Calendar of Events

Lake Lure Fire and Rescue will be hosting a Firefighter Ventilation Certification Class starting at 6pm on Nov 27th. Anyone needing this class is welcome to attend

https://www.facebook.com/events/313112482875382/

Experience Asheville’s brightest holiday tradition at Winter Lights at The North Carolina Arboretum. Walk through an outdoor winter wonderland and see the Arboretum’s gardens dressed in more than half-a-million holiday lights. Roast s’mores by the fire, listen to your favorite holiday tunes or enjoy a cup of hot cocoa, cider or beer. Proceeds from the event will support the Arboretum’s educational programs, exhibit and facilities year-round.

Tickets range from $8-18 and must be purchased in advance online at www.ncwinterlights.com.

https://www.facebook.com/events/183329605927836/?event_time_id=183329685927828

Come have a beer and hang out! The Young Dems will be at Catawba Brewing South Slope instead of our December monthly meeting.

We’re happy to answer any questions you have about our organization, or just hang out and enjoy the end of the semester for some of us, and beginning of the holiday season for all of us!

El Querubin food truck will be available for your taco needs.

https://www.facebook.com/events/327502731415938/

Tour Gatlinburg’s most dazzling light displays by hopping aboard the Gatlinburg Trolley Ride of Lights! This popular winter tradition is the perfect way to see our mountain town in all its Winter Magic splendor. Get your tickets today!

https://www.facebook.com/events/726348577700947/?event_time_id=726348747700930

Girl Scouts of Henderson County invites ALL girls (Girl Scouts or not-yet-Girl Scouts!) of ALL ages (grades K-12) to a night of festive, holiday fun! Cost: free for NON- or NOT-YET Girl Scouts and $5 for CURRENT Girl Scouts. Each attendee will receive a patch for participation, a take-home ornament that she made and a light snack. **Must R.S.V.P. per the deadline below**

Join us as we partner with Meals on Wheels to create whimsical ornaments to spread holiday cheer with the home bound! Each girl will create an ornament to donate and will be able to make one to take one home as well! Donations of socks, toiletries, sugar-free candy, crossword puzzle and paperback books are also welcome to send to the charity along with the homemade ornaments!

Adults are invited to stay to discuss Girl Scout troop formation (if your girl is not yet participating in a troop) and other volunteer opportunities! Give the gift of Girl Scouting this holiday season so that more girls can discover her inner G.I.R.L.!

**NEW ADDITION: the Girl Scout Shop will be on-site for your shopping pleasure! Come prepared to spend your cookie dough!

***Please RSVP by December 11th to Mindy Smith, [email protected] or by messaging to this page on Facebook.

Girl Scouts exists to build girls of courage, confidence and character who make the world a better place. For more information about Girl Scouts, please visit us online at www.BeAGirlScout.org.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1927561110872386/

Take an instructional course and then put your new skills to work in a fun new dance night at The Artisan of Flat Rock. 6:30, instructional class, and 7:00 to start putting your new skills to work.

$5 for HDBC Dance Club Memembers, $7 for non-members.

For the first class, you do not have to be an Artisan member to attend.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1697385723699293/

Join us for a fun evening at Wine Sage & Gourmet and take home some holiday cheer! Each painter will also receive a personalized wine glass and the first glass of wine is complimentary from Hues of Hendo & Wine Sage and Gourmet as a “Thank You” gift.

$35 per person

Each painter receives:

-10 wood ornaments ($3 each additional ornament)
-vinyl words (applied at the party)
-Step by step artist instruction
-twine for hanging
-bow material
-Wine glass w/ one, black letter on it

Painters must register by emailing [email protected].

Please include the following in your email & be very specific:

-Desired number of ornaments
-Ornament color choice (red, green white or a mix)
-What should each ornament say?
-Word color choice (white or black)
-What letter do you want on your wine glass?

Please include your phone number in the email you send to us in case we have questions about your reservation details. You will receive an invoice via email. Your paid invoice is your registration confirmation. This event is limited to 16 attendees.

Cheers!

Jessica

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$12 Advance / $12 Day of Show

Armed with one of his various acoustic guitars, Forest Bailey crafts a unique combination of fingerstyle and percussive playing that is all his own. Each song is a musical journey that further shows what two hands and an acoustic guitar can accomplish. He underscores these sonic adventures with a stage presence that exudes every ounce of passion he has for his craft. The smile on his face never fades away, and neither will yours.

Seated Lounge 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

https://www.facebook.com/events/578867875883190/

An introduction to the fun & exciting Brazilian street dance. Samba owes its rhythm and moves to African dances. The traditional African circle dance with a lone central performer relied on weight shifts, rapid steps, and slides to a 2/4 percussive beat, and a fairly still upper body with arms and hands responding to the hip and leg movements. samba is irresistible, its gyrations richly colored by regional and international influences. Today, it would be impossible to imagine carnival without samba.

4 week series/$50

https://www.facebook.com/events/256011038435090/

All are welcome to attend the Leicester History Gathering. We are striving to preserve the history of our community by passing it along to the next generation.

Topic: A Nuclear Sandy Mush

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Hub City Bookshop will host a panel discussion for Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy on Thursday, December 13, featuring contributing writers John Lane, George Singleton, and Ashley Warlick in conversation with co-editors Nicole Seitz and Jonathan Haupt. This event is free and open to the public. A book signing will follow the panel.

Praise for Our Prince of Scribes:
“His wound may have been geography, but his legacy was generosity. That’s the takeaway from this new collection of essays honoring the late Pat Conroy (1945-2016). Novelist Nicole Seitz and Jonathan Haupt, the executive director of the Pat Conroy Literary Center, pull together a who’s-who of writers from the Lowcountry and beyond for an ode to the real Prince of Tides… A fitting tribute to a unique, significant writer and man.”—Kirkus Reviews

“What could be better than so many voices coming together to celebrate Pat Conroy? This book is a testament to the enormous hold he had on our hearts and minds.”—Ann Patchett, author of Bel Canto and Commonwealth

Sales of Our Prince of Scribes support the year-round educational mission of the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center. www.patconroyliterarycenter.org

About our Presenters:
Jonathan Haupt is the executive director of the Pat Conroy Literary Center, the founding director of the annual Pat Conroy Literary Festival, and the former director of the University of South Carolina Press. He serves on the boards of the South Carolina Academy of Authors and the Friends of South Carolina Libraries and on the advisory board of the South Carolina Humanities and the affiliates steering committee of the American Writers Museum. Haupt’s book reviews and author interviews have appeared in the Charleston Post and Courier; Lowcountry Weekly; Fall Lines; Shrimp, Collards & Grits magazine; and the Conroy Center’s Porch Talk blog.

John Lane is a professor of English and environmental studies at Wofford College and director of the college’s Goodall Environmental Studies Center. Lane is the author of a dozen books of poetry and prose, most recently Coyote Settles the South. His newest book of poems, Anthropocene Blues, was published in 2017. Lane’s first novel, Fate Moreland’s Widow, was published by Story River Books in early 2015. He has won numerous awards, including the 2001 Phillip D. Reed Memorial Award for Outstanding Writing on the Southern Environment by the Southern Environmental Law Center. In 2011 he won the Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award, and in 2012 Abandoned Quarry won the SIBA Poetry Book of the Year prize. In 2014 Lane was inducted into the South Carolina Academy of Authors. He and his wife, Betsy Teter, are among the co-founders of Spartanburg’s Hub City Writers Project.

Nicole Seitz is the author of seven novels and the editor of When You Pass through Waters: Words of Hope and Healing from Your Favorite Authors. Her novels, including The Spirit of Sweetgrass, Trouble the Water, A Hundred Years of Happiness, Saving Cicadas, The Inheritance of Beauty, Beyond Molasses Creek, and most recently The Cage-maker, have received starred reviews, been chosen as books of the month, and been put on “best of” lists for Books-a-Million, the Pulpwood Queens Book Club, IndieNEXT List, Southern Living, Deep South Magazine, Romantic Times, and Library Journal. Her novels have been nominated for the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance Award. Seitz’s short fiction, essays, and articles have appeared in numerous publications and anthologies.

George Singleton has published two novels, a book of advice, and seven collections of stories, which include The Half-Mammals of Dixie and Calloustown. He was raised in Greenwood, South Carolina, and educated at Furman University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Singleton has published more than three hundred short stories in the Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, the Georgia Review, One Story, Playboy, Subtropics, the Southern Review, and elsewhere. He has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, the Corrington Award, the Hillsdale Award, and a Guggenheim fellowship. He was inducted into the South Carolina Academy of Authors and the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Singleton teaches at Wofford College.

Ashley Warlick is the author of four novels—The Arrangement, Seek the Living, The Summer after June, and The Distance from the Heart of Things. Her work has appeared in Redbook, the Oxford American, McSweeney’s, and Garden and Gun, among others. The youngest recipient of the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship, she has also received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She teaches fiction in the mfa program at Queens University in Charlotte, North Carolina. She is also the buyer at M. Judson Booksellers and Storytellers in Greenville, South Carolina, where she lives with her family.

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Come celebrate with us by drinking summery drinks in this cold weather… Brand rep on site, fun take aways, and a special drink menu…

https://www.facebook.com/events/281473362509975/

For you caffeine fiends Swipe Mic is coming to Trade & Lore in downtown Asheville with hosts Black Swan and Eugene Jones.

https://www.facebook.com/events/178293553120220/

Come join us for this fun and creative Wine Glass Painting Class held at Noble Cider
356 New Leicester Hwy
Asheville, NC 28806
This month’s design: Santa Baby
12/13 @ 7pm
In this 1.5 hour class, you will hand paint a design on a wine glass guided by an instructor from Le Painted Grape. All painting supplies and wine glass included. Wine and food available for extra purchase from venue. No outside food or drink. We teach you STEP BY STEP so no exp. necessary. Sign up with your friends!

Noble Cider started with a simple mission and very little cash! After cobbling together enough funds to build an apple press and with a few connections at local orchards, we began our journey to create Asheville’s first hard cider company.

*Note – at the door costs will be as follows: Ticket: 32.00, Bling: 6.00, 2nd Glass: 11.00 so it’s best to register for all online! You will still be able to add on upgrades at the door if you choose. We encourage guests to carpool as parking is limited.

https://www.facebook.com/events/572346089877429/

Regional storytellers, Kathy Gordon and Roy Harris, will be telling holiday stories to warm your spirit and heart on Thursday evening, December 13th at Pack Library downtown Asheville. Doors open at 6:30 in Lord Auditorium and show begins promptly at 7pm, ending around 7:50pm. FREE and sponsored by the Friends of Pack Library and Mr.&Mrs. David Joe Miller

https://www.facebook.com/events/722263688137877/

In this beautiful play, Libby, a socially awkward woman with a tragic past, reluctantly throws a dinner party for a group of neighbors and acquaintances. As the drinks flow, discussions and debates ensue about everything from skydiving to family therapy to the merits of Topo Gigio. Connections are made and broken and made again as Libby and her guests explore what being alone, and being not alone, really means.

Directed by Jeff Catanese
Starring Edwin Glass, Scott Keel, Amanda Klinikowski, Christy Montesdeoca, Trinity Smith-Keel, Josephine Thomas and Henry Williamson III

RAFFLE ALERT! Some performances include an Admission + Raffle ticket option. On those nights you can add a $5 raffle ticket to your admission fee and be eligible for a gift with an $80 – $120 value! Raffle tickets will also be sold at the door.

https://www.facebook.com/events/575264369597847/?event_time_id=575264399597844

Like pole tricks but LOVE choreography? Then this class is for you!

Beginner Pole Flow focuses on the dancing and movement aspect of pole. Get slow and sexy, and delve into the sensual side of pole to find your own personal style!

Whether you are new to pole, or have taken classes – all are welcome! We’re going to break down all those hip movements, body rolls and footwork using choreography each week so you can focus on getting in the groove!

Sign up at www.danceclubasheville.com

https://www.facebook.com/events/604747403227567/?event_time_id=604747413227566

Dead in Heaven is the musical collaboration of Bethany and John Starling, a couple of 20 years who reside in Asheville, NC. Founded in 2017, what began as private, exploratory songwriting found a focused and compelling sound that hovers between post-punk and dream-pop.

Using minimal instrumentation of synths, guitar, and sometimes insistent programmed drum beats, the duo craft songs with a crystalline presence that live comfortably in both the sunlight and the shadows. Their music can be heard at deadinheaven.bandcamp.com.

Join OM Sanctuary for an intimate Sanctuary Concert Series. Music to uplift the spirit and warm the soul will be presented Thursday evenings, from 7:30-9:00pm, on the Sanctuary Pavilion stage located in the Multipurpose room. Experience an intriguing array of local Asheville talent offering an assortment of musical approaches, from atmospheric electronica to Appalachian folk to singer-songwriter to Kirtan. Musical groups have been hand selected to blend with the beauty and harmony of the Sanctuary nestled next to the Serenity Garden and Waterfall, creating a seamless environment conducive to relaxation and evocative of mystery.

OM Sanctuary is a non profit educational center with a mission to introduce healthy lifestyle practices through holistic education and connection to nature. The 54-acre eco-friendly campus, is nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains above the French Broad River just off Riverside Drive at 87 Richmond Hill Dr in Asheville, NC 28806. The center also offers daily classes, programs, retreat lodging, healthy cuisine, wellness treatments & private sessions, a labyrinth garden and a Tranquility Trail in the 42 acre conservation forest.

Tuition: $10
Registration: https://bit.ly/2NiPO6y

Interested in enjoying the concert free of charge? Email [email protected]

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This fresh adaptation of the film is set in the fictional studio of WVL Radio Theatre, which is struggling to stay on the air one snowy winter’s night. The professional voice actors are unable to get to the studio, but the show must go on—and so a small but intrepid band of employees manages to create the story’s dozens of characters and scenes using just their voices and some everyday household items for sound effects.

https://www.facebook.com/events/334279477356360/?event_time_id=334279490689692

The Magnetic Theatre invites you on a trip back in time, as we present the wonderfully wicked 25th ANNUAL BERNSTEIN FAMILY CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR. Now in its 9th year, this R-rated holiday spectacle is a hilarious, envelope-pushing ode to the TV specials of yesteryear, with the dysfunctional Bernstein clan doing a variety of skits, as they pay a twisted kind of homage to beloved Christmas traditions. This show is absolutely for adults only, and only for those who are willing to go along for a ride with some delightfully depraved individuals!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1925230094450819/?event_time_id=1925230141117481

Come join WNC’s most high-energy Classic Country and Western Show Band at The Block off biltmore!

Bring your dancing shoes as we play some of your favorite hits in country music from the 40’s, 50’s, 60’s, 70’s, 80’s and 90’s!

This is a show that you definitely don’t want to miss!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1987606748210535/

Radio Show: Back For Christmas, Sponsored by: Baxley’s Chocolate, In Your Ear Music, and The Paper Mill Lounge and Theatre. A meek British botany professor plans a “Devil’s Garden” in the basement; a grave for his henpecking wife! The story was produced on “Suspense” again on December 23, 1948 as “Holiday Story” and on December 23, 1956! A very haunting Christmas Tale!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1941146159339596/

It is time once again for the 5th Annual Toybox Birthday Edition of The Wham, Bam! Puppet Slam!
Do not miss this event which only happens ONCE every year as Toybox and his friends present a showcase of short puppet plays paying tribute to, making fun of, or even tearing apart America’s Favorite Cartoon Witch! Anything can happen!
$15
Suggested for “Mature Audiences” 18 and UP

https://www.facebook.com/events/666051483789154/

Worthwhile Sounds Presents: “An Evening with Jill Andrews: A Night of Original and Holiday Favorites”

WHERE: Ambrose West, 312 Haywood Road, 28806
WHEN: Thursday December 13, 2018
DOORS: 7pm | SHOW: 8pm
GENRE: Indie Folk / Americana
AGES: All Ages
TICKETS: $15 adv. / $18 d.o.s. / $20 VIP (guaranteed seat in 1st 3 rows)
SEATING: seated general admission

Jill Andrews

On her last solo record, The War Inside, Jill Andrews shines a light on her own struggles and successes, tying the songs together with a new sound that mixes her folk background with a wider set of influences. “When I set out to make this album,” she explained, “I wanted it to feel like me — but me moving, me progressing. “As such, The War Inside reached into the pop and indie rock world, while still tipping its hat to Andrews’ Appalachian, East Tennessee roots. Longtime friend Seth Avett even made an appearance, singing a duet with Andrews on “I’m so in Love with You.”

Andrews kicked off her songwriting career as co-founder of The Everybodyfields, a band whose mix of Southern genres — folk, country, bluegrass — and male-female vocals helped pave the way for future groups like The Civil Wars. It earned The Everybodyfields a wide fanbase too, as well as appearances at Bonnaroo, The Kennedy Center, and a cross-country tour with The Avett Brothers. After three albums, Andrews left the band and launched a solo career, starting with a self-titled EP and a full-length record, The Mirror, which built something bigger and broader on top of her Americana roots. Andrews also signed a publishing deal during this time, and began landing songs in multiple TV shows and movies, including Grey’s Anatomy, The Good Wife, Nashville, American Idol, Hart of Dixie, and Me, Him, Her (2015), among others. Of late, Andrews has been writing and recording with fellow Nashville songwriter Peter Groenwald under the moniker Hush Kids. Their debut self-titled album comes out on September 21st.

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Psych/Synth Garagey!
Gold Leather
https://goldleather.bandcamp.com/
TV SET – hot new Asheville sound
Cadavernous!!

https://www.facebook.com/events/736751760034943/

$12 Advance / $12 Day of Show

Mike Guggino and Barrett Smith of the Grammy award winning Steep Canyon Rangers join forces to perform an evening of string music. The music will be Italian themed and our chef will match the mood with several Italian dinner features .

Come with friends and enjoy a great dinner accompanied by beautiful music!

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

https://www.facebook.com/events/836840573366298/

BURGER BAR KARAOKE WILL BE SWITCHING TO THURSDAY NIGHT BEGINNING NOVEMBER 8th!!

Everything else will be staying the same!!
(well, except the drink specials bc it’s a different day of the week)
$4 Tiger Beer
$5 Wild Turkey (bourbon or rye)

https://www.facebook.com/events/517643348648128/

Rising Appalachia Music – Winter Solstice
w/Lyla June
Show: 9pm
Doors: 8pm
$25 – $30
Ages 18+

Tickets & Info: www.theorangepeel.net/event/rising-appalachia-winter-solstice/

Rising Appalachia brings to the stage a collection of sounds, stories, and songs steeped in tradition and a devotion to world culture. Intertwining a deep reverence for folk music and a passion for justice, they have made it their life’s work to sing songs that speak to something ancient yet surging with relevance. Whether playing at Red Rocks or in rail cars, at Italian street fairs or to Bulgarian herbalists, this fiercely independent band has blazed a unique and colorful path across the globe. 11 years into their movement, Rising Appalachia believes that the roots of all these old songs are vital to our ever evolving soundscape.

Led by the collective voice of sisters Leah and Chloe, and joined by their beloved band – percussionist Biko Casini and bassist/guitarist David Brown – Rising Appalachia is a melting pot of folk music simplicity, textured songwriting, and those bloodline harmonies that only siblings can pull off. Listen for a tapestry of song, clawhammer banjo tunes, fiddle, double bass, acoustic guitar, djembe, barra, bodhran, spoken word, and a wealth of musical layering that will leave you called to action and lulled into rhythmic dance simultaneously. It is both genre bending and familiar at the same time. Proudly born and raised in the concrete jungle of Atlanta, Georgia, sharpening their instincts in the mountains of Appalachia, and fine tuning their soul on the streets of New Orleans they have crafted a 6-album career from the dusts of their passion.

In 2015 Rising Appalachia founded the Slow Music Movement, to help maintain an independent musical spirit in the face of such a fast-paced world. They are creatively committed to keeping their work accessible at the local street level as well as expanding to larger audiences abroad, and have continued to maintain autonomy by self- managing, recording, producing and creating, and directing their work.
They are greatly honored to do the work that they do.

“Music is the tool with which we wield political prowess. Melody for the Roots of each of us…spreading song and sound around the globe. Music has become our script for vision- not just for aural pleasure, not just for hobby, but now as a means to connect and create in ways that we aren’t taught by mainstream culture. We are building community and tackling social injustice through melody, making the stage reach out with wide arms to gather this great family. It has taken on its own personality, carrying us all along the journey. Heres to poetic observations, social change, lyrical messages, political focus, symphonic coercing, ferocious bantering, bicycles and train tracks, primal will, fresh air, harmony, flow, and beautiful noise.”- Leah Song.

“Green Album of the Year” – the Huffington Post

“Rising Appalachia seeks to showcase the beauty of the simple, the subtle, and the sometimes unseen with its soulful folk music” – anonymous

For more information about Rising Appalachia, visit www.RisingAppalachia.com.

“Rising Appalachia is a genre-bending force of sound that uses vocal harmony, lyrical prowess and diverse artistic collaborations to defy cultural clichés and ignite a musical revolution…”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx17RvPMaQ8

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West Side Funk!!! (Open Jam) @ One World Brewing West.

Music starts at 9:00!
$3 Select Pints of delicious One World Brewing Beer.

Bring your horn, guitar, bass or sticks and have some fun! Everyone is welcome!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1886608824789676/

Genre: Experimental
Tickets: adv. $13 / dos. $15
Show: 10PM (Doors: 9PM)
Ages: 21+

paris_monster

Beat-driven. Employing heavy elements of funk and soul, paris_monster closes the gaps between synth-pop & garage; between modern detail and old-school grit. Solid earth. Soaring soundscapes. A mass of noise. Volatility. Vocal singularity.

The Deli NYC calls paris_monster “a precise, complex and sophisticated mechanism” with “a monstrous instrumental technique”, delivering a sound that “could be the new face of American roots rock”.

In fall of 2017 paris_monster began recording their first full-length LP, set to be released in 2018. The album will solidify their dirty, glitchy, lyric-centered, groove-based sound, and will be a milepost in their search for a focused and flexible musical approach. The elements of funk and soul join with lyrical themes of bygone eras in rural settings, characters lost, and mortality confronted. Love achieved, and denied. Americana. Themes in stark contrast to the pounding grooves and electronic mayhem, creating depths and dimensions that could have been otherwise achieved only by dropping a modular synth in the corn fields of central New York or the woods of Connecticut. And maybe that’s exactly what happened.

Lesley Keller of Pancakes & Whiskey said, “Each time I see them perform I’m dumbfounded at just how great they are”. paris_monster’s live show is something to behold. The challenge when seeing them live is getting past the fact that there are only two people creating all that sound. Two people. A drum set. A bass. A keyboard. A eurorack modular synth. One microphone. And all that sound. Beyond this visual impossibility is a careful and deliberate balance of sounds, colors, and textures. Melodies to serve a story. Chaos to destroy preciousness. The Deli NYC observed, “infallible superior forces: as we all know now, ‘with great power comes great responsibilities,’ and the duo never abuses of it – that’s what good musicianship is.”

paris_monster’s full catalogue is available NOW on iTunes. The Deli NYC said of recent release “Ain’t No Movin’ Me”: “… [paris_monster] showcases its prowess for hook writing/crafting a track that could stand without accompaniment as a blues-y, spiritual declaration, but is launched into another realm by its bed of synths and echoing choruses. An inspired take on blues- folk that’s both hypnotic and engaging.”

web: https://www.parismonster.com/
vid: https://youtu.be/SZnvZNTi0Uo

Brether

Brether is the brainchild of Sam and Billy Brouse (of Papadosio). We’ve been playing music together for years, so we figured we’d share some of it with you.

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