than 100 perfume bottles, some dating back to ancient the Greek and Roman eras. By integrating horticulture, history and pop culture, Making Scents is sure to enlighten the senses and engage the minds of visitors about the fragrance industry and the living world in a fun, dynamic way.
This exhibit showcases the work of three leading fiber artists who explore Western North Carolina’s mountains, meadows and marshes using fabrics and fibers. Their quilted wall art offers a link to familiar images of this region, echoing the Arboretum’s role of connecting people with plants. Through their diverse styles, construction methods and subject matter, artists Mary Stori, Judy Simmons and Kate Weston add a contemporary twist to the area’s rich and storied quilt-making tradition. Their exhibit features pieces of varying sizes, from large focal-point wall hangings to medium-sized wall art to small work suitable for tabletop display. All pieces are for sale, with a portion of the proceeds benefiting The North Carolina Arboretum Society.
About the Artists
Mary Stori
From her home in Clyde, N.C., Mary creates botanical and organic themed art quilts using artisian-made, hand-dyed cotton, linen, silk and rayon fabrics. She also utilizes hand-felted and hand-dyed wool as rich backdrops, offering texture and depth to her work. Bead embellishment is another one of her trademarks. Learn more on her website.
Judy Simmons
Judy creates her own fabric in her Fletcher, N.C. studio using surface design techniques, including fabric marbling, dyeing, color lifting and silk screening. Much of the imagery in her work utilizes her own photography printed on fabric. To learn more about Judy, please click here.
Kate Weston
From her home in Statesville, N.C., Kate focuses on the creation of complex cloth through the application of dye, paint and embellishment, such as fabric overlay or manipulation and the application of non-fiber materials. Coupled with skillful machine quilting, Kate’s works create and stunning interplay of color and texture. Please visit Kate’s website to learn more.
The Asheville Art Museum is excited to present Red Hot in the Blue Ridge, an exhibition being held in conjunction with Western North Carolina’s community-wide Summer of Glass celebration. On view at the Asheville Art Museum On the Slope at 175 Biltmore Avenue May 19 – September 30, 2018, Red Hot in the Blue Ridge celebrates Western North Carolina’s unique place in the history of American Studio Glass. Many other organizations and galleries across WNC are also hosting glass-focused events, programs and exhibitions during the region’s Summer of Glass celebration, which coincides with a new exhibition at Biltmore of multi-media artist Dale Chihuly’s monumental glass sculptures. Visit www.ashevilleart.org for details.
Process painting workshop, where everyone is a beginner. The Painting Experience is about creativity and free expression in a supportive environment that allows for deep self-exploration through art.
Explore the world of spontaneous creation! Join Betsy Vingle and Matt Belay for a weekend dedicated to connecting with your authentic creative self. In a studio environment free of judgement and critique, learn how to paint for process rather than product, follow your energy and relate in a new way to the inner critic.
Betsy and Matt’s return for their twelfth year leading this workshop in Asheville. This weekend workshop is will be held at The Refinery Creator Space at 207 Coxe Ave, in downtown Asheville’s South Slope.
Saturday: 9:30 am – 6:00 pm
Sunday: 9:30 am – 5:30 pm
Lunch Breaks: 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Tuition: $410 ~ Your tuition includes all art materials, over 12 hours of facilitated painting sessions, group discussion circles in supportive community, and a video presentation about creativity and the practice of art as process.
Continuing Ed. credits are available for some health professionals. Partial scholarships and work exchange are also possible.
Weaving is one of those crafts that once you begin, you just don’t want to stop. We are offering this class in response to the call for a longer session in basketry, to dive a bit deeper into weave patterns, and create a multi-functional vessel that you will become your new travel companion.
Join us for two full days as we weave up ourselves an old-timey pack basket; one that is light, durable, and comfortable on your body to be able to put on many trail miles. We will use flat weaving material, a combination of reed, black ash, and hickory bark. This is an opportunity to make a backpack that is completely custom to your body and artistry. Come hang out with us for a full weekend of crafting and dive deeper into the meditation of weaving!
Cost: Early Bird $225 Regular Ticket: $275
Questions? Email: [email protected]
At HoSS we never want people to feel limited by money. Work trades are available.
Children 12+ are welcome with accompanying adult and their own ticket
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ToneWorthy Presents:
Heavy Mountain Music & Beer Fest
Sept 1 & 2 Labor Day Weekend – Asheville, NC
Sun Sept 2 @ The Orange Peel
DAY OF: $40.00
High on Fire
Obituary
Black Tusk
Inter Arma
Young Widows
Exmortus
Sat Sept 1 @ The Mothlight
$10
Bask
Toke
Temptations Wings
Green Fiend
Tickets: www.heavymountainfest.com
Artist schedule & tap list: TBA
Links:
www.heavymountainfest.com
www.toneworthy.com
http://www.highonfire.net
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The four fields at John B Lewis Soccer Complex are still not restored yet (frustratingly). Both ABYSA and Asheville Buncombe Adult Soccer Association are under tremendous pressure for cash flow and the field damage was very high. Also, most of the goals for all our programming were damaged or lost so the strain on the community and lack of soccer has created high anxiety for many. ABASA has nearly 2,000 unique participants and currently struggling to find places for them to even play.
One World Brewing West will be releasing a new beer for this event and a portion of sales of this beverage will go towards raising money to help ABASA:
Special Beer Release: 9/1 at 7 PM
Mangooooooooall! DDH IPA : 6.0% : w/ Mango & Citra hops
Fundraiser will last all month.
Music by The Rahm Squad will begin at 9 PM
520 Haywood Rd, Asheville NC
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80’s Dance Party at Ambrose West (DJ Heidi Renee’)
Come dressed in your favorite 80’s gear and let’s dance!!!
NO COVER / Donations are RAD
80’s Tunes from the greats — Dead/Panic/Phish/Talking Heads/Michael Jackson….
WHERE: Ambrose West, 312 Haywood Road, 28806
WHEN: Saturday September 1, 2018
DOORS: 8:30pm | Dance: 9pm
GENRE: 80’s Dance Music
AGES: 18+
Tickets: NO COVER / Donations are RAD
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Your summer labors are rewarded, Asheville Vaudeville returns!
Join an all-star lineup of Asheville Vaudeville’s finest artists, September 1st. Hosted by master puppeteer, Toybox Theatre, it will be a hot night of comic burlesque, awesome acrobatics, magic mentalism, sparkling standup, daring and delightful dance, and stupendous storytelling. Start your fall right with a perfect night of entertainment!
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As an emerging female country artist in Nashville, history suggests that the quickest path to success is somehow aligning oneself with one of the major publishers, producers, songwriters, labels, or managers that are the heart of Music Row. So what do you do if you are an emerging female country artist in Nashville, and also happen to be the granddaughter of musical icon, Willie Nelson?
You hook up with an independent producer and veteran of the rock/punk scene, write some songs that are part Loretta Lynn, part Cheap Trick, and form the Raelyn Nelson Band.
Raelyn Nelson has been singing since she can remember. Having been raised on a steady diet of traditional country and gospel music, a gift from her grandpa in the form of a guitar during her teenage years was the inspiration she needed to begin writing her own country and folk songs.
Looking for a place to record these songs, a mutual friend suggested JB (Jonathan Bright), a veteran of the underground rock scene and independent producer. After recording some of these early songs, they decided to try to write some things together and see what happened. The result? A completely fresh and original sound, a true hybrid referred to by some critics as “Country/Garage Rock.”
When they aren’t recording their songs or making music videos, they are on the road taking their high energy live show to the people. Having shared the stage with such diverse musical acts as country superstar Tim McGraw, indie rock icons Drivin’ n Cryin’, and jam band supergroup Hard Working Americans, the RNB is proving that you don’t have to fit neatly into any particular “genre” to find success.
“I don’t really have any desire to be a ‘solo-artist’. Everyone in my family who plays music has always placed a lot of importance on band chemistry, on stage, off stage and in the studio. Our band can almost read each other’s minds. Why would I mess with that? We try to keep it simple: Write songs we like, record them, make a video, then go out and play them for people.”- Raelyn Nelson.
Her own woman: Daily Times http://www.thedailytimes.com/entertainment/her-own-woman-raelyn-nelson-combines-famous-grandfather-s-country/article_0ad0eb84-b012-5961-a46b-3d09046f03d6.html
Raelyn Willie and the Boys: Memphis Flyer https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/raelyn-and-willie-and-the-boys/Content%3foid=10512681&media=AMP+HTML
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RGPB
Indie band based out of Asheville, who made their start on the streets of Asheville. They moved to the stage and are on the verge of releasing their first ep.
Alex Blum
Asheville solo Artist who will blow your mind with amazing guitar licks
SunsingStar
Often compared to John Prine, Sunsing has been recording and performing regularly with musicians from the Bayou and Asheville NC for the new album Dollar and a Prayer
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Get ready to rock-out with some blues-rock originals and hit covers along with some deep cuts. Drawing on their influences of Blues, Rock, Funk and Soul, Scoundrel’s Lounge is creating a buzz around the Asheville/Waynesville area that’s guaranteed to get people moving.
Consisting of guitar, bass,and drums Scoundrel’s Lounge knows how to put on a show.Bring your party hat and your dancing shoes, and be ready to groove to the smooth stylistic sounds of SCOUNDREL’S LOUNGE.
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Storied Atlanta garage rockers Subsonics come to Asheville to blow the house down with garage godfather Greg Cartwright and local heavy rockers Cadavernous!
Subsonics
https://slovenly.bandcamp.com/album/subsonics-in-the-black-spot-lp
Greg Cartwright (Reigning Sound/Oblivians)
https://reigningsound.bandcamp.com/
Cadavernous
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Tickets $5 adv $7 day of
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Rahm Sqaud – Orignal grooves and choice cuts.
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Come join us Saturday night with the always amazing DJ Honey! If you like funk, house and classic hip hop you definitely want to be at the LaZoom Room on Saturday 10pm-2am!
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Think back to a time when Skrillex was just Sonny, Warped Tour was only $20, and Patrick Stump was a wee bit tubby. When hair was swooped, pants were tight, belts were studded, and shoes were checkered…
Join us at The One Stop in Asheville, NC on 9/1 as we recreate the past for Get Sad Y’all! Break out that old band tee and come sing your heart out, dance (dance), and most importantly, remember that everything is alright as we spin all the essential emo & pop-punk tunes from your awkward years.
$5 suggested cash donation at the door – please help us get back to Raleigh. Sorry kids, this party is for adults only (21+).
DJ SETS FROM:
– Zach Dawson (akissforjersey)
– eleventyseven
$5 suggested donation at the door
21+
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Ladies free all night this Saturday! Come and bring friends and request your favorite songs! Pop, Latin, and all your favorites.
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Marley Carroll is bringing his ‘Lose Yourself to Dance’ set to THREE DATES for Asheville Music Hall’s ‘Saturday Night Jive’ Summer Dance Series!
Genre: Dance
Cover: $5 Suggested Donation
Doors/Music: 10PM
Ages: 21+
WHAT IS THE ‘LOSE YOURSELF TO DANCE’ SET:
“Lose Yourself To Dance” has become #Asheville’s hottest dance party. Guided by his well-honed instincts developed over years of touring and club DJing, Marley Carroll guides packed audiences through a marathon set that is frequently surprising and always satisfying. From classic hip-hop and soul to contemporary indie dance hits to obscure afrobeat, funk, disco and everything in between, no genre or era is out-of-bounds. This is a dance party for fans of music!
MORE ON Marley Carroll
Hailing from the misty mountains of Asheville, NC, Marley Carroll has been making waves as a thoughtful, sophisticated electronic producer with a penchant for melancholy melodies and warm, silvery vocals. Known as “the producer’s producer,” Carroll commands respect among his peers and a steadily-growing audience of fans. A classically trained pianist and percussionist, but never content to color inside the lines, he became the youngest ever to win the title of Best Scratch DJ for his home state of North Carolina – at 17. In the years since, he has never stopped evolving, undergoing a full transformation into a veteran producer, DJ, and dynamic live performer.
His self-produced 2007 debut album Melanaster was the result of meticulous bedroom alchemy, recalling a lost Radiohead LP submerged in ten feet of saltwater. The album’s sonic signature can be found somewhere between the beautiful haze of early ’90s shoegaze rock (My Bloody Valentine) and early 2000s IDM (Autechre, Squarepusher). Smeared, melancholy pop songs tethered to abstract electronic rhythms, or what NPR called “gorgeously subdued glitch-pop.”
In 2011, Carroll truly came into his own as a producer and live performer. He developed a solo PA set to bring a more raw and improvisatory vision of his music to live audiences, combining vocals, turntables, hardware controllers, and analog Moog synth. His onstage performances are exercises in understated talent that mix live vocals with stunning and unorthodox turntablist skills over a bed of sophisticated electronica. In 2012, he toured with forward-thinking producers like Shigeto, Dabrye, and Emancipator, and appeared at groundbreaking music festivals across the country (Moogfest, Decibel, Coachella). The galvanic dance floor energy of larger audiences infused his drum-driven 2012 EP R&S / Cedars, and its title track garnered a favorable feature from XLR8R. Steadily, national attention was building for Carroll’s unique style of subtle and compelling dance music.
In December 2013 he released Sings, a new full-length LP that combines the best of his recent instrumental work with his considerable skills as a songwriter. A densely propulsive electronic album rooted in forest imagery, Sings received universal critical acclaim, drawing praise from tastemakers like Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Stereogum, Bandcamp and Impose Magazine. Sings was named NC’s Best Album Of 2013 by YES! Weekly.
“Marley Carroll is connoisseur of groove, a tastemaker with a diverse palette and great attention to detail. Gifted in the dark arts of composition, production and turntablism, Marley Carroll is a veteran in the making.” – Emancipator
Marley Carroll is currently unsigned. He releases music via Melanaster Records, a self-run label.
website: http://marleycarroll.com/
video: https://youtu.be/REO0NIDz4W4
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Screaming J’s
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