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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On Sunday, February 4, the Friends of Music at St. John in the Wilderness in Flat Rock will present a concert of music from Mozart to My Fair Lady. The concert celebrates the completion of the church’s new Parish Hall and the donation of a Yamaha Grand Piano. It will be held in the new Parish Hall beginning at 3:30 p.m.
The program will include Mozart’s Piano Concerto in A major, K. 414, played by St. John Organist and Director of Music, Dewitt Tipton, along with members of the Hendersonville Symphony Orchestra. Greenville professional singers Danielle Knox, soprano, Grant Knox, tenor, and Adrian Smith, bass-baritone, will sing opera arias and the final trio from Gounod’s Faust. They also will sing excerpts from My Fair Lady joined by the St. John Parish Choir.
Admission is free; however, donations will be gratefully accepted. For more information, call (828) 693-9783 or visit www.stjohnflatrock.org.
Pianoforte with Deborah Belcher and Members of the Asheville Wind Quartet
For the event, Belcher will perform solo works by Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Liszt, and will be joined by members of the Asheville Wind Quintet for chamber music by Robert Schumann and Beethoven. This varied program spans the emotional scale from lyricism through drama to rollicking virtuosity.
A chamber music theatre work for actor and trio (cello, piano & percussion) celebrating the lives of the great African-American poets, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen and Claude McKay as seen through the eyes of the great muralist and painter Aaron Douglas. Text is by Akin Babatunde.The musical score includes works by jazz giants Duke Ellington, Jelly Roll Morton, Billy Strayhorn, Thelonius Monk and Charles Mingus as well as concert music by Jeffrey Mumford and George Walker.
The Black Mountain College Summer Institutes in art and music began in 1944. The Second Music Institute in 1945 was devoted to the study of polyphony and ensemble playing. According to the college’s own press release, “The Gordon String Quartet performed the Quartets No. 4 and No. 7 of Hugo Kauder, who was invited to the Music Institute as resident composer, and as a representative of a contemporary polyphonic style. Among the works of Hugo Kauder performed during the Music Institute were a sonata for violin and piano, songs, choruses, a horn sonata, and a trio for oboe, horn, and piano.” Other participants and performers included Erwin Bodky (harpsichord/piano), Emanuel Zeitlin (violin), Josef Marx (oboe), Eva Heinitz (viola da gamba/cello), Gertrude Straus (violin), and Willem Valkenier (horn). Many of Kauder’s works for horn were inspired by and dedicated to Valkenier. They had been close friends since meeting and working together in Vienna before 1920.
The Tesla Quartet’s goal is to reconnect and establish Kauder’s legacy as part of the ongoing rediscovery of the artists and work associated with the legendary Black Mountain College.
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About Black Mountain College
Legendary even in its own time, Black Mountain College attracted and created maverick spirits, some of whom went on to become well-known and extremely influential individuals in the latter half of the 20th century. A partial list includes Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Robert Rauschenberg, Josef and Anni Albers, Jacob Lawrence, Merce Cunningham, John Cage, Cy Twombly, Kenneth Noland, Susan Weil, Vera B. Williams, Ben Shahn, Ruth Asawa, Franz Kline, Arthur Penn, Buckminster Fuller, M.C. Richards, Francine du Plessix Gray, Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Dorothea Rockburne and many others who have made an impact on the world in a significant way. Even now, decades after its closing in 1957, the powerful influence of Black Mountain College continues to reverberate.
If you or someone you know is looking to become an integral part of the Asheville Tourists organization, seasonal employment is available at the ballpark for the upcoming baseball season.
Interviews for part-time jobs during the 2018 season will take place at the annual McCormick Field job fairs; the first of two to be held Saturday, February 24 from 9am-noon. Applicants should report to the front gate of McCormick Field.
Openings include positions in the general concessionaire department for cashiers, cooks, wait-staff, and concession stand managers. Also, the Tourists are looking to fill positions in Customer Service and Fan Experience, Box Office employees, Parking Attendants, Groundskeeping, Mascots, Bat boys/Bat girls, Jade Bombers (crowd energizers) and merchandising.
Saturday, March 3, 2018 at 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, March 4, 2018 at 3:00 p.m.
Edvard Tchivzhel, conductor
Yekwon Sunwoo, Gold Medal Winner of the Fifteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3, op. 30, D minor
Brahms: Symphony No. 4, op. 98, E minor
A new star is born! The suspense builds as we await the Greenville debut of the Gold Medal Winner of the 2017 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Yekwon Sunwoo. Mr. Sunwoo will thrill audiences with his performance of Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto, and the concert comes to a grand finish with Brahms’ heartfelt and passionate Fourth Symphony.
FIRST MONDAYS in Brevard: March 5
On Monday, March 5 at 12:30 PM, trumpeter Neal Berntsen and trombonist David Jackson—both BMC faculty members—will be joined by pianist David Gilliland at the First Mondays concert in Scott Concert Hall at the Porter Center on the Brevard College campus. The afternoon’s concert will feature a delightful and varied program of works including Stepjan Sulek’s Sonata Vox Gabrieli, Maurice Ravel’s Piece en forme de Habanera, Isaac Albeniz’s Tango, Blacher’s Trio and Eric Ewazen’s Pastorale.March’s local charity partner is United Way of Transylvania County. (unitedwaytransylvania.org)
Colby Sharp invited more than forty authors and illustrators to provide story starters for each other: photos, drawings, poems, prose, or anything they could dream up. When they received their prompts, they responded by transforming these seeds into any form of creative work they wanted to share.
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Phone: (828) 250-4718
Email: [email protected]
Event Type: Performance
Age Group: Teen – (grades 6-12),Adult
Library: Pack Memorial
Location: 67 Haywood St. – Asheville
Jazz Hour at Pack presents “Michael Jefry Stevens & Friends.”
Musicians are Jason Moore on Saxophone, Kevin Kehrberg on bass, Brian Palmieri on drums, and Michael Jefry Stevens on Steinway Piano.
Program is free and held in our auditorium downstairs.
Sponsored by the Friends of the Library.
Garden & Gun’s Mint Julep Month is underway, and MG Road is joining the party! From April 5 to May 5, the Asheville lounge is whipping up their own version of the classic cocktail – dubbed the MG Julep – composed of Olmeca Altos Reposado tequila, coriander, ginger and lime zest syrup, all served over crushed ice and garnished with fresh cilantro. Bottoms up!
Garden & Gun’s Mint Julep Month is underway, and MG Road is joining the party! From April 5 to May 5, the Asheville lounge is whipping up their own version of the classic cocktail – dubbed the MG Julep – composed of Olmeca Altos Reposado tequila, coriander, ginger and lime zest syrup, all served over crushed ice and garnished with fresh cilantro. Bottoms up!
Garden & Gun’s Mint Julep Month is underway, and MG Road is joining the party! From April 5 to May 5, the Asheville lounge is whipping up their own version of the classic cocktail – dubbed the MG Julep – composed of Olmeca Altos Reposado tequila, coriander, ginger and lime zest syrup, all served over crushed ice and garnished with fresh cilantro. Bottoms up!
Garden & Gun’s Mint Julep Month is underway, and MG Road is joining the party! From April 5 to May 5, the Asheville lounge is whipping up their own version of the classic cocktail – dubbed the MG Julep – composed of Olmeca Altos Reposado tequila, coriander, ginger and lime zest syrup, all served over crushed ice and garnished with fresh cilantro. Bottoms up!
Garden & Gun’s Mint Julep Month is underway, and MG Road is joining the party! From April 5 to May 5, the Asheville lounge is whipping up their own version of the classic cocktail – dubbed the MG Julep – composed of Olmeca Altos Reposado tequila, coriander, ginger and lime zest syrup, all served over crushed ice and garnished with fresh cilantro. Bottoms up!
Garden & Gun’s Mint Julep Month is underway, and MG Road is joining the party! From April 5 to May 5, the Asheville lounge is whipping up their own version of the classic cocktail – dubbed the MG Julep – composed of Olmeca Altos Reposado tequila, coriander, ginger and lime zest syrup, all served over crushed ice and garnished with fresh cilantro. Bottoms up!
When: Tuesday, April 10 from 5:30 to 7:30 pm
Where: The Collider, Downtown Asheville
Worldwide, the conservation community is grappling with the challenge of ensuring that natural systems – and the species that depend on them – have the ability to adapt to climate change and will continue to thrive. Fortunately, we know that land protection can strategically increase the resiliency of natural systems. SAHC has partnered with the Conservation Trust for NC, Open Space Institute, Wildlands Network, NEMAC, EcoForesters and The Nature Conservancy (TNC) to develop sophisticated frameworks to assess vulnerability and identify priorities for climate resilience.
Our own Southern Appalachians have been identified as critical to the path of migration for species from the southeast. SAHC continues to use new data and new modeling to build upon our strategic land protection planning. By prioritizing areas adjacent to large protected tracts and creating contiguous networks of conservation lands for wildlife corridors we continue to create more resilient landscapes.
Join us as we discuss how we are working together with new climate data to create a network of resilient protected lands and why our efforts matter now more than ever.
Panel discussion moderated by Jay Leutze, SAHC Board President and author.
Panel members:
Jess Laggis, Farmland Program Director, SAHC
Megan Sutton, Program Director, The Nature Conservancy
Ian Johnson, Geospatial Science Communications Associate, NEAMAC
Maria Whitehead, Senior Project Manager, Open Space Institute
RSVP to Pauline Heyne at [email protected] or 828.253.0095 ext. 216
Free and open to the public.
Garden & Gun’s Mint Julep Month is underway, and MG Road is joining the party! From April 5 to May 5, the Asheville lounge is whipping up their own version of the classic cocktail – dubbed the MG Julep – composed of Olmeca Altos Reposado tequila, coriander, ginger and lime zest syrup, all served over crushed ice and garnished with fresh cilantro. Bottoms up!
11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Location: A-B Tech Ferguson Auditorium
A-B Tech invites you to engage with a panel of activists and leaders from local organizations as they discuss youth empowerment successes and challenges in the community.
Garden & Gun’s Mint Julep Month is underway, and MG Road is joining the party! From April 5 to May 5, the Asheville lounge is whipping up their own version of the classic cocktail – dubbed the MG Julep – composed of Olmeca Altos Reposado tequila, coriander, ginger and lime zest syrup, all served over crushed ice and garnished with fresh cilantro. Bottoms up!
Location: Hill Street Baptist Church
Be an informed voter. The Racial Justice Coalition hosts a Buncombe County Sheriff Candidate Forum. All candidates have been invited. Childcare and Spanish interpretation will be provided.
The Asheville Tourists are a minor league baseball team based in Asheville, North Carolina. They play in the Class A South Atlantic League and have been a farm team of the Colorado Rockies since 1994.
Asheville teams have played under the Tourists moniker in different leagues and classifications for decades, with the earliest dating to 1897. The current team has played continuously in what is now known as the South Atlantic League since 1976. They have won three league championships, first in 1984 and most recently in 2014. Previous Tourists teams won a total of four additional championships.
The Tourists play home games at McCormick Field. The park opened in 1924, renovated in 1959, and renovated again for the 1992 season. McCormick Field seats 4,000 fans, and is notable for the scoreboard which reads “Visitors” in the guest slot and “Tourists” in the home slot
Come cheer on the Tourists!
Come cheer on the Tigers! Learn more at http://www.ClemsonTigers.com!
Garden & Gun’s Mint Julep Month is underway, and MG Road is joining the party! From April 5 to May 5, the Asheville lounge is whipping up their own version of the classic cocktail – dubbed the MG Julep – composed of Olmeca Altos Reposado tequila, coriander, ginger and lime zest syrup, all served over crushed ice and garnished with fresh cilantro. Bottoms up!
Mercy Urgent Care invites the public to come party with a purpose at ‘Mercy for Haiti,’ Friday, April 13, 2018, from 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. at the Highland Brewing Event Center, to raise funds to equip the new Alpha Omega Ministry (ALOM) clinic in Source Matelas, Haiti, a project of the nonprofit’s international mission work in Haiti.
Team Mercy just returned from its twentieth medical trip to Haiti and is a past recipient of the Urgent Care Association of America Humanitarian Award for its work there. The April 13 party with a purpose is solely to equip the new ALOM Clinic.
Special guest ALOM Director and Founder Dr. Vladimyr Roseau will provide an update on the new clinic at the event. Team Mercy has worked alongside “Dr. Vlad” and other Haitian colleagues since the 2010 earthquake. On each Mercy for Haiti trip, Team Mercy provides medical services for up to a thousand patients over five days at 11 sites and 15 orphanages.
The funds raised will be used to outfit the new ALOM clinic with $93,050 in equipment including a portable radiology unit, exam beds, blood pressure/temp/pulse measurement devices, opthalmoscope/otoscope, trauma room light, stretcher, lobby chairs, stethoscopes, mayo stands, baby cribs, incubator, anesthesia machine, and manual blood pressure cuffs. Individual and corporate sponsorship opportunities are available.
‘Mercy for Haiti’ tickets are $60 per person in advance and $70 per person at the door. The price of admission includes delicious heavy hors d’oeuvres from Asheville’s 67 Biltmore, one drink ticket (cash bar available for additional beverage purchase), and fun, danceable, rock-n-roll by party band, the Boomer Brothers.
Supported by the Catherine McAuley Mercy Foundation, Mercy Urgent Care provides a half-million dollars in important humanitarian work locally in Western North Carolina, through their Compassionate Care program, and internationally—in Haiti since 2010 and the Philippines in 2013. In addition to the April 13 event, the Mercy Foundation hosts other fundraising events throughout the year, such as Bike and Hike for Life and the Mercy Golf Classic, during which the public can provide financial support for purchasing medical equipment for facilities, supporting relief teams, and caring for people in need, locally and abroad.
Mercy Urgent Care was founded in Asheville in 1985 as an outreach of the Sisters of Mercy, an international religious institute of Roman Catholic women, begun in 1831 in Dublin, Ireland who have served in Asheville since 1900. Today, Mercy Urgent Care operates four convenient urgent care locations in Buncombe County – on Patton Avenue, Tunnel Road, Hendersonville Road and in Weaverville ¬– and one in Transylvania County near downtown Brevard. The not-for-profit organization is a North Carolina Best Employer, is a living-wage certified employer, and provides over 100 jobs to people in our community.
The Asheville Tourists are a minor league baseball team based in Asheville, North Carolina. They play in the Class A South Atlantic League and have been a farm team of the Colorado Rockies since 1994.
Asheville teams have played under the Tourists moniker in different leagues and classifications for decades, with the earliest dating to 1897. The current team has played continuously in what is now known as the South Atlantic League since 1976. They have won three league championships, first in 1984 and most recently in 2014. Previous Tourists teams won a total of four additional championships.
The Tourists play home games at McCormick Field. The park opened in 1924, renovated in 1959, and renovated again for the 1992 season. McCormick Field seats 4,000 fans, and is notable for the scoreboard which reads “Visitors” in the guest slot and “Tourists” in the home slot
Come cheer on the Tourists!
Blacklist Improv continues in their wildly popular series, creating an entire show using suggestions from the audience. An improvised comedy show about Life’s Trials and Tribulations, from courtrooms to AOL free trial discs
A fundraising 5k that all proceeds will benefit the Fuente de Vida Ministry in Honduras that rescues girls, ages 2-18, from abusive homes and educates these young girls.
Race will go on rain or shine
Race is not timed but does have a time limit of 1 hour and 15 minutes
The race will start at 9:30am but packet pick up and paper registration will start at 8am.
Charity event: NO Refunds