Calendar of Events

It’s sure to be a graveyard smash as the Metro by T-Mobile Halloween Monster Truck Mash brings eight of the coolest monster trucks and the first trick-or-treat party of the year to celebrate the Halloween spirit at Bristol Motor Speedway on Saturday, Oct. 27.

Kids – $5
Adults – $20 (Advance)/$25 Day of event

Monster trucks that will perform include Snake Bite, X-Termigator, Ice Cream Man, Black Stallion, Overkill, Buckshot, Tailgator and Predator. The eight trucks will compete in two disciplines: racing and freestyle, always a fan favorite.

https://www.facebook.com/events/245290402848498/

It’s October and fall is upon us, it must be lager weather. It’s also Weaverville’s first Halloweenie Octoberfest! Eluvium Brewing Company, Zebulon Artisan Ales, and Blue Mountain Pizza are hosting a casual Oktoberfest. Nothing Fancy just some good beers and some german food. Each brewery has brewed up some special release beers, german beers, just for this occasion. Eluvium Brewing Company will be hosting Haus Heidelberg German Restaurant Food truck and Blue Mountain Pizza will have a German dish and beer special. It just so happens to also be Eluvium Brewing Company’s One year Anniversary! Come out to Weaverville on October 27th for good beer, good food, good music, and a good time.

https://www.facebook.com/events/256368838399350/

Children 11 and under are invited to Bill Moore Community Park for FREE Halloween Fun! Join us for carnival games, hay rides, inflatables, candy and more!

https://www.facebook.com/events/2350921835135435/

We’re releasing our annual holiday blend on October 27th. This makes for a wonderful Christmas gift! Come and enjoy an opportunity to meet the Winemaker and get your bottle signed.

Our Winemaker will be in Hendersonville, NC 2pm-5pm &
Chimney Rock, NC 12pm-5pm

https://www.facebook.com/events/2053945374855007/

At long last! We would like to invite you to a Halloween themed fundraiser for The Aerie! We are trying to raise money to paint the exterior and really bring this home back to life. Guests will be invited to see some of our progress, talk to us about the renovation, and get frightened by some scary surprises. Many more details are still to come, but please mark your calendars, pick out a scary costume, and invite your friends and family! Hope to see you soon!

To donate, please visit the link below. https://www.plumfund.com/fundraising/paint-the-aerie

https://www.facebook.com/events/2101394009904681/

Asheville on Bikes hosts it’s 11th annual Pumpkin Pedaller, presented by New Belgium Brewing, on Sat. Oct. 27th. The ride is free, open to the public, and includes a variety of routing options. All routes, (except for the all ages roll about) are on active city streets. Participants should review / pre-ride the route before attending the event.
2:30pm – Gather at New Belgium (21 Craven St)
3:00pm – All ages roll about
3:15pm – The ride begins
5:00pm – Pumpkin Pedaller Party at New Belgium
*Costume Award Ceremony
* Raffle
*Food trucks
*and a few more things to be nailed down.

https://www.facebook.com/events/2096462493720717/

Come and join the fun at our Howl In events at Full Moon Farm!

This month’s treat theme is PUMPKINS! If you would like to bring a special treat to share with the wolfdogs you can do so by bringing small, un-cut, ripe pumpkins. Please do not pre-slice or carve them – part of the fun for the wolfdogs is getting into them! Anything between the size of a baseball to a basketball is fair game for them!

Gates open at 3:00 p.m.
Farm tour begins 3:15 p.m.

Meet our most famous wolfdogs, hear their stories and learn about the breed and find out why they’ve stolen our hearts.

Stay for our pot luck at 4:30 p.m. ($5 donation requested to help with cost of food and drinks). Please bring a covered dish to share.
*We provide drinks, grilled hot dogs and burgers.*

Enjoy shopping in Gwenny’s Gift Den! We have many wonderful gift items featuring wolves and our wolfdogs.

** WE HAVE OUR HOWL IN RAIN OR SHINE!! **
If the weather is bad, we still play! We have a shelter to get out of the rain, and still give a small tour. Bring an umbrella and some snacks, and we’ll try and keep you dry! =)
When you visit, please consider bringing something from our wishlist for the wolfdogs! We have needs big and small. The wishlist can be found here:
fullmoonfarm.org

Call or email for directions:
828-664-9818
[email protected]

Happy HOOOLOWEEN and hope to see you soon!

https://www.facebook.com/events/201802183914228/

It’s almost Halloween and Blue Ghost is ready to celebrate!
We’ll be holding our party on October 27th from 4-10PM.
Here’s the schedule of events:
*** We’ll really be kicking things off early on Friday with the Release of our Barrel Aged Wildfire Saison at 6PM. Come in early on the 27th to get the party started early. You won’t wanna miss out on this special release.
– At 4:30 we’ll be showing Curious George: A Halloween Boo Fest for the kids. Popcorn will be for sale and every kid will get a treat bag!
– 6PM: Adults and kids will get a chance to show off their costumes before we announce a winner for both categories.
– 7PM: Virginia and the Slims will take the stage to provide live tunes until 9PM.
Of course the The Hungry Ghost will be serving a special holiday inspired menu. All of your favorite BG brews will be on tap along with our seasonal releases, Fall Amber with Roasted Pecans and No Noggin Pumpkinhead Ghostman Ale.
Get into the spirit and bring the family out for a night of fun at Blue Ghost!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1553036201506391/

Free event for the city of Greer! Come in your best Halloween costume and enjoy carnival games, inflatables, live performances, tons of candy, and much more! Bring your friends and family!

https://www.facebook.com/events/991009504402824/

Celebrate Halloween and the diversity of the Blue Ridge Mountains by dressing up as one of our unique species and enjoying some of the finest pubs in downtown Asheville. Creativity in costumes is encouraged and don’t be afraid to get puny! For ideas of species to dress up as check out this list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yQxCzlwaX965IDtt8cAYD_YJw-195owpGmofJFD21Gg/edit?usp=sharing Copy names and paste to your browser for images and information about species. Knowledgeable folks are welcome to add to the list of endemic species. Please invite your friends!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1046268258867884/

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https://www.facebook.com/events/560794957598959/

The Adventure Center of Asheville will be offering a Halloween Theme night climb at the Treetops Adventure Park. Watch the world transform from dusk to night while climbing in the trees. Trails will be illuminated to give climbing the obstacles a new perspective. Over 15,000 colored lights, plus colorful lasers sparkling on thousands of leaves, cables, rope, and platforms throughout the park will create a mystical tree climbing experience like you can’t imagine.

The Twilight session start time is 5:45 The introductory price this year is $37/person. Standard day sessions are $47. The Red course is not open during the Twilight climbs.

Please visit our website (www.advavl.com) or call our reservation center at 800-451-9972.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1658569714266335/

Virtual Reality Haunted House, Costume Contest, Vintage Horror Movies, Special Beer Release, Live DJ.

It’s 2018, that makes it officially “the future”…and it’s time for a grown-up haunted house. Local VR company, Better Than Unicorns, will be presenting your biggest fears, in full VIRTUAL REALITY. That’s right, walk through a graveyard, face the Demogorgon in Will Byers’ house from Stranger Things, and much more in a fully immersive VR experience. $10 gets you your first beer and a ticket for your very own VR haunted house session (the party is free, tickets are for VR only). Limited tickets available, so get yours soon. Additional VR tickets will be available night-of, if there are any left!.

THE PARTY IS FREE, so if VR isn’t your thing, come on down for some good old fashioned Halloween spook!

SPECIAL BEER RELEASE: 7pm we’ll be releasing a brand new beer! Grab one, then give us your best name idea. We’ll pick our favorite, and the genius who came up with it will get an Archetype gift card!

COSTUME CONTEST: 9pm – Put your name on the list with the bartender when you get here, strut your stuff at 9pm and our panel of judges will decide the most original costume! Winner will get an Archetype gift card.

Vintage horror movies will be playing on the projector screen, Death Jam Jasper will be spinning a special Halloween vinyl set all night, and the beer will be flowing. Come celebrate the best holiday of the year at Archetype.

https://www.facebook.com/events/2269705436586324/

AVOID THE HALLOWEEN MADNESS, AND HAVE A GREAT TIME.

Come party with Different Strokes! Performing Arts Collective!

* YOUR TICKET WILL INCLUDE:
– Costume Contest
– Casino Games
– Prizes
– Silent Auction
-Live Action
– 50/50 Raffel
– Free Wine
– Free Beer (Brunton’s Finest)
– Dinner provided by Mamacita’s Taqueria
– DJ Spun Music
– Dancing

*WHERE?
15 Overbrook Place, Asheville NC 28805

*WHEN?
October 27 (Saturday) from 6:00 – 10:00PM
Tickets can be purchased online for $50 Thru Sept. 30th; $60 beginning 10/1, or for $75 at the door. NO FEES for online purchases!

*WHAT?
Why battle parking, or slow driving through your neighborhood, when you can get dressed up (or not) in your favorite Halloween costume, and party with us? While simultaneously supporting the growth of the Performing Arts in Asheville, of course…

Join us for a night of fun, games, and other treats as we raise money to supplement the cost of renovating The DownStage– Asheville’s newest Performing Arts Venue!

*WHY?
Our vision for Different Strokes! is to create a world-class theatre that engages our community in a relevant discussion about our shared humanity. As we look back over 8 successful seasons and plan for another, our consistent quality and growth dictate that we must locate our current programming to a more permanent location. In the spring of 2018, Different Strokes! will make a home in a newly renovated theater in the South Slope district of Downtown Asheville. This 120 seat performing arts venue will more comfortably accommodate our growing audience, become a home for other diverse and varied performing arts groups, and allow us to expand our provocative and transformative programming.

Your financial contribution, including the purchase of your ticket(s), is a vital part of helping us to expand DS!PAC’s vision of excellence, develop new programs and projects, turn new ideas into reality, and executing innovative ways of serving our community and region. Time is of the essence, as we begin equipping the building with a stage, lights, sound, seats and essentials to make this space, with incredible potential, into an incredibly inviting performance venue!

If you can’t join us, but would still like to be a part of this exciting time for growth in the life of Asheville’s Performing Arts scene, please make your tax-deductible donation today, at https://www.paypal.me/DifferentStrokesPAC

https://www.facebook.com/events/561840867570887/

Friends & foes of far & wide…

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Gather round on the 27th day of October to witness feats of strength & acrobatic amazement as we celebrate All Hallow’s Eve. Prepare to laugh, cry, & be dazzled at the floor, pole, & aerial acts prepared for your amusement, entertainment, & bewilderment. This event is bestowed upon you by the fairytales & folklore of our ancestors.

Empyrean’s Fairytales & Folklore is not suitable for our littles, so we ask that attendees be ages 18+. Space is limited so do arrive early, darling, to claim your viewing spot. The doors crack open at 6pm & the fun starts at 6:30pm. $5-$15 sliding scale donation at the door, tasty treats and donation-based adult beverages provided. Come in your best costumewear.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1925370614216539/

Join us every Saturday night in October for Flashlight Night in the Maze! Our maze is family-friendly and never haunted.

**Don’t forget to bring your own flashlight! ?

Hours: 6-9 pm (last entry is at 9 pm)

Flashlight Admission Price:
$9 ages 3-12
$10 ages 13+
*group rates available for 20 or more participants

Things to know about our fall activities:

• NO PETS ALLOWED inside corn maze! No exceptions!
• NO MASKS or costumes are allowed to be worn in the maze. Violators will be removed from Maze with no refund.
• We reserve the right to close in the case of inclement weather conditions. ☔️

We hope to see you there!

https://www.facebook.com/events/412837579202611/

Our Annual Halloween Party at Cascade Lounge!
–Live Music from Modern Strangers 7:30p to 10:00pm
–Door Prizes
–FREE Photo booth by Spotted Dog Photography
–Jello Shots! Drink & Draft Specials! FREE Candy!
–Costume Contest! Prizes for 1st & 2nd Place
Our biggest party of the year! Come Join Us. No Cover but Membership required.
#avlmusic #avlhalloween #partytime #westashevillelife #jelloshots #costumecontest #photobooth

https://www.facebook.com/events/236191257073981/

Join us for our Mad Masquerade Halloween party on 10/27! Live music by Daniel Sage!!! Details coming soon!

https://www.facebook.com/events/2199367830390708/

Join us for our annual spooktacular Halloween PARTY featuring live entertainment by One Eyed Jack and featuring a “best costume contest” with $1,000 in ca$h Prizes! (first place $500 – second place $300 – third place $150 – Fourth place $50). (Contest winners chosen from a panel of judges and all decisions are final).

Also featuring $12 GREEN GOBLIN pitchers as well as $2 Bud and Bud Light longnecks.

Tickets are on sale now for $12/each.

Doors open at 7pm.

18 and over welcome (21 and over to consume alcohol).

https://www.facebook.com/events/2348725001807755/

Haunted Castle on the Hill
Saturday, October 27
7pm-10pm
Location: Stephens-Lee Center
Looking for spooky fright this Halloween? There will be plenty of ghosts and ghouls and visions of things that go bump in the night at the Haunted Castle on the Hill.
Fee: $2/person
Stephens-Lee Center, 828-350-2058

https://www.facebook.com/events/1602389053241082/

$10
9pm JJ Dae
10pm Little Stranger
11pm Baby Baby

https://www.facebook.com/events/516431915473729/

Halloween Bash Rockmare 2018 is coming to Rio’s Grill & Sports Bar October 27th. Featuring drink specials, costume contest, and music from Another Fable Until the Day and Clockwork Asylum

$5 cover, all ages

https://www.facebook.com/events/271659283455649/

You don’t want to miss this! The best music and the best lighting in town will be right here for the BEST Halloween Dance in town! Dress up in your best, scariest, sexiest, funniest, or cleverest costume and come dance the night away! T and J Entertainment will be providing the music, Live Event Lighting will be providing the lights, and Currahee Brewing Co will be pouring the beer all night long! Stay tuned for more information!

UPDATE!! Costume contest!! We will be having a costume contest with prizes for the best Individual costume and best couples costume! Prizes will be a $25 gift card and a FREE T-shirt!!!

https://www.facebook.com/events/666219180439373/

Come wear your best costume and listen to the creepiest tunes we can muster for a super fun night, featuring the Stipe Bros, Dan Ruiz, and Joel Callahan. It’s like, a Hendersonville Halloween tradition! Maybe we’ll give prizes to our favorite costumes!

https://www.facebook.com/events/249198462417371/

Time to break out the costumes and celebrate this years Halloween at Sanctuary Brewing Company with Special Musical guest Sumsun and Mason Self!

Bio:
Sumsun is Judson Rogers from West Palm Beach, Florida. He has been making electronic music that is influenced by that humid locale for years. Images of the tropical vegetation and vibrant colors waft over the four-on-the-floor dance beats that Sumsun creates, placing the artist’s work in a kind of post-chillwave segment of modern electronic production. He currently resides in Hendersonville, NC!

Listen:
https://soundcloud.com/sumsun

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XdZEZOnFYlw

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8LUcCr0KKrs

See:
https://instagram.com/masonself?utm_source=ig_profile_share&igshid=lznxk7ub3goo

Along with his set, Sumsun will be spinning records during his set breaks! This is sure to be a unique musical experience at Sanctuary Brewing Company unlike anything else you will get in Hendersonville!

https://www.facebook.com/events/311530512764245/

Come help us celebrate the 10 year anniversary of White Zombie at our Zombie Halloween Party! We’ll have a DJ playing your favorite Halloween tunes and a costume contest for the best-dressed Zombie!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1126820907466344/

We’re all garbage people right? It’s time we dressed like it!
No need to drop a bunch of money on costume pieces. Start collecting your bottle caps, cans and bubble wrap.
It’s a trashy, eco-friendly halloween bash!

•The ladies of Asheville Brue Ha Ha will be treating us to a special witchy dance to kick things off at 9!

•Performances by Gaping Maw Freakshow!

•Disco Goddess!
“From hip hop to dance beats and bass lines that stay true to the groove, Disco Goddess tears into her guitar with a raw display of talent. Played over a four track synthesizer/drum sequencer, it’s a performance that’s seriously fun. You ought not miss it.”

www.soundcloud.com/discogoddess

•Enter our Trashion Show!!

•Gilbot!
Gilbot continues his 25 year quest to encapsulate the entirety of electronic music history within the span of single sets, while serving witchy serenades of oscillating contrast: light and darkness, melody and discord, softness and glitch, elegance and brutality, beauty and horror, groove and narrative. Dancefloor alchemy for mortals and spiritworld, alike.

Soundcloud.com/gilbot

•Play Trash or Treasure!

$12

*No recycled costume required, but costumes in general are HIGHLY encouraged.
*Safe space for all people. Please respect each other, the space and bartenders.

https://www.facebook.com/events/461543990986781/

The Paper Crowns Electric Band will be rocking the funk out at One World Brewing West as part of the Blue Ridge Hemp Company CBD Cup! This special performance features a premier musical line-up including some of Asheville’s heaviest headiest funkiest music makers:

Spiro Nicolopoulos – Vocals, electric guitar
Nicole Nicolopoulos – Vocals, electric guitar
Lenny Pettinelli – Keyboards, vocals
Jake Wolf – Bass
Steve Kemble – Drumkit

The Paper Crowns’ Spiro and Nicole Nicolopoulos are among the premier musical duos in the Southeast music scene. They have returned to their rock and roll roots with The Paper Crowns Electric Band! Their critically acclaimed song writing, chemistry, dynamic performance, fearless risk taking and down to Earth charisma has won over music lovers, fans and critics alike. They blend tradition with ground breaking musical performance which has quickly garnered distinction among a saturated music scene and has helped them earn their reputation as the genuine article and as one of the rising stars in the Southeast music scene.

Spiro Nicolopoulos
LEAD GUITAR & VOCALS
Originally from Okinawa, Japan, Spiro lived in Los Angeles Ca before moving to the Asheville area in 2014. His critically acclaimed solo singer-songwriter work has been featured in TV advertising campaigns for Visa, the Olympic Games and more. His music was featured in a variety of films and television series including work for PBS, Court TV, documentary films and radio. Spiro was a Bonnaroo 2006 performer. Spiro recorded with Twiddle’s Mihali Savoulidis among many others, and has shared line ups with Phil Lesh & Friends, Bright Eyes, Buddy Guy and many of his favorite international artists. He taught music from 2001-2014 where he met his wife Nicole at work. His proudest achievements include producing fund raising music events providing malaria medication, mosquito nets and medical equipment for people in Tanzania, Tsunami disaster relief for Japan 2011, teaching a blind teenage girl how to play guitar into her career as a performing artist and teaching an 80 year old severely arthritic man how to play open tuning guitar – helping him to become a music team leader in his church.

Nicole Nicolopoulos
GUITAR & VOCALS
Nicole Nicolopoulos began her musical journey at the age of twelve when she picked up the guitar. She attended the University of La Verne in Southern California studying classical guitar, graduating Summa Cum Laude in 2009 with a degree in music. During and after college Nicole taught private and group lessons and also lead classes for toddlers and children in the community. After fronting her own original electric trio the Vinyls, she helped form The Paper Crowns with her future husband Spiro Nicolopoulos. In 2014 the two relocated to the Asheville area where they have found a place in the thriving and dynamic musical community. Nicole finds joy in her never ending effort to grow as a musician and artist.

Lenny Pettinelli
KEYBOARDS
Originally from Los Angeles, CA but now happily relocated to Asheville, NC, Lenny Pettinelli has worked on all sides of the Music Industry from production to performance to promotion. As a pianist and keyboardist, Pettinelli has played on dozens of records since his early 20’s and has since moved into singing, production, harmonic arrangement and education. He is the driving force behind the Asheville-based co-op independent record label Vibration of Versatility (VOV) which has pledged to donate 30% of all net profits from it’s volume series to various music education charities and foundations on the regional, national, and international level. Pettinelli is well versed in Jazz, Rock, Funk, Reggae, Folk, Electronic, and R&B music but is always willing to play pretty much anything. Working with an impressive 100 + artists from different scenes including Empire Strikes Brass, Pettinelli aims to write, perform, and produce new and original music of all genres.

Jake Wolf
BASS
Originally from the Boston area, Jake Wolf has been playing electric bass for almost 30 years, and still finds new things to love about it every day. Jake studied audio engineering and music production at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA before moving to San Francisco where he studied electric bass with virtuoso bassists Michael Manring and Kai Eckhardt, and was a student at the Ali Akbar Khan College of Music in San Rafael CA. Since 2004, Jake has been living in Asheville, NC, working with some of the areas finest musicians as a sideman, and performing with original acts such as the Juan Benavides Group, The Billy Sea, Billy Jonas, the Eric Congdon Trio and the Chuck Lichtenberger Collective. He also is the organizer of the Asheville Bass Hang, a semi-annual event designed to bring together bassists from all over the Southeast for performances, education and building community.

Steve Kemble
PERCUSSION, VOCALS
Steve has elevated the Asheville music scene vibe with his stellar drum work in Chikomo Marimba, the Grateful Dead tribute scene, the Very Jerry concert series, the Paper Crowns and more. Always a crowd favorite, Steve is known for radiating great grooves and infectious positivity from behind the drum kit – which is a big part of the transcendence and musical chemistry that he brings to the Paper Crowns Electric Band. Steve is a veteran drummer who’s musical influence is well known from coast to coast. He’s a drum maker, a teacher, a leader and builds green homes with his business Mud Straw Love.

THE PAPER CROWNS DUO & ELECTRIC BAND
The Paper Crowns have played such events as: LEAF (2018), Warren Haynes Christmas Jam by Day, LEAF Downtown, Echo Sessions featured on PBS, Mountain Sports Festival, Soulshine Farm Music Festival, South By South East, Sawdust Festival, Hangar 24 Airfest, Pappy & Harriet’s and more. Their music has found placement in major network TV campaigns and online ad campaigns. The Paper Crowns have been featured on Local Color Live WNCW, WDVX Blue Plate Special, Dead Show of the Month, KUCR Vinyl Hours Radio, PE Live with Vanessa Franko, 880 The Revolution with Jeff Messer, Asheville FM, WPVM 103.7fm, WBTV Charlotte and 98.1 The River. For more info check out www.ThePaperCrowns.com

$5 entry for music on the indoor stage
$15 All day pass for Blue Ridge Hemp Co’s CBD Cup outside

https://www.facebook.com/events/541568346291548/

Join us for our Annual Halloween bash with Karaoke from GET VOCAL ENTERTAINMENT’s Billy Masters!! No cover charge – Spooky Drink specials – CASH COSTUME CONTEST!! Don’t miss the fun!!

https://www.facebook.com/events/112141896362151/

The Retrocade’s second annual Halloween Party and Costume Contest! Enjoy 2 stories of classic arcade and video games, a costume contest and our spooky photobooth. We will be serving Asheville Brewing Company’s Halloween release, Beetlejuice on tap!