Calendar of Events

Lynn Boggess is one of the most unique and noteworthy American landscape painters of the 21st Century. He resides in West Virginia, a state whose diverse mountains, forests, and rivers provide abundant inspiration for the artist’s plein air paintings. In place of brushes he uses palette knives and trowels to thickly layer the broad sweeping strokes and exquisite fine detail that capture all the colors of the seasons in rushing rivers, snow covered hillsides, and thick forest vegetation.

Mr. Boggess’ work is recognized internationally for its incredible three-dimensional texture, rendered solely in oils. These remarkable paintings combine elements of Abstract Expressionism and Photorealism to create a style that is totally unique and original.

To preview the exhibition catalog, please click here.

This year, the Swannanoa Valley Museum & History Center’s annual Historic Haunted House Tour will take guests back in time to discover the mostly ghostly, spooky, and fun parts of downtown Black Mountain’s history. For those who came with us last year, we’ll have new lavishly-decorated tour stops and new stories to share.

At each stop, guests will learn about Black Mountain’s amazing people, events that shaped the town, and why Black Mountain was and still is one of America’s premier tourist destinations.

Tours last approximately two hours and begin every half hour with the first tour at 5:30pm and the last tour leaving at 8:00pm on both Friday and Saturday. Pre-registration is required. Please arrive at least 15 minutes before your tour is scheduled to depart. All tours will start and end at the Swannanoa Valley Museum.

Tour Times: Friday, October 25 and Saturday, October 26 at 5:30PM, 6:00PM, 6:30PM, 7:00PM, 7:30PM, 8:00PM
Distance: less than 1 mile on sidewalks
Approximate Tour Time: 2 hours

https://www.facebook.com/events/469305840515031/?event_time_id=469305843848364

Put on your best formal wear, slip into your dancing shoes, and join Different Strokes! Performing Arts Collective on October 26 for an elegant, exclusive Masquerade Ball. With a red carpet, live music by Rhoda Weaver (Best Vocalist, Mountain Xpress Best of X 2018), silent and live auctions, and catering by Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse. Win season tickets to Different Strokes! in the best-decorated mask contest (judged by a panel of experts), and get to party in the brand-new Henry LaBrun Studio at the Wortham Center for the Performing Arts.

All proceeds benefit Different Strokes! Performing Arts Collective and its mission of Making Theatre that Makes a Difference. 

This year, the Swannanoa Valley Museum & History Center’s annual Historic Haunted House Tour will take guests back in time to discover the mostly ghostly, spooky, and fun parts of downtown Black Mountain’s history. For those who came with us last year, we’ll have new lavishly-decorated tour stops and new stories to share.

At each stop, guests will learn about Black Mountain’s amazing people, events that shaped the town, and why Black Mountain was and still is one of America’s premier tourist destinations.

Tours last approximately two hours and begin every half hour with the first tour at 5:30pm and the last tour leaving at 8:00pm on both Friday and Saturday. Pre-registration is required. Please arrive at least 15 minutes before your tour is scheduled to depart. All tours will start and end at the Swannanoa Valley Museum.

Tour Times: Friday, October 25 and Saturday, October 26 at 5:30PM, 6:00PM, 6:30PM, 7:00PM, 7:30PM, 8:00PM
Distance: less than 1 mile on sidewalks
Approximate Tour Time: 2 hours

https://www.facebook.com/events/469305840515031/?event_time_id=469305857181696

Join us for “Saturday Night Lights,” a family-friendly event at Tryon International Equestrian Center in Mill Spring, NC, happening every Saturday evening May through October featuring FREE carousel rides, pony rides, bounce house, face painting, entertainers and live music, plus horse show competition. General admission and parking are also free and open to the public. With onsite dining options, concessions, shopping, and lodging, come for the night or for a vacation getaway! Learn more at Tryon.com/SNL.

Phone: 828-863-1000

Email: [email protected]

This year, the Swannanoa Valley Museum & History Center’s annual Historic Haunted House Tour will take guests back in time to discover the mostly ghostly, spooky, and fun parts of downtown Black Mountain’s history. For those who came with us last year, we’ll have new lavishly-decorated tour stops and new stories to share.

At each stop, guests will learn about Black Mountain’s amazing people, events that shaped the town, and why Black Mountain was and still is one of America’s premier tourist destinations.

Tours last approximately two hours and begin every half hour with the first tour at 5:30pm and the last tour leaving at 8:00pm on both Friday and Saturday. Pre-registration is required. Please arrive at least 15 minutes before your tour is scheduled to depart. All tours will start and end at the Swannanoa Valley Museum.

Tour Times: Friday, October 25 and Saturday, October 26 at 5:30PM, 6:00PM, 6:30PM, 7:00PM, 7:30PM, 8:00PM
Distance: less than 1 mile on sidewalks
Approximate Tour Time: 2 hours

https://www.facebook.com/events/469305840515031/?event_time_id=469305870515028

Sale Dates and Times:

Public Onsale : Fri, 26 Apr 2019 at 10:00 AM

Radio Presale : Wed, 24 Apr 2019 at 10:00 AM

Venue Presale (Online Only) : Wed, 24 Apr 2019 at 10:00 AM

VIP Package Presale : Wed, 24 Apr 2019 at 10:00 AM

VIP Package Public Onsale : Fri, 26 Apr 2019 at 10:00 AM

Official Platinum Presale : Wed, 24 Apr 2019 at 10:00 AM

Official Platinum : Fri, 26 Apr 2019 at 10:00 AM

https://www.facebook.com/events/2029767790454964/

William Ray Engvall Jr. is an American comedian and actor best known for his work as a stand-up comic, his signature “Here’s Your Sign” bit, and as a member of the Blue Collar Comedy group.

Everyone is welcome at the CommUnity Square Dance. Caller Kyle Johnston will teach and call all dances to old-time music led by Lillian and Sara Nell Chase. No experience necessary!

The Rocky Horror Show at The Grey Eagle — 7PM

The Rocky Horror Show is a musical with music, lyrics and book by Richard O’Brien. A humorous tribute to the science fiction and horror B movies of the late 1940s through to the early 1970s, the musical tells the story of a newly engaged couple getting caught in a storm and coming to the home of a mad transvestite scientist, Dr Frank-N-Furter, unveiling his new creation, a sort of Frankenstein-style monster in the form of an artificially made, fully grown, physically perfect muscle man named Rocky Horror, complete “with blond hair and a tan”.

https://www.facebook.com/events/442391839656494/

This year, the Swannanoa Valley Museum & History Center’s annual Historic Haunted House Tour will take guests back in time to discover the mostly ghostly, spooky, and fun parts of downtown Black Mountain’s history. For those who came with us last year, we’ll have new lavishly-decorated tour stops and new stories to share.

At each stop, guests will learn about Black Mountain’s amazing people, events that shaped the town, and why Black Mountain was and still is one of America’s premier tourist destinations.

Tours last approximately two hours and begin every half hour with the first tour at 5:30pm and the last tour leaving at 8:00pm on both Friday and Saturday. Pre-registration is required. Please arrive at least 15 minutes before your tour is scheduled to depart. All tours will start and end at the Swannanoa Valley Museum.

Tour Times: Friday, October 25 and Saturday, October 26 at 5:30PM, 6:00PM, 6:30PM, 7:00PM, 7:30PM, 8:00PM
Distance: less than 1 mile on sidewalks
Approximate Tour Time: 2 hours

https://www.facebook.com/events/469305840515031/?event_time_id=469305873848361

m-pact’s website

Hailed as “one of the best pop-jazz vocal groups in the world” by the San Francisco Chronicle, m-pact is respected worldwide as a trailblazer in a cappella arts — harnessing the raw power of nature’s first instrument, the human voice. With the smooth soul of Sam Smith, the percussive power of Stomp, the funk and groove of Bruno Mars, the sophisticated harmonies of Take 6 and the brass bite of the Michael Bublé Big Band, m-pact takes vocal acrobatics to new levels, creating technicolor soundscapes that have earned the group accolades like Vocal Group of the Year (LA Music Awards) and Best Vocal Arrangement (the CARA Awards).

September 20-21, 27-28, October 4-5, 11-12, 18-19, 25-26

Open 7:30 – 11:30 p.m. Advance Tickets Required.

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!

This year, the Swannanoa Valley Museum & History Center’s annual Historic Haunted House Tour will take guests back in time to discover the mostly ghostly, spooky, and fun parts of downtown Black Mountain’s history. For those who came with us last year, we’ll have new lavishly-decorated tour stops and new stories to share.

At each stop, guests will learn about Black Mountain’s amazing people, events that shaped the town, and why Black Mountain was and still is one of America’s premier tourist destinations.

Tours last approximately two hours and begin every half hour with the first tour at 5:30pm and the last tour leaving at 8:00pm on both Friday and Saturday. Pre-registration is required. Please arrive at least 15 minutes before your tour is scheduled to depart. All tours will start and end at the Swannanoa Valley Museum.

Tour Times: Friday, October 25 and Saturday, October 26 at 5:30PM, 6:00PM, 6:30PM, 7:00PM, 7:30PM, 8:00PM
Distance: less than 1 mile on sidewalks
Approximate Tour Time: 2 hours

https://www.facebook.com/events/469305840515031/?event_time_id=469305863848362

THE MAGNETIC THEATRE invites you to the Red Room… where there is no place to run or hide from what haunts you most. The Horror Show is a theatrical homage to cinematic horror anthologies (Creepshow, The Twilight Zone, Tales from the Crypt), featuring eerie, tense and terrifying one-act plays written by some of Asheville’s most innovative writers.

The Addams Family A New Musical
Book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice
Music and Lyrics by Andrew Lippa
Based on Characters Created by Charles Addams
Main Stage
Oct. 18-Nov 3

Welcome to kooky, upside-down world of the Addams Family, a family dealing with the same challenges faced by any other family: the Addams kids are growing up. Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family – a man her parents have never met. And if that weren’t upsetting enough, Wednesday confides in her father and begs him not to tell her mother. Now, Gomez Addams must do something he’s never done before – keep a secret from his beloved wife, Morticia. Everything will change for the whole family on the fateful night they host a dinner for Wednesday’s ‘normal’ boyfriend and his parents. In one fateful, hilarious night, secrets are disclosed, relationships are tested, and the Addams family must face up to the one horrible thing they’ve managed to avoid for generations: change.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1308050819334851/?event_time_id=1308050836001516

From the foot hills of Sayan Mountains to the icy Kara Sea proudly rolls its waters the mighty and majestic Yenisey River. On its banks live many peoples of Siberia, which have their own culture, literature and art. This vast and beautiful Land has become a source of inspiration for the Krasnoyarsk Dance Company of Siberia, which by choreographic means reveals the spiritual wealth of the Siberians, glorifying their labour feats and telling of the wonderful nature of the land. The Company was Founded in 1960 and has been a success from the very outset its original manner of performing Siberian dances as well as its dash and vigour never leave spectators indifferent. The treasures of folk art are eternal and inexhaustible but only when touched by the hand of an artist, alert to modem images and rhythms, do these treasures acquire value Mikhail Godenko, who founded the Company and had directed it continuously till 1991, was an experienced and talented director, a choreographer of great artistic taste and creative imagination, always searching for original compositional solutions. The successful efforts of the Company to create modern artistic pictures has found expression in such popular dances as My Siberia, Krasnoyarsk Merry Tunes, Cossack’s Dance, Down the Street, By the Well, Men’s Dance, Siberian Fun with their rapid cascade of cheerfulness merriment and humour. The Company’s popularity is growing with every year, and with every year grows the number of people in our country and abroad, admiring its bright, vital talent.
Ticket Prices: $23, $28, $35

It’s not too early to make your plans to travel down the yellow brick road to the merry old land of Oz! We’re deep into the rehearsal process, are building the sets and the costumes, and are hearing LOTS of super cool ideas from the artistic team!

• Opening Weekend and Thursday night tickets are cheaper than other performances ($26 for adults vs $30)
• Tickets for children 17 and under are $15 for any Wizard of Oz performance!
• Keep up with what’s happening in rehearsals with the “We’re Off to See the Wizard” blog series written by our Cowardly Lion, John O’Neil!

“It Didn’t Happen” by Judy Calabrese
Ages 18+
October 18-19, 2019 • 8 PM 
October 25-26, 2019 • 8 PM
Tina McGuire Theatre

This performance contains nudity and artistic representations of adult themes. Individuals under the age of 18 are not permitted.

This raw, darkly comedic exploration of shame and desire takes us on a rollercoaster ride through Judy’s secret sexual relationships with women over a lifetime.

Headliner to be named at a later date!

Well, this is the last one, folks! The last comedy show at The Artisan! Stick a fruity drink umbrella in us… we outta here!

Join Mike Elis and some of your favorites from along the way for the last comedy show at The Artisan. It will be full of fun, laughter, and maybe Mike will tear up a little!

https://www.facebook.com/events/411259096356502/

“The Turn of the Screw”
Prepare yourself for a night of suspense, enchantment, and chills as Flat Rock Playhouse brings to life the psychological thriller: The Turn of the Screw. When a new governess arrives at a remote country estate, she discovers that her employer and his children might not be all that they appear to be. Before long, the governess wonders if there might be more figures wandering around the estate than just the children. Don’t miss out on this opportunity for mystery and thrills.

Wednesdays and Thursdays 2:00PM and 7:30PM
Fridays 8:00PM
Saturdays 2:00PM and 8:00PM
Sundays 2:00PM

Adam Mamawala is a stand-up comedian based out of New York City. Named one of Funny or Die’s “Top 30 Under 30: Comedians to Watch”, Adam has appeared on Comedy Central, MTV, BET and SeeSo, and his debut album One of the Good Ones debuted at #1 on the iTunes Comedy Charts in December of 2017. Adam has headlined over 200 colleges across more than 35 states and his recent festival appearances include the NBC/Second City Breakout Comedy Festival, Laughing Skull Comedy Festival, and New York Comedy Festival. Adam has been a freelance contributor to Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update and a writer for Someecards.

Tickets $10 advance, $12 day of
FRIDAY: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/adam-mamawala-at-lazoom-friday-tickets-70464738931

SATURDAY: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/adam-mamawala-at-lazoom-saturday-tickets-70464921477

Known for whip-quick wit and rollicking improvisations, Sam Tallent is one of the sharpest, most original rising talents in comedy today. Fresh off his New Faces debut at the prestigious Just For Laughs Comedy Festival, Sam has been called “the absurd voice of a surreal generation” by the Denver Post, and, when not maintaining a “Black Flag esque tour schedule” (Savage Henry Magazine), Sam has worked alongside many of the biggest names in comedy, including Russel Peters, Ron White, Dave Chappelle, Doug Stanhope, Dana Carvey and Hannibal Buress. He recently won his battle on Comedy Central’s Roast Battle, and was seen on VICELAND’s Flophouse as well as the Chris Gethard Show. His writing has been published on VICE.com. His debut novel, “Running the Light”, will be available this fall wherever fine books are sold. He lives in Denver with his wife and dog.

Featuring Steve Vanderploeg

Tickets $10 advance, $12 day of
FRIDAY: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lazoom-comedy-sam-tallent-friday-tickets-70464738931

SATURDAY: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lazoom-comedy-sam-tallent-saturday-tickets-70464921477

The Rocky Horror Show is a musical with music, lyrics and book by Richard O’Brien. A humorous tribute to the science fiction and horror B movies of the late 1940s through to the early 1970s, the musical tells the story of a newly engaged couple getting caught in a storm and coming to the home of a mad transvestite scientist, Dr Frank-N-Furter, unveiling his new creation, a sort of Frankenstein-style monster in the form of an artificially made, fully grown, physically perfect muscle man named Rocky Horror, complete “with blond hair and a tan”.

This year, the Swannanoa Valley Museum & History Center’s annual Historic Haunted House Tour will take guests back in time to discover the mostly ghostly, spooky, and fun parts of downtown Black Mountain’s history. For those who came with us last year, we’ll have new lavishly-decorated tour stops and new stories to share.

At each stop, guests will learn about Black Mountain’s amazing people, events that shaped the town, and why Black Mountain was and still is one of America’s premier tourist destinations.

Tours last approximately two hours and begin every half hour with the first tour at 5:30pm and the last tour leaving at 8:00pm on both Friday and Saturday. Pre-registration is required. Please arrive at least 15 minutes before your tour is scheduled to depart. All tours will start and end at the Swannanoa Valley Museum.

Tour Times: Friday, October 25 and Saturday, October 26 at 5:30PM, 6:00PM, 6:30PM, 7:00PM, 7:30PM, 8:00PM
Distance: less than 1 mile on sidewalks
Approximate Tour Time: 2 hours

https://www.facebook.com/events/469305840515031/?event_time_id=469305850515030

WHERE: Asheville Music Hall, 31 Patton Ave, Asheville, 28801
WHEN: Saturday October 26, 2019
COVER: $15 early bird (limited amount!)
$18 advance
$20 day of show
DOORS: 8pm | SHOW: 9pm
GENRE: folk / soul / indie / hip hop
SEATING: Standing Room Only
AGES: 18+
WEB LISTING: https://ashevillemusichall.com

Satsang:

WEBSITE: www.satsangmovement.com
HEAR SOME MUSIC: https://satsang1.bandcamp.com
SEE A VIDEO: https://youtu.be/fr6r_1rGW3k

Satsang is a power trio creating a unique blend of soul, folk-rock and hip-hop, Satsang delivers lyrics that come from and are rooted in change, growth, awareness, and imperfection. The live show is everything that the band name suggests: a gathering of people to assimilate and share their truths. The rhythms put forth by the band keep everyone on their feet, and the lyrics leave them craving active and positive change. Satsang has toured all over the country and has shared the stage with the likes of Michael Franti & Spearhead, Steel Pulse, Nahko and Medicine for the People, Trevor Hall, Chris Berry, Mike Love, Jon Wayne and the Pain, Tubby Love, and many more.

Lead singer and songwriter Drew McManus creates music for his soul, fueled by the ever present task of personal growth and the beautiful life that he found in the Beartooth Mountains of Montana. Commenting on his difficult upbringing in Des Moines and residency in Chicago, McManus says, “I grew up in an environment where aggression, violence, abuse, and addiction were always present. It made me a lot of things; angry, sad, and ashamed. I hated my story and I was a slave to addiction. I tried for so long to hide from the reality of my story and the reality of how beautiful life could be.” It wasn’t until an intense spiritual experience lead Drew to break his cycle of addiction. “I had changed my entire outlook on everything” say McManus, “I began to realize that had everything not happened to me exactly like it did, I would not be exactly who/where/what I am right now.” In an effort to share his revelation with others who may be in the same predicament, Drew began to write every day. “I was flooded with the urge to write down the lessons that kept revealing themselves in this surrender. And the connections I began making with other people by making this music vulnerable and open, began to change everything.” These songs are a statement of lessons learned and a further understanding of self. “The whole story is what makes it beautiful, not just the good bits.”

Satsang released their sophomore album Pyramids in March of 2017 and saw it quickly rise to #1 on the Billboard Reggae charts and #2 on the iTunes charts. We also surprise-released a new EP, In Between Another Blink on 12/6 and had it crack the top 20 on the iTunes Singer/ Songwriter chart with no advance promotion. The band spent the majority of the past summer touring in support of Michael Franti, Trevor Hall, Wookiefoot and Nahko and Medicine for the People creating legions of fans from coast to coast.

“For a generation lost in a sea of mindless beats and meaningless words, Satsang is a breath of fresh air. In a time where poetry feeds and stems from rebellion and roots music resurfaces as the anchor for social justice and people powered movements, these kinds of troubadours are imperative for greater change. I am honored to be witnessing these young men hold a torch for positivity and love in the struggle and remind us all that change takes hard work, but together we can preserve a world that we all want to live in.”
– Nahko

” I welcome Satsang warmly to my senses. I’m instantly drawn to the familiar style of singing that devours island radio; caught off guard by harmonic elements. I like this!”
– HIRIE

“Satsang is a Sanskrit word that translates to mean “being with the truth.” Satsang (the band), is a Montana-based trio, creating some of the most exciting underground and conscious music released today. Their Americana style is at times part folk, part melodic hip hop.”
– Rootfire

Jonny Wayne (of Jon Wayne and the Pain):

WEBSITE: www.jonwayneandthepain.com
HEAR SOME MUSIC: https://soundcloud.com/JONWAYNEANDTHEPAIN
SEE A VIDEO: https://youtu.be/S3IT7rmjDVE

https://www.facebook.com/events/2358634647757498/

Hola Carolina and THE BLOCK off biltmore Present: CommUNITY Salsa

Salsa, Bachata, Cumbia, Merengue, Kizomba y mucho mas!!
with DJ Edi

$5
beginner dance lesson begins at 9:00, DJ begins at 9:30

Todos los Sabados de 9-2

https://www.facebook.com/events/1043582389166757/?event_time_id=1043582525833410

The Rocky Horror Show at The Grey Eagle — 10PM

The Rocky Horror Show is a musical with music, lyrics and book by Richard O’Brien. A humorous tribute to the science fiction and horror B movies of the late 1940s through to the early 1970s, the musical tells the story of a newly engaged couple getting caught in a storm and coming to the home of a mad transvestite scientist, Dr Frank-N-Furter, unveiling his new creation, a sort of Frankenstein-style monster in the form of an artificially made, fully grown, physically perfect muscle man named Rocky Horror, complete “with blond hair and a tan”.

https://www.facebook.com/events/2694228350651030/

Shake what yo momma gave ya, every Saturday 11pm-2am. Dance Party. No cover. Do it.

https://www.facebook.com/events/341354513259016/?event_time_id=341354656592335