Calendar of Events

Sparrow and her partner Keith will show you the ropes of swing dancing, and all levels are welcome, from beginners to experienced dancers. (And we now have Group Rates for groups of 20 or more, as well as Season Passes!) Date: Friday, May 10th Time: 6pm – 9pm Cost: $7, kids 4 and under free

Bold Rock will be Rocking the Blues with Mojomatic

https://www.facebook.com/events/305884626715398/

Get your tickets this week for a fun evening out with fabulous food and romantic music! Enjoy yourself while helping raise funds for our awesome school. Tickets are $50 and can be reserved by calling 281–8182. If you can’t make it, you can still get in on the fun by bidding on super awesome theme baskets with our silent auction! More details to come.

https://www.facebook.com/events/418850728913438/

True Colors Spring Concert:

This is our biggest concert of the year. Our students have been working towards all year. The culmination of all their of practice.
Come support them and have a great time too!! With special guests Laura Blackley and the Wildflowers!

Our concerts are always free of charge but please consider making a small donation. Let’s make MusicWorks an option for more children in the future. More music, more literacy, more confidence, more fun!

Your generous support makes this possible.

When: Friday, May 10, 2019 at 6 PM – 7:30 PM

Where: Trinity United Methodist Church of Asheville
587 Haywood Rd, Asheville, North Carolina 28806

https://www.facebook.com/events/381820806006948/

Come get your hands dirty and sip on quality craft beer while you create 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 evening. The owner of the school will be on hand to help guide you through every step of this project.

The price for this class is $30 which includes supplies, all the finishing work (firing and glazing) as well as your first pint of beer or kombucha (non-alcoholic option).
***Tickets go on sale this Friday (2/1) at NOON on www.eventbrite.com***

https://www.facebook.com/events/288773938452216/

MOVIES IN THE PARK
SPONSORED BY BLACK ORTHODONTICS
Location: Pack Square Park
Asheville Parks and Recreation presents Movies in the Park sponsored by Black Orthodontics, a free event series in Pack Square Park. Activities begin at 6:30 p.m. and the movie begins at dusk on a giant outdoor screen on the Pack Square Park stage. Bring your chairs or a blanket, snacks, and enjoy a movie under the stars.
FREE

Friday, May 10: Cars 3
Race car Lightning McQueen suffers a severe crash while trying to compete with a younger rival named Jackson Storm.
G, 109 minutes

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LeOH9AGJQM

https://www.facebook.com/events/2295789104078632/

$15 Advance / $15 Day of Show

Nashville songwriter Brian Ashley Jones and Atlanta percussionist Richie Jones return to Isis Music Hall for an evening of guitar driven original songs from Brian’s previous releases as well as a few new tunes! Brian and Richie (The Jones Brothers) are not related but have been playing music together in various configurations for over 15 years and are brothers of the road!

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/592800461191601/

Come drink some local Hard Cider or Craft Beer and dine on some delicious food from Mike’s On Main Street or some of Aubrey’s Homemade Wings & Sauces. Then it’s time to listen to some awesome music!

Live music from 7 to 9:30 P.M.

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Paul is a award winning song writer. Paul has worked with some of the industries greatest names, he has recorded with Jimmy Johnson, Nashville session staples dummer Martin Parker (Ricky Scaggs, Allison Krause, and Patti Loveless)

https://www.facebook.com/events/421286105300127/

They’re coming back to Artisan Entertainment! We had so many people that wanted them back, we wouldn’t dream of missing out on hosting them once again…. and this time, to The Firmament in Greenville with Special Guests Fiftywatt Freight Train and Osara

Established in southern California in 1983, multi-platinum crossover Christian metal band, Stryper, continues to
share their positive message and energetic stage presence with a passionate following throughout the world. Since
the band’s inception over 30 years ago, the founding members have stayed true to their deepest convictions, turning
from “the ways of the world” and following their hearts instead.

“In the past 34 years, we’ve evolved into what we are now,” says vocalist and guitarist Michael Sweet. “This is what we always really wanted to be. I love the progression. The story of Stryper is that of an underdog. We seem to go against the grain with everything we do, and our fans tend to be the same – They’re good hardworking people who believe in love, respect, and not conforming to the ways of the world.”

The members of Stryper have proven themselves as metal stalwarts, leaving an indelible mark on the genre with each new release. With such hits as “Calling On You,” “Free,” “Honestly,” and “Always There For You,” Stryper’s album sales now exceed over 10 million worldwide. Add to that one of the most successful Christian rock albums ever, 1986’s multi-platinum To Hell With The Devil, and the unique distinction of being the first band in history to notch two songs in MTV’s Top 10 with “Free” and “Honestly.”

The band has managed to leave an enduring impression on pop culture, as well. Singer Michael Sweet spent months trending online when he was identified as the doppelganger of 2016 presidential candidate Ted Cruz, who went on to discuss the comparison on an episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live! Several movies have paid homage to Stryper’s cultural significance, too, including Drew Barrymore’s “Whip It” and “Pain & Gain,” starring Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.

Since returning from a 12-year hiatus in 2003, Stryper has managed to release new music annually. Their most recent full-length album, Fallen [Frontiers Music SRL], reached #44 on the Billboard Top 200 and #2 on the Top Hard Music Albums chart. The group is now recording their next original album, which is due in April of 2018 and
promises to be their most groundbreaking yet.

This year will also bring Stryper back on the road, where they’ll have a chance to connect with fans, new and old. The line-up still features three of the original members, including singer songwriter Michael Sweet, his brother and drummer Robert Sweet, and guitarist Oz Fox. Recently, the group welcomed iconic bassist Perry Richardson
(formerly of Firehouse), who will be joining them on tour.

“We’re excited about the next season of Stryper,” says Sweet. “ We have the best fans in the world and the band is at the top of its game musically and spiritually. We look forward to seeing everyone on the road.”

Supporting Acts:
Fiftywatt Freight Train
Osara

https://www.facebook.com/events/394089724466311/

Make it & shake it with Twerk & Tone!

*Knee Pads, tennis shoes & jiggly booty leggings or shorts required*

$2 rental knee pads available at studio

YASSS, booty booty booty booty, rockin’ everywhere! Get the booty lift of your life in this class with Cynthia Sims! You will not only build your booty but learn how to twerk too! Come have so much fun in a fitness class with the best playlist EVER! You will also learn so many ways to Twerk and combine a dance combo for the party or club! This class will make you feel hotter than FIRE!

Class includes: Twerking, Booty Shaping, Booty Lifting, & Toning. Learn Twerk techniques

➳ 60 minute class

➳ $12 drop in/ Pre-register on Mindbody app- Primal Studios to reserve your space + speed up the sign in process!

➳ We have Buti Yoga B-aligned mats for your use!

➳About the Instructor; Cynthia is a Certified TWERK Technician, RYT 200 hour certified Yoga Alliance instructor, a certified Advanced Buti Yoga instructor, and certified Hot Buti Yoga instructor. Along with being a lifelong fitness enthusiast and lover of movement, Cynthia is also a registered nurse with over two decades of experience working in the healthcare field

✨ Primal Studios is a Yoga/Buti Yoga/Movement studio that inspires you to move outside your comfort zone, and connect & thrive in the community as we evolve together! Visit us at 457 N. Louisiana Ave. in West Asheville, right inside the TRIBE Dance & Pole building! www.primalstudiosasheville.com ✨

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Three misfit teenagers come together to start a Speech & Debate team at school, protest the school’s production of Once Upon a Mattress, and take down a possibly predatory teacher. Loyalties shift and secrets are revealed in this dark comedy by Tony-winner Stephen Karam.

OLEANNA BY DAVID MAMET
Second Stage
May 3-12
Director: Lora Ristau
He said, she said—but exactly what happened? Oleanna examines the power struggle between a university professor and one of his female students, who accuses him of sexual exploitation and, by doing so, spoils his chances of being awarded tenure.

https://www.facebook.com/events/2833406970006432/?event_time_id=2833406990006430

Franz Schubert: Piano Trio No. 1 in B-flat major, D. 898
Franz Schubert: Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat major, D. 929

The first concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmoniker. A Grammy nominated cellist. A world-famous pianist. Join Asheville-native Noah Bendix-Balgley, Peter Wiley, and Robert Levin for a singular special event celebrating one of chamber music’s most legendary composers — Franz Schubert. This performance is a once in a lifetime opportunity to see these three chamber music masters perform the Austrian composers only two piano trios, both composed late in life.

“My Life as a Dog”
Lasse Hallstrom (Sweden, 1985)
This is the story of Ingemar, a 12-yr-old from a working-class family sent to live with his uncle in a country village when his mother falls ill. With the help of the warmhearted eccentrics who populate the town, the boy finds both refuge from his misfortunes and unexpected adventure.

Doors open at 7:30 / Film begins at 8:00 pm. Come on in, get comfortable, have some refreshments and enjoy great films from around the world every Friday! Open donation.

Galena will be joined by Kusa and Mightier than Me for one hell of a party to celebrate the official release of “Sliced,” Galena’s newest EP.

Galena: www.wearegalena.com

Kusa: https://kusaboiz.bandcamp.com/

Mightier Than Me: https://www.mightierthanme.com/

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Local Singer/Songwriter Joel Cornes takes the stage at Triskelion for the first time.

https://www.facebook.com/events/2874539582557939/

#thenewrusticsNC hits the Sanctuary Brewing Company stage for the second time in 2019! Join us on Friday May 10th @ 8 PM for a night of LIVE music and dancing! This one is sure to be a night to remember!

The New Rustics (formerly called Open Road is a new four piece band located in Asheville NC. Our music is Americana with hints of folk, rock, and jam.

https://www.facebook.com/events/596325087509916/

Please note: This event is now sold out! Click on the link below to be added to the waiting list: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfnsTdExtMXxjuUwxVXt7CGzrv1LnDw1kX2-sKoiA7QbTiYqg/viewform

Join us for a fun, family-friendly “HOPportunity” as we discover which amphibians are more active at night, while also enjoying tasty treats and local brews. Participants will listen and learn how to identify frogs by their nocturnal sounds, as well as see live animal demonstrations with different frog and salamander species. Take a guided evening hike to hear gray treefrogs and other species. Come celebrate the final weekend of the Arboretum’s special In the Dark exhibit.

Attendance is free, however, online registration is required and standard non-member parking fees apply. A suggested five-dollar per person donation is welcomed and will help support The North Carolina Arboretum Society. Children are welcome to attend but must be accompanied by an adult during all activities; participants must be 21 or older with a valid I.D. to purchase alcohol.

Participants in the Arboretum’s ecoEXPLORE program will earn five bonus points for attending this event.

https://www.facebook.com/events/740753256310617/

$15 Advance / $18 Day of Show

Josephine County combines the talents of four powerful traditional musicians into one exceptional musical experience ranging from the United States to Ireland and back. Award-winning fiddler and singer Erica Brown dedicated herself to traditional music at a very young age. Classical, French Canadian, Bluegrass, Country, and much more can be found in her wide-range of musical expertise. Songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Matt Shipman’s love of traditional music is apparent in his mastery of Bluegrass, Country, and Irish styles of playing. His detailed and thoughtful guitar, mandolin, and banjo playing captivate and delight audiences nationwide. Traditional Irish flute player and singer Hanz Araki is known worldwide for his fresh and innovative approach. His musical sensibility is both inspired and disciplined and has made him a household name from the UK to Japan. Among the finest interpreters of traditional songs of her generation, singer Colleen Raney brings warmth and authenticity to music from Ireland, Appalachia, Scotland, and beyond.

Join us for an evening of breathtaking harmonies and exceptional instrumentals with four of Maine’s brightest folk music stars. Music from Ireland, Appalachia, Quebec and more!

Main Stage Seated :: 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/505879499924762/

Come out and get your socks rocked and your face fixed! Rock-n-roll from:

Broke Jokes (Charlotte)
https://brokejokes.bandcamp.com/releases

Tony and the Haircuts (Asheville)

Fixed Faces (Greenville)
https://fixedfaces.bandcamp.com/releases

https://www.facebook.com/events/820814491590967/

Circles Around The Sun at The Grey Eagle

https://www.facebook.com/events/791522487879499/

Farwell concert for Jordan Okrend Experience with Jamie Berlyn & Friends

Celebrating my move to Europe to perform with a world traveling band there. Come catch me before I leave! Jamie Berlyn is also moving to NYC so this will be a joint send off!

WHEN: Friday May 10th 2019

WHERE: Ambrose West 312 Haywood Road Asheville, NC 28806

DOORS: 8pm

SHOW: 9pm

TICKETS: $10

SEATING: SRO

AGES: 18+

Jordan Okrend Experience
The Jordan Okrend Experience is more than one thing. First, there is the signature sound, vintage pop imbued with an infectious funky jazz edge. There is also something else. Soulful music with socially conscious lyrics, that has all been but lost in today’s current pop climate.
more info : www.jordanokrend.com

Jamie Berlyn
Jazz/Funk
I am putting together a group of musicians that are fearless improvisers and will follow me down the rabbit hole of intense improvised music. Featuring Jason Decristafaro, Landon George, Justice Mann and Taylor Pierson, with a special performance by Reggie Headon.

https://www.facebook.com/events/2290206107896034/

Old Time Relijun
w/ Okapi, Mouthbreathers
at The Mothlight
Friday May 10th
Doors 8pm, Show 9pm
Tickets: $13adv, https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1825393

Old Time Relijun is an unearthly combo from Olympia, Washington. We don’t throw words like “genius”, “brilliant” or “legendary” around lightly. Nor do we use them to describe Old Time Relijun (though others do). We prefer to see them as “mythical”. Their new EP, See Now and Know [KLP272], appears after a mysterious decade-long dormancy, reuniting the classic Catharsis in Crisis [KLP184] lineup featuring bandleader Arrington de Dionyso with Aaron Hartman (upright bass), Germaine Baca (drums) and Benjamin Hartman (saxophone and percussion). This is the band’s 9th studio recording and they appear to have exploded spontaneously, pounding together a fiery record, forged from within. Resistance, magic and hope are catalysts for a deeper tunneling under. The songs are typical OTR: sexy, untethered, and sing-along at the edge of the volcano fun. “Dragon Juice” conjures a dance party in a dangerous lair; “I Know I’m Alive” brings an inspired moment on the mountain into sharp, soulful focus; and “El Naranjo Gritando” brings us up close to the big nasty. There is real, palpable urgency in this recording. Seven songs, 23 minutes. Everything necessary with no fat to cut out. Jump in, Old Time Relijun, See Now and Know!

https://www.facebook.com/events/323680165020844/

Son Volt
Show: 9pm
Doors: 8pm
$18 – $20
Ages 18+

Tickets & Info: www.theorangepeel.net/event/son-volt/

On Son Volt’s new record, Union, present and past mingle into strong confluence.The thirteen new songs written by founder Jay Farrar confront our turbulent politics and articulate the clarity and comfort music can offer in the tumult. “There are so many forces driving our country apart,” observes Farrar. “What can we do to bring our society back together?”

The country and blues sounds explored by Son Volt on its last two records (2013’s Honky Tonk and 2017’s Notes of Blue) linger in the grooves of Union. But the new record nods to many other mile markers along the band’s 25-year path. Some tunes offer a powerful return to the ringing lyrical clarity of 2005’s Okemah and the Melody of Riot and 2007’s The Search. Others hearken back to the freewheeling poetic melodicism of 1994’s Trace and 1997’s Straightaways.

“Broadsides will be hurled to capture the truth,” sings Farrar on the brooding and blues-driven song that takes its name from the one-page bulletins that used to spread both proclamations and ballads. And songs such as “The 99,” “While Rome Burns,” and “Lady Liberty” push up the acoustic guitar in the mix to underscore the enduring role of troubadours in troubled times. “A lot of these songs are songs of turmoil,” says Farrar. “Questioning what’s going on.”

On Union, Farrar taps into folk music’s rich lyrical legacy. It’s a tradition he has tapped often both in Son Volt and in Uncle Tupelo. “I was raised on folk music,” observes Farrar. “Politics is a common thread there. In a time where we see threats to our way of life, and our democracy, from within, you say: What can I do? I put pen to paper and write music.”

The chorus of Union’s title song was a “mantra” of James Paul ‘Pops’ Farrar, about whom Farrar has written so affectingly in his memoir, Falling Cars and Junkyard Dogs. “He thought the Israeli model was best,” says the songwriter. “Everybody serves in one capacity or another, and that was the best way to bring a country together. It did happen here in World War II. People of different spiritual and economic backgrounds brought together. And there was an immense period of prosperity after that –for a myriad of reasons, but the idea that all walks of life were working together is important.”

Union grounds its politics in startling images and portraits of the human costs of our divides. Guitar and organ commingle on “While Rome Burns” to underscore a connectedness in the way that “the freeways lead to the gravel roads, to the town squares and the rodeos.”

The mournful shuffling “Reality Winner” echoes direct protest songs such as “Hurricane” –Bob Dylan’s ode to boxer Rubin Carter, who was wrongly convicted of triple homicide in 1967. Winner is a former intelligence analyst who leaked a National Security Agency document that detailed Russian attempts to hack voting systems to the media. She was convicted of violating the Espionage Act and sentenced to five years and three months in prison.

“We have a reality TV show president,” Farrar says, “and we have this woman named Reality Winner, and they’re linked in a way. She represents everything that you want in an American, someone who’s learned three languages and does her part. She’s basically a whistleblower doing hard time. Maybe this song brings more awareness to her plight.”

A reinvigorated band chemistry anchors the new record, with new and returning members turning up in the Union mix. Longtime members Mark Spencer (piano, organ, acoustic slide, lap steel, backing vocals) and Andrew DuPlantis (bass, backing vocals) have been at the core of Son Volt’s recent work. Guitarist Chris Frame –who toured with Son Volt in the Okemahera –rejoined the group for the Notes of Blue tour and plays on the new record. DuPlantis recruited fellow Austin musician Mark Patterson to play drums and percussion.

“We spent a lot of time together playing shows behind Notes of Blue,” says Farrar. “That time playing together coalesced into a sense of purpose.” The Son Volt leader’s return to playing acoustic guitar –after taking up electric guitar on the band’s last record –also had an impact. “I took a step back,” says Farrar. The space allowed Frame “to add a lot of guitar elements.” The result is “a different flavor and perspective.”

Initially, Farrar intended Union to be an explicitly political statement. “Midway through,” he says, “I realized I needed some balance on the record.” The result is a cluster of new songs that reflect on the power of love, time, and music to heal and sustain us. “Holding Your Own” builds to a shimmering and powerful climax of piano and electric guitar as it relays the hopes Farrar identifies in “watching kids grow up andfind their place in society.”

“Slow Burn” is an ode to hope and resilience’s power to shake off darkness. The song’s piano chords pave a road out of futility and reminds listeners that “every tunnel reaches the light.” Another highlight on the record is “Devil May Care” –an ebullient celebration of the joys of playing music. Farrar strip-mined musical gear catalogues for the poetry in their terminology, reeling off lines like “harmonic fidelity boost high pass filter on a balanced line / Or a cigarette on a headstock, all the same just make it rhyme.”

The attitude of bands such as the early-era Replacements was present as he wrote the song. “That is the essence of what a band is,” he says. “You remember: Wait a minute: Music is supposed to make you throw your burdens to the wind, so I tried to include that approach as well.”

Eight of the thirteen songs on Union were recorded at places associated with two figures in American history who Farrar says “made a difference”: Renowned American labor activist Mary Harris “Mother” Jones and quintessential American troubadour Woody Guthrie. Three songs were laid down at the Mother Jones Museum in Mount Olive, Illinois, while four others were recorded at the Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

“I felt doing it in a more challenging environment might inspire us along the way,” says Farrar. “Doing mobile recordings was a way to push myself a little bit. It also pushed Jacob Detering, our engineer, who had to assemble a mobile unit and did a great job.”

Proximity to Guthrie and his legacy pushed strongly into Union’s closing song: “The Symbol.” The song’s point of origin was Guthrie’s 1948 poem “Plane Wreck at Los Gatos,” which was later set to music by composer Martin Hoffman and is best-known as “Deportee.” Guthrie wrote at a moment when “workers needed to work fields weren’t even considered as people,” observes Farrar.

In “The Symbol,” Farrar paints a compelling portrait of a Mexican man who helped rebuild New Orleans after Katrina and now finds himself buffeted by the wave of anti-immigration rhetoric and vengeful law enforcement.

Farrar says that the key to writing songs on topical issues that stand the test of time is to be a truthful observer. “‘Deportee’ made such a lasting impression on me,” he observes. “But it was written in the 1940s You have to give your own take. Say this is what happened. Even if it seems temporary. Hopefully it’s not.”

www.sonvolt.net

https://www.facebook.com/events/369339070527123/

Genre: Folk/Rock/Funk/Roots
Cover: $5 Suggested Donation @ Door
Show: 10PM
Ages: 21+

Swamp Kids

Swamp Kids features the collaborative singing and songwriting of it’s members while
drawing from a repertoire of timeless tunes that nourished the roots of folk, soul, and r&b music
such as the Staples Singers, Skip James, Donny Hathaway, and Marcia Griffiths.
With an emphasis on deep pocket groove and gospel style vocal harmonies, Swamp Kids
is a from-the-gut embodiment of American musical folklore with a modern twist.

web: https://swampkidsmusic.com/

vid: https://youtu.be/BkA0v5XgGSg

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Every Friday night you can find DJ Databoy and DJ Woodside spinning your favorite rap records. Dancing is permitted! No Cover.

https://www.facebook.com/events/2530249150380639/?event_time_id=2530253690380185

From Thursday, May 2nd until Saturday, June 22nd, Momentum Gallery hosts a two-person, mixed media exhibition called Dissolution. The collection features individually created and collaborative works by two artists, Seth Clark and Jason Forck. Original collages mounted to panels play off architectonic sculptures in glass and wood culminating in a cohesive body of work that explores the notion of deteriorating architecture. This event is free and open to the public.

60 & 30 Mile Charity Bike to support Oconee Forever in its land conversation efforts. The ride will stay in the Foothills of Oconee County where you enjoy a beautiful rolling terrain. After the ride enjoy locally cooked BBQ, Beer & Live Bluegrass Music. Non-Rider tickets are available for the Music, BBQ, & Beer.

Early Bird Registration ($40) ends April 14.
April 15 – May 9 – $50
After May 16, Day of Registration will be available for $60
Group Discounts (6+ Riders to qualify) of $5 off the Registration available until May 3
T-Shirt guaranteed if registered by April 28
Event only Day of $30
Youth Discounts – $12.50 for event only, Youth Registration – $20.

For places to stay in Oconee County see http://www.scmountainlakes.com/

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