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, July 18, 2025
Tibetan Singing Bowl Sound Bath with Vivek Chugh
Jul 18 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Energetic Experiences

Come join us on a journey of somatic bliss with our Tibetan Singing Bowl Sound Bath with Vivek Chugh, an immersive experience designed to transport you to a realm of deep relaxation and rejuvenation.

Vivek will be facilitating this sound journey using handcrafted singing bowls, each emitting unique vibrations, frequencies and tones which can bring balance and health to the body. The premise is that sound can influence physical, emotional, mental and spiritual state of being.

Allow yourself to be transported to a state of profound calmness as the harmonic frequencies of the singing bowls washes over you. No prior experience is necessary.

Whether you’re a seasoned mindfulness enthusiast or someone seeking a novel path to relaxation or seeking stress relief, our Tibetan Singing Bowl Sound Bath is a therapeutic journey where ancient wisdom meets modern well-being.

The energy exchange options for this event are $20-40. Energy exchange can be made at the event via cash, Gpay, or Venmo or ahead of time here: https://somaticsounds.net/energy/

Please bring any comfort items you may desire: blankets, pillows, bolsters, eye mask, etc. We do not yet have enough community items for everyone.

The event is from 6:00 – 7:00 PM.

FLIPTURN
Jul 18 @ 7:00 pm
Asheville Yards

Gates open at 6:00pm
All Ages
RAIN OR SHINE
CLEAR BAGS ONLY

Mozart, Brahms, & Shaw
Jul 18 @ 7:30 pm
Brevard Music Center
Mozart, Brahms, & Shaw

Brevard Music Center Orchestra
Mei-Ann Chen, conductor
Anthony McGill, clarinet

Anthony McGill holds the 2025 Thomas C. Bolton Distinguished Artist Chair

Upstate Summer Jam with Moneybagg Yo and Boosie BadAzz
Jul 18 @ 8:00 pm
Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium

Come on out to the Upstate Summer Jam with Moneybagg Yo and Friends.

Saturday, July 19, 2025
Turning the Page on Helene -Altered Book Workshop
Jul 19 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Swannanoa Library Meeting Room

Learn how to make altered books and make a page for one of the volumes of Turning the Page on Helene. All supplies are provided free of charge. No previous art experience is necessary, and it’s family friendly!

Turning the Page on Helene is a community-based art project that is using the transformative power of altered books to tell our communities’ stories of Hurricane Helene through the visual arts. The goal is to create a safe space for community members to share experiences of the hurricane as well as their hopes for rebuilding a better and brighter future.

Shindig On the Green
Jul 19 @ 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.

CMS of the Carolinas presents: Viaje
Jul 19 @ 7:30 pm
Warren Wilson Presbyterian Church

Program:
Ludwig van Beethoven Serenade in D Major, Op. 25 for Flute, Violin and Viola
Zhou Tian Viaje
Antonín Dvořák Quartet No. 10 in E-flat Major, Op. 51
Our musical journey continues with Ludwig van Beethoven’s Serenade in D Major, Op. 25 for Flute, Violin, and Viola, combining elegance and grace with playful rhythms. Its delightful melodies and intricate interactions between instruments showcase Beethoven’s mastery in this unique ensemble. Flutist Brandon Patrick George joins the Jasper String Quartet for Zhou Tian’s Viaje, a thrilling work combining the composer’s musical roots as a Chinese-American with his love of Spanish music. Antonín Dvořák’s String Quartet No. 10 in E-flat Major, Op. 51 combines lyrical beauty and rhythmic energy, drawing on Czech folk traditions to create a deeply expressive and engaging finale to the program.

Sunday, July 20, 2025
Admiral Radio in Olivette
Jul 20 all-day
Olivette Riverside Community and Farm

Don’t miss an outdoor concert in Olivette featuring the award-winning folk/Americana duo Admiral Radio!

$25 • Kids are free! • BYOB & BYOC (chair)

Admiral Radio, the award-winning folk/Americana act from South Carolina, is the creative partnership of Coty Hoover and Becca Smith. Named after their old wooden radio, this husband-and-wife team blends heartfelt harmonies, storytelling, and raw sincerity. Their sound is straightforward yet powerful—rooted in tight vocal interplay and finely picked acoustic instruments. Inspired by the everyday, their songs explore life lessons, the quiet hustle of ordinary life, and the dogged optimism that drives it all.

The duo has three independently-produced albums under their belt; their debut original record Sounds Like You (2020) and Songs From the Vault (2022), an EP of songs from the public domain. Their latest album, Good Things Take Time (2024), has garnered critical acclaim and national radio play, with tracks like “Look Back and Learn” praised by American Songwriter for its ‘power to help and heal’.

Known for their energetic and emotional live shows, Admiral Radio has shared stages with bluegrass legend Del McCoury, folkgrass icon Molly Tuttle, pop-rock sensation Judah & the Lion, and more. Becca and Coty hold a presence that is palpable and real, both on and off stage. From humble beginnings to their growing buzz, Admiral Radio is redefining the folk tradition with every mile down America’s backroads.

Rest & Reset Sound Bath
Jul 20 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Center for Spiritual Living Asheville

Shift into your parasympathetic nervous system with a healing Sound Bath! This shift helps the body lower your heart rate, relax muscles, and initiate healing processes.

Join your host Kristin Hillegas, for a one-hour Serenity Sound Bath and experience a deeply immersive, full-body sound and vibrational experience. A sound bath can cleanse your soul, restore your balance, surround you with peace and tranquility and stimulate healing.

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 12:45 PM, doors close promptly at 1:00 PM.

This service is being offered 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 walk-way from the upper parking lot to the building entrance.

CMS of the Carolinas presents: Viaje
Jul 20 @ 4:00 pm
First United Methodist Church

Program:
Ludwig van Beethoven Serenade in D Major, Op. 25 for Flute, Violin and Viola
Zhou Tian Viaje
Antonín Dvořák Quartet No. 10 in E-flat Major, Op. 51
Our musical journey continues with Ludwig van Beethoven’s Serenade in D Major, Op. 25 for Flute, Violin, and Viola, combining elegance and grace with playful rhythms. Its delightful melodies and intricate interactions between instruments showcase Beethoven’s mastery in this unique ensemble. Flutist Brandon Patrick George joins the Jasper String Quartet for Zhou Tian’s Viaje, a thrilling work combining the composer’s musical roots as a Chinese-American with his love of Spanish music. Antonín Dvořák’s String Quartet No. 10 in E-flat Major, Op. 51 combines lyrical beauty and rhythmic energy, drawing on Czech folk traditions to create a deeply expressive and engaging finale to the program.

Sunny Sweeney
Jul 20 @ 7:00 pm
Grey Eagle

The Grey Eagle and Worthwhile Sounds Present: Sunny Sweeney

Doors: 6pm // Show: 7pm
$27.06

Grey Eagle Music Hall
ALL AGES
STANDING ROOM ONLY
Sunny Sweeney, a genre-bending, songwriting spitfire who has spent equal time in the rich musical traditions of Texas and Tennessee, returns with Married Alone, the celebrated singer-songwriter’s fifth studio album and the follow-up to 2017’s critically acclaimed Trophy. Co-produced by beloved Texas musician and larger-than-life personality Paul Cauthen and the Texas Gentlemen’s multi-hyphenate Beau Bedford, Married Alone is Sweeney’s finest work yet, bringing together confessional songwriting, image-rich narratives and no shortage of sonic surprises for a loosely conceptual album about loss and healing.
Tuesday, July 22, 2025
The Head and The Heart Wild Rivers, Marfa
Jul 22 @ 6:30 pm
Asheville Yards

Gates open at 4:00pm
All Ages
RAIN OR SHINE
CLEAR BAGS ONLY

Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
Jul 23 @ 7:30 pm
Peace Center

Jason Isbell record always lands like a decoder ring in the ears and hearts of his audience, a soundtrack to his world and magically to theirs, too. Weathervanes carries the same revelatory power. This is a storyteller at the peak of his craft, observing his fellow wanderers, looking inside and trying to understand, reducing a universe to four minutes. He shrinks life small enough to name the fear and then strip it away, helping his listeners make sense of how two plus two stops equaling four once you reach a certain age — and carry a certain amount of scars.

Legendary Pianist Yuja Wang
Jul 23 @ 7:30 pm
Brevard Music Center

Legendary Pianist Yuja Wang

Legendary Artists Series

Drs. Joanne and Tom Parker
Legendary Artists Series Sponsors

Brevard Music Center Orchestra
Teddy Abrams, conductor
Yuja Wang, piano

Experience the incomparable Yuja Wang as she joins the Brevard Music Center Orchestra for an unforgettable evening featuring Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand and Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2—two works ideally paired to showcase her virtuosic brilliance. Hailed for her “breathtaking” performances (The Guardian) and “elevating” virtuosity (The New York Times), Wang’s magnetic artistry has captivated audiences worldwide. Don’t miss this opportunity to witness one of the world’s most extraordinary pianists—right here in Brevard.

Wednesday, July 23, 2025 7:30PM

Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium

Legendary Pianist Yuja Wang

 

Thursday, July 24, 2025
Widespread Panic
Jul 24 @ 7:00 pm
Harrah's Cherokee Center Asheville

Widespread Panic to play 3 nights at ExploreAsheville.com Arena at Harrah’s Cherokee Center – Asheville on Thursday 7/24, Friday 7/25 & Saturday 7/26!

The Magic Flute
Jul 24 @ 7:30 pm
Brevard Music Center

The Magic Flute

July 24th at 7:30p

July 26th at 2:00p

Janiec Opera Company of the Brevard Music Center

Brevard Festival Orchestra
Steven White, conductor
Dean Anthony, stage director

Mozart’s fantastical opera enchants with soaring arias and playful humor. Join Tamino, Pamina, the Queen of the Night, and the love-struck couple Papageno and Papagena on a mystical journey of romance and adventure.

Jonathan Scales Fourchestra
Jul 24 @ 8:00 pm
Grey Eagle

The Grey Eagle and Worthwhile Sounds Present: Jonathan Scales Fourchestra

Doors: 7pm // Show: 8pm
$20.91 to $30.75

Grey Eagle Music Hall
ALL AGES
SEATED SHOW
LIMITED NUMBER OF PREMIUM SEATING TICKETS AVAILABLE
Friday, July 25, 2025
Widespread Panic
Jul 25 @ 7:00 pm
Harrah's Cherokee Center Asheville

Widespread Panic to play 3 nights at ExploreAsheville.com Arena at Harrah’s Cherokee Center – Asheville on Thursday 7/24, Friday 7/25 & Saturday 7/26!

Asheville Junction Bluegrass/Americana Show
Jul 25 @ 8:30 pm – 11:30 pm
Jack of the Wood

Asheville Junction plays a bluegrass/Americana show at Jack of the Wood this Friday, July 25th, 8:30 pm – 11:30 pm. Hot fiddlin’ and harmonies, smooth vocals, great banjo & mandolin pickin’. Toe tappin’ and lively. Jack of the Wood is one of downtown Asheville’s oldest pubs and the original home of Green Man Brewing. Awesome selection of whiskeys, 18 rotating taps featuring local & international craft brews, and an award-winning menu of comfort food favorites & elevated pub fare. $10 cover at the door.

Saturday, July 26, 2025
The Magic Flute
Jul 26 @ 2:00 pm
Brevard Music Center

The Magic Flute

July 24th at 7:30p

July 26th at 2:00p

Janiec Opera Company of the Brevard Music Center

Brevard Festival Orchestra
Steven White, conductor
Dean Anthony, stage director

Mozart’s fantastical opera enchants with soaring arias and playful humor. Join Tamino, Pamina, the Queen of the Night, and the love-struck couple Papageno and Papagena on a mystical journey of romance and adventure.

Shindig On the Green
Jul 26 @ 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.

Widespread Panic
Jul 26 @ 7:00 pm
Harrah's Cherokee Center Asheville

Widespread Panic to play 3 nights at ExploreAsheville.com Arena at Harrah’s Cherokee Center – Asheville on Thursday 7/24, Friday 7/25 & Saturday 7/26!

CMS of the Carolinas presents: Bohemian Rhapsody
Jul 26 @ 7:30 pm
Warren Wilson Presbyterian Church

Don’t miss the CMS Carolinas début of the nationally acclaimed period instrument ensemble Les Délices, performing an innovative and thoughtful program celebrating Bohemian composers from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Bohemian Rhapsody celebrates the music of Bohemian composers from the late 18th and early 19th centuries – a time when the Czech lands were provinces of the Habsburg Empire. Rarely-heard chamber music by Czech and Moravian composers Franz Krommer, Georg Druschetzky, and Katerina Victoria Dusikova-Cianchettin will illuminate a little-known history that explores underlying themes of separation, nostalgia, and homecoming. Also featured is a recently commissioned arrangement of Czech and Moravian folk songs by New York City-based composer and harpsichordist Nathan Mondry that asks, what might it have sounded like if these late-18th and early-19th century composers from the Czech lands had been able to more openly celebrate their heritage in their music? These fun and fascinating works for oboe, violin, viola, and cello are paired with Mozart’s sublime oboe quartet, KV370.

Erick Baker
Jul 26 @ 8:00 pm
Grey Eagle

The Grey Eagle and Worthwhile Sounds Present: Erick Baker

All Ages

Doors: 7pm // Show: 8pm

$27.06 to $35.90

Grey Eagle Music Hall

FULLY SEATED SHOW

LIMITED NUMBER OF PREMIUM SEATING TICKETS AVAILABLE

Erick Baker is an Emmy Award-winning writer, children’s book author, and heart-on-his-sleeve troubadour from Knoxville, TN. His music is a distinctive blend of folk, rock, and Americana-soul that isn’t just heard, it’s felt. For over a decade he’s made a life in music, sharing the stage with artists like John Legend, Brandi Carlisle, Grace Potter, Heart, Gavin DeGraw, Chris Isaak, and the Goo Goo Dolls.

Jurassic Park in Concert
Jul 26 @ 8:30 pm
Brevard Music Center
Jurassic Park in Concert

Brevard Sinfonia
Shih-Hung Young, conductor

Experience the adventure, danger, and wonder of Jurassic Park like never before! Watch the blockbuster film on the big screen as John Williams’s iconic, heart-pounding score is brought to life by the Brevard Sinfonia, immersing you in every thrilling moment.

 

Sunday, July 27, 2025
John R. Miller w/ Miss Tess
Jul 27 @ 8:00 pm
Grey Eagle

The Grey Eagle and Worthwhile Sounds Present: John R. Miller w/ Miss Tess

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

Grey Eagle Music Hall
ALL AGES
STANDING ROOM ONLY

John R Miller is a true hyphenate artist: singer-songwriter-picker. Every song on his thrilling debut solo album, Depreciated, is lush with intricate wordplay and haunting imagery, as well as being backed by a band that is on fire. One of his biggest long-time fans is roots music favorite Tyler Childers, who says he’s “a well-travelled wordsmith mapping out the world he’s seen, three chords at a time.” Miller is somehow able to transport us to a shadowy honkytonk and get existential all in the same line with his tightly written compositions. Miller’s own guitar-playing is on fine display here along with vocals that evoke the white-waters of the Potomac River rumbling below the high ridges of his native Shenandoah Valley.

 

Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Jules! at the Grey Eagle
Jul 29 @ 12:30 pm
Grey Eagle

Jules! at the Grey Eagle

All Ages
Tuesday, July 29
Doors: 11:30am // Show: 12:30pm
$0 to $25.10

Grey Eagle Music Hall – Special Event
ALL AGES
KIDS UNDER 1 ARE FREE
SEATED SHOW
Jules! (they/them) is a GRAMMY-considered children’s artist, songwriter, and educator known for their original, inclusive music that inspires empathy, self-regulation, and self-expression. Their debut album Jamming with Jules! was released in fall 2024 and was featured on the 2025 GRAMMY ballot for Best Children’s Album. Jules! has been featured on Ms. Rachel’s Songs for Littles on Netflix and has built a vibrant community through their YouTube channel, Jamming with Jules!, which has over 4 million views.
Embodied Awakening Asheville
Jul 29 @ 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm
The Studio AVL

Join us for The HEAL Collective’s one-of-a-kind Summer Tour!

📅 Tuesday, July 29, 2025
🕔 5:00–7:30pm (doors open at 4:45)
📍 The Studio AVL — 34 Wall Street, Asheville, NC 28801

You’ve done the inner work.
You know how to name your patterns, ride the emotional waves, maybe even hold space for others.

But…
You still crave something deeper.
A place where your body can exhale.
Where healing doesn’t feel like a solo mission.
Where you can be held, celebrated, and activated alongside others who get it.

This is that space.

We’re Carissa & Eric—partners in love and in the wild vision of a more embodied, relational world.
We’ve walked through burnout, heartbreak, anxiety, and the kind of disconnection that healing work alone couldn’t quite touch.

This event is a call to come back into the body.
Into connection.
Into playful, powerful presence.

✨ What You’ll Experience:

❤️‍🔥 Grounding breathwork + guided meditation
❤️‍🔥 Somatic practices for regulation and joy
❤️‍🔥 Authentic relating & vulnerable connection
❤️‍🔥 Dance, movement, and community magic

🌟 You’ll Leave With:

💫 Practices to anchor yourself when the world feels chaotic
💫 Soul-nourishing connections with conscious humans
💫 A felt sense of possibility—in your body, your life, and your relationships

We believe healing is a path we must each walk ourselves, but we don’t need to walk it alone.
Healing can be embodied. It can be communal. It can be alive.

This isn’t just an event.
It’s the revolution.
A gathering of people who are ready to feel more free—together.

🎟️ Tickets
$44 – Individual
$77 – Bring a friend, partner, or fellow seeker and receive a discount

🍇 Light refreshments provided.
🌸 Space is intimate—reserve your spot early.

Come as you are. Leave more fully expressed.
We can’t wait to heal with you.

Ryan Adams: Heartbreaker ’25 World Tour
Jul 29 @ 8:00 pm
Peace Center

Ryan Adams is a seven-time Grammy nominated singer-songwriter praised as “one of rock’s most talented songwriters”.

Formerly fronting rock-americana groups Whiskeytown and Ryan Adams & the Cardinals, Adams has the ability to connect with audiences across a variety of different mediums.

Wednesday, July 30, 2025
Friends of the Black Mountain Library Annual Gathering
Jul 30 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Black Mountain Library

Come end the FOL year on a high note and welcome new members with a night to remember! Don’t miss the library party of the year! Free music by the Possum Creek Band along with light refreshments provided by the Friends of the Black Mountain Library.