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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Saturday, September 26, 2020
Complimentary Meals and Music for People in Need
Sep 26 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Grovemont Park
On Saturday, Sept.19 Food Connection will be partnering up with the folks from Groovin’ on Grovemont to bring free meals to Swannanoa Valley residents who are in need. This is a curbside drive-thru where you’ll have your choice of venison penne pasta with cheese, or veggie pasta both served with country-style green beans, garlic bread, and a cookie. There will also be live music provided by Asheville’s amazing singer-songwriter duo, The Paper Crowns!
Moogseum Store Reopnes
Sep 26 @ 11:00 am – 5:00 pm
Moogseum Store 

The Bob Moog Foundation is also excited to welcome shoppers back into the Moogseum Store in downtown Asheville, NC. While the exhibit space will remain closed until North Carolina enters phase 3, the store offers a wide variety of synth-inspired merchandise from magnets, t-shirts and pint glasses, to books, hats and vinyl records. The Moogseum Store will be open Wednesdays through Saturdays from 11:00 am – 5:00 pm.

To ensure the safety of guests, extensive cleaning measures and CDC guidelines will be followed by staff, and both staff and visitors will be required to wear cloth or disposable face coverings.

                    

Sizzling Summer Nights CANCELLED
Sep 26 @ 2:00 pm
Flat Rock Playhouse
Dance, Drum, Heal for Black Indigenous People of Color
Sep 26 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Arthur R Edington Education & Career Center

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Join us at the garden for this ceremonial healing event for people of color. We will tune in to the sounds to be channeled through our drums, percussion instruments, voices, feet, hands. Just like our ancestors. We will dance our resistance by surviving. We will dance with our ancestors who loved, who laughed, who danced their joy and their grief. We will tune into sound and move in our power to release and heal.

This event will be held outdoors honoring social distancing. Free event, bring your water.

Live Music: Hustle Souls
Sep 26 @ 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Nantahala Outdoor Center

Hustle Souls is bringing feel-good modern meets vintage tunes to NOC! One of the region’s most promising independent acts, this powerhouse soul band will knock your funky socks off.

See more from Hustle Souls on Facebook.

Kim Ware / the Good Graces Live Stream
Sep 26 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Online

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I’ve written enough songs (and then some) for a new album and I want you to help me fine-tune them! I’ll be playing songs, telling stories, and maybe even host a surprise guest or two. All live from my new apartment in lovely Shelby, NC. Tune in every Saturday at 4PM ET.

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Live Music: Pioneer Chicken Stand
Sep 26 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Nantahala Outdoor Center

Join us for weekend music on the Adventure Center Deck! This is a great show for all ages.

Pleasure Chest at Salvage Station
Sep 26 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Salvage Station

Presenting live music by Pleasure Chest on our Outdoor Stage on the French Broad River from 6-9pm. Full bar, amazing menu by Root Down Kitchen, and plenty of space to social distance in style with your pod of friends. Check out our website www.salvagestation.com for more info on our new safety measures so you can have a great time dancing to one of our favorite Asheville bands. -21+ only; no dogs; no reservations. -FREE parking -Masks required at all times unless seated at your table; so when you start dancing away from your table, you must social distance and wear a mask. -Social distancing required while in line for food/drinks. -Be kind & Have FUN!

Ska City @ One World West!
Sep 26 @ 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm
One World Brewing West

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Come join our end-of-Summer party at One World Brewing West! It’s another great night of ska and two tone – enjoy a cold brew and hot tunes at this early show :)

Lawn Concert: Eduardo de Rosamarie’s Noche Flamenca
Sep 26 @ 6:30 pm
Isis Music Hall

Eduardo’s Noche Flamenca returns to Isis Music Hall. Journey to the Andaluz region of Spain for an authentic experience with music, food, wine, and dance. A night out in Spain, in Asheville.

Come enjoy an evening of live music, food and drinks at the Isis patio and lawn. Reservations are highly recommended.

PATIO SHOW: Dirty Dead
Sep 26 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
The Grey Eagle

PATIO SHOW: Dirty Dead

Asheville NC’s DIRTY DEAD are literally on fire. With high-energy, modern interpretations of the classic GD/JGB catalog, DIRTY DEAD are calling the music higher and further than in a long time! With an eclectic mix of players from various styles of music — as the Grateful Dead were –something new, fresh and exciting is happening. Psychedelia, reggae, funk and hip-hop in a Grateful Dead song? OK, got to see this!

 

THE SOUND grew out of guitarist / flautist PAUL DRUM DECIRCE’s feeling the urge for the Dead sound to evolve further — further than trying to imitate or even emulate the great bands accomplishments. GRATEFUL DEAD played at the foot of the pyramids and JERRY GARCIA rocked for thirty years … no need to try and copy that.

Chuck Brodsky Virtual Show White Horse
Sep 26 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Online

Chuck Brodsky is a storyteller, a songwriter, a troubadour, a modern day bard. His wit and irony, down-to-earth warmth, and quirky, rootsy, finely crafted songs tell stories of oddball and underdog characters. His songs celebrate the goodness in people, the eccentric, the holy, the profound, the courageous, the inspiring, the beautiful. They poke fun at what needs poking and sometimes challenge what needs to be challenged. They’re sworn to tell the truth.

Laine Hardy
Sep 26 @ 8:00 pm
Salvage Station

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Sizzling Summer Nights CANCELLED
Sep 26 @ 8:00 pm
Flat Rock Playhouse
BMC Around The Web: Wigmore Hall in London
Sep 26 @ 8:03 pm
Online

Performances and Livestreams

Wigmore Hall: New Fall Series
Don’t miss this fall’s new series of concerts from Wigmore Hall in London! You can stream free concerts from home several times a week through September and into October, with artists including pianist Sir András Schiff, the Nash Ensemble, violinist Elena Urioste, tenor Ian Bostridge, soprano Elizabeth Llewellyn, cellist Alban Gerhardt, and more! Note: all performance times are in British Summer Time (BST)

Eduardo de Rosamarie’s Noche Flamenca
Sep 26 @ 8:30 pm
Isis Music Hall

Eduardo de Rosamaria is a Raleigh, NC based Canadian guitarist. His virtuosity extends throughout the Classical Spanish, Flamenco, and Flamenco Fusion genres. He has performed throughout North America as a soloist, a member of the North Carolina Guitar Quartet and the Paco Band. His numerous return engagements with the North Carolina Symphony, Raleigh Symphony, North Carolina Theater, North Carolina Bach Festival and concert series at universities and colleges in the southeast, have established him as one of the region’s most sought after performers. His versatility is reflected in his discography: Kypoyka – Ukrainian Children’s Songs and Stories, Winter Branches – North Carolina Guitar Quartet (Liscio Recordings) (1997), Ino Live – Ed Stephenson and the Paco Band (Liscio Recordings) (2011), Esencia – Ed Stephenson and the Paco Band (Alanna Records) (2012), A Paco Band Christmas – Ed Stephenson (2013), & Rosamaria – Ed Stephenson and the Paco Band (Alanna Records) (2015). The Classical Voice of North Carolina praised his Esencia album saying, “It has all the characteristics and virtuosity of traditional flamenco guitar but falls outside – or perhaps expands upon – the limited traditional flamenco harmonies and structure. You find influences such as bossa nova or Latin, rock, jazz, swing and salsa, and others.” His most recent CD Rosamaria was recently completed with the Paco Band and was released in April 2015 under the Alanna Records label.

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

Sunday, September 27, 2020
“New Blue Horizon” by David Wilcox with Dig Local Spotify Playlist
Sep 27 all-day
Online

David Wilcox is a father, a husband, a citizen and a songwriter. First inspired to play guitar after hearing a fellow college student playing in a stairwell. Wilcox is now 18 records into a career marked by personal revelation and wildly loyal fans. His lyrical insight is matched by a smooth baritone voice, virtuosic guitar chops, and creative open tunings, giving him a range and tenderness rare in folk music.”

Listen to his song New Blue Horizon on our playlist.

Other songs we’ve added this week are:

 Check out our playlist on Spotify

and tell us which local artist or band you dig the most!

Behind the Screen Podcast About Auditions
Sep 27 all-day
Online

BMC Staff Picks From Around the Web

Behind the Screen
Podcast About Auditions

Join hosts JT Kane and Matt Corey and special guests as they go behind the scenes of orchestras and auditions.

BMC Around The Web: Living Room Live Rebroadcasts
Sep 27 all-day
Online

Living Room Live Rebroadcasts
Relive this summer’s concerts from Living Room Live! Viewers can stream past performances by a wide variety of artists including harpsichordist Bridget Cunningham, violinist Rachel Podger, cellist Colin Alexander, pianist George X. Fu, and many more. Watch these programs anytime you want from home!

Bob Moog Foundation Announces Trifecta Raffle
Sep 27 all-day
Online

The raffle will offer three separate prizes to three separate winners: first prize, Moog Source, serial number 2628 (valued at $2,800); second prize, an updated Moog Prodigy, serial number 3078 (valued at $2,500); and the Moog Rogue, serial number 3674 (valued at $1,500) as third prize. The Moog Source and Moog Rogue were expertly restored by Tone Tweakers. The Prodigy was expertly restored by Wes Taggart, who also updated the instrument with a Synthrotek MST MIDI-to-CV Converter, which allows control of the Prodigy from a MIDI keyboard or sequencer, velocity routing, aftertouch or mod wheel MIDI messaging directly to the cutoff frequency of the Prodigy’s world-famous Moog filter.

All three synthesizers share the robust Moog build and rich sound quality as well as a shared technical lineage rooted in the legendary Minimoog, which is widely known as the most iconic, archetypal analog synthesizer of all time. The Rogue and Prodigy are renowned for their deep bass and flexible modulation capabilities while the Source is lauded for its rich sound, and for its sequencers, sample and hold, arpeggiator, presets, and unique data wheel.

Classical New York Presents Stewart Goodyear
Sep 27 all-day
Online

Staff Picks From Around the Web

Classical New York
Presents Stewart Goodyear

Pianist and composer Stewart Goodyear joins host Zev Kane on WQXR Classical New York.

Dido’s Lament
Sep 27 all-day
Online

BMC trombone faculty member David Jackson shares a special arrangement of Henry Purcell’s aria “When I am Laid in Earth.” Also known as Dido’s Lament, this aria is from the opera Dido and Aeneas, written around 1688. Here, Jackson performs all five parts of his own trombone quintet arrangement.

Fun Videos From Cliburn Kids
Sep 27 all-day
Online

Staff Picks From Around the Web

Fun Videos From
Cliburn Kids

Explore a collection of entertaining videos designed to introduce children to the fun of classical music.

Keith Lockhart and Garrick Ohlsson Interview
Sep 27 all-day
Online

Keith shares an informal interview with pianist and BMC favorite Garrick Ohlsson. Following the interview, Ohlsson performs Chopin’s Nocturne in F-sharp Major Op. 15, no. 2 from home.

LEAF’s Global Arts Center Open
Sep 27 all-day
LEAF's Global Arts Center

Celebrating 25 Years! LEAF is on a Mission:

To cultivate a thriving global community generated by the power of cultural curiosity, connection, and preservation through global music and arts education and experiences.

During your visit, you’ll follow a one-way path through the space and will have access to most engagement stations. Select features will be closed, while others will be modified.

  • C.A.V.E–All guests who wish to use the VR in the C.A.V.E. must wear a disposable face shield and be prepared to give 15 min between users to ensure proper cleaning protocols can be followed.
LEAF’s New Website
Sep 27 all-day
Online

Labor Day is almost here which means that Fall is just around the corner. As we close out this Summer of Change we are grateful to enter into a new season of LEAF and debut our new website! To many, a new website is not that exciting. But in a world where digital is the present and the future, our website is our entry point to the world, a world we hope to change for the better. This new website has been a year long process and we are still working on the kinks but the journey has been full of new discoveries, life long friendship development and new skills. As always, our goal is to expand connections, inspiration and resources.

LEAF’s mission comes to life as an agent for positive social impact in many ways and places.
The “ways” include: cultural exchanges, residencies, programs, workshops, mentoring, Easel Rider Mobile Art Lab, Learning Journeys, Signature Events and immersive experiences. “Places” include: LEAF Global Arts Center in downtown Asheville,  in communities across the world, in schools, in community centers, at event locations such as Lake Eden in Black Mountain, and downtown Asheville, and now LEAF is also Virtual.

Minor Swing by Django Reinhardt
Sep 27 all-day
Online

Guitarist Mak Grgić joins BMC regular guest artist Augustin Hadelich, violin, for this lively performance of Minor Swing by Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli. As Hadelich shares, “This has been such a fun session, not to mention learning a whole different kind of music expression was a cool challenge.”

Musical Life on Venus!
Sep 27 all-day
Online
Musical Life on Venus!

HOLST The Planets
II. Venus, the Bringer of Peace
Brevard Music Center Orchestra
Keith Lockhart, conductor
Recorded on August 4, 2013

SCHUBERT Quintet
Sep 27 all-day
Online

SCHUBERT Quintet in A major, D. 667, “The Trout”
III. Scherzo. Presto
Carolyn Huebl, violin • Scott Rawls, viola
Alistair MacRae, cello • Craig Brown, bass • Andrew Tyson, piano
Recorded on July 31, 2017,
at the Porter Center at Brevard College.

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5
Sep 27 all-day
Online

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5
II. Andante Cantabile
Brevard Sinfonia • JoAnn Falletta, conductor
Recorded live on August 5, 2017,
at the Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium at the Brevard Music Center.