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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Wednesday, October 10, 2018
Leicester Comm. Ctr. Welcome Table FREE Meal
Oct 10 @ 11:30 am – 1:00 pm

Email: [email protected]
Phone: (828) 774-3000
Link: http://www.leicestercommunitycenter.com

Welcome Table Free Meal every Wednesday 11:30am-1:30pm

Thursday, October 11, 2018
Ghost Train at Tweetsie Railroad
Oct 11 all-day
Tweetsie Railroad

Open 7:30 – 11:30 p.m. Advance tickets are rquired. It’s safe, scary fun for the whole family! Kids will enjoy the Halloween shows and trick-or-treating. And take a chilling journey into the night on the Ghost Train – if you dare!

Murder By Death
Oct 11 @ 12:00 am – 1:00 am
Friday, October 12, 2018
Ghost Train at Tweetsie Railroad
Oct 12 all-day
Tweetsie Railroad

Open 7:30 – 11:30 p.m. Advance tickets are rquired. It’s safe, scary fun for the whole family! Kids will enjoy the Halloween shows and trick-or-treating. And take a chilling journey into the night on the Ghost Train – if you dare!

Saturday, October 13, 2018
Ghost Train at Tweetsie Railroad
Oct 13 all-day
Tweetsie Railroad

Open 7:30 – 11:30 p.m. Advance tickets are rquired. It’s safe, scary fun for the whole family! Kids will enjoy the Halloween shows and trick-or-treating. And take a chilling journey into the night on the Ghost Train – if you dare!

Sunday, October 14, 2018
Ghost Train at Tweetsie Railroad
Oct 14 all-day
Tweetsie Railroad

Open 7:30 – 11:30 p.m. Advance tickets are rquired. It’s safe, scary fun for the whole family! Kids will enjoy the Halloween shows and trick-or-treating. And take a chilling journey into the night on the Ghost Train – if you dare!

Monday, October 15, 2018
Ghost Train at Tweetsie Railroad
Oct 15 all-day
Tweetsie Railroad

Open 7:30 – 11:30 p.m. Advance tickets are rquired. It’s safe, scary fun for the whole family! Kids will enjoy the Halloween shows and trick-or-treating. And take a chilling journey into the night on the Ghost Train – if you dare!

Tuesday, October 16, 2018
Ghost Train at Tweetsie Railroad
Oct 16 all-day
Tweetsie Railroad

Open 7:30 – 11:30 p.m. Advance tickets are rquired. It’s safe, scary fun for the whole family! Kids will enjoy the Halloween shows and trick-or-treating. And take a chilling journey into the night on the Ghost Train – if you dare!

Big Thief
Oct 16 @ 12:00 am – 1:00 am
Wednesday, October 17, 2018
DAYS OF IMPACT
Oct 17 all-day

Get out your calendar and save the dates for United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County’s premiere fall volunteer event.

About Days of Impact
Days of Impact mobilizes workforce volunteers to strengthen our community; matching groups with projects focused on education, income and health goals that support the success of our students, families and neighbors.

Because Days of Impact occurs multiple days in the spring and fall, there is greater flexibility for volunteers, agencies, and schools to make a big impact in the community over the course of the year.*

 

A huge shout out to the hundreds of volunteers who took part in April’s event!

Ghost Train at Tweetsie Railroad
Oct 17 all-day
Tweetsie Railroad

Open 7:30 – 11:30 p.m. Advance tickets are rquired. It’s safe, scary fun for the whole family! Kids will enjoy the Halloween shows and trick-or-treating. And take a chilling journey into the night on the Ghost Train – if you dare!

Thursday, October 18, 2018
DAYS OF IMPACT
Oct 18 all-day

Get out your calendar and save the dates for United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County’s premiere fall volunteer event.

About Days of Impact
Days of Impact mobilizes workforce volunteers to strengthen our community; matching groups with projects focused on education, income and health goals that support the success of our students, families and neighbors.

Because Days of Impact occurs multiple days in the spring and fall, there is greater flexibility for volunteers, agencies, and schools to make a big impact in the community over the course of the year.*

 

A huge shout out to the hundreds of volunteers who took part in April’s event!

Ghost Train at Tweetsie Railroad
Oct 18 all-day
Tweetsie Railroad

Open 7:30 – 11:30 p.m. Advance tickets are rquired. It’s safe, scary fun for the whole family! Kids will enjoy the Halloween shows and trick-or-treating. And take a chilling journey into the night on the Ghost Train – if you dare!

Friday, October 19, 2018
Ghost Train at Tweetsie Railroad
Oct 19 all-day
Tweetsie Railroad

Open 7:30 – 11:30 p.m. Advance tickets are rquired. It’s safe, scary fun for the whole family! Kids will enjoy the Halloween shows and trick-or-treating. And take a chilling journey into the night on the Ghost Train – if you dare!

The Moonbees live @ Jack of the Wood
Oct 19 @ 9:00 pm
Jack of the Wood

The RVA/Charlottesville Space-Folk Jam band The Moonbees will be bringing their fresh and funky grooves and hot honey melodies to Jack of the Wood for a night of good times and great vibes! The Moonbees brand new upcoming release (Now That’s What I Call The Moonbees) will be availble as a part of a three night only special pre-release promotion.

Saturday, October 20, 2018
Ghost Train at Tweetsie Railroad
Oct 20 all-day
Tweetsie Railroad

Open 7:30 – 11:30 p.m. Advance tickets are rquired. It’s safe, scary fun for the whole family! Kids will enjoy the Halloween shows and trick-or-treating. And take a chilling journey into the night on the Ghost Train – if you dare!

Trick or Trail & Spooky Sprint
Oct 20 @ 6:30 pm
DuPont State Forest
Trick or Trail & Spooky Sprint @ DuPont State Forest | Hendersonville | North Carolina | United States

The Hunter Subaru Trick or Trail 5k & 1 Mile Spooky Sprint lets runners experience the beauty of DuPont State Forest in a unique nighttime racing format.

The only race of its kind in the region, participants will strap on headlamps and light up the night as they duke it out in the dusk. The twists and turns of DuPont’s famous trail system will dare them to push forward, not knowing what bogies and specters might lurk around each corner! The One Mile Spooky Sprint will be Halloween themed, and a great change for kids and kids-at-heart to break in their costumes a day early, without stressing about time limits, as this event is untimed!

Sunday, October 21, 2018
Ghost Train at Tweetsie Railroad
Oct 21 all-day
Tweetsie Railroad

Open 7:30 – 11:30 p.m. Advance tickets are rquired. It’s safe, scary fun for the whole family! Kids will enjoy the Halloween shows and trick-or-treating. And take a chilling journey into the night on the Ghost Train – if you dare!

Monday, October 22, 2018
Ghost Train at Tweetsie Railroad
Oct 22 all-day
Tweetsie Railroad

Open 7:30 – 11:30 p.m. Advance tickets are rquired. It’s safe, scary fun for the whole family! Kids will enjoy the Halloween shows and trick-or-treating. And take a chilling journey into the night on the Ghost Train – if you dare!

Tuesday, October 23, 2018
Ghost Train at Tweetsie Railroad
Oct 23 all-day
Tweetsie Railroad

Open 7:30 – 11:30 p.m. Advance tickets are rquired. It’s safe, scary fun for the whole family! Kids will enjoy the Halloween shows and trick-or-treating. And take a chilling journey into the night on the Ghost Train – if you dare!

Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Ghost Train at Tweetsie Railroad
Oct 24 all-day
Tweetsie Railroad

Open 7:30 – 11:30 p.m. Advance tickets are rquired. It’s safe, scary fun for the whole family! Kids will enjoy the Halloween shows and trick-or-treating. And take a chilling journey into the night on the Ghost Train – if you dare!

Bob Log III
Oct 24 @ 1:00 am – 2:00 am
Thursday, October 25, 2018
Ghost Train at Tweetsie Railroad
Oct 25 all-day
Tweetsie Railroad

Open 7:30 – 11:30 p.m. Advance tickets are rquired. It’s safe, scary fun for the whole family! Kids will enjoy the Halloween shows and trick-or-treating. And take a chilling journey into the night on the Ghost Train – if you dare!

City Dance
Oct 25 @ 7:30 pm
Landmark Hal

Beginner’s workshop lesson at 7:30 P.M., then 8-11 P.M. Contra Dance with Country Waltzing at the break and the final dance. This is a partner dance but it’s not necessary to come with a partner. We have different live bands and callers.

Friday, October 26, 2018
Ghost Train at Tweetsie Railroad
Oct 26 all-day
Tweetsie Railroad

Open 7:30 – 11:30 p.m. Advance tickets are rquired. It’s safe, scary fun for the whole family! Kids will enjoy the Halloween shows and trick-or-treating. And take a chilling journey into the night on the Ghost Train – if you dare!

Saturday, October 27, 2018
Buxton Hall Barbecue + 103.3 AshevilleFM’s Annual Halloween Dance Party
Oct 27 all-day
Buxton Hall

Back in 2015 Buxton Hall threw our first ever dance party and man, was it a hit, and we can’t stop, won’t stop. We’re throwing a giant spooky, music-infused, dance-off, costumed extravaganza – in partnership with 103.3 AshevilleFM. After trick-or-treating, come on down to Buxton Hall for a late-night haunted dance party with rotating DJs, dancing, and little delicious spooky Buxton bites. The event kicks off 103.3 AshevilleFM’s Fall Fund Drive – just a $5 donation at the door.

Ghost Train at Tweetsie Railroad
Oct 27 all-day
Tweetsie Railroad

Open 7:30 – 11:30 p.m. Advance tickets are rquired. It’s safe, scary fun for the whole family! Kids will enjoy the Halloween shows and trick-or-treating. And take a chilling journey into the night on the Ghost Train – if you dare!

HAUNTED GROVE HOUSE INFERNO 2018
Oct 27 all-day
Scandals Nightclub

#1 HALLOWEEN DANCE PARTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA
3-DANCE FLOORS ~ 4-DJ’s ~ 5-BARS
THREE VENUES / ONE PRICE
$1,000 COSTUME CONTEST

The GROVE HOUSE Entertainment Complex is famous for the scariest and BEST annual Halloween costume and dance party in WNC! This year will be the most frightening and fun to-date!

You’ll be terrified by monsters lurking around every corner…beware as you walk through each themed-area dripping with creepy décor. You will succumb to your fears as you migrate throughout the HAUNTED GROVE HOUSE INFERNO’s three levels – themed to Dante’s Nine Circles of Hell.

Enchanted Forest
Descent
Disembodied Heretics
Spider Chasm
Psychedelic Passage
Limbo
Lost Souls
Abyss

THREE LEVELS OF DANCING
4-DJ’s playing a variety of music genres

REMEMBER!!! – $1,000 IN CASH COSTUME CONTEST…so deck-out in your most terrifying best (or worst), and you may end the night with a fist-full of cash! Gates open at 9pm and ONE price gives you access to the ENTIRE complex (Club Eleven On Grove, Scandals Nightclub, and BOILER ROOM.)

Gates open at 9pm (18 & over)
Contest registration/pre-judging from 9:30pm-12:30am
Contest on main stage at 1am
Closing is at 3am

Saturday 10/27, $25 Gate Fee
SAVE $5 through advance ticketing

http://www.thegrovehouse.com/gh_halloween.html

26th Annual Shuckin’ & Shakin’-Carolina Foothills Chamber
Oct 27 @ 5:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Harmon Field

TRYON, NC — The Carolina Foothills Chamber of Commerce will present the 25th Annual Shuckin’ and Shakin’ event from 5 to 11 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27, at the Harmon Field air gym.
Activities include live DJ dance music, all-you-can-eat seafood consisting of oysters roasted over an open fire, shrimp, mussels, barbecue chicken wings, authentic gumbo, coleslaw, rolls, iced tea, coffee, desserts and a great selection of draft beers and wine.
A bonfire will light up the sky after dark as guests dance away the hours.
Tickets are $50 and can be purchased at The Carolina Foothills Chamber of Commerce office or online via our website CarolinaFoothillsChamber.com. Please be sure you buy your tickets in advance, Tickets are not sold at the door. 21+ Event-No Coolers-No Pets
For more information, call (828) 859-6236.

Monday, October 29, 2018
Amy Ray
Oct 29 @ 12:00 am – 1:00 am