The 10th annual season of Concerts on the Creek returns to Jackson County, N.C., in 2019. Held from 7-9 p.m. every Friday from Memorial Day through Labor Day at the Bridge Park in Sylva, these FREE, family-friendly events are organized by the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, the Town of Sylva and the Jackson County Parks and Recreation Department. Bring a chair or blanket. Donations are greatly appreciated. Please visit www.mountainlovers.com or call 828-586-2155 for more information.

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Montford Park Players Presents Classic Love Story, Romeo & Juliet

Romeo & Juliet
by William Shakespeare

Produced by Montford Park Players at the Hazel Robinson Amphitheatre

Show Dates:
August 2-24
Friday, Saturday and Sunday @ 7:30pm

Hazel Robinson Amphitheatre
92 Gay St. Asheville, NC

We’re proud announce our upcoming production of the classic romance Romeo & Juliet. All performances will be held at the Hazel Robinson Amphitheatre at 92 Gay Street in the heart of Asheville’s historic Montford District, from August 2nd through the 24th on Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings at 7:30pm. This performance, like ALL of Montford Park Players’ shows, will be absolutely FREE to attend.

Romeo & Juliet remains one of the most-enduring stories in all of history, spawning countless productions at theaters around the world and filmed versions, both of the original and stories based on it, seemingly every few years. In this years’ version, director Mandy Bean presents the show close to as it may have originally been produced, traditional costumes and production concept.
The story of these “star-crossed lovers” was last presented by Montford Park Players five years ago. It tells the story of the Capulets and the Montagues, two families in a long-standing feud. When their children Juliet and Romeo, respectively, fall in love, the blowback is violent and even deadly. Although, it is a tragedy in the traditional sense, the play is very funny, charming and romantic in its early acts. Director Bean hopes that those who perceive of the show as a tear-jerker, will see the brilliant antics set forth in before things get heavy.

Romeo here is played by Jackson Cole with MPP-regular Sophie Stanley as his love, Juliet. The cast contains some of Montford’s most-popular players, including Devyn Ray Villareal, Haven Volpe, Jason Williams and David Broshar. The show is, as mentioned, directed by Mandy Bean, who directed the hit A Midsummer Night’s Dream last season. Costumes will be by Sam LeBroq, with choreography provided by Kristi DeVille.

For more information or to reserve seats, go to montfordparkplayers.org, or call at (828) 254-5146.

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Love, Linda is a one-woman musical about Linda Lee Thomas, the glamorous spouse and driving force behind renowned American songwriter Cole Porter. The story of their unconventional 35-year marriage interweaves with innovative arrangements of Porter’s timeless music and clever lyrics to create the compelling narrative of Love, Linda.

In the course of the show, Linda takes us behind the glitter of their sensational social life, sharing intimate, and at times heartbreaking moments, such as the dashed dreams of having a child, Cole’s occasional hurtful sexual escapades, his crippling horse accident and her own failing health. To quote Linda from the show, their journey together was far from “a picture-perfect postcard”, but by the end of her story, she has definitively made the case that “just because a love between two people may be difficult to define, that doesn’t mean it didn’t exist.”

Love, Linda is directed by Misty Theisen and stars Karen Covington-Yow.

Seating is limited for this show!

Join us for One Cello, One Planet, a concert series that raises awareness for creation care action. All proceeds go to support the work of the Creation Care Alliance.

Judith Glixon, a former Asheville resident and principal cellist with the Asheville Symphony and the Brevard Chamber Orchestra, returns to WNC to present a one-hour solo cello concert about the urgency of climate change. The music of J. S. Bach (Unaccompanied Suites #2 & 3), Benjamin Britten (final movement of Suite for Cello, Op.72), Maurice Ravel and a recent composition by Daniel Crawford will take listeners through an abridged history of the human race (with an emphasis on Western civilization) from its beginning until today. Ticket sales for the concert will support the work that the Creation Care Alliance does to bring practical and hopeful solutions to our congregations and broader secular communities by engaging hearts and minds through inspiration, education, service, and advocacy. The Creation Care Alliance is a program of MountainTrue, WNC’s champion for clean waters, resilient forests, and healthy communities.

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“A drama that’s not just a departure but a revelation” – Variety

Becca and Howie Corbett have everything a family could want, until the tragic death of their son turns their world upside down and leaves the couple drifting apart. Rabbit Hole charts their bittersweet journey from a place of uncertainty to a new reality, as they find themselves and each other. In the end, there is always hope. Winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize.

We are so excited to work with director Stephanie Hickling Beckman on this production. Stephanie is the Founder and Managing Artistic Director of Different Strokes Performing Arts Collective and has directed several times in 35below. She
shares that “Rabbit Hole has been categorized as a play about parents navigating the loss of a child. Upon closer inspection, it became apparent to me that while the polarizing incident serves as a catalyst for grief, the play can’t be defined by the tragedy that occurs eight months before the opening scene. Rabbit Hole is instead a story about how a family, each in their own way, navigates a life-changing event.”
 

On Friday night, August 23rd, we have tickets available for hip hop star, Danny Brown. After a trilogy of records that rank among the last decade’s most critically acclaimed rap releases, Danny Brown is releasing his fifth studio album, the Q-Tip-produced ‘uknowhatimsayin?,’ he is presenting a new version of himself: Danny Brown, serious craftsman and burgeoning elder statesman of rap.

This weekend, our beloved west Asheville indie record store, Harvest Records, is celebrating 15 years of business and bringing a weekend’s worth of great bands to Asheville, including shows at the Peel! That’s right! August 22-24 marks the 3rd quint-annual Harvest Record’s Transfigurations, a once-every-five-years celebration of Harvest’s founding. They’ll be putting on shows at various venues, including ours!

Greg Brown & Malcolm Holcombe: A Benefit for Beloved Asheville’s Tiny Home Village at The Grey Eagle

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Big Business
w/ Death Valley Girls, Craig Brown Band
at The Mothlight
Friday, August 23rd
Doors 8pm, Show 9pm
Tickets: $13adv, https://www.eventbrite.com/e/61832343203

Big Business is a band. They play heavy rock. On that, we can all agree. Things get tricky when you try to classify exactly where on the musical spectrum the dynamic duo’s racket falls. “I guess psychedelic heavy metal punk rock? I don’t know. People always say ‘sludge rock,’ which I always found to be lazy and kind of inaccurate,” says drummer Coady Willis. “A lot of our songs are fast, and it’s not like we’re playing a half-assed Black Sabbath riff over and over again. That’s been the struggle of the band. We’re a band that doesn’t really fit into what everyone else is doing.”�

�Willis comes from punk rockers The Murder City Devils. His co-conspirator, bassist/vocalist Jared Warren, spent time in noise rock weirdos Karp. Together, they formed Big Business in 2004. The LA-based outfit’s first three albums didn’t quite mesh with Hydra Head’s post-metal aesthetic, but their idiosyncrasies caught the attention of another iconoclastic outfit: The Melvins. They recorded three albums, an EP, and various songs between 2006 and 2016 with that iconic grunge/doom/experimental act, all while maintaining their own identity as Big Business. Along the way, they picked up guitarists Toshi Kasai and Scott Martin, but on 2016’s Command Your Weather, they returned to their core duo format. They remain in that lineup on their sixth full-length, The Beast You Are.�

�“It’s just better. We work faster, and we know what we’re both going for. It gives us more room to be weirder in certain aspects and try different things. It makes sense because that’s how we established ourselves in the beginning and how we learned to write songs together, it was just the two of us. Coming back to that lineup felt natural,” continues Willis. The two performed everything on the album, which was recorded between the early November and early December of 2018 at El Studio in San Francisco by Phil Becker (Pins of Light, Terry Gross). Willis, Warren, and Becker handled the mixing, with Carl Saff lending his mastering expertise to the final product. Once more, Warren has hacked up some construction paper for one of his unique cover art pieces.�

�With a new, dynamic demoing process leading to the creation of the most songs they’ve ever written for an album, The Beast You Are delivers 13 doses of uncategorizably heavy rock music. From the ominous death march of “The Moor You Know” to the soaring “Let Them Grind” to the delicate, ethereal “Under Everest,” Big Business continues to defy listener’s expectations. No matter the context of their music, however, one thing remains true: they are definitely still a band.

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Transfigurations III, Celebrating 15 Years of Harvest Records PRESENTS:
DANNY BROWN
with WELL$
Show : 9:30pm
Doors : 8:30pm
$30 – $35
All Ages

Tickets & Info: www.theorangepeel.net/event/transfigurations-iii-celebrating-15-years-of-harvest-records-presents-danny-brown/

This event is being presented as part of Transfigurations III: Celebrating 15 Years of Harvest Records. Transfigurations III will take place across five venues in Asheville from August 22-24th, 2019. To see the entire lineup, buy weekend passes and other tickets, or to learn more, visit www.harvest-records.com/transfigurations

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“It’s the downward spiral, got me suicidal/ But too scared to do it so these pills will be the rifle.” That’s how Detroit rap phenom Danny Brown kicked off the second verse of the title track to his breakout 2011 mixtape XXX, and his astounding new album and Warp debut Atrocity Exhibition picks up right where that record left off.

A thematic sequel to XXX’s hairline-trigger hedonism and despair, Atrocity Exhibition finds Brown ruminating on life after greater success—how things changed, how they haven’t, and how the potential of the future is often irreconcilable with the realities of the present. “I couldn’t tell the story of what happened after XXX because I was living,” Brown explains. “I had to live life to write about it.”

Brown began work on Atrocity Exhibition in the summer of 2014, linking up with producer and frequent collaborator Paul White on the bulk of the album’s cuts. “Me and him are the same way,” Brown enthuses on the pair’s partnership. “He’s out there, and I’m out there too. We just want to make music…You never heard nobody rapping over this type of production before. This is not regular rap.”

Indeed: Atrocity Exhibition is one of the freshest and boldest-sounding rap albums in recent memory, a sonic swirl inspired by the work of Talking Heads and Joy Division that nonetheless sounds like nothing else from the past or present. Along with contributions from producers like Evian Christ, Petite Noir (who also lends vocals to the world-weary clang of “Rolling Stone”), Black Milk and the Alchemist, White and Brown are absolutely in the pocket on Atrocity Exhibition. The pair fashion laser-beam guitars, gym-teacher whistles, creaking vocal samples, and air-raid drones into the most intriguing take on hallucinatory rap since the heady heights of Cold Vein or Madvillainy.

Brown’s fourth studio album is the latest peak in a career full of highlights: over the last decade, he’s worked with a breadth of artists from Purity Ring and Rustie to Schoolboy Q, E-40, and Ghostface Killah. Since the release of Old, he’s contributed the theme song to the hit ABC comedy Fresh Off the Boat, hopped on the explosive posse track “Detroit Vs. Everybody” with Eminem, Dej Loaf, Royce da 5’9”, Big Sean, and Trick Trick; this year, he lent his distinctive energy to “Frankie Sinatra,” the first single from legendary production team the Avalanches’ first album in more than a decade, Wildflower.

Nothing that Brown’s done in the last few years will prepare you for Atrocity Exhibition, though, which draws a bit of inspiration from the Joy Division song it shares a title with, exploring the alienation that comes as a consequence of living in public. “People see me in public and expect me to be drunk—they think I’m some sort of crazy druggie,” Brown says. “They expect a spectacle, but there’s a lot of downtime and depression that comes with being like that, too.”

Brown is above all else an artist known to subvert expectations—and Atrocity Exhibition is no different, as some of the album’s most uptempo tracks are vessels for reflection and rumination. Beneath the honking horns and menacing swarm of “Ain’t It Funny” lies observations on the irony on how Brown’s past relates to his present: “The whole song is about how I used to sell drugs to survive—and now that I’m a rapper I’m doing more drugs. How did that happen?”

The chanting frenzy of “Dance in the Water,” which Brown describes as a cross between the Beach Boys and Tone Loc’s “Funky Cold Medina,” might sound club-ready with its tumbling drums and thrilling incantations—but it carries themes on personal renewal, too. “The song‘s about changing and being baptized,” Brown explains on the song’s themes. “You keep walking to the edge of that cliff, but one day you might fall over. You gotta change, and you gotta stop.”

Atrocity Exhibition explores some weighty themes, but there’s light amidst the darkness, too. Brown’s sense of humor and party-starting vibe is more than present throughout the record, from the frantic electro-combustion of “When It Rain” to the raunchy travelogue of “Golddust,” the latter in which our protagonist rhapsodizes about twerk-offs and Bloody Marys for brunch over a martial soul sample. Soothed-out smoking anthem “Get Hi” finds Brown taking a literal breather to remind listeners about the finer, more fragrant things in life, while “White Lines” turns a dizzying drug binge into the type of sing-along you’d find on a demented, alternate-universe Sesame Street.� Clearly, Brown has poured a lot of himself into Atrocity Exhibition—an undistilled sip from his creative tap—and as such, the album’s features have been carefully chosen. Kelela lends her snaking vocals to the intriguingly murky “From the Ground,” Cypress Hill’s B-Real delivers “Get Hi”’s languid hook, and Earl Sweatshirt, Kendrick Lamar, and Ab-Soul all convene for the twinkling ominousness of “Really Doe.” “When XXX came out, all of us were peers, and those were the three rappers who were the best,” Brown explains on having the star-packed trio appear on the track. “I felt like we were competitors, they made me want to step my game up. I wanted to put the hottest rappers in the game on there.”�And the intricate wordplay, unmatched storytelling, and lyrical thoughtfulness of Atrocity Exhibition�further cements Danny Brown as not only one of rap’s brightest lights, but one of the most consis tently inventive artists working in popular music right now. The record represents an unbelievabl e artistic peak, as well as a crystallization of an aesthetic that doubles as a definitive realization o f self. “I feel like this is the first Danny Brown album,” he ruminates on the record’s accomplish ments. “Before, I felt like I was trying to fit in—�but for the first time, I feel like I’m making music for me. I know Danny Brown’s sound, and I’m just doing what Danny Brown knows how to do.”

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Genre: Psychedelic Rock/Blues
Cover: $5 Suggested Donation @ Door
Show: 10PM
Ages: 21+

Drip A Silver

Jerry enthusiasts, Drip A Silver, render the catalog from a place of merry reverence. Tunes from all era’s of Grateful Dead and Jerry Band. Join our dance party!

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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.

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Our monthly meeting for August has been transformed into a kid-focused family-friendly event, as we join with two other local grassroots groups, Stronger Together WNC-North and Madison County Indivisible, to protest the unjust, inhumane, and often downright illegal treatment of refugees at our southern border. Recognizing that children hear and see what’s going on in the news and that hearing about the mistreatment of children and families can be upsetting, “Kids Rising” will focus on offering comfort and solace by helping kids process this disturbing situation through writing and art, with the goal of empowering them to express their feelings and stand up for families at the border.

Card-writing and art stations will be set up in the auditorium, with pre-addressed, stamped postcards available for kids to write to the President, to their Senators, or to their Representative in Congress. We will also be creating a large banner of children’s art, for those who’d like to participate in this way.

Parents will also have an opportunity to write their own cards and letters, and adults without kids will have a separate space available for letter-writing if they prefer a quieter space. Fact sheets, postcards, stationery and stamps will be provided.

Join us for our first kid-focused event! Everyone is welcome.

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Its that time again ladies! Time for us to “takeover” the Green River! This August 24th we will be hosting the 6th annual Green River Takeover to get a bunch of ladies out on the water together while also raising money for the Shannon Christy Memorial Fund and the Live Like Maria Memorial Fund with a chance to win tons of great prizes!

The idea of this day is to get as many awesome women as we can out on the Green River together. It will be all about simply having fun on the water together as a big group of rad ladies. All too often the river is filled with just men and this is a day where the women take it over!

Mark your calendars and share this event with anyone who might be interested! We want ALL women who feel comfortable paddling either the Upper Green or the Narrows. We had 94 women participate last year, lets see how many we can get together on the river this year!

Check out www.greenrivertakeover.com for more details about the event!

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Summer is all about outdoor fun, spending quality time together as a family and taking in the wonderful sights of nature. Submit your photos of your family hiking, sunlight making its way through the trees or of the fantastic views that make Chimney Rock so special. We’ll use the winning entries on our website and Facebook album, and you’ll win some fun prizes. Photos must be taken within the Chimney Rock section of the Park.

Cost: No cost to enter contest.

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Join the High Country Audubon Society for a bird walk at Valle Crucis Community Park the 4th Saturday of every month. Enjoy an opportunity to see our beautiful birds in the area in a walk led by one of your community members. These walks will start on April 27th and end on October 26th, 2019. The walks are free (although donations are always welcome) and are open to birders of any age and level.

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The Asheville GreenWorks nursery is in need of some TLC. After multiple break-ins, vandalism, and theft of tools like weedeaters and chainsaws, we need your help more than ever.

For this workday, we are asking you to bring your weed eaters, if you can, and help clear out the brush in the nursery and hoop house. Don’t have a weed eater? That’s okay! In addition, we will do some hand weeding and other maintenance.

If getting in a good sweat and some hard work isn’t enough incentive, we’ll be sending you home with a native tree of your choosing. At the end of the workday, harvest some apples from the orchard and leave with a tree as well.

Wear work clothes to get dirty and close-toed shoes. Sunscreen, water, and hat are always a good idea. We will also provide some beverages.

All other tools and gear will be provided by GreenWorks.

Our Parents Morning Out program provides a safe nurturing environment for children to participate in a variety of organized activities, while giving parents a break. Each Parents Morning Out has a different theme. Open to children 12 months to 12 years, and occurs the 2nd and 4th Saturday of each month. Sign up at the front desk.

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