Calendar of Events
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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We invite you to join us for a festive evening art show Reception Saturday January 26th 5-7pm.
Celebrating the New Year with works featuring Gold, Silver, Black & White and a touch of Red.
Great Food, complimentary beer & wine and a drawing for door prizes!
Show will be up until March 16th.
If you are a member that would like to submit work see details below. If you would like to become a member and join the fun, head on over to our website to sign up. We would love to welcome you aboard!
https://squareup.com/store/tryon-painters-and-sculptors
CALL FOR ART:
The first member’s show of 2019 at the Tryon Painters and Sculptors Gallery will run from January 26 -March 16. Guidelines and contract to read, fill, sign and submit along with your work can be found on the website. Please keep in mind the following:
Theme “Puttin’ on the Ritz” which is loosely defined as gold, silver, black, and white with a touch of red. Work that does not relate to the theme may not be accepted.
All works must be original, completed within the last two years, and not previously shown at the TPS Gallery
Paintings, drawings, and photography may be no larger than 40 inches in any direction including the frame and water-based media and pastels must be under glass or plexiglas.
Drop off your work at the gallery January 20-21, between 12-4 pm.
NSF (Not for Sale) work will not be accepted and once work is received at the gallery there will be no price changes.
2D work must be wired and ready to hang. No sawtooth hangers.
All work should be labeled on the back with your name, telephone number, title, medium, and price.
Opening night is January 26 from 5-7 pm. TPS will provide refreshments, but you may contribute either money, snacks, wine or beer.
There will be a “Sneak-a-Peek” show during Tryon’s 4th Friday, January 25 from 5-7.
Pick up your work March 17-18 between 2-4:30 pm. Please make arrangements with the Gallery by March 1.
40% of the sale cost will go to TPS and 60% to the artist. Checks for artist sales will be mailed one week after the close of the show.
https://www.facebook.com/events/761986860831344/
Greg Mastin with Bill Reep opening in the Upper Room at The Grind. You don’t want to miss this! Special entrees, craft beer and wine starting at 6:30! Call ahead!
https://www.facebook.com/events/381991999241418/
Come get your Fairy Hair Sparkles!
Sunday, January 27th 12-3pm (can extend if fills)
at
Blue Ghost Brewing
125 Underwood Road, Fletcher, NC 28732
Sign up here to reserve your spot:
http://bit.ly/BlueGhostBrew
Jack of the Wood : Sunday-Irish Session
Sundays
1 till who knows when?
Traditional Irish music is kept alive at Jack of the Wood with our unplugged Sunday session.
Jack of the Wood
95 Patton ave
Asheville, NC 28801
(828) 252.5445
Have you ever wondered why wine and chocolate go together? Or are you often mystified when selecting a wine to perfectly pair with your favorite chocolate treat? We invite you to join our General Manager, Emily Dunaway, in exploring these questions during our Wine & Chocolate Pairing Class! During this program, Emily will guide you through several different wine and chocolate pairings, demonstrating how different components of wine and chocolate interact on the palate and enhance your tasting experience. Emily will be using an assortment of select chocolates paired with your favorite Mountain Brook wines! Space is limited- reserve your Wine & Chocolate Pairing Class tickets today!
https://www.facebook.com/events/348437472656425/
The Annual Stoobie Awards have become an Asheville Food Scene tradition! Each year in January, the readers of Ashvegas, as well as the food makers, vendors, and venues look forward to finding out who the hand-picked nominees and winners are for culinary and hospitality excellence in the previous year!
READ PAST STOOBIE AWARDS HERE
The 2018 Stoobie Awards will be the FIRST EVER to be announced and celebrated with a LIVE ceremony/party/event that will be packed with food, music, special guests, and of course, the naming of the Stoobie Award winners!
WHEN
Monday, January 28th – 5:30pm to 9:30pm
WHERE
Asheville Masonic Temple
80 Broadway St, Asheville, NC 28801
ashevillemasonictemple.com
WHY
To have fun, while paying tribute to the great people who make up the amazing Asheville Food Scene!
WHO
Produced by: Ashvegas.com / Shay Brown Events / Sprout Consulting / Stu Helm Food Fan / Asheville Masonic Temple
** rescheduled for Feb 4 **
Join us for the inaugural AVL Women and Wine Networking Group! Help us create a community of women who support, grow, lead and of course network with each other. We’ll have regular speakers that inspire, educate and lead to help us grow and create community and…wine. Mark your calendars for the last Tuesday of each month! Want to speak? Let us know.
https://www.facebook.com/events/378149389412530/
$25 per painter
Includes 9×12 canvas
Use of painting materials
Instruction from artist
Please email or message us to RSVP so we know to bring a canvas for you.
We’ll still have wine glasses to paint, too, at $20 per painter. This includes two glasses. Please also RSVP for the glass option.
https://www.facebook.com/events/234388824142669/
Come practice with me every Wednesday evening at Saint Paul Mountain Vineyards at 6pm-7pm to get over that crazy mid week hump!
All levels welcome for an upbeat and energizing power flow while focusing on turning inward and cultivating an intention that you can take with you off your mat!
10$ for 60 minute power vinyasa flow and glass of wine!
6pm-7pm Please share and feel free to bring your friends!
DM if you have any questions! Hope to see you there✨✨
https://www.facebook.com/events/1224464734374111/?event_time_id=1224464751040776
Mountain Brook Vinyards is partnering with Yoga 828 for a winter yoga series. Starting on January 9th, Dee O’Brien will be leading an hour of yoga every Wednesday intimately set in our tasting room. Enjoy sweeping views of mountain vistas and the vineyard below while being guided through a beginner friendly series of poses. The class is $20 and includeds a glass of wine. The class begins at 12pm and ends at 1pm. Put your lunch hour to work and join us!
Feel free to purchase your tickets ahead of time, however, walk-ins are welcome.
https://www.facebook.com/events/362167914614739/?event_time_id=362167927948071
Mountain Brook Vinyards is partnering with Yoga 828 for a winter yoga series. Starting on January 9th, Dee O’Brien will be leading an hour of yoga every Wednesday intimately set in our tasting room. Enjoy sweeping views of mountain vistas and the vineyard below while being guided through a beginner friendly series of poses. The class is $20 and includeds a glass of wine. The class begins at 12pm and ends at 1pm. Put your lunch hour to work and join us!
Feel free to purchase your tickets ahead of time, however, walk-ins are welcome.
https://www.facebook.com/events/362167914614739/
$12 growler fills on Wednesdays. Select a wine on draft (some exceptions apply) and fill a plēb 500mL growler for $12. Growler purchase is separate. Carry out only.
https://www.facebook.com/events/859748727719594/?event_time_id=859748741052926
El Querubin food truck will be at the winery Friday nights. Pair your favorite wine with one of their Mexican dishes.
https://www.facebook.com/events/314042052574442/
Salsa Y Mas
Asheville’s Monthly Social Every first Friday of the month at a New Location and time !!
Salsa, Bachata, Cha Cha, Kizomba and more..
**9 PM **
Friday January 4th join us for a Sensual Bachata Class with 2umbao!!
***On Deck at 10pm until 1am is DJ Oscar Malinalli **
**Cover Ladies $5 and Gentlemen $7 , Cash only at Door please *** Class included
Location: Urban Orchard Cider Co. South Slope
24 Buxton Ave. Asheville NC
***Bar servers light food, Beer, Cider, & Wine!! *
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https://www.facebook.com/events/276841486359556/
Balsam Range is; Buddy Melton (fiddle, lead and tenor vocals), Darren Nicholson (mandolin, octave mandolin, lead vocals, baritone and low tenor vocals), Dr. Marc Pruett (banjo), Tim Surrett (bass, dobro, baritone and lead vocals), and Caleb Smith (guitar, lead & baritone vocals). The five original members are all acoustic musicians and singers from western North Carolina. They thoughtfully and respectfully adopted the name of a majestic range of mountains that surround part of their home county of Haywood, NC where the Great Smoky Mountains meet the Blue Ridge, the Great Balsam Range. The group’s ascent to the top of the Bluegrass world has left a well-marked trail of success since the band’s inception in 2007. One of the genre’s most award-winning artists in recent years, they have garnered ten International Bluegrass Music Association Awards on the heels of six critically acclaimed albums. Balsam Range has left audiences spellbound while headlining major festivals from coast to coast, selling out venues across the nation, and appearing multiple times at the Grand Ole Opry.
Nationally recognized comedians travel the country tasting local wine and making new fans in this new comedy circuit that brings quality comedy to folks for a fraction of what antiquated comedy clubs demand. Come out for a night of hilarious comedy and great local wines. This comedy tour takes top comedians who you’ve seen on TV and sends them out on the road to perform at wineries throughout the country. Find out which local wines pair best with hysterical laughter when The Winery Comedy Tour comes to your town.
Visit https://www.universe.com/events/M6CQBW?embed=open&ref=universe_facebook_push&eventref=fb_oea for more information and to get tickets
https://www.facebook.com/events/587413575026563/
Jack of the Wood : Sunday-Irish Session
Sundays
1 till who knows when?
Traditional Irish music is kept alive at Jack of the Wood with our unplugged Sunday session.
Jack of the Wood
95 Patton ave
Asheville, NC 28801
(828) 252.5445
February 3 (Sunday) at 3pm, doors at 2:15.
**Suggested donation $20**
CDs and merch for sale as well!
Refreshments will be served (with beer and wine) for donations to a local charity.
The original compositions & playing of Up Jumped Three are a collection of varied influences – West Coast jazz, free jazz, & modern/avant-garde. With no drummer, the trio format opens up, allowing the timbre & unique character of each instrument to shine through in an almost ‘chamber music’ type of atmosphere. Up Jumped Three continues to carve out its own space on the AVL jazz scene.
DIRECTIONS TO 721 Streamside Dr, Arden, NC
DIRECTIONS
From I-26 take EXIT 37, LONG SHOALS Rd.
Drive WEST (away from Biltmore Park).
LEFT at the 2nd traffic light @ BREVARD RD. 300 yards.
RIGHT on AVERY’S CREEK RD. There is a cute little white church with a red door on the right at the intersection.
3.5 miles until the road ends at a gate labeled AVERY PARK.
APPLE MAPS and possibly other GPS systems will tell you to turn at Mt. Laurel Rd. DO NOT TURN THERE.
Continue on Avery’s Creek Rd until it ends at the Avery Park gate.
At the call box, if the gate is not open scroll to SPARKS with the A-Z buttons and press CALL. We will buzz you in.
1/2 Mile to the STOP sign.
LEFT on STREAMSIDE DR Go past the first driveway on the right and take the next right, which is a GRAVEL road.
Sally and Lora
721 Streamside Dr Arden, NC 28704
828-654-7357
https://www.facebook.com/events/736348386701146/
District Wine Bar announces their upcoming Winter Dinner and Wine series featuring some of your favorite local, independent restaurants in Asheville. The dinners will take place every Tuesday for 6 weeks, highlighting a different restaurant and chef. The menu is chef’s choice with wines paired from District Wine Bar. The seats will be limited to 12, so purchase your tickets early.
Jan. 22-The Bull and Beggar-SOLD OUT
Jan. 29-Sovereign Remedies-ON SALE NOW
Feb. 5- All Souls Pizza
Feb. 19-Haywood Common
Feb. 26-Vivian’s
Mar. 5-Smoky Park Supper Club
https://www.facebook.com/events/2124830811162036/
Come practice with me every Wednesday evening at Saint Paul Mountain Vineyards at 6pm-7pm to get over that crazy mid week hump!
All levels welcome for an upbeat and energizing power flow while focusing on turning inward and cultivating an intention that you can take with you off your mat!
10$ for 60 minute power vinyasa flow and glass of wine!
6pm-7pm Please share and feel free to bring your friends!
DM if you have any questions! Hope to see you there✨✨
https://www.facebook.com/events/1224464734374111/?event_time_id=1224464741040777
Come practice with me every Wednesday evening at Saint Paul Mountain Vineyards at 6pm-7pm to get over that crazy mid week hump!
All levels welcome for an upbeat and energizing power flow while focusing on turning inward and cultivating an intention that you can take with you off your mat!
10$ for 60 minute power vinyasa flow and glass of wine!
6pm-7pm Please share and feel free to bring your friends!
DM if you have any questions! Hope to see you there✨✨
https://www.facebook.com/events/1224464734374111/
Season’s at Highland Lake will be hosting Wine Down Wednesday from January through April with half priced bottles of wine under $50 with the purchase of a main course lunch item or a dinner entrée!
Follow the link for our wine menu: https://hliresort.com/seasons/menu/drinks-wine/
https://www.facebook.com/events/573217266436525/
$12 growler fills on Wednesdays. Select a wine on draft (some exceptions apply) and fill a plēb 500mL growler for $12. Growler purchase is separate. Carry out only.
https://www.facebook.com/events/859748727719594/
$12 growler fills on Wednesdays. Select a wine on draft (some exceptions apply) and fill a plēb 500mL growler for $12. Growler purchase is separate. Carry out only.
https://www.facebook.com/events/859748727719594/?event_time_id=859748737719593
Ladies, please join us the first Thursday of every month** for great wine, great friends, and lots of fun!
**July’s event will not be held because of the 4th.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2190909954570744/?event_time_id=2190909964570743
Join Sanctuary Brewing Company and Ben Phan, Guitarist and Songwriter on February 7th, 2018 for an evening of incredible music by an even more incredible person!
A year of jazz conservatory at Virginia Commonwealth University left Ben Phan rebellious: uninspired by the environment and fed-up with the structure, he knew he didn’t want to be an academic musician.
So Phan began his professional career as a founding member of the Richmond Afrobeat Movement, a blend of jazz, funk and African dance music which earned significant attention in the South, including a TV appearance and other media features.
A stint as Musical Director for Free Run Wine Merchants gave Phan a chance to develop his professional skills, setting up musical events for the company, which included solo jazz gigs as well as band arrangements.
Phan then joined a bluegrass and folk band, the Rusty Strings, and discovered the joy in sitting on a porch and singing together with others, simply for the love of music.
In 2014, Phan decided to hike the Pacific Crest Trail and his life changed forever. Along with everything else he needed, he carried a mini-guitar on his back and became known by the name “Shredder” because of how he “shredded the guitar” when he played. Five months of travel on foot, 2,668 miles from the Mexican border all the way into Canada, playing for himself and the people he met, transformed his relationship with music. He began writing songs, drawn from his experiences on the trail as well as his past struggles with depression, addiction, loss and love. The music offered hope and solace, to him and to his audiences.
The time on the Pacific Crest Trail renewed Phan’s passion for music. With a prolific body of original work, he returned to Asheville to record his first solo EP, “Hold On, Let Go.” He assembled a band, made up of some of the best musicians in Asheville: besides liking his music, they appreciate the dedication and professionalism Phan brings to his work. The band released it’s debut album, “Dreams in Modern Folk”, to a sold out crowd at the Altamont Theatre, one of Asheville’s finest listening rooms. The band continued to perform successful shows over the following year, refining their high energy sound which combines fiery improvisation with rich composition. This led to a successful kickstarter campaign to fund their next album, “Fear is the Teacher”, which the band is currently recording with Grammy winning producer Matt Williams. Phan continues to perform with the band, as a solo artist, and in collaborations with other musicians; he has also built a successful guitar teaching practice, which he finds a great source of inspiration.
Phan is a prolific poet, songwriter, and guitarist, with the soul of an improviser. He crafts his songs to give room for improvisation, presence, and self-expression in the moment. He believes that the best live music is when everyone playing is co-creating – which means that every one of his concerts offers audiences a different sound and a unique experience.
https://www.benphanmusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/events/208380323385063/
Valentine’s Day Pottery For Couples
Cayce Kolstad, Kelsey Sickmeyer, Nich Daunis, Sara Ballek
#1 Friday, February 8, 7-9pm
#2 Saturday, February 9, 7-9pm
#3 Sunday, February 10, 4-6pm
#4 Thursday, February 14, 7-9pm
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We have a special treat in store for this Valentine’s Day edition of Ready, Set, Throw. Come sip a glass of wine and nibble on chocolates while you and your partner explore the sensual aspects of clay. You can dig your hands in the clay, or work on a piece together. We’ll even help you re-enact the scene from Ghost! We will glaze and fire the work for you, so you can have a permanent reminder of your passion for each other. A great date for couples who don’t mind getting a little…dirty.
Level: All Levels Beginners Welcome
Tuition: $110 Per couple, per night
Join us on Friday, February 8th as we welcome the Contenders back to Wilkesboro. Doors will open at 6:30 with the show starting at 7:30. Local artist Shay Lovette will open the show. The Artisan Cafe will also be open for the show to serve coffee, drinks, beer, wine and handcrafted food.
Folkicana duo The Contenders released their debut full-length, Laughing With The Reckless on November 3rd via Rock Ridge Music. The pair traveled the world in support of the album, the follow-up to their 2014 EP, Meet The Contenders, which explores the perseverance of hope in dark times along with the powerful way that music can connect us to others, the value of maintaining old friendships, and finding comfort in the arms of loved ones.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2164670536884645/
Music to dine by. Sessions with Charlie Hunter and Geoff Clapp on drums in The Upper Room. Special entrees, craft beer and wine served at 6:30 with show starting at 7:30. Call to purchase tickets in advance. 828-430-4343
https://www.facebook.com/events/242438726667659/
Join us for another fun wine glass paint party! Arrive with a design in mind, choose from our examples (Including Valentine’s Day options!) , or let us help you create something unique.
$25 per painter payable via cash or check the day of the party.
We encourage you to RSVP to this event by messaging our business page, Hues of Hendo, or emailing us at [email protected].
Price Includes:
2 wine glass per painter
Use of all painting supplies (paint, brushes, apron, etc.)
Personalized Artist Instruction
https://www.facebook.com/events/366664760803329/