Calendar of Events

Friday! 5-9
TIMOS closing sale
downtown bar selling all
The bar is open too! Selling the cheapest booze. $2 can beer. half off ALL liquor. CC is bartending

Bar Supply –

Glassware

Office supply

Stage lighting

Sound

Furniture

Shelving

Knick knacks

Memorabilia

Last chance to take a piece of us home with you, Party Rats.

https://www.facebook.com/events/286601415228339/

FIRST 2019 FRIDAY TAP TAKEOVER!!!

New year, new tap takeover, new night! We’ve had so many requests for weekend tap takeovers, and have listened! Join us this Friday for a Triple C Brewing (from Charlotte, NC) Tap Takeover! We will be serving 5 of their awesome brews and handing out free glassware with each Triple C purchase while supplies last!

Beers on tap will be:

– golden boy blonde
– grill friend smoked Amber
– baby maker 2x ipa
– white blaze winter warmer
– Triple c ipa

https://www.facebook.com/events/348786345718754/

Come and learn about the food and herbs that help build a strong immune system, especially during cold and flu season. Join Monica Tucker to study these natural immune boosters, and make delicious elderberry syrup to take home. Reserve your spot now by calling 828 697 9622 or visiting the membership desk.

https://www.facebook.com/events/270778420256622/

You are invited to come over to Cullowhee and check out our second location and all the work we have done to it over the past month to get it ready before students come back from break! We are excited for this next chapter and would love for you to stop by and check out the new digs on WCU’s campus!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1680576145375832/

Stop stressing and learn to chill with this mindfulness and meditation guidebook that can help workaholics and others let go of anxiety and achieve and maintain the healthy work/life balance they need.

We all know good health and happiness depends on having proper balance between our professional and private lives. But in today’s hectic work environment, in which we must do more in less time with fewer resources, that goal can feel impossible to attain. We stay late at the office rather than being home with our families. We work into the night and on weekends to perfect that presentation or just catch up, rather than relaxing with a hobby or spending time with our friends. Under constant pressure to over-perform, work easily becomes the dominant force in our lives.

Licensed psychotherapist and professor Bryan Robinson understands the demands we face. He also knows that it’s difficult to stop the cycle of over-work. But there is a solution. In #Chill, Robinson explains how ending the cycle of work addiction can be achieved by reframing priorities and cultivating mindfulness in our daily lives. He provides a month-by-month guide with meditations that help center and soothe us, allowing us to step back, close our eyes, take a long breath, and focus on the moment.

Bryan Robinson will be joined by writer and actress Maryedith Burrell.

We ask that you purchase the books you want to be signed at our events from Malaprop’s. When you do this you are not only supporting the work it takes to run an events program, you are also telling the publishers that they should keep sending authors here. Can’t make it to the store for the event? Call us or order the book on our website in advance, and we’ll get it signed for you. Make sure you write your preferences in the comments if you purchase online.

https://www.facebook.com/events/356666131566126/

Figure drawing session, untutored, for all skill levels. Our model this week will be Julia. Poses will start short and increase in duration as the evening progresses.

$15 to draw, chairs provided (not easels). Some art supplies available free or bring your own. Dry media only. No photography.

If you’re planning to attend, let me know, and please try to arrive 10-15 minutes early to set up, as Friday evening traffic can be unpredictable.

https://www.facebook.com/events/225875104984298/

Parent’s Night Out on FRIDAY, January 11, 2019
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Get ready to play with clay at this super fun Parent’s night Out! Kids will get to create pottery from scratch as they hand-build a unique creation. PLUS they’ll each get a turn on our pottery wheel with an instructor! When you pick up their piece, it will be ready to paint!
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$25 per child includes:
-Clay project and mini Wheel Lesson!
-Pizza and juice!
-Lots of fun!
(Don’t forget to make sure kids are dressed to get messy!)
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Call, message, or visit our website to sign up!
PNO is every second Friday from 6:00pm-8:30pm!
(Reservations required to guarantee your child’s spot! There is limited space available!)
PNO refund policy: you will receive a studio credit for your full payment if your child cannot attend (you can opt for a refund if the cancellation is more than two days before the event).

https://www.facebook.com/events/564219624026455/

Calling all movie buffs! Test your knowledge of all things film during a six-round trivia contest. Gift cards will be awarded to the top three teams.

https://www.facebook.com/events/378296556276158/

Love succulents? Love wine?

Then this is the event you don’t want to miss!

Come get your hands dirty with us and find your artistic side. Learn the basics of planting and caring for your own succulent planter. The Workshop is $40.00 and includes; 3 large healthy and beautiful succulents, our own blend of succulent’s soil, moss, decorative rock, an upcycled champagne bottle cut by Hooarte with wine cork stabilizers for the bottles.
No experience necessary, planting can get messy so dress appropriately
The Ice Cream Fountain will have their regular menu available. Our succulent workshops tend to sell out so be sure to register quick to guarantee your spot.

https://www.facebook.com/events/549938032178376/

The traditional teachings of yoga nidra guided relaxation address and reintegrate the 5 body sheaths of your being (physical, energy, emotional, mental, etheric/bliss). This superconscious state, deeply relaxed but awake and aware, is a place where accelerated healing and learning can happen. One hour of yoga nidra practice restores the body similarly to 6 hours of deep sleep.
Yoga Nidra brings you into a deeply restorative healing state that will release tension, enhance your vital life source, and leave you with a greater sense of peace and wellbeing.

$38 pp for one full hour of yoga Nidra inside the Salt Cave. reservations are required. This event is hosted by Kerry McKenzie
www.ashevillesaltcave.com this is a prepaid event.

**This is a pre-purchased ticket to an event, your ticket is not refundable once purchase.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1824045701055108/

Come get your hands dirty and sip on quality craft beer while you make your very own custom beer stein! We’re excited to partner with our neighbors from The William Felton School of Crafts to bring you this Craft n’ Draft evening. The owner of the school will be on hand to help expertly guide you through this project.

The price is $30 and includes supplies, all the finishing work (firing and glazing) as well as your first pint of beer or kombucha.

https://www.facebook.com/events/985684388307524/

Nick Gonnering Music makes his first appearance at Ginger’s Revenge Craft Brewery & Tasting Room

After touring the country in 2016 for the centennial anniversary of the National parks, Nick Gonnering completed and recorded his first solo album “Finding My Niche” an edgy acoustic journal of his travels and reflections from the road.
After the project was completed, he continued his travels along the East coast in search of a place where him and his wife could lay some roots.Shortly there after they stumbled upon the Asheville, NC area.
Over the last few years Nick has toured regionally and has been working on a new range of songs concerned with giving back to the amazing community he has found here in the Blue Ridge Mountains. His work focuses on his yogic journey, finding peace in troubling times and being truly and authentically you. Drawing from such influences as The John Butler Trio, Trevor Hall, Michael Hedges and songwriters such as James Taylor, George Harrison and Bill withers, Nick fuses a unique mix of 12 string acoustic folk with blues, rock and soul influences to back his powerful vocals and insightful lyrics.
“I want to share this inspiration i’ve found, I hope it helps” Nick Writes in his new song “Hope, it helps”
You can find his work on Spotify, Itunes, Google play and most other streaming platforms online or on his website at nickgonneringmusic.com

https://www.facebook.com/events/211855456403413/

Caitlin Krisko & Aaron Austin return to downtown Asheville’s cozy neighborhood wine bar for a soulful acoustic performance! Don’t miss local favorite The Broadcast Band’s lead duo for a rare, up close & unplugged performance Jan 11 and Jan 25!
Seats fill up, come early! ??

https://www.facebook.com/events/2229736300617606/

Tickets to this exclusive two-night event include:

A never before seen performance art creation by Candice Dickinson.

Exclusive small plates from the new menu of Jacobs Sessoms of Table upcoming restaurant venture.

Clean and sour brews on tap from Wicked Weed Brewing featuring a special onetime offering for this event.

Specialty chocolates from the award-winning chocolatier The Chocolate Fetish.

Having a home, living indoors, is a basic human right, one that 500 or more individuals do not have on any given night in the Asheville area alone.

Finding Home, a collection of songs, new and found monologues, scenes, and dance, will tell the true stories of our neighbors who have lived for years without a home and through the work of Homeward Bound have been able to feel safe and supported for the first time in their lives.

Created and Directed by Candice Dickinson, Finding Home is an immersive show staged in promenade and she asks the audience to anticipate some movement during the performance.

Come join us for two special nights of food and entertainment and help end homelessness in WNC.

Phil Mechanic Studios: Located in the R.A.D. of Asheville

The show begins at 7 pm, Doors open at 6:30 pm.

https://www.facebook.com/events/199576077654814/

We’re so excited to offer our customers a new event this year! We will be holding the event in The Summit. No need for a reservation or tickets, the movie is free!

Concessions, non-alcoholic beverages and a cash/credit card wine & beer bar will be provided for your enjoyment. This includes our $1.00 popcorn bags and delectable cheese boards.

Feel free to bring a blanket if you get chilly!

The movie will start at sundown, 7:00pm. This event is weather dependent and can be cancelled 24 hours ahead of time if weather isn’t agreeable. Attendees are not allowed to bring in outside alcohol.

https://www.facebook.com/events/2090843070971826/

JOIN THE JUBILEE COMMUNITY IN “MAKING A JOYFUL NOISE”. We will be
Sharing jokes and funny stories
Watch funny Youtube videos
Dance to upbeat music

So….. start collecting your jokes and funny stories to bring. If you know of any funny YouTube videos or suggestions for music
please send the links to Jacalyn at [email protected] , so that she can add them to the “playlist”.

Come join in the fun!

Jubilee Community Church
46 Wall St., Asheville NC

$10 admission

https://www.facebook.com/events/282208222478064/

Abby Roach, affectionally known as Abby The Spoon Lady, is a world class spoon playing phenomenon with a You Tube video that boasts well over 1 million views. Well known Asheville buskers (street entertainers), Abby and Chris produce a unique sound of “Appalachian Blues” as they combine their talents of rhythm and tune. Abby will be telling stories of her 8 years spent riding the rails across America on her quest for a new beginning while living a hobo lifestyle. She and Chris most recently appeared at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough during the Storytellers Studio at the International Storytelling Center. The talented duo have been the subject of several television documentaries. Abby hosts a radio show in Asheville, NC. and is an extremely active advocate for street entertainers serving as a liaison between the buskers, the downtown merchants and the Asheville city government. She created the Asheville Buskers Collective and can be credited with securing better relationships between street entertainers, the merchants and the police department in Asheville, NC.

Doors open at 6pm for best seating. Beer, wine and beverages available from the bar. Parking is free and easy in the rear of the building in the Moog Music parking lots AFTER 5:30pm. Show begins promptly at 7pm and there will be an intermission. In case of incliment weather the show may be postponed to a later date and tickets can be forwarded for that show. For more information visit storytellingcalendar.com

https://www.facebook.com/events/309624806290860/

$12 / $15

Zach & Maggie have used their honed skills as instrumentalists and songwriters to back up artists in Nashville for over a decade. Watch them cut loose as they explore fresh new sounds with eclectic, new songs. They are coming to ISIS Music Hall with their brand new un-released EP for sale!

Seated Lounge Show:: Limited Tables Available with a Dinner Reservation :: All Other Seating is First Come First Serve General Admission :: Please Call Venue for Dinner (Table) Reservations

https://www.facebook.com/events/2457932357570166/

Come watch one of the most hilarious films in history, Airplane!

Members get in for free…. $5 for non-members, which pays for your one year membership card… Donations and tips for movie and popcorn appreciated.

https://www.facebook.com/events/237468680477502/

The Travelin’ McCourys at The Grey Eagle with Danny Burns at The Grey Eagle in Asheville, NC Friday January 11, 2019!

The Travelin’ McCourys do not stand still. They are on the road—and online—entertaining audiences with live shows that include some of the best musicians and singers from all genres. It’s always different, always exciting, and always great music.
No other band today has the same credentials for playing traditional and progressive music. As the sons of bluegrass legend Del McCoury, Ronnie McCoury on mandolin and Rob McCoury on banjo continue their father’s work—a lifelong dedication to the power of bluegrass music to bring joy into people’s lives. And with fiddler Jason Carter and bassist Alan Bartram, the ensemble is loved and respected by the bluegrass faithful. But the band is now combining their sound with others to make something fresh and rejuvenating.

They recently played with the Allman Brothers at Wanee Fest and then brought the house down at Warren Haynes’ Annual Christmas Jam, an invitation only Southern Rock homecoming. Their jam with the Lee Boys was hailed by many as the highlight of the evening, and once word of the live video hit the streets, sent new fans online to watch a supercharged combination of sacred steel, R&B, and bluegrass. They’ve also performed with Warren Haynes, Phish, and have a tour scheduled with the aforementioned Lee Boys. Ronnie McCoury described it as “peanut butter and jelly.” It was just right.
They can push forward so far because their roots are so deep. The band has a confidence that only comes with having paid their dues with twenty years on the bluegrass road. Other groups and new fans hear this immediately—the tight rhythm, the soulful material, and the confidence in taking bluegrass from the safety of the shore into uncharted waters.

Ronnie says, “We like to go in and play traditional bluegrass music the way we do it with Dad, but we also like to be able to step into situations where we can really stretch out. If we need to plug in, we’ll plug in. We’re open to anything.”

It’s that attitude, backed up by talent, that marks great musicians, traditional or progressive. The Travelin’ McCourys are twenty-first century musical pilgrims and adventurers. They’re onto something new, just like Bill Monroe was in the 1940s, but now we can see and hear that adventure live or online. Go see them, or—if you hold still long enough—they’ll come to you.

“Don’t call Danny Burns a newcomer.

Two decades before releasing his 2018 debut, North Country — a collaborative album filled with appearances by icons like Jerry Douglas, Sam Bush, and Tift Merritt— he kicked off his career as a traveling folksinger, logging shows on both sides of the Atlantic. He’s been on the road ever since, sharpening a sound that mixes the folk traditions of his native Ireland with diverse American influences.

Raised in a family of working musicians, Burns spent his childhood in the Irish county of Donegal. He grew up surrounded by singers and instrumentalists, receiving a first-class education in Irish folk music along the way. It was a communal experience, filled with folksongs that had been passed down from one generation to the next. “It was never about one specific musician,” he remembers. “It was about listening and learning. It was about playing a song, then passing the guitar to the person beside you, and hearing them play a song, too. There was no ego involved.”

North Country doubles down on that communal spirit. After living in America for 19 years — first in New York City, where he cut his teeth with a string of bar gigs, followed by stints in New Orleans, Chicago, and the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC — Burns has shared shows with a number of acclaimed musicians who, like him, breathe new life into older sounds. North Country nods to that diverse group of friends, shining a light not only Burns himself, but also on the community he inhabits. Holly Williams, Mindy Smith, Dan Tyminski, Cara Dillon, Tim O’Brien, ChessBoxer, and Old Crow Medicine Show’s Critter Fuqua all make appearances. The result is a transatlantic folk album that’s both diverse and driving, filled with swooning melodies, evocative storytelling, and an elevated level of musicianship.

Sam Bush and Jerry Douglas both perform on North Country’s kickoff track, “Let It Go,” whose lyrics tell the story of two lovers drinking up the nightlife of New Orleans. Holly Williams joins the group on “Look Into Her Eyes,” a harmony-driven tune punctuated by fiddle and dobro, while Tim O’Brien appears during the elegiac Celtic ballad “Darling Róisín.” Elsewhere, Burns teams up with Cara Dillon to pay tribute to Amy Winehouse on the moving “Amy,” waxes nostalgic about his homeland on “Great Big Sea,” and swaps harmonies with Tift Merritt on “Human Heart.”

Clocking in at 10 tracks, North Country feels like the soundtrack to a dinner party whose members have all left the kitchen table and headed to the music room, eager to share songs with one another. There’s plenty of acoustic guitar, pedal steel, upright bass, mandolin, banjo, and other rustic instruments, as well as multiple voices. There are also snatches of American roots music, 1970s Irish folk, Bible Belt country, and bluegrass, with influences like Richard Thompson and Steve Earle looming large. At the center of the mix is Danny Burns: a red-headed, storytelling, hard-touring Irishman whose own voice is just as evocative as his songwriting.

Self-produced by the frontman himself, North Country was largely recorded at Gary Paczosa’s home studio in Nashville, as well as the city’s Butcher Shoppe studio (owned by John Prine and David “Fergie” Ferguson).

Additional details at:
hoosierdevil.com
thegreyeagle.com
dannyburnsband.com
thetravelingmccourys.com

https://www.facebook.com/events/294939037991192/

Are you ready for the funk!? Better bring your dancin’ shoes for this one! Friday Nights in Hendo will never be the same!

Shabudikah! comes back to the Sanctuary Stage! Their last visit still has people talking and wanting more! Do you want the Funk? Because Shabudikah brings enough for everyone!

Shabudikah (SHə-bo͞o-di-kə)- 1) /n/ a high-energy, horn-driven funk party from Asheville, NC 2) /n/ any original, funky music made by the band Shabudikah!

https://www.facebook.com/events/337176526864534/

WHERE: Isis Music Hall, 743 Haywood Rd, West Asheville, NC 28806
WHEN: Friday January 11, 2019
DOORS: 7:30pm | SHOW: 8:30pm
GENRE: folk / americana
AGES: all ages
TICKETS: $27 adv. / $32 d.o.s.
SEATING: seated general admission
WEB LISTING: https://isiasheville.com//event/charlie-traveler-presents-evening-robin-linda-williams/
PURCHASE TICKETS: https://public.ticketbiscuit.com/IsisAsheville/Ticketing/356610

Robin and Linda Williams:

WEBSITE: www.robinandlinda.com
HEAR SOME MUSIC: http://www.robinandlinda.com/mp3.html
SEE A VIDEO: https://youtu.be/H-o6rLQqoJY

For more than four decades now, Robin & Linda Williams have made it their mission to perform the music that they love, “a robust blend of bluegrass, folk, old-time and acoustic country that combines wryly observant lyrics with a wide-ranging melodicism.” Today some might call it “Americana,” but these two revered music masters were living and breathing this elixir 20 years before that label was turned into a radio format.

As live performers they are second to none. Their stirring concerts have earned them a huge body of fans over the years. But as gifted songwriters Robin and Linda have earned an even rarer honor, the devotion and deep respect of their musical peers. As The Washington Post put it, “The Williamses are able to sum up a life in a few details with moving completeness.” The list of artists who have covered their original songs include some of the greats of country music, names like Emmylou Harris, Tom T. Hall, George Hamilton IV, Tim & Mollie O’Brien, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Kathy Mattea and The Seldom Scene.

“Among contemporary country performers,, Robin and Linda Williams shine like a diamond amid rhinestones …”
— David W. Johnson, The Boston Globe

Linda is a native of Anniston, Alabama and Robin (the son of a Presbyterian minister) was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. They met and fell for each other in 1971 on a visit to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina while Linda was teaching school and Robin was a full-time musician on a national coffeehouse circuit. It wasn’t long before they discovered additional magic when they combined their voices in harmony.

Despite being true children of the South, their career got its initial momentum up north in the Minneapolis folk scene. Robin had made many friends and connections there as a solo artist and in 1975 they recorded their first album in Minneapolis for a local record company. The same year they made their first appearance on a little radio show just getting off the ground called “A Prairie Home Companion” and their rich relationship with that icon of American broadcasting has continued for four decades.

Over the years they recorded several fine albums and continued to crisscross the country, past miles and miles of highway signs, thrilling audiences with their songs and harmonies. Folk and country fans alike loved their honest heartfelt music. In 1989 a major breakthrough came with their signing to Sugar Hill Records, with whom they would go on to record nine albums. It would be a fruitful relationship and, amazingly, each succeeding recording (beginning with 1989’s “All Broken Hearts Are the Same”) would top the previous one in artistry and quality.

Around the same time, they began to tour with a band, Their Fine Group, and their already big sound grew all the more. 1993 saw increased exposure through a major tour with Mary Chapin Carpenter and the now large national audience of “A Prairie Home Companion.” With their career now at its 20 year mark Robin and Linda entered into a prolific period of artistic productivity. Within six years they released their all gospel CD , “Good News”, (which garnered two nominations for Gospel Album of the Year). After that, the Williamses released three CD’s of predominately original material, beginning with 1996’s “Sugar For Sugar” (which spent 13 weeks on the Americana chart). This period of productivity, culminating with 2000’s “Company of Strangers,” served notice to an ever-increasing audience of Robin and Linda’s dedication to their artistry.

Having always sung gospel music, in the late 1980s they teamed up with their old friend and “A Prairie Home Companion” host Garrison Keillor and bluegrass songstress Kate MacKenzie to form The Hopeful Gospel Quartet. This wonderful sideline ensemble has gone on to release two albums and tour the USA, British Isles and Europe.

Robin & Linda have made appearances on such major programs as “The Grand Old Opry,” “Austin City Limits,” “Music City Tonight,” “Mountain Stage” and they continue to make frequent appearances on “A Prairie Home Companion.” ” … vocally and instrumentally, the Williamses combine impeccable musical discipline with a bare simplicity and an utter lack of pretension.”
__ Stephen Holden, The New York Times

For 25 years they toured constantly with Their Fine Group. Band members have included Jim Watson on bass, vocals and mandolin, who has been with them since the group’s beginning. Jim was a founding member of The Red Clay Ramblers and played with them for 14 years. The fourth chair of the Fine Group has been filled with several excellent performers: Kevin Maul on dobro and slide, steel guitar; Jimmy Gaudreau on mandolin and mandola, and the wonderful fiddle/mandolin player, Chris Brashear. Most often these days Robin and Linda can be heard in concert as a duo, going back to the roots that brought them together 40 years ago.

The Williams’ period of productivity has no end. Their 2002 recording, “Visions of Love, ” was produced by Garrison Keillor. It garnered a three-star review in USA Today upon its release and received rave notices nationwide. The CD spent several months on the Americana charts and topped the list on several others.

“if we have any two voices better at rendering american music i haven’t heard them.” victory review.com, February 2002
2003 launched the Fortune – Williams Music Festival. Each Fall, Robin and Linda teamed up with Jimmy Fortune and a few of their friends for a line-up of music fit for a setting like the Frontier Cultural Museum in Staunton, VA. With this single event, they managed to host some of the nation’s top musicians for three days of non-stop entertainment until its closing in 2011.

The big item in 2004 was their new move to the prominent independent label, Red House Records. Red House is the Grammy-winning home of several major American roots-based singers and songwriters including Greg Brown, John Gorka, Lucy Kaplansky, Spider John Koerner and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott. Robin and Linda’s 2004 recording, “Deeper Waters,” has been reviewed as to “what amounts to nothing short of a masterpiece” by the All Music Guide.

2005 – Finally, a Christmas recording from Robin and Linda! “The First Christmas Gift” has great new Christmas songs of their own composition, as well as songs by John Prine, Roger Miller and Steve Earle. “‘The First Christmas Gift’ is a breath of fresh air in an overcrowded, cliche-ridden field …” ‘Shotgun Shells On A Christmas Tree’ will probably become a bluegrass standard. __ The Washington Post

2005 opened new opportunites for Robin and Linda to be included in Robert Altman’s final film, “A Prairie Home Companion.” The movie is a fictional representation of behind-the-scenes activities at the long-running public radio show of the same name. Here, they appeared as themselves and performed “Old Plank Road.” Filmed at the Fitzgerald Theater and released in 2006, the movie pooled the talents of four Oscar winners. Critics’ general reaction to the film was favorable: Roger Ebert awarded the film four out of four stars, saying, “What a lovely film this is, so gentle and whimsical, so simple and profound” and later added the film to his “Great Movies” list.

In 2007 Robin & Linda Williams put together a collection of their best live performances from the hit radio show “A Prairie Home Companion” on a recording appropriately titled “Radio Songs.” “Radio Songs is a unique retrospective of one of the most enduring and energetic musical acts of the last few decades.” __ Bluegrass Music News Network. “This CD is like going back in time to a day when radio was prominent in every home. MUSIC ROW MAGAZINE writes, “It doesn’t get any better than these two entwining their pure voices on a glowing, burnished Carter Family jewel.”

Home for Robin and Linda has always been an old frame house built around a log cabin right in the heart of the Shenandoah Valley, so in 2008 they released their 20th recording, “Buena Vista,”tunes that take us down south to country’s bumpy back roads and mountain views. With this recording the Williamses penned a finely detailed drawing of American characters. “Music and meaning are seamless, genuine, and first-rate, as we have come to expect from this gifted team.” __ Dirty Linen

With the revival of Lime Kiln Theater’s “Stonewall Country” Robin and Linda put their original tunes on a 2011 recording. Telling the story of the life of Stonewall Jackson, each song represents a different character or mood, and the music shifts accordingly. So there is a bluegrass number, a blues, and any number of songs that resist genre labeling beyond folk. “Robin and Linda Williams handle all of the lead vocals, and portray all of the different characters and moods, proving themselves to be wonderfully flexible singers.” Stonewall Country __ Oliver di Place

Keeping with the theme of “home and heartfelt love”, the release of 2012’s “These Old Dark Hills” shows Robin and Linda’s songs focusing on “the places” as much as “the people” in their lives. Their harmony-centric and acoustic approaches to music making ensures that the voices and the lyrics- the stories, characters, and settings- always remain at the fore.” _ Fervor Coulee- roots music.

The Williams celebrated their musical legacy in 2013 with the release of their studio album “Back 40” that features fresh treatments of their early classics, many from albums long out of print, and favorites by other writers. Much has changed in the 40 years Robin and Linda Williams have been making music together. “There are constants, too. Especially notable is the couple’s unblemished integrity as performers, songwriters and recording artists.” __ Correspondent Jack Bernhardt, News Observer

No Depression magazine praises Robin and Linda Williams for creating “music that is both comfortable and thoughtful – a rare combination that explains why and how the Williamses are able to keep on an even keel while musical trends come and go. They don’t play at being country – they are country.”

https://www.facebook.com/events/305714093357206/

Dj Dogg Marcus M. Lester is back in the house to get down with you!!! Bring your dancing shoes!!!

https://www.facebook.com/events/322088715182791/

Mosswalk comes to Black Mountain, NC! Time TBA.

Mosswalk- Tip the Waiter recorded live at Outliner Recording Studios
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNfTQldhu8U&feature=youtu.be

Alternative / Progressive Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Jam Rock

Emerging from the abundant soundscape of Buffalo, NY, Mosswalk is a troupe of musical adventurers focused on dynamic songwriting, sonic exploration, and an immersive live experience. Prepare for a unique odyssey along paths of melody, harmony, and rhythm!

Sean McNamara – Guitar and Vocals
Ryan Cass – Keys and Vocals
Jamie Sunshine – Drums and Vocals
Daniel Heuskin – Bass and Vocals

https://www.facebook.com/events/278222336215762/

Back for the 4th year, South Mountains Marathons promises to be a great kick off to the new year of trail running! If you love great views, beautiful waterfalls, and some stellar climbs and descents, then you don’t want to miss out! Did we mention, WE ARE ADDING A 50K THIS YEAR!

This year the marathon/50K and half will be held on separate days, the marathon/50K being Saturday, Jan 12th and the half Sunday Jan 13th. Only 150 spots available in both races! Be sure to hurry and signup as this race has sold out 3 years in a row!

If you dare, sign up for both for an amazing weekend of phenomenal trail running!

Registration opens August 31st, 2018 at 8am!

https://www.facebook.com/events/413569289170294/

CLICK THE LINK BELOW TO WATCH A SHORT VIDEO OF HOW THE TEST IS PERFORMED.

Hydro-static body fat testing video

Scroll down or go to our website for more information.

Body Fat Test

https://www.facebook.com/events/1957228207917073/

We will be there with some of our shelter pups. Stop on by and show them some love!

https://www.facebook.com/events/573095073138141/

Out with the old, to make room for the new. Plan now to rid your home of your unused or out grown “stuff”. Reserve your spot today!

https://www.facebook.com/events/263085134385575/

At birth, it is commonly understood that you have come into the world as a spiritual being, but a being who has not yet become spiritual.

If you expect to find an intelligible and sustainable meaning to your suffering and the chaos in which you live, much less an answer for transforming the world, you ultimately will be led to a spiritual path and to accepting the fact that you don’t know anything! And that is good news! For your mind is not the creator of Truth but is meant to be the organizer of Truth which exists outside your mind.

You will eventually come to see that consciousness is the next frontier of your development which goes beyond religion, self-awareness and therapy. Lost in the material world, you lose your connection to your true and essential Self and over time, you become layered in dysfunctional and illusory mental, physical and emotional patterns. But don’t despair! That is part of the process.

We call the understanding of the conscious self-finding the “yoga” of your life. In essence, you must become a student of your life and work. And that is what this program is all about: revealing to you a spiritual path to the discovery of a different reality that will set you free, answer all of your questions you have about who you are and what you are doing here on Earth, and the peace and joy that will provide for you a new dimension of living.

Join us for this life-changing experience today!

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This month we will be meeting at the Folk Art Center off of the Blue Ridge Parkway for a nice out-n-back along the MST (Mountains to Sea Trail). Total mileage will range between 3-4 miles and ALL paces and distances are welcome!

Looking forward to seeing ya’ll out there!

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