Calendar of Events

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7:00 pm doors, 8:00 pm show, info & tix see website: http://www.whitehorseblackmountain.com w/ Chuck Brodsky.

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For more info on this concert, please call: (828) 202-5339.

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TERRI CLARK
Hailing from Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada, Terri Clark got her start by playing for tips at Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge, a legendary honky-tonk bar across the alley from Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium. With over 5 million albums sold, critically acclaimed international tours, and hit singles such as “Better Things To Do,” “Poor Poor Pitiful Me,” “Girls Lie Too,” “Northern Girl,” and “I Just Wanna Be Mad,” Terri has solidified her place in the history books of country music. The 3-time JUNO Award winner holds the honor of being the only Canadian female member of the legendary Grand Ole Opry. She has been named CCMA Female Vocalist of the Year five times and has taken home eight CCMA Fan’s Choice Awards. In total, Terri has had the honor of receiving 19 CCMA Awards.

PAM TILLIS
As the child of Country Music Royalty, Pam Tillis was determined from a young age to find her own way in music as a singer and songwriter. Pam Tillis has always insisted on writing and cutting songs that speak from the soul. With 6 number ones and 14 top ten singles, Pam knows all about breaking the platinum barrier. With more than 30 singles charting on US Billboard charts and selling more than 7 Million copies of her studio albums, Pam’s critical acclaim has not diminished. She is currently a reoccurring guest on the TV show “Nashville”, performed an extended run on Broadway in New York in Smokey Joe’s Cafe and is a proud member of The Grand Ole Opry. Pam Tillis’ star continues to shine brightly in the 3rd decade of her career.

SUZY BOGGUSS
During the creative explosion that was country music in the 1990s Suzy Bogguss sold 4 million records with sparkling radio hits like “Outbound Plane”, “Someday Soon”, “Letting Go”, and “Drive South”. In the midst of her country popularity she took time off to make a duets album with the legendary Chet Atkins. In 2003 she made an album of modern swing music with Ray Benson of Asleep At The Wheel. An album of original music in 2007 landed her at number 4 on the jazz charts. Her folk music roots show through in her frequent appearances on public radio’s A Prairie Home Companion, in the Grammy she earned for her work on Beautiful Dreamer: The Songs of Stephen Foster, and in her critically acclaimed album and book project from 2011, American Folk Songbook. So yes, you can call her a country singer if you want, but really that’s just the beginning.

Select Evenings, May 17–October 7, 2018

Biltmore House & Gardens opens to the public on Thursday–Sunday evenings for a special reservations-only viewing of Chihuly’s stunning large-scale glass sculptures. Chihuly Nights at Biltmore is an enchanting opportunity to witness the effects of dramatic nighttime lighting upon the luminous colors and graceful forms of these spectacular pieces. Sunset over the majestic Blue Ridge Mountains, live music in the gardens, and a wine bar make the evening experience all the more enticing. Chihuly’s towering works of art illuminated against a night sky surrounded by the timeless beauty and magnificence of Biltmore House & Gardens: a truly moving, memorable experience

Welcome our Veterans home from the next flight! Come to Asheville Airport on October 6th around 7:30pm to be ready and waiting for their arrival.
Blue Ridge Honor Flight started as a dream in 2005 and was originally founded as HonorAir. HonorAir and the National Honor Flight programs have been responsible for flying over 200,000 WWII, Korean and Vietnam veterans to our nation’s capitol to experience their memorials. The Blue Ridge Honor Flight board and volunteers plan 2-3 flights from the Asheville and Greenville airports each year.
For More Information go to Blue Ridge Honor Flight. We hope to see you there!

More information on Honor Flights
https://www.blueridgehonorflight.com/about-us.html

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Please join us at the Hawk and Hawthorne as we celebrate the Birthright Moon.

We will be ruminating on generational curses and banishing them from our lives as we dive deeper into the dark half of the year.

We will be calling in our underworld deities Coal and Coca to aid us in purging the parts of or birthright that we do not wish to carry with us any longer.

We will have two altars for this ritual.
We will have our Geode altar please bring items you wish to be charged on this altar for the magic of the season.
We will also have the ancestor altar. Please bring pictures or items of your ancestors.

We will also be having a potluck dinner at this event. Please be sure to bring a covered dish to share.

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Join our guest speaker former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, Governor Roy Cooper, Secretary of State Elaine Marshall and North Carolina Democrats for our annual Western Gala in Asheville

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Orchestra: $35 | Mezzanine: $30 | Balcony: $25

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It’s Big Daddy’s 65th birthday.  The mood is somber, despite the festivities, because a number of evils poison the gaiety: greed, sins of the past and desperate hopes for the future as the knowledge that Big Daddy is dying slowly makes the rounds.

Thundering Herd returns to The Odditorium and they’re bringing two of the best bands from the eastern side of the state with them in Bedowyn and Datura! Along with our friends and local favorites Tombstone Highway and 8 Vacant Graves, this is NOT a show you want to miss!

Saturday October 6 at The Odditorium

Tombstone HWY 9:00-9:30
Bedowyn 9:45-10:15
Datura 10:30-11:00
Thundering Herd 11:15-11:45
8 Vacant Graves 12:00-

$10 entry
All ages

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WHERE: Ambrose West, 312 Haywood Rd., 28806
WHEN: Saturday October 6, 2018
DOORS: 7pm | SHOW: 8pm
GENRE: folk / americana / acoustic
AGES: all ages
SEATS: seated general admission
TICKETS: $7 adv. / $10 dos / $15 VIP (guaranteed seat in 1st 3 rows!)
WEB LISTING: http://www.ambrosewest.com/underhill

Eleanor Underhill & Friends will be performing the entirely of Navigate the Madness at the album release show. This will be an intimate, not-to-be-missed show as Eleanor will be sharing some of the inspiration behind the songs and the album. Copies of the album will available at the discounted rate of $10 each. $1 from the sale of each album will be donated to help those in need.

Eleanor Underhill & Friends:

WEBSITE: www.eleanorunderhillmusic.com
SEE A VIDEO: https://youtu.be/N0BqBzCOhX0

Eleanor Underhill tried her hand at a variety of instruments—piano, trombone, guitar, and ukulele—before settling on the banjo, the instrument that has defined her sound. At age 14, she composed her first song and has since amassed a vast catalogue of music that has supported the creation of five albums with various projects. Her unique open-back banjo style, salty-blues vocals, and prolific writing ability has contributed to the success of her band, Underhill Rose, who has toured nationally and overseas while garnering international acclaim on the Americana scene since its formation in 2009. She has also won top honors at Asheville’s Songwriting Idol Contest, played on a Grammy award winning song by Kid-Hop artist Agent 23 Skidoo, was selected to perform in the Asheville All-Star Band in the summer of 2018, and is a Deering Banjos endorsing artist.

Though collaboration has surely been the cause of much of her success, Underhill felt the burning desire to get her hands on the dials and take a song all the way through the process of writing to recording to producing to mixing to release. In the fall of 2016, Eleanor holed up in her parent’s restored mill house with her modest collection of recording equipment and began tracking a full length album of original material. With the help of a Regional Artist Project Grant, Eleanor is thrilled to releasing her very first solo album—Navigate the Madness—in the fall of 2018. Leaning on the talents of several Asheville musicians (many of them in Eleanor Underhill & Friends) she has created a work that is more adventurous and singular than anything she has done before. Eleanor Underhill & Friends will be performing the entirety of Navigate the Madness at the album release show.

Drawing inspiration from music genres that span from folk to soul to pop, Eleanor Underhill & Friends is a group of Asheville all-stars that delivers thoughtful original compositions, eclectic grooves, and unexpected cover songs that you would never expect from a banjo-fronted band. This energizing group has been a staple of the western NC music scene since their inception in 2014.

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Iris DeMent at The Grey Eagle

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Karl Lauber delivers a distinctly listenable music mix with his multi-instrument/multi-vocal solo. from singer-songwriter, tropical, country ,and Appalachian Americana brings a fresh approach to familiar sounds.

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Take the traditional music of the coastal South, shake it up with the soul of gospel and mix in a little modern jazz and R&B, and you end up with Ranky Tanky, who has a number one album on the Billboard, iTunes and Amazon Jazz charts. Saturday, October 6, 2018 at 8:00 p.m. at Diana Wortham Theatre in downtown Asheville. Tickets: Regular $35; Student $30; Child $20; Student Rush Day-of-Show (with valid I.D.) $10. Box Office: 828-257-4530 or www.dwtheatre.com.

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GET TICKETS AT CANTONHALL.COM

Sebastian Bach LIVE at Canton Hall in Dallas TX
Saturday, 6 October

::::: Sebastian Bach :::::
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http://www.sebastianbach.com
> > > > Celebrated rocker Sebastian Bach is recognized globally as a vocalist, television star, actor and beyond! Bach hit the spotlight as the iconic frontman for mainstream heavy metal/hard rock act Skid Row. Since his departure from Skid Row, Sebastian Bach remains one of the most relevant rock figures in pop culture today, with three solo records, network television appearances on MTV, VH1 and CMT, guest appearances on Gilmore Girls, Trailer Park Boys, Californication and other popular television shows, and several acting stints on and off Broadway. Bach’s most recent album, Give ‘Em Hell impressively, landed on the U.S. Top Hard Rock and Top 200 Billboard charts, proving his prowess decades after his initial debut. Bach’s Harper Collins memoir 18 And Life on Skid Row was released in 2016. Now, when Bach isn’t on the road he is working on music for a new album!

with special guests

::::: Monte Pittman :::::
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::::: One Bad Son :::::
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Tickets on-sale this Thursday!!!

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$10 advance/ $13 DOS
8pm Doors
9pm Tides In Transit
10pm Stop Light Observations

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Berlyn Trio is a jazz, funk and soul band based in Asheville, NC. It features Jamie Berlyn on sax, Dan Clare on 8-string guitar, and Kevin Scott on drums.

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A Word about the Krektones…

The Krektones blend the surf swagger of the Ventures with the scorching guitar of Link Wray and just a wee bit of Tav Falco psychobilly to make a beat that’s pretty much impossible to stand still to. The Krektones feature Jason Krekel at lead, Dave Gay on bass, and Lance Wille on drums. These instrumentalists bring a broad range of musical experience, swinging wide from stints with The Parting Gifts, Freakwater, and The Reigning Sound, as well as some seminal Asheville bands, including the Firecracker Jazz Band, Mad Tea Party, The Unholy Trio, and White Heat. Don’t let the sequined tuxedo jackets fool you—these boys will rip it up.

“Influences:
Ventures, Link Wray, Dick Dale, Takeshi Terauchi & The Bunnies, Original Surfaris, The Highlights, Jerry Cole & His Spacemen, Scott Engel, Thee Milkshakes, The Trashmen, The Gaylads, The Impacs, Ronnie & the Rainbows, Ganiman & His Orientals, The Black Albinos, Mickey Baker, Herb Alpert & Bo Diddly

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It’s the hometown CD Release party for New Freedom Blues and we couldn’t be more excited y’all! Our good friends Lindsay Lou will be opening the show for us. Should be a big ol time!

Tickets on sale July 11th
$15adv // $18dos
Doors 8pm // Show 9pm

The word “freedom” evokes all kinds of imagery: running through a wide expanse of untouched nature, setting off on one’s own to explore parts unknown, standing up for deeply held beliefs – at the core, each of these manifests what it means to be free.

It’s fitting, too, that the word made its way into the title of Town Mountain’s new album, New Freedom Blues. As the Asheville quintet’s sixth studio album and the follow-up to 2016’s Southern Crescent, New Freedom Blues marks an exciting new chapter for the band – one in which they fearlessly consider what it means to make bluegrass-influenced music in the modern era and one that should be a welcome listen for fans who have come to love the band’s raucous, no-holds-barred live performances.

“The album is somewhat of a departure from the sound that we’ve typically recorded, our ‘bluegrass’ sound,” banjo player Jesse Langlais explains. “We took the songs at their face value in the studio this time, as opposed to trying to take a song and make it fit inside certain bluegrass parameters. It morphed into this idea that we should be playing the songs for what they are as opposed to what we thought they should be.”

Recorded at Asheville’s Echo Mountain Studios with producer Caleb Klauder, the 11 tracks that comprise New Freedom Blues span the sum total of the band’s eclectic influences, from traditional bluegrass to roots pop to hardscrabble honky tonk. The album also marks the first time the band brought a drummer – Sturgill Simpson collaborator Miles Miller – into the studio.

“Having a full drum kit on the record gave the songs a bigger sound,” mandolin player and vocalist Phil Barker says. “Miles has a great musical sense, a deep pocket, and rhythmically, a strong foundation. With him and Zach [Smith] playing together, it was a solid wall of sound for all of us to ride on. He’s really intuitive about what a song needs, when to give it space, and when to make it rock a little harder.”

The album opens with the title track, a hard-driving roots rocker about the bittersweet feeling that comes after making the difficult decision to end a relationship. Anchored by a propulsive beat from Miller and featuring virtuosic displays of musicianship from the players themselves, the track seamlessly bridges the gap between the band’s old-school influences and their progressive, genre-bending inclinations.

“‘New Freedom Blues’ is about the feeling you get after you’ve broken up with someone or done something you thought would be best in the long run,” Barker explains. “You keep telling yourself it was the right thing to do, but the second-guessing hurts like hell. The song specifically talks about a relationship, but the feeling could be applied to any life decisions, political or otherwise.”

The tune and the album title also cleverly nod to the band’s sonic evolution, as well as their willingness to speak up about issues of inequality in the age of Trump. Album highlight “Life and Debt,” with lyrics like, “Piles and piles and miles of cash / couldn’t get me back to where I once was at,” is an unflinching look at the difficult financial realities faced by most Americans.

“Lyrically,” I’m trying to convey the struggle that most of us have with some form of debt,” Langlais says of “Life and Debt”. “Looking back to my first year of college, I recall credit card companies setting up shop in the student union, essentially handing out lines of credit to children with zero money management skills. It’s predatory behavior in my opinion, but I’m trying to get that across in a lighthearted way. However, it is a very serious matter. The line, ‘all the money’s in the politicians’ hands’ is a jab at our current political climate. As long as those folks up on Capital Hill continue to keep their pockets greased, this will be an issue.”

In crafting the new album, Town Mountain also called upon friend and fellow musician Tyler Childers, who co-wrote the track “Down Low” with Langlais, the album’s closing cut and an aching take on, as Langlais puts it, “one’s buzz being too big.” “To me ‘Down Low’ has a Waylon vibe, which is a damn good vibe to have,” Langlais says. “My favorite line in the song, which was a Tyler line, is, ‘I’ve been getting into meanness on the dark end of the street.’ Ahh, that’s downright lonesome.”

Town Mountain is Langlais, Barker, vocalist/guitarist Robert Greer, fiddle player Bobby Britt, and bassist Zach Smith. Since releasing their debut album Original Bluegrass and Roots Country in 2007, Town Mountain have made a name for themselves in bluegrass and roots circuits and have amassed a sizable catalog of original songs. They’ve toured with a who’s who of like-minded artists, including Ralph Stanley and His Clinch Mountain Boys, the Del McCoury Band, Greensky Bluegrass, Yonder Mountain String Band, and many others. Southern Crescent debuted at number four on Billboard’s Bluegrass Chart, and held strong in the Americana Music Association’s Radio Chart Top Forty for 10 weeks. In 2016, Town Mountain made their Grand Ole Opry debut, performing both at the Opry House and at the famed Ryman Auditorium.

With New Freedom Blues, Town Mountain has found a way to build off their past accomplishments and deep musical roots and to craft something new, exciting, and unapologetically authentic in terms of who they are as musicians and as people. Langlais sums it up well, saying, “This album illustrates the fact that bluegrass music will continue to be an ever-changing genre.”

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World music trio Free Planet Radio celebrates the release of their latest album “Stillness”

Since 2001, Free Planet Radio has been bringing its exciting and innovative world-jazz-classical music blend to both concert stages and classrooms. Based in Asheville NC, this musical partnership began with a clear mission statement as “the shared vision of three multi-instrumentalists exploring the infinite and seamless relationships between musical cultures through the universal language of sound.”

$15 Advance / $15 Day of Show

Seated Main Stage Show:: Limited Tables Available with a Dinner Reservation :: All Other Seating is First Come First Serve General Admission :: Please Call Venue for Dinner (Table) Reservations

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Local Movements, Statewide Impacts: An Evening with Young Organizers

Join us for an evening of desserts, drinks, and networking with young organizers from across WNC. Together we can make changes in our region and beyond! This event immediately follows the North Carolina Democratic Party Western Gala, and all ages are welcome.

Register online or buy a ticket at the door:
$10* Young Organizer (Age 35 and under)
$20 Supporter (Age 36 and older)

Each ticket includes light refreshments and one free drink at the bar. Habitat Tavern offers delicious options of craft beer, wine, cider, and non-alcoholic beverages.

*We have generous sponsors buying tickets for young organizers, so let us know if cost is an issue!

If you are a young organizer traveling to Buncombe from another county, please contact us so we can help arrange free accommodation or carpooling.

Sponsors (More sponsors to come!)

COLD MOUNTAIN:
Janet Betke
Susan Fisher for NC House 114
Councilman Vijay Kapoor
Paul Merriken
Quentin Miller for Buncombe County Sheriff
Brian Turner – NC House 116

MT. PISGAH:
Elect John Ager – a new voice for NC House 115
Cecil Bothwell
Pat Deck
Heidi Fields
Marsha Fretwell
Patsy Keever
Gayle Kemp for State House
Elizabeth & Gary McClure
John Noor
Jeff Rose
Rachel Shelton
John & Linda Stover
Nancy Waldrop & David King
Marnie Walsh & Jack Stahlman
Chris & Michelle Winslow
Gwen Wisler
Tom & Joyce Young

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We will be hosting UFC 229 at one of our houses this coming weekend. If you would like to have some good ‘clean’ fun come join us! There will be plenty of food and drinks but feel free to bring more!!!

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Please note that this is a private event, limited to 50 people, and is for members and guests only… Note that you must RSVP for this event. Ages 21+ only…. no exceptions.

Snacks provided… cost to attend is $15 for event and light snacks.

Come watch the most exciting UFC fight for the title. Khabib vs. McGregor. Doors open at 8:30 for this event, and the event takes place at 10:00.

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Authentic Allman Brothers Band music

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King Garbage is the result of an 12-year friendship and collaboration between Zach Cooper and Vic Dimotsis. Signees to NYC’s Styles Upon Styles label, KG has brought a unique perspective on American Soul Music through their recordings BASH003 and Make it Sweat. In concert, the duo reveal themselves as a tight-knit rhythm section that only 12 years of hard work can behold. Their stark grooves are built simply of octave-guitar and drum-kit — supporting Vic’s dynamic vocals and suggestive lyrics. In their sound, traces of D’Angelo, J Dilla and Marvin Gaye’s influence are easily detectable and revered. They’ve shared the stage with Ghostface, Raekwon, Talib Kweli and Blackalicious among others.

On their debut album, Make it Sweat, the duo double down on soul and funk traditions to share new ways of communicating soul across eight rippers to the dome.

Make It Sweat follows the sunny and smoked rhythm and blues mode of their previous EP, BASH003, with a greater glow and peerless compositional prowess.

Scope the first Single, Forbidden Lovers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZMK4ZlJW_4

https://soundcloud.com/king-garbage

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Our local house session with Aidan Rolfe, Ramin + Special Guest. $5 Suggested donation. This party is a fundraiser so we are able to bring bigger djs to the music hall.

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Pink Talking Fish
A blend of Pink Floyd, Talking Heads, and Phish

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