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, August 21, 2020
Jumping Jack Flash Rolling Stones CANCELLED
Aug 21 @ 2:00 pm
Flat Rock Playhouse
Netflix Party Events
Aug 21 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Online

These “Netflix Party” are events Hosted by the “Your Belfast Social Meetup – a Northern Ireland group. They start their movies at 7:00 BST (2:00 Hendo time) each Friday. You can chat via scrolling screen on the right before and during the show. It’s pretty cool talking to people “across the pond” to see how they are handling the pandemic. The Event Host posts a selection of movies for those who RSVP to vote on the day before. Then an hour before showtime the Netflix Party link is posted to the event page.

For those of you who don’t know, Netflix Party is a way we can chat whilst watching in sync together. Anyone with the Chrome Extension ‘Netflix Party’ on their Desktop can join the movie and the chatroom IF they have a Netlix account.

Begin with Breath Tai Chi Class
Aug 21 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Online

This is a 45 minute class that’s great for beginners and those wanting to deepen their current Tai Chi Practice. This is an online class and is open to all adults. In this class, you don’t have to memorize anything or learn complex routines. Its all about getting into the flow!

Classes will now be streamed via the “Begin with Breath Connect” Website. Monthly and Annual Memberships are available. Sign up here:

https://app.namastream.com/#/begin-with-breath-connect/auth/signup

Hemp Xpress Trolley:  Cruisin’ Asheville 
Aug 21 @ 5:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Carolina Hemp Company

 The Hemp X Hot Box:Roll with us Fridays from 5-10pm as we coast a route through West Asheville and Downtown. Stops at UpCountry Brewing, One World Brewing West, Foggy Mountain, and The One Stop. We’ll have smokable and edible hemp products for purchase to enjoy alongside any wine or beer you bring yourselves (closed containers only). We’re happy to provide an affordable way for locals and visitors to Roll Up, Stay Safe and Party Down! Cruisin Asheville July 10th, July 31st, August 7th, August 21st. More dates to come! 

Purchase Tickets on board! One Way Pass $3 and All Night Unlimited Pass $5

Private Rentals: Spark up your next Asheville area celebration with our personalized rental platform! We offer several packages at different price tiers to best cater to your party’s needs! Our team is dedicated to working with you to create an experience that will leave your guests (and your smoke) blown away!

The Hemp Xpress is dedicated to the safety of the Asheville community; public routes and experiences are operating at half capacity within social distance guidelines. Hand sanitizer is readily available to riders, and surfaces are regularly sanitized. Buncombe County requires a face mask be worn in public places.

Free Dead Fridays
Aug 21 @ 5:30 pm
The One Stop at Asheville Music Hall

Join us at The One Stop at Asheville Music Hall every Friday at 5:30PM for our FREE Acoustic Grateful Dead series Featuring members of Phuncle Sam and great drink and food specials.

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Virtual Downtown After 5: Floating Action and Tall Tall Trees
Aug 21 @ 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Online
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The Virtual Downtown After 5 series continues on Friday, August 21 from 5:30-8:30pm with Floating Action and Tall Tall Trees. The online concert is brought to you by presenting sponsor, Prestige Subaru, with support from Visit Asheville, Carolina Hemp Company, Sierra Nevada Mills River and Cambria Hotel Downtown Asheville. Thanks also to our partners Iamavl and The Orange Peel.

Floating Action, a band that has gotten tighter and tighter over the last two years and turned into a soul-grooving group that wouldn’t have been out of its league in Muscle Shoals, Memphis, Philadelphia or Detroit in the 60s and 70s, bring us to a very calm place where they woo us with gorgeous melodies and scrappily fuzzed out tones that radiate a vinyl warmth that somehow immediately instills a feeling of nostalgic happiness.

Tall Tall Trees is the pseudonym of songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Mike Savino. Moving to New York in the early aughts with aspirations of being a bassist in the city’s vibrant jazz and experimental music scene, Savino soon switched his focus to banjo and writing songs, resulting in the eponymous 2009 debut, Tall Tall Trees. In the decade since, Savino has toured non-stop, pioneering a world of psychedelic electric banjo music, captivating audiences with his loop-based one man shows.

Watch via the Downtown After 5 Asheville Facebook page or at IamAVL.com.

Trampled By Turtles CANCELLED
Aug 21 @ 6:00 pm
The Orange Peel-Outdoor Stage

This show was originally scheduled for June 26, 2020. Due to unforeseen circumstances, this show has been cancelled. Please consider donating your ticket money to The Orange Peel! Email [email protected] for more info. Refunds will be processed shortly.

Trampled by Turtles are from Duluth, Minnesota, where front man Dave Simonett initially formed the group as a side project in 2003. At the time, Simonett had lost most of his music gear, thanks to a group of enterprising car thieves who’d ransacked his vehicle while he played a show with his previous band. Left with nothing more than an acoustic guitar, he began piecing together a new band, this time taking inspiration from bluegrass, folk, and other genres that didn’t rely on amplification. Simonett hadn’t played any bluegrass music before, and he filled his lineup with other newcomers to the genre, including fiddler Ryan Young (who’d previously played drums in a speed metal act) and bassist Tim Saxhaug. Along with mandolinist Erik Berry and banjo player Dave Carroll, the group began carving out a fast, frenetic sound that owed as much to rock & roll as bluegrass.

Music On Main
Aug 21 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Main Street, Hendersonville
Note:  Some or all of the Summer Music Series Concerts may be cancelled or postponed.  Events will be held in accordance with North Carolina restrictions, of crowd size and distancing, to help limit the spread of COVID-19. Check regularly for updates.

The Music on Main concerts feature a diverse line-up ranging from pop, oldies, rock, to contemporary music – there’s something for every musical taste. The concerts this year will be held August 21 – September 25 at the Visitor Center, located at 201 South Main Street in Downtown Hendersonville, NC.

Several modifications have been made this year to comply with state and federal health guidelines. To accommodate these mandates, the designated dance area in front of the stage will be used to distance the audience from the performers. Dancing will not be allowed for public safety. In addition to the Visitor Center parking lot, the block in front of the Visitor Center, between Allen & Barnwell Streets, will be dedicated to seating, which will give the audience more room for seating to listen to the concert.

Music on Main features Rewind House Band Cancelled
Aug 21 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Visitors Center

The weekly Music on Main concert series will feature the Rewind House Band, The Rewind House Band plays such crowd pleasers as the Bill Withers’ classic “Ain’t No Sunshine,” Van Morrison’s “Brown-Eyed Girl,” Otis Redding’s “The Dock of the Bay,” Bob Seger’s “Hollywood Nights,” Chris Isaak’s “Wicked Game” and “Maneater” from Hall and Oates. The crowd is encouraged to sing along and dance whenever the spirit moves them

Bring a chair and enjoy an evening of live music from 7pm-9pm.  The audience seating area opens after 5:30pm, early admission is prohibited.  Admission is free. Alcoholic beverages, backpacks, or coolers are prohibited. Please leave your pets comfortably at home. A Hendersonville City ordinance allows event organizers to exclude animals from the event space for the health, safety and welfare of the community, dogs, patrons, and vendors and their products.

The concert series is held every Friday evening from July 24 through September 18, at the Visitor Center, located at 201 South Main Street in Downtown Hendersonville, NC.

In case of inclement weather the concert will be postponed until 8pm.  If the weather does not improve by 8pm the performance will be cancelled.

PATIO SHOW: Jesse Barry Duo
Aug 21 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
The Grey Eagle

PATIO SHOW:  Jesse Barry Duo

Don’t miss the Jesse Barry duo at The Grey Eagle patio on Friday, August 21! A very limited number of tickets are available now.
Laughter on the 23rd Floor
Aug 21 @ 7:30 pm
Asheville Community Theatre

Playwright Neil Simon got his first big break in the early 50’s as a staff writer on Sid Caesar’s Your Show of Shows, and this comedy takes a fictionalized look into writer’s room antics.

 

Look Back in Anger
Aug 21 @ 7:30 pm
Asheville Community Theatre

Set in the mid-twentieth century English projects, witness a young couple struggle through the issues that seem all too familiar today: employment, finances, class, education, love, loss, and all the complications that come with it. Life leads them through its ups and downs, but will they still be able to find each other in the end?

ArborEvenings
Aug 21 @ 8:00 pm – 11:00 pm
The North Carolina Arboretum

The Arboretum’s popular ArborEvenings summer after hours series will return this season with a special LEGO twist. Held every Thursday, Friday and Saturday, July through September, from 8 to 11 …

Jumping Jack Flash Rolling Stones CANCELLED
Aug 21 @ 8:00 pm
Flat Rock Playhouse
Saturday, August 22, 2020
Organic Growers School Cuba Trip 2021
Aug 22 all-day
Online

Another Cuba Trip!

We’re excited to announce we have scheduled a second trip to Cuba for June 22nd – July 1, 2021
In the case of trip cancellation, a full refund or roll over of funds paid to future trips will be offered to all registered participants. Flexible payment plans are available.
Weekly Flea Market Hominy Valley
Aug 22 @ 6:00 am – 3:00 pm
Hominy Valley Wildlife & Sportsmen's Club

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Starting Saturday, August 1, 2020, the Hominy Valley Wildlife Club will begin hosting a weekly flea market. Spaces will be $15.00 each, maximum of two spaces per seller. Grounds will open at 6 am for seller setup.

For more information contact Lane Brown at 828-231-5408, Bruce Whitt at 828-665-2114, Rachel Godwin at 828-273-6911 or email at [email protected]

Blue Ridge Heritage Weekend
Aug 22 @ 8:00 am – 4:00 pm
Shelton House – WNC History, Heritage and Crafts

This is a 2 day Craft Fair and Cultural Event at the historic Shelton House in Waynesville, NC. celebrating our 40th year as “The Museum of North Carolina Handicrafts”. This years event opens at 8am on August 22, with Haywood’s Historic Farmers Market and local Artists and Crafters from NC and neighboring states. Food Vendors will be selling food and drink throughout the day as well. The Shelton House will be open for limited free tours as well as two special exhibits in the Historic Barn (A Medical History of Haywood County (1870-1950) and a new Agricultural exhibit in the stables. The Shelton House Carriage Gift Shop will also be open and live music will be played on our “natural stage”. The Saturday event ends at 4pm and on Sunday, August 23 the event will run from 11am until 4pm. Come out and join Us for music, history, heritage, arts and crafts. We are a non-profit organization trying to raise money for the preservation of the historic house, barn and collections.

Grandfather Mountain
Aug 22 @ 8:00 am – 7:00 pm
Grandfather Mountain


To help prevent the spread of COVID-19 (novel coronavirus), Grandfather Mountain is only selling tickets online.

Only a select number of tickets will be sold per day for certain time-slots to limit the number of guests in the park at one time, in accordance with the state of North Carolina’s phased “reopening” plan and social gathering guidelines.

Please check back closer to your visit for ticket availability. As of now, reservations are only available through June 21.

Each guest entering the park must have a ticket, which includes a time-slot. Prices are as follows:

Adult: $22
Senior (age 60+): $20
Child (ages 4-12): $9
AAA Adult: $20 (must present valid AAA card)
AAA Child: $8 (must present valid AAA card)

Hendersonville Farmers Market
Aug 22 @ 8:00 am – 1:00 pm
Historic Train Depot

Hendersonville Farmers Market is located at the Historic Train Depot (650 Maple Street) in downtown Hendersonville’s Seventh Avenue District.

Limited free parking spaces are available at the market on Maple Street off of Fifth Avenue in addition to parking on surrounding streets. Lot and metered parking are available 0.3 miles away at the City Hall lot (145 Fifth Avenue) or 0.4 miles away at the Maple lot (124 Fifth Avenue).

Nature Connects®: Art with LEGO® Bricks
Aug 22 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 pm
The North Carolina Arboretum

Please note: Nature Connects®: Art with LEGO® Bricks has been postponed until July; however, the exhibit will have an extended schedule and will be open until November 1. We look forward to seeing you!

The Arboretum is excited to welcome back the widely popular traveling exhibit, Nature Connects®: Art with LEGO® Bricks by Sean Kenney. Featuring 14 larger-than-life-size sculptures place created with nearly 500,000 LEGO Bricks, this family-friendly exhibit draws inspiration from the living world and combines art, play and science to create an inspiring intersection of education, entertainment and the environment. New sculptures include a 5-foot tall colorful peacock, giant dragonfly, bonsai tree and more!

 

North Asheville Tailgate Market – Every Saturday Morning
Aug 22 @ 8:00 am – 12:00 pm
North Asheville Tailgate Market

Locally grown eggplants

May 2 – November 21

Now with special COVID-19 procedures, the North Asheville Tailgate Market features local produce direct from area farmers, local baked goods, crafts, music and more.

PLEASE SEE THE NEW PROCEDURES BEFORE COMING TO CAMPUS. You can find information, including about pre-ordering, and changes in payment and shopping procedures on the market’s website.

Open Saturdays 8 a.m.-noon in UNC Asheville Parking Lot P28. maps.unca.edu

For more information, visit northashevilletailgatemarket.com

Jus’ Running Celebrating 22 Years! Sales, food truck, give ways and group runs
Aug 22 @ 8:30 am – 6:00 pm
Jus' Running

The North Asheville Tailgate Market
Aug 22 @ 8:30 am – 12:00 pm
The North Asheville Tailgate Market
Local
IMPORTANT: COVID-19 Rules and Safety Procedures
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Our Goals:
  • Safe customers
  • Safe vendors
  • Provide essential products to our community
  • Safer customer and vendor experiences than alternatives such as grocery stores
  • A demonstration that we are a responsible Asheville business by modeling virus-safe behavior
  • As a market, we are determined to treat this public health crisis seriously.  Persons failing to follow any of the rules below must leave the market immediately.
Animal Habitats VIP Tours
Aug 22 @ 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Grandfather Mountain

See where the cougars and otters sleep overnight, meet black bears that are not commonly on display, learn the ins and outs of what it takes to care for the animals year-round, observe a training session and find out why the animals call Grandfather Mountain home.

Offered on weekends, April – October.

Black Mountain Tailgate Market
Aug 22 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Black Mountain Tailgate Market
Falconry at the Biltmore Estate
Aug 22 @ 9:00 am
Biltmore Estate

Falconry

Discover the ancient art of falconry on Biltmore’s historic grounds. Learn how to handle a trained hawk or falcon, then experience the inimitable thrill of a raptor flying to and landing upon your gloved hand. Don’t miss this one-of-a-kind opportunity to interact with one of these majestic birds of prey.

Two-guest minimum, Four-guest maximum

*Price is in addition to estate admission and subject to change. Must be 8 years of age or older to participate. Guests under 17 years of age must be accompanied by a paying adult. Guests encouraged to dress for the weather and wear comfortable, closed-toe shoes.
Passholders and guests of The Inn and Village Hotel receive a 10% discount.

Cost$125 per person plus tax
Bender Gallery presents artist Toland Sand
Aug 22 @ 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Bender Gallery

Light Squared

When a friend gave Toland Sand a stained glass studio in 1977, he embarked upon a journey that would lead him to explore the myriad qualities that define glass as a medium. Sand’s 43 years as a sculptor has resulted in works of stained glass, blown glass, and every combination in between. A pioneer in utilizing the unique properties of dichroic glass, Sand begins his current sculpture with optical crystal and dichroic coated glass, hand worked by grinding in ever finer stages until a polish is achieved. Seeking balance, harmony, and symmetry, with an accent on deconstructed form, his work inhabits the symbolic, the cosmic, and the mystery. Sand is inspired by his peers as well as artists such as Isamu Noguchi, David Smith, Henry Moore, and Mark Rothko.
Sand’s work can be found numerous public and private collections including the Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass, Neenah, WI, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN, Imagine Museum, Sarasota, FL, and others.

Bender Gallery continues to be open and welcoming visitors into our gallery in limited numbers and with facemasks, of course. We remain dedicated to supporting our artists during these unprecedented times by making ourselves available almost anytime you wish to speak with us to answer questions and sharing their work online and through social media. We and our artists thank you for your support!

Chimney Rock Park “Photos by Phone” Photography Class
Aug 22 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Chimney Rock Park

Join professional photographer Buddy Morrison for an interactive session on the basics of smartphone photography. Whether you’re an Android or iPhone user, you’re sure to take away some great photo editing skills from this three-hour classroom session. Time permitting, you may embark on a quick photo-taking odyssey to various spots in the Park, so be prepared to do some moderate hiking.
Pre-registration is required

Grand Opening Atelier Maison + Co Fine Home Furnishings
Aug 22 @ 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Atelier Maison & Co

Welcome to Asheville’s

HOME FURNISHINGS DESTINATION

Located in Asheville’s Historic Biltmore Village, Atelier Maison & Co. is the area’s home furnishings destination offering healthy, design-forward furniture, accessories and more. We believe living green is not only better for the environment, but essential in building a happier, healthier home. Here you’ll find everything you need, as well as an experienced design team to guide you along the way.

We carry healthy furniture lines, as well as our own exclusive line of green, envy-worthy furniture. So whether you live in Atlanta, Knoxville, Greenville, Charlotte or here in Asheville, we invite you to come experience a home furnishings studio unlike anything else in the area.

History Explorers for Kids: Ancient American Indian Artifacts + Cherokee Traditions
Aug 22 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Black Mountain United Methodist Church

History’s Mysteries activity on the theme of Ancient American Indian artifacts and historic Cherokee objects. Staff will speak about American Indian history in the Swannanoa Valley and help attendees to define key terms. Then, children and their guardians will rotate around outdoor stations, guessing the uses of displayed artifacts and objects, then come back together for staff to reveal the uses of the objects. Time allowing, children will also learn how to play the butterbean game, a counting game historically enjoyed by the Cherokee.

LOCATION

Shaded lot behind the Black Mountain United Methodist Church (101 Church Street, Black Mountain, NC 28711), next to the ca1938 “Church House.” Public parking is available behind the church. The church faces West State Street in downtown Black Mountain, and public parking/event location can be accessed by turning on to Church Street from West State Street, then turning left into the parking lot.

COST

$5 per person (adults and children). Taxes and fees apply. Event is free for museum members. Please email [email protected] for promo code.

COVID & ATTENDANCE POLICIES

  • This event is held out of doors, with a limit on attendance to allow for social distancing. The activity takes place in full shade and water will be available.
  • All children or groups of children must be accompanied by an adult guardian.
  • All museum staff will wear masks and all attendees are required to wear masks except for children under 11.
  •  Staff will inform attendees of a cancellation by 5pm the day before the program. Registrants can transfer their payments to another upcoming children’s program or receive refunds.