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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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.
Check out Jack’s Bluegrass Jam hosted by the Drew Matulich and his band of talented Bluegrass players every Thursday @ 7pm. Lively pluckin’ and cold pints to roll into the weekend! Sláinte!
Named one of Wide Open Country’s Artist to Watch 2020! Allie Colleen has a new single in the top 30 on the MusicRow Country Breakout Chart called “Ain’t The Only Hell (My Momma Raised).” The Nashville-based singer-songwriter is no stranger to the music industry and performs with a style that is truly her own. Her passion for music began at a young age and has garnered her a reputation as a notable songwriter with an iconic-sounding, impeccably strong voice that accents her Americana sound.
“With honest, standout songs that draw on her own unique experiences, the Nashville-based singer-songwriter and Belmont University graduate is blazing her own trail.”
– Wide Open Country
Violist and BMC alum Mounir Nessim performs all four parts of Matthias Durst’s hauntingly beautiful Adagio for Four Violas. Mounir recently completed his Doctor of Musical Arts in Viola Performance at Louisiana State University in 2020.
BMC faculty members Jihye Chang (piano), Ben Sung (violin), and George Speed (bass) perform excerpts from the pilot concert for Jihye’s Salon, a new living room recital series. Enjoy the music of Boccherini, Bach, Wieniawski, Saint-Saëns, and more!
Staff Picks From Around the Web
Live-streamed performances, resources, and activities we love from around the web, updated regularly.
Classical Music
and Animation
Enjoy examples of the relationship between classical music and animation aimed at audiences of all ages.
Digital BMC
Selected past performances by BMC orchestras, faculty, and guest artists on YouTube, SoundCloud, and Open Air Brevard.
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.
Staff Picks From Around the Web
Live-streamed performances, resources, and activities we love from around the web, updated regularly.
JoAnn Falletta:
Unscripted
Explore an unscripted and surprising tall tale of Grammy-winning conductor, JoAnn Falletta.
Brevard Music Center Staff Picks From Around the Web
HiHo Kids:
Kids Meet an Opera Singer
Curious kids meet–and interview–people with particular points of view.
Brevard Music Center Staff Picks From Around the Web
Quarantine with The Sixteen:
Recipes for Isolation
Discover seven mouth-watering recipes recommended by members of the beloved UK-based choir.
Digital BMC
Selected past performances by BMC orchestras, faculty, and guest artists on YouTube, SoundCloud, and Open Air Brevard.
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.
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.
Behold and bare witness as Pan and the Woodland Nymph awake into their own dreaming of a Chakra Ceremony. A hypnotic visual art form of flowing dance and music.
Behold and bare witness as Pan and the Woodland Nymph awake into their own dreaming of a Chakra Ceremony, by invocation of the sacred, invitation of a state of flow through their movements in harmony with resonate musical tones and the serenades of Pan’s flute, and reflection in the lens of a hypnotic visual art form
Billy Litz is an Asheville, NC based multi-instrumentalist and singer with a lust for song-writing who has been called “…. A prolific tunesmith…Blessed with a distinctive lead voice — high, thick, suitably retro” – Bold Life Magazine. He tours the East-Coast with the 4-piece soul/rock band Hustle Souls and as the American Roots, Blues and Ragtime project Kid Billy where tasteful live looping combines layers of New Orleans trumpet, honky-tonk piano, acoustic guitar and harmonica.
t’s been over 20 years since Old Crow Medicine Show’s humble beginnings as street buskers. The band has gone on to receive the honor of being inducted into the Grand Ole Opry, and has won two Grammy® Awards: Best Folk Album for Remedy (2014) and Best Long Form Music Video for “Big Easy Express” (2013). Additionally, their classic single “Wagon Wheel” received the RIAA’s double-platinum certification in 2019 for selling over 2 million copies, while the band’s debut album, O.C.M.S., has been certified gold (500,000 copies).
Old Crow Medicine Show has toured the world, playing renowned festivals and venues such as: Bonnaroo, Farm Aid, Red Rocks Amphitheater, Cambridge Folk Festival, Coachella, London’s Roundhouse, The Ryman Auditorium, The Barclays Center, New Orleans Jazz Fest, The Fox Theater in Atlanta, The Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Summerstage in Central Park NYC, Forecastle, the Newport Folk Festival, and several appearances on A Prairie Home Companion. They’ve toured with artists such as Willie Nelson & Family, Brandi Carlile, Mumford & Sons, The Lumineers, John Prine, The Avett Brothers, and others. The band also took part in the historic Railroad Revival Tour, traveling from California to New Orleans on a vintage train, which was captured in the Emmet Malloy-directed, Grammy Award-winning documentary Big Easy Express.
Violist and BMC alum Mounir Nessim performs all four parts of Matthias Durst’s hauntingly beautiful Adagio for Four Violas. Mounir recently completed his Doctor of Musical Arts in Viola Performance at Louisiana State University in 2020.
BMC faculty members Jihye Chang (piano), Ben Sung (violin), and George Speed (bass) perform excerpts from the pilot concert for Jihye’s Salon, a new living room recital series. Enjoy the music of Boccherini, Bach, Wieniawski, Saint-Saëns, and more!
Staff Picks From Around the Web
Live-streamed performances, resources, and activities we love from around the web, updated regularly.
Classical Music
and Animation
Enjoy examples of the relationship between classical music and animation aimed at audiences of all ages.
Digital BMC
Selected past performances by BMC orchestras, faculty, and guest artists on YouTube, SoundCloud, and Open Air Brevard.
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.
Staff Picks From Around the Web
Live-streamed performances, resources, and activities we love from around the web, updated regularly.
JoAnn Falletta:
Unscripted
Explore an unscripted and surprising tall tale of Grammy-winning conductor, JoAnn Falletta.
Brevard Music Center Staff Picks From Around the Web
HiHo Kids:
Kids Meet an Opera Singer
Curious kids meet–and interview–people with particular points of view.
Brevard Music Center Staff Picks From Around the Web
Quarantine with The Sixteen:
Recipes for Isolation
Discover seven mouth-watering recipes recommended by members of the beloved UK-based choir.
Digital BMC
Selected past performances by BMC orchestras, faculty, and guest artists on YouTube, SoundCloud, and Open Air Brevard.
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.
Putumayo’s Featured Kids Musicians Video. Precious!
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.
Come join Jangling Sparrows for this outdoor, covid safe event!
there are plenty of heaters to stay warm if needed but dancing is always the best way.
Violist and BMC alum Mounir Nessim performs all four parts of Matthias Durst’s hauntingly beautiful Adagio for Four Violas. Mounir recently completed his Doctor of Musical Arts in Viola Performance at Louisiana State University in 2020.
BMC faculty members Jihye Chang (piano), Ben Sung (violin), and George Speed (bass) perform excerpts from the pilot concert for Jihye’s Salon, a new living room recital series. Enjoy the music of Boccherini, Bach, Wieniawski, Saint-Saëns, and more!