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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The Travis Book Happy Hour is a 90 minute variety show hosted by Travis Book; bassist, songwriter, and vocalist in the Grammy Award winning bluegrass band, The Infamous Stringdusters, streaming live from the historic Grey Eagle in Asheville, NC. Born from his desire to bring musicians and friends together for collaboration and conversation, Travis launched the series in the summer of 2020 amidst the uncertainty of the Covid-19 crisis and a country divided. Faced with a cascade of existential questions about the nature of life and of being, Travis sought an outlet for inquiry, and individuals to help him dig deeper into what it means to be a musician and a creative being in the context of an ever-changing world. Unique, spontaneous musical collaboration with friends and contemporaries leads to singular moments of harmony and the occasional musical train-wreck… The Travis Book Happy Hour is his attempt to shine light into the darkest corners of our lives; to dive deep into the nature of our being and emerge bathed in the love, happiness, grace, and gratitude that’s available to us all, and hopefully, to make some beautiful, meaningful music along the way.
California native Nicki Bluhm recently made the move from her home of San Francisco to Nashville, TN re-invigorated as a songwriter and performer. Embarking on her second decade of releasing albums, Nicki stepped out on her own with the 2018 release of ‘To Rise You Gotta Fall’, a collection of songs exploring old endings and new beginnings. Eager to try new things in unfamiliar places, Bluhm decided to record at the legendary Sam Phillips Recording Services in Memphis, TN and enlisted producer Matt Ross-Spang (Jason Isbell, Margo Price, Calexico) to take the helm. After a year of rigorously touring ‘To Rise You Gotta Fall’ across the country and overseas; Nicki now performs with a variety of musicians including long time musical comrades Scott Law and Ross James. Having also shared the stage with such luminaries as the Infamous Stringdusters, The Wood Brothers, Geroge Porter Jr. and Phil Lesh, her collaborative efforts have made way for new bright-eyed interpretations of her existing catalog while inspiring fresh material to be released in the near future.
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Apollo’s Fire:
Music for the Soul
Enjoy this beautiful virtual Baroque video series for homebound music lovers.
Don’t miss our staff picks! Enjoy live-streamed performances, resources, and activities we love from Around the Web.
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Because:By Mo Willems
A touching and beautifully told true story of inspiration found on and behind the stage.
Don’t miss our staff picks! Enjoy live-streamed performances, resources, and activities we love from Around the Web.
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Create your own opera with this machine learning experiment. No music skills required!
Enjoy selected performances by BMC students, faculty, and guest artists on Digital BMC.
DEBUSSY La Mer
III. Dialogue du vent et de la mer
Brevard Sinfonia • Daniel Hege, conductor
Recorded on July 7, 2018,
at the Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium at the Brevard Music Center.
Enjoy selected performances by BMC students, faculty, and guest artists on Digital BMC.
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5
IV. Finale. Andante maestoso – Allegro vivace
Brevard Concert Orchestra • Keith Lockhart, conductor
Recorded live on August 2, 2013,
at the Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium at the Brevard Music Center.
Don’t miss our staff picks! Enjoy live-streamed performances, resources, and activities we love from Around the Web.
Live Events and Performances
Named after the famed craftsman, Guarneri Hall NFP serves as a facilitator and catalyst for emerging musical artists, musical groups and music education initiatives. Current and archived videos, articles, lectures, announcements and interviews are available and are updated frequently.
Keith’s Corner features inspiring musical performances and personal stories from our very own Keith Lockhart and special guests.
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.
Keith’s Corner features inspiring musical performances and personal stories from our very own Keith Lockhart and special guests.
RESPIGHI Adoration of the Magi
Keith shares the beautiful Adoration of the Magi (Three Botticelli Pictures) of Italian composer, Ottorino Respighi. The featured recording is of Keith Lockhart conducting the Boston Pops Orchestra on their album, Sleigh Ride from 2004.
Don’t miss our staff picks! Enjoy live-streamed performances, resources, and activities we love from Around the Web.
Steven Isserlis and Mishka Rushdie Momen: Live from Wigmore Hall
Don’t miss a stunning recital by cellist Steven Isserlis (BMC 2021 guest artist) and pianist Mishka Rushdie Momen (BMC 2021 guest artist). The British duo performed music of Kabalevsky, Janáček, and Shostakovich. This concert was recorded live at Wigmore Hall in January 2021.
“Getting to know you…” Meaningfully connect and collaborate with young artists from across the country in this virtual musical theatre class featuring Broadway songs about friendship! In high-energy zoom classes combining singing, acting, and movement, students will hone their theatrical skills while developing a virtual musical revue shared with friends and family at the end of the semester.
Darby Wilcox is a singer/songwriter from Greenville, SC. Using her soulful voice and booming stage presence, she has spent the last ten years dominating the Upstate’s music scene. Her debut album, 11:11, is an ethereal escapade through the last decade of her life.
The long anticipated full-length release of her latest project pulls Darby’s own truth through the audience’s mind, refracting it against the backdrop of the superbly talented Peep Show. Direct, but mysterious, familiar but fresh, listeners will never want these songs to end.
“Listening to 11:11, Wilcox’s long-awaited debut album as a solo artist, the emotionalism of her music is hard to deny. From the plaintive sad-girl ukulele strums of the music at its most intimate to the more boisterous country-noir rambles her backing band (known affectionately as the Peep Show) delivers, Wilcox’s voice does nothing but pull and tug on the heartstrings.”
A New Genevieve’s Experience
We are committed to a safe and comfortable return to live music. These concerts provide a listening room feeling while adhering to COVID-19 CDC recommendations. Please note the following:
- Face masks are required except when seated at your table.
- Only 25 tables of four are available, allowing you to enjoy a socially distanced performance with your close family and friends.
- This concert will not have an intermission.
- All ticketing, ordering, and payment is touchless
Jon Stickley Trio announces a change in lineup beginning in January 2018 with new drummer, Hunter Deacon, who is both classically trained and boasts heavy jazz influences. Hailing from the ever-hip Knoxville, Tennessee, Hunter studied with drummer Keith Brown and received a BM in Studio Music and Jazz from the University of Tennessee. Deacon then went on to complete a six month residency at a jazz club in Hangzhou, China where he performed seven nights a week. Since his return, he’s played with Scott Miller and the Commonwealth, toured the country with Sam Lewis, and performs with guitarist Mike Baggetta.
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Don’t miss our staff picks! Enjoy live-streamed performances, resources, and activities we love from Around the Web.
Staff Picks From Around the Web
Apollo’s Fire:
Music for the Soul
Enjoy this beautiful virtual Baroque video series for homebound music lovers.
Don’t miss our staff picks! Enjoy live-streamed performances, resources, and activities we love from Around the Web.
Staff Picks From Around the Web
Because:By Mo Willems
A touching and beautifully told true story of inspiration found on and behind the stage.
Don’t miss our staff picks! Enjoy live-streamed performances, resources, and activities we love from Around the Web.
Staff Picks From Around the Web
Create your own opera with this machine learning experiment. No music skills required!
Enjoy selected performances by BMC students, faculty, and guest artists on Digital BMC.
DEBUSSY La Mer
III. Dialogue du vent et de la mer
Brevard Sinfonia • Daniel Hege, conductor
Recorded on July 7, 2018,
at the Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium at the Brevard Music Center.
Enjoy selected performances by BMC students, faculty, and guest artists on Digital BMC.
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5
IV. Finale. Andante maestoso – Allegro vivace
Brevard Concert Orchestra • Keith Lockhart, conductor
Recorded live on August 2, 2013,
at the Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium at the Brevard Music Center.
Don’t miss our staff picks! Enjoy live-streamed performances, resources, and activities we love from Around the Web.
Live Events and Performances
Named after the famed craftsman, Guarneri Hall NFP serves as a facilitator and catalyst for emerging musical artists, musical groups and music education initiatives. Current and archived videos, articles, lectures, announcements and interviews are available and are updated frequently.
Keith’s Corner features inspiring musical performances and personal stories from our very own Keith Lockhart and special guests.
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.
Keith’s Corner features inspiring musical performances and personal stories from our very own Keith Lockhart and special guests.
RESPIGHI Adoration of the Magi
Keith shares the beautiful Adoration of the Magi (Three Botticelli Pictures) of Italian composer, Ottorino Respighi. The featured recording is of Keith Lockhart conducting the Boston Pops Orchestra on their album, Sleigh Ride from 2004.
Don’t miss our staff picks! Enjoy live-streamed performances, resources, and activities we love from Around the Web.
Steven Isserlis and Mishka Rushdie Momen: Live from Wigmore Hall
Don’t miss a stunning recital by cellist Steven Isserlis (BMC 2021 guest artist) and pianist Mishka Rushdie Momen (BMC 2021 guest artist). The British duo performed music of Kabalevsky, Janáček, and Shostakovich. This concert was recorded live at Wigmore Hall in January 2021.
26th Annual Bluegrass First Class – February 19, 20, and 21, 2021.
Kevin Daniel is a Brooklyn-based Americana singer-songwriter. He recently finished his second EP, Myself Through You, recorded at Degraw Sound in Brooklyn, NY, and produced, engineered, and mixed by Ben Rice. Kevin gathered together a host of talented, professional musicians from all backgrounds for the project, resulting in a richly recorded blend of genres and instruments.
Come enjoy an evening of live music, food and drinks at the Isis Music Hall. Reservations are highly recommended.
Darby Wilcox is a singer/songwriter from Greenville, SC. Using her soulful voice and booming stage presence, she has spent the last ten years dominating the Upstate’s music scene. Her debut album, 11:11, is an ethereal escapade through the last decade of her life.
The long anticipated full-length release of her latest project pulls Darby’s own truth through the audience’s mind, refracting it against the backdrop of the superbly talented Peep Show. Direct, but mysterious, familiar but fresh, listeners will never want these songs to end.
“Listening to 11:11, Wilcox’s long-awaited debut album as a solo artist, the emotionalism of her music is hard to deny. From the plaintive sad-girl ukulele strums of the music at its most intimate to the more boisterous country-noir rambles her backing band (known affectionately as the Peep Show) delivers, Wilcox’s voice does nothing but pull and tug on the heartstrings.”
A New Genevieve’s Experience
We are committed to a safe and comfortable return to live music. These concerts provide a listening room feeling while adhering to COVID-19 CDC recommendations. Please note the following:
- Face masks are required except when seated at your table.
- Only 25 tables of four are available, allowing you to enjoy a socially distanced performance with your close family and friends.
- This concert will not have an intermission.
- All ticketing, ordering, and payment is touchless
“The Get Right Band are the type of performers that you just know will break out. Their songs are infectious and take you immediately to a place. The lyrics are smart and bear weight.” -The Huffington Post
The Get Right Band is a psychedelic indie rock power trio from Asheville, NC. They are a band focused on following their muses to honest self-expression, to whatever excites them and pushes them into unexplored territory. The Get Right Band proudly carries the torch for a long line of genre-bending power trios from Cream to The Jimi Hendrix Experience to The Police to Violent Femmes to Primus to Green Day to Nirvana to Sublime. It’s the space between the notes, the rawness and the maneuverability, that makes a power trio, well, so damn powerful.
- VIRTUAL TIP JAR : Paypal.me/TheGreyEagle
Immerse Yourself in Music
Become part of the BMC community. Experience the thrill of performing with the world’s most celebrated artists. Practice your craft and develop your skills in a picturesque rehearsal studio – in nature, beside the lake, amongst the white pines, alongside the stream. Share a communal lunch or an impromptu conversation with faculty and guest artists in our cafeteria. Interact with patrons who fill our auditoriums and love to hear your music.
We welcome you, the next generation of musicians and artists. We encourage you, and challenge you, to experience the magic of the Brevard Music Center. In a community of musicians, you will be transformed. On the stage and in the classroom, you will be inspired. In just one summer, you will make new friendships that will last a lifetime.
This is Brevard. Be inspired. Be here.
26th Annual Bluegrass First Class – February 19, 20, and 21, 2021.
Midnight Run is a high-energy, Tennessee-based bluegrass band that offers up a fresh approach to the “High Lonesome” sound while staying true to the rich traditions of bluegrass music.
Originating in the Gateway of the Great Smoky Mountains, Midnight Run began its journey in February of 2015, at the Ole Smoky Moonshine Distillery in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, where they became a permanent staple of everyday life at the distillery. Midnight Run is a high-energy, Tennessee-based bluegrass band made up of five like-minded musicians and graduates of college music programs. They set out to create a group that is tied to the rich traditions of bluegrass music and offers up a fresh approach to the “High Lonesome” sound. Each member draws from their influences in different genres including bluegrass, country, celtic, old-time and rock n’ roll.
Midnight Run stays true to their musical roots with tight harmonies and reverence for “old-style” bluegrass music, all while stretching the boundaries of the genre with their song selection, stage antics, and exciting performance.
Favorites among bluegrass enthusiast and non-bluegrass audiences alike; they keep the energy high and the audience on their feet. Midnight Run knows when they are on stage; it is not only about the music, it is about connecting with the audience and leaving them with a memory that will last a lifetime. Midnight Run has been referred to as one of the most entertaining new acts on the bluegrass scene today.
Now, with over 200 shows a year, they find themselves playing to audiences from all over the world. From the moment they step on stage you’ll feel like you are in the hills of Tennessee, sitting on the front porch, listening to some of the finest music that the Smoky Mountains have to offer. Together Seth Mulder, Colton Powers, Ben Watlington, Max Etling, and Cody Bauer create a powerhouse of music that you do not want to miss!
Come enjoy an evening of live music, food and drinks at the Isis Music Hall. Reservations are highly recommended.
Immerse Yourself in Music
Become part of the BMC community. Experience the thrill of performing with the world’s most celebrated artists. Practice your craft and develop your skills in a picturesque rehearsal studio – in nature, beside the lake, amongst the white pines, alongside the stream. Share a communal lunch or an impromptu conversation with faculty and guest artists in our cafeteria. Interact with patrons who fill our auditoriums and love to hear your music.
We welcome you, the next generation of musicians and artists. We encourage you, and challenge you, to experience the magic of the Brevard Music Center. In a community of musicians, you will be transformed. On the stage and in the classroom, you will be inspired. In just one summer, you will make new friendships that will last a lifetime.