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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Wednesday, November 24, 2021
Wine and Wolves! Donate to Full Moon Farm Wolf Sanctuary
Nov 24 all-day
online w/ Full Moon Farm

Full Moon Farm is an organization dedicated to the well being of the wolfdog (wolf hybrid). Situated on 17 beautiful mountain acres in Black Mountain, NC, we operate as a federally recognized 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization for abused and refused wolfdogs who find themselves in need of love, shelter, and care through no fault of their own.

Full Moon Farm provides a safe haven for animals that cannot be placed into homes for the rest of their lives.  Our rescued wolfdogs come from animal control agencies, closed breeding situations and occasionally, an owner in crisis.  We evaluate each animal upon intake and work with them at their level of comfort.

Some animals are “hands off” and we respect their choice, as well as that of the animals that crave human interaction.  Our goal is to enrich the lives of the residents, allowing them to reach their highest potential.  Your support by donation or sponsorship makes our task possible.

Though they may be abused or neglected, homeless because of death or divorce, they are all God’s Creatures and worthy of a lifetime of respect. We are here to serve them.

  • Nancy Brown

It’s Memorable, Fast, and Easy! Also, 15% of your purchase will directly be applied to Full Moon Farm, not only will mom be getting great wines, but you will also be supporting a great cause.

Use code GBFULLMOON19 at checkout to donate 15% to Full Moon Farm.

Food Lion Feeds For the Holidays
Nov 24 @ 7:00 am – 11:00 pm
various Food Lions in the area
From November 10th to December 14th, Food Lion is hosting their Food Lion Feeds For the Holidays campaign.
Customers have the opportunity to participate in the in-store food drive at Food Lion stores by purchasing and donating a Food Lion Feeds For the Holidays box of food, which will then be donated to MANNA.
When you are next at Food Lion be on the lookout for their Food Lion Feeds For the Holidays food boxes.
Skytop Orchard U-Pick
Nov 24 @ 9:00 am – 6:00 pm
Skytop Orchard

Closed Thanksgiving Day.

See the source image

Things to do at Sky Top

Pick your own apples. (check picking schedule) or choose from pre-picked apples in the stand.

Enjoy hot “made-while-you- watch” apple cider doughnuts

Book a school field trip or group tour to Sky Top!

Enjoy a tractor pulled ride through the orchard.

Find pumpkins, gourds, and fall decorations (in season)

Bond with your family while enjoying our picnic areas

Visit our barnyard goats, sheep, chickens, peacocks, ducks, and geese

Walk the nature trail through a bamboo “forest” beside one of our orchard ponds

See cider being made (press operates selected days only)

Watch busy bees at a working beehive

Enjoy tasty apple goods, hot apple cider, caramel apples, fudge apples and more

Stock up on honeys, jams & jellies

BBQ Bears’ Smokehouse Industry Of The Week: Food and Beverage
Nov 24 @ 11:00 am – 9:00 pm
BBQ Bears' Smokehouse

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Stop by the restaurant to enjoy 15% off of your order!

Wednesday Kid’s Night! Chick-fil-A Asheville Mall
Nov 24 @ 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Chick-fil-A Asheville Mall

Join us EVERY Wednesday night for Kid’s Night! Children receive a free four-count kid’s meal with the purchase of an adult meal. See you on Wednesdays!

Trivia Night at Bold Rock Mills River Cidery
Nov 24 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Bold Rock Hard Cider

Dust off your thinking caps, grab your friends, and join us for Trivia Night at the taproom every Wednesday at 6pm!

Robert’s Totally Rad Trivia
Nov 24 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
12 Bones Brewing

Totally Rad Trivia invades 12 Bones South every Wednesday evening for two hours of Pop Culture Trivia. Grab a beer, some BBQ and buckle in for some fun and challenging Trivia.
Mary Lattimore + William Tyler
Nov 24 @ 8:00 pm
The Grey Eagle

Mary Lattimore is a Los Angeles-based harpist. She experiments with effects through her Lyon and Healy Concert Grand pedal harp, concocting half-structured improvisations which can include both ambient glitter and unsettling noise. Her first solo record, the Withdrawing Room, was released on Desire Path Recordings in 2014. The solo recordings that followed, At the Dam and Collected Pieces, were released by Ghostly International.

Mary has also recorded synth + harp duo projects with Elysse Thebner Miller (And the Birds Flew Overhead) and Jeff Zeigler (Slant of Light) and has co-written reimagined scores for the 1968 experimental silent film Le Revelateur, directed by Philippe Garrel (who approved of the project), and the Czech New Wave classic Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, and performed these scores live throughout the US with Jeff Zeigler and the Valerie Project, respectively. She has contributed and written harp parts for such artists as Kurt Vile, Thurston Moore, Sharon Van Etten, Meg Baird, Steve Gunn, the Clientele, Hop Along, Jarvis Cocker, Karen Elson, Ed Askew and Quilt.

Ghostly International released her third solo record in late spring of 2018.

WILLIAM TYLER

An excerpt from the M.C. Taylor-penned bio:

William and I bonded early in our relationship over Barry Hannah, a hellraising writer from Mississippi who practically reinvented the way that words could be assembled on a page. Like Hannah, William Tyler knows the South—as a crucible of American histories and cultures, an entity capable of expansive beauty and incomprehensible violence, often in the same beat—as his native place, the place that holds him and that he runs from. In the music of William Tyler, the South is not apart from America; the South is America condensed. And like Hannah—and this part is important—William moved to California, where Goes West was written. We don’t know how long William will stay—Hannah lasted just a couple of years, writing in the employ of director Robert Altman—but the change of scenery seems to suit him.

Goes West marks a sort of narrowing of focus for William’s music; it sounds as though he found a way to point himself directly towards the rich and bittersweet emotional center of his music without being distracted by side trips. Perhaps this is down to the fact that William only plays acoustic guitar on the album, a clear and conscious decision considering that he is one of Nashville’s great electric guitarists. The band that performs Goes West alongside William—including guitarists Meg Duffy and Bill Frisell, bassist and producer Brad Cook, keyboardist James Wallace, drummer Griffin Goldsmith, and engineer Tucker Martine—is the best and most sympathetic group of players that William could have assembled to play these songs.

WALT McCLEMENTS

With synthesizer, drum machine, and pulsing accordion, it makes for a wild and piercing echo of Henry Flynt, Bruce Haack and/or Arthur Russell that gathers power as it moves along. – LA Record September 2018

Subtly epic pop music built on a simple foundation of gentle drums, winding accordion, and hushed vocals. – Bandcamp Daily October 2018

Lonesome Leash is the solo project of Walt McClements, an accordionist and multi-instrumentalist known for his previous work in Why Are We Building Such A Big Ship?, Dark Dark Dark and Hurray for the Riff Raff. McClements crafts stark yet complex songs, nervous and triumphant hymns to the restless. Despite being anchored by the often anachronistic accordion, the music ends up having less to do with contemporary purveyors of old world idioms, and more to do with an alternate history—one where angular accordion lines take prominence over the guitar in a nervy and strangely cinematic post-punk tradition

Move On Up: Soul/R+B
Nov 24 @ 9:00 pm – Nov 25 @ 2:00 am
Asheville Beauty Academy

“Move On Up” is a night of your favorite and forgotten Soul/RB cuts right after Comedy Night.

Thursday, November 25, 2021
Wine and Wolves! Donate to Full Moon Farm Wolf Sanctuary
Nov 25 all-day
online w/ Full Moon Farm

Full Moon Farm is an organization dedicated to the well being of the wolfdog (wolf hybrid). Situated on 17 beautiful mountain acres in Black Mountain, NC, we operate as a federally recognized 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization for abused and refused wolfdogs who find themselves in need of love, shelter, and care through no fault of their own.

Full Moon Farm provides a safe haven for animals that cannot be placed into homes for the rest of their lives.  Our rescued wolfdogs come from animal control agencies, closed breeding situations and occasionally, an owner in crisis.  We evaluate each animal upon intake and work with them at their level of comfort.

Some animals are “hands off” and we respect their choice, as well as that of the animals that crave human interaction.  Our goal is to enrich the lives of the residents, allowing them to reach their highest potential.  Your support by donation or sponsorship makes our task possible.

Though they may be abused or neglected, homeless because of death or divorce, they are all God’s Creatures and worthy of a lifetime of respect. We are here to serve them.

  • Nancy Brown

It’s Memorable, Fast, and Easy! Also, 15% of your purchase will directly be applied to Full Moon Farm, not only will mom be getting great wines, but you will also be supporting a great cause.

Use code GBFULLMOON19 at checkout to donate 15% to Full Moon Farm.

Food Lion Feeds For the Holidays
Nov 25 @ 7:00 am – 11:00 pm
various Food Lions in the area
From November 10th to December 14th, Food Lion is hosting their Food Lion Feeds For the Holidays campaign.
Customers have the opportunity to participate in the in-store food drive at Food Lion stores by purchasing and donating a Food Lion Feeds For the Holidays box of food, which will then be donated to MANNA.
When you are next at Food Lion be on the lookout for their Food Lion Feeds For the Holidays food boxes.
Skytop Orchard U-Pick
Nov 25 @ 9:00 am – 6:00 pm
Skytop Orchard

Closed Thanksgiving Day.

See the source image

Things to do at Sky Top

Pick your own apples. (check picking schedule) or choose from pre-picked apples in the stand.

Enjoy hot “made-while-you- watch” apple cider doughnuts

Book a school field trip or group tour to Sky Top!

Enjoy a tractor pulled ride through the orchard.

Find pumpkins, gourds, and fall decorations (in season)

Bond with your family while enjoying our picnic areas

Visit our barnyard goats, sheep, chickens, peacocks, ducks, and geese

Walk the nature trail through a bamboo “forest” beside one of our orchard ponds

See cider being made (press operates selected days only)

Watch busy bees at a working beehive

Enjoy tasty apple goods, hot apple cider, caramel apples, fudge apples and more

Stock up on honeys, jams & jellies

BBQ Bears’ Smokehouse Industry Of The Week: Food and Beverage
Nov 25 @ 11:00 am – 9:00 pm
BBQ Bears' Smokehouse

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Stop by the restaurant to enjoy 15% off of your order!

Thanksgiving Buffet at Pack’s Tavern
Nov 25 @ 11:00 am – 8:00 pm
Pack's Tavern

 

Join Pack’s Tavern for their annual Thanksgiving Buffet. They will host a traditional buffet dinner between 11 am and 8 pm.  Reservations available between 11 am and 6 pm; Walk-ins welcome!

Family-Style Thanksgiving at Fork Lore
Nov 25 @ 12:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Fork Lore

Join Fork Lore for a classic Thanksgiving served family style at your table. Fork Lore will be open on Thanksgiving from 12 pm to 7pm. Call 828.209.2715 to reserve your table

Fork Lore Thanksgiving 2021
Yeast Rolls
With Molasses Butter
Carolina Fall
Harvest Salad
Little Gem, Radicchio, Roasted Acorn
Squash, Pickled Cherries, Feta, Toasted
Pumpkin Seeds, Maple Bourbon
Vinaigrette
Whole Citrus & Herb
Brined Turkey
Roasted Garlic Mashed
Potatoes
Green Bean Casserole
With Crispy Onions
Bacon & Sage
Cornbread Stuffing
Whipped Sweet
Potatoes
With Candied Pecan Streusel
Cranberry-Apple
Chutney
Traditional Turkey
Gravy
Pumpkin Pie
With Cinnamon Chantilly

Thanksgiving at Bargello
Nov 25 @ 12:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Bargello

Thanksgiving

 prix fixe Menu
12PM – 8PM

BY RESERVATION ONLY

$75 per person

$40 per child

(plus drinks, tax, and gratuity)

Phone (828) 774-5564 for reservations
or book directly by visiting OpenTable.

Availability is filling up fast!

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Gluten-Free Comedy, open mic at Ginger’s Revenge
Nov 25 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Ginger's Revenge
Salsa Night Thursday
Nov 25 @ 9:30 pm – Nov 26 @ 2:00 am
Asheville Beauty Academy

Spice up your life with Latin sounds by local DJs Nex Millen & Mtn Vibez every Thursday.

Super bonus if you come early and get Dance Lessons from our knowladable instructors and get your body ready with sabor for the night. NO COVER All events 21+

Friday, November 26, 2021
Volunteer at MANNA during the holidays
Nov 26 all-day
MANNA’s Volunteer Center

Holiday Season Volunteering

During the holiday season, our volunteer shifts usually fill up very quickly. If you are interested in volunteering during the holidays, please contact us as early as possible (at least 6-8 weeks in advance). Due to increased call and email volumes at this time, please allow for 4-5 business days to receive a reply.

Hunger does exist year-round, and we often have a greater need for volunteers during January and February. If you have flexibility in your volunteering schedule, please consider volunteering after the holidays.

Wine and Wolves! Donate to Full Moon Farm Wolf Sanctuary
Nov 26 all-day
online w/ Full Moon Farm

Full Moon Farm is an organization dedicated to the well being of the wolfdog (wolf hybrid). Situated on 17 beautiful mountain acres in Black Mountain, NC, we operate as a federally recognized 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization for abused and refused wolfdogs who find themselves in need of love, shelter, and care through no fault of their own.

Full Moon Farm provides a safe haven for animals that cannot be placed into homes for the rest of their lives.  Our rescued wolfdogs come from animal control agencies, closed breeding situations and occasionally, an owner in crisis.  We evaluate each animal upon intake and work with them at their level of comfort.

Some animals are “hands off” and we respect their choice, as well as that of the animals that crave human interaction.  Our goal is to enrich the lives of the residents, allowing them to reach their highest potential.  Your support by donation or sponsorship makes our task possible.

Though they may be abused or neglected, homeless because of death or divorce, they are all God’s Creatures and worthy of a lifetime of respect. We are here to serve them.

  • Nancy Brown

It’s Memorable, Fast, and Easy! Also, 15% of your purchase will directly be applied to Full Moon Farm, not only will mom be getting great wines, but you will also be supporting a great cause.

Use code GBFULLMOON19 at checkout to donate 15% to Full Moon Farm.

Food Lion Feeds For the Holidays
Nov 26 @ 7:00 am – 11:00 pm
various Food Lions in the area
From November 10th to December 14th, Food Lion is hosting their Food Lion Feeds For the Holidays campaign.
Customers have the opportunity to participate in the in-store food drive at Food Lion stores by purchasing and donating a Food Lion Feeds For the Holidays box of food, which will then be donated to MANNA.
When you are next at Food Lion be on the lookout for their Food Lion Feeds For the Holidays food boxes.
MANNA’s Turkey Drive
Nov 26 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
MANNA’s Volunteer Center

MANNA is continuing to serve more people than we were prior to the pandemic. For the enjoyment of the holiday season, it is important that those families are able to celebrate the holidays like everyone else. Since food is a centerpiece of every holiday, it is our hope that our community will come together to help fill as many plates of food over the holidays as we can throughout WNC.
MANNA hopes to collect hundreds of turkeys this year, and invites the community to join the effort by supporting the Turkey Drive. The community can give in two ways:
  • For your convenience, you can easily support our efforts to purchase additional holiday turkeys and hams through our virtual food drive option.
  • Donate a frozen turkey, ham, or other holiday table entrée to MANNA. Donations will be accepted at MANNA’s Volunteer Center (627 Swannanoa River Road, in East Asheville) Monday – Friday, between the hours of 9am–noon, and 1–3pm. (MANNA will be closed Thursday, November 23 and Friday, November 24 for the Thanksgiving holiday.)
On behalf of MANNA and all those we serve together, we wish you and yours a joyful and healthy Thanksgiving holiday!
Skytop Orchard U-Pick
Nov 26 @ 9:00 am – 6:00 pm
Skytop Orchard

Closed Thanksgiving Day.

See the source image

Things to do at Sky Top

Pick your own apples. (check picking schedule) or choose from pre-picked apples in the stand.

Enjoy hot “made-while-you- watch” apple cider doughnuts

Book a school field trip or group tour to Sky Top!

Enjoy a tractor pulled ride through the orchard.

Find pumpkins, gourds, and fall decorations (in season)

Bond with your family while enjoying our picnic areas

Visit our barnyard goats, sheep, chickens, peacocks, ducks, and geese

Walk the nature trail through a bamboo “forest” beside one of our orchard ponds

See cider being made (press operates selected days only)

Watch busy bees at a working beehive

Enjoy tasty apple goods, hot apple cider, caramel apples, fudge apples and more

Stock up on honeys, jams & jellies

Brunch B’yahad Virtual
Nov 26 @ 10:30 am – 11:30 am
Online w/ Asheville Jewish Community Center

Brunch B’Yahad is now available through Zoom meeting here.   

Join new and old friends for light brunch, socialization and lively discussion.  Featured guest speakers, and relevant cultural and timely topics will fill our minds.

BBQ Bears’ Smokehouse Industry Of The Week: Food and Beverage
Nov 26 @ 11:00 am – 9:00 pm
BBQ Bears' Smokehouse

food and bev november.jpg

Stop by the restaurant to enjoy 15% off of your order!

STEPHEN MARLEY
Nov 26 @ 11:37 am – 12:37 pm
Salvage Station

Stephen Marley

Eight-time Grammy award winning singer, musician and producer Stephen Marley is a true pioneer of reggae music. The second son of music icons Bob and Rita Marley, Stephen is a legend in his own right, producing a robust collection of prolific music that infuses reggae with hip hop, soul, jazz, doo-wop and much more.

He began his career at the ripe age of six—singing, dancing and playing percussion with his siblings in The Melody Makers. While still a teenager he assisted in the production of the all of their albums including their three Best Reggae Album Grammy winners Conscious Party (Virgin Records, 1989), One Bright Day (Virgin Records, 1990) and Fallen Is Babylon (Elektra Entertainment, 1998). In 1993 Stephen founded the record label Ghetto Youths International with his brother Ziggy Marley as a means of controlling their own music and support emerging artists.

Following Stephen produced a number of chart-topping, Grammy award-winning albums including Chant Down Babylon, that presented an innovative fusion of his father’s original vocal outtakes from the 1970s Island Records’ sessions with duets with hip-hop and R&B artists, while updating the Wailers’ richly textured one-drop rhythms with an assortment of samples, loops and overdubs.

Stephen’s hip-hop infused dancehall beats achieved a new height of complexity on his brother Damian Marley’s 2001 album Halfway Tree (Ghetto Youths/Motown) which yielded several hits around the globe and won the 2002 Grammy for Best Reggae album. In 2005 Stephen produced and contributed vocals to Damian’s single Welcome To Jamrock—the biggest reggae song of the year—that to this day can be heard on repeat. His vocal and production contributions on this album won Stephan another Grammy for best album in 2005.

The highly anticipated release of his first solo album came to fruition in 2007 with the beautifully composed and uplifting album, Mind Control. Recorded at the Marley Music studio in Kingston and the Marley’s Lion’s Den studio in Miami Mind Control—which won the Grammy’s Best Reggae Album category in  2007—offers an organic blend of eclectic elements defying music categorization.

His dynamic musical success continued in 2008 with the release of his second solo album Mind Control Acoustic—an acoustic iteration of the previous album—followed by the debut of his third solo album Revelation Part I: The Root of Life in 2011Stephen’s signature sound reigned true in this album that features an array of iconic hits including Jah Army (ft. Damian Marley & Buju Banton), Made in Africa (ft.Wale and The Cast of Fela), No Cigarette Smoking (ft. Melanie Fiona)and much more, winning him another Grammy for Best Reggae Album.

The second installment of the two-part series, Revelation Part II: The Fruit of Life, hit the charts in 2016 featuring a powerful collection of songs that represent his progressive ability to blend several genres of music. Legendary artists including Busta Rhymes, Rakim, Dead Prez, Rick Ross, Junior Reid, Bounty Killer and many more, lent their unique sounds to the album that is still played around the world today.

Since then, Marley has continued to release tracks with globally renowned artists including Options with Pitbull, 40 Days & 40 Nights with Salam Remi and Nothing’s Gonna Harm You with his son Joe Mersa. His work doesn’t stop there, in 2017 he brought to life the first annual Kaya Fest, a music awareness festival that highlights the benefits and educational opportunities around Cannabis. Stephen’s passion extends behind the scenes through the Ghetto Youths Foundation, a non-profit organization that works to benefit underprivileged communities in Jamaica and around the globe.

David Wilcox’s Annual Thanksgiving Homecoming Concert
Nov 26 @ 8:00 pm
The Grey Eagle

More than three decades into his career, singer/songwriter David Wilcox continues to push himself, just as he always has. Wilcox, by so many measures, is a quintessential folk singer, telling stories full of heart, humor, and hope, substance, searching, and style. His innate sense of adventure and authenticity is why critics and colleagues, alike, have always praised not just his artistry, but his humanity, as well.

WHITE HORSE LIVE: Joshua Messic
Nov 26 @ 8:00 pm
White Horse Black Mountain
WHITE HORSE LIVE: Joshua Messick

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Joshua Messick returns to the White Horse stage for a live performance!

Joshua is a national hammered dulcimer champion. Nobody is more fluent on the instrument. Nobody asks more of the hammered dulcimer and certainly nobody else gets such a response. Joshua introduces the instrument to places it didn’t know it belonged and makes both the dulcimer and the music sound like they’ve known each other forever.

Kat Williams and Company
Nov 26 @ 8:30 pm
Isis Music Hall--The Main Stage

Emmy-nominated Kat Williams “Asheville’s Queen of Soul” fills the void left by today’s artists bringing us back to the roots of Jazz, Blues, Soul, Motown and Pop with an animated style, a spirited sense of humor and that memorable laugh. Once she takes the mic, a time capsule opens bringing us back to an era of greats, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, Mavis Staples & Etta James including songs from today’s artists in her repertoire.

Kat has performed with Big Bands, full symphony orchestras and opened for Chaka Kahn among others. She sang the score to a ballet production of Porgy and Bess to rave reviews and appeared in Off Broadway shows. Out of hundreds of people who auditioned, she was a finalist on America’s Got Talent. Though constantly in demand, she is loyal to her many fans. A truly remarkable singer, songwriter, actress and electrifying woman who makes the world a better place, one song at a time….

Come enjoy an evening of live music, food and drinks at the Isis Music Hall.

Saturday, November 27, 2021
Volunteer at MANNA during the holidays
Nov 27 all-day
MANNA’s Volunteer Center

Holiday Season Volunteering

During the holiday season, our volunteer shifts usually fill up very quickly. If you are interested in volunteering during the holidays, please contact us as early as possible (at least 6-8 weeks in advance). Due to increased call and email volumes at this time, please allow for 4-5 business days to receive a reply.

Hunger does exist year-round, and we often have a greater need for volunteers during January and February. If you have flexibility in your volunteering schedule, please consider volunteering after the holidays.