Calendar of Events

The walkable streets of Gatlinburg become a live stage during the city’s summer-long performance festival. Visitors are invited to encounter costumed storytellers, musical ensembles and cloggers portraying characters from time periods as far back as the 1800s along the Parkway.

Daily performances from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m.

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Don’t miss this FREE* opportunity to get your team ready to win the Chamber Challenge Team 5K as part of the Apple Festival Races presented by Hunter Subaru.

While designed for the Team 5K event, this training is also beneficial for runners who want to improve their time in the individual 8K.

The training will be lead by Greg Walker, USATF Level-1 Certified Coach, with assistance from certified personal trainer, Angela Vaughn.

Runners will meet at the Patton Park Shelter. Bring a water bottle and plan to walk/run for 30 minutes.

*Training id included in race entry and free to Apple Festival Races participants*

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Don’t miss this FREE* opportunity to get your team ready to win the Chamber Challenge Team 5K as part of the Apple Festival Races presented by Hunter Subaru.

While designed for the Team 5K event, this training is also beneficial for runners who want to improve their time in the individual 8K.

The training will be lead by Greg Walker, USATF Level-1 Certified Coach, with assistance from certified personal trainer, Angela Vaughn.

Runners will meet at the Patton Park Shelter. Bring a water bottle and plan to walk/run for 30 minutes.

*Training id included in race entry and free to Apple Festival Races participants*

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Join us for all new trivia with host Sean Duffy! Now That’s What I Call Trivia engages teams through fun themes and music challenges while you enjoy a cold pint of award-winning hard cider. Trivia starts at 6:30, but come early to grab some grub at Bold Bites–our very own food truck!

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Thomas Kozak is a songwriter-folk artist based in Asheville, NC. His songs are well crafted and carefully minded, concerned with myth and faith in the space of modern day, and fleshed through experience.

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Thomas Kozak is a songwriter-folk artist based in Asheville, NC. His songs are well crafted and carefully minded, concerned with myth and faith in the space of modern day, and fleshed through experience.

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Thomas Kozak is a songwriter-folk artist based in Asheville, NC. His songs are well crafted and carefully minded, concerned with myth and faith in the space of modern day, and fleshed through experience.

**NO COVER**

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We’ve been talking to the folks from Bardic Alchemy, a Celtic Rock band from Asheville and they’ve agreed to play at Triskelion as many Tuesdays as they can come down to the Brewery.

Bardic Alchemy is a brand new element in the Celtic Rock world. This trio, based in the mountains of Asheville, North Carolina is comprised of multi-instrumentalist Connell Sanderson, guitarist Nick Marcone and percussionist and vocalist Tyler Watts.

Bardic Alchemy is best described as a psychedelic trip into a musical world that is heavily inspired by the Celtic musical traditions…run through various effects pedals. Everything from soothing, mellifluously reverberating whistle melodies supported by groovy guitar lines and thumping djembe beats to high energy dance tunes on the Scottish and Irish pipes to three part vocal harmonies and even improvised pieces, Bardic Alchemy is a surprisingly dynamic and unpredictable musical journey.

So… Tuesdays… will now be…

Celtic Rock Tuesday!

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This awesome tour “Return to the Sunset Strip” includes Faster Pussycat, Bang Tango, and Noth Carolina hair band tribute artist American Hair Band.

Ages 18 and up…

Tickets on sale soon.

$20, $30 Day of show
Meet N Greet for both bands added on for $40 (Only 20 available)
Sponsorships $250

Sleaze: immoral, sordid, and corrupt behavior or material.
No band epitomizes Hollywood sleaze more than Faster Pussycat. Countless bands have adopted their look and demeanor in order to try and ride the Hollywood have to success. Most fail. For those bands it’s a costume…an act. For Faster Pussycat it’s a way of life. They said it best in their own song “Sex, drugs & Rockn-Roll” off their 2006 album “The Power and the Glory Hole”. However don’t be
mistaken, they are much more than an image. First and foremost they are a rock n roll band that has put out consistently great records and given it all on stage, where it counts the most. Singer Taime Downe formed the band in 1985, taking its name from the cult
classic Russ Meyer film Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! In 1987 they released their selftitled debut album which went gold. The album was loaded with sexual innuendo and bravado and struck a nerve in the glam rock community, though they were always a little more down and dirty than glam. During that time they were interviewed and played two songs (Cathouse and Bathroom Wall) in the
documentary film “The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years. The documentary captured the general vibe of the Sunset Strip bands during that time period, with Faster Pussycat being featured front and center. In 1989 they released the album “Wake me when it’s over”, which spawned the massive top 25 hit single “House of Pain” propelling them beyond the sunset strip
to worldwide acclaim. They received substantial airtime on MTV for the video and toured with some of the biggest bands in history: Guns n Roses, Motorhead, Motley Crue, Kiss, Alice Cooper and many more. They were able to reach fans all across the world and the sunset strip seemed endless as fans clamored for a taste
of the famed Faster Pussycat sleaze. The album went gold and to this day many hail “House of Pain” as one of the greatest power ballads of all time.
The band’s line-up during this time was Taime Downe (vocals), Greg Steele (guitar), Brent Muscat (guitar), Kelly Nickels (bass) and Mark Michaels (drums). In 1992 the band released the album Whipped and toured in support of it. Following the tour the band broke up, with each member heading in separatemusical directions.
Taime Downe decided to go in a more industrial rock direction working with the band Pigface before forming the band the Newlydeads. The Newlydeads put out three albums. Their self-titled debut, a remix album titled “Re-bound” and “Dead End”.
In 2001 Taime Downe decided it was time to get Faster Pussycat back together to give the world another dose of the Hollywood Sleaze that had all but disappeared during the grunge era. Muscat and Steele rejoined the band along with The
Newlydeads Xristian Simon, Danny Nordahl and Chad Stewart.
Faster Pussycat quickly put out a collection of industrial remixes of the band’s early songs produced by Downe and played to enthusiastic crowds around the world. During this time Muscat and Steele left again. 2006 saw the band’s first full-length release in 14 years, “The Power & The GloryHole” and proved that under Taime’s leadership the band was in good hands. 2009 saw the release of a live album “Front Row for the Donkey Show”. Both
were put out by Full Effect and the reviews were positive.
In 2010 guitarist Ace Von Johnson joined Faster Pussycat cementing the current line-up. The interjection of fresh blood into the band was immediately noticeableas his youthful high energy and virtuoso performance rejuvenated the band and
their live performances. It was like 1987 again.
Faster Pussycat is currently working on a new EP and doing what they’ve always done, touring heavily, rocking the fuck out of every venue they play and keeping the spirit of Hollywood Sleaze alive and well.

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Join us every 4th Tuesday
Bring your synth and cables

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Come out and see what the fuss is all about! Team Trivia Tuesday at Sanctuary Brewing Company with host Josh Dunkin!

Team Trivia Western NC & The Upstate of SC is every Tuesday at 7 PM at Sanctuary Brewing Company on 1st Avenue in Downtown Hendersonville! There is no limit to how many people can participate on each team. You can have 1 or 20!

The game is free to play and the top two teams each week receive a gift card of $40 (1st place) and $20 (2nd place).

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Nerdy Talk Trivia brings Trivia Night to Aux Bar. Every Tuesday at 7pm. Test your skills for your chance at prizes.

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Join us each Tuesday evening at 7pm for Trivia night at Refinery 13! Teams may consist of 1-6 players and prizes are awarded to first and second place teams each week!

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The U.S. Army Brass Quintet returns to Brevard with BMC alumnus Bob McDonald in a varied program of Americana and audience favorites.

In true pub fashion, The White Horse has hosts a traditional Irish style session every Tuesday night. Sessions are in many ways the heart and soul of Irish traditional music, a place for players to share tunes and socialize. It’s not a performance, but rather an informal situation in which listeners are welcome to participate, whether offering encouragement, singing along on a chorus, or asking questions about the music and instruments. White Horse sessions regularly draws players from as far away as Waynesville, Cullowhee, Rutherfordton and even Clayton, Georgia.

Come join us in a long musical tradition spanning hundreds of years.

Tuesdays 6:45 til 8:45

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10pm
21+
Donation$
One Stop

Join us downstairs during Funk Jam for an all-star local cast of rotating DJ’s spinnin’ vinyl and scratchin’ like there’s no tomorrow!

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Beer Brains Trivia is hosted every Tuesday at 8pm. There are 8 rounds of trivia each week examples of some are categories are current events, general knowledge along with visual and audio rounds! #beerbrains #beercurvesarebetter #balsamfalls

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The only Gypsy Jazz Jam in Asheville! This Django Reinhardt style evening of music is hosted by Steve Karla of & Phil Alley,joined by many of Asheville’s gypsy jazz musicians.

Asheville Guitar Bar features the only Gypsy Jazz Jam in Asheville! This Django Reinhardt style evening of music is hosted by Steve Karla of “Hot Point Trio”, & Phil Alley. Joining them are many of Asheville’s local musicians, re-creating the Hot Club Sound of Paris in the 20’s, 30’s & 40’s. It’s a great date night that takes you back in time, reminiscent of Woody Allen’s film “Midnight In Paris”. $5 at the door.

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Join us for a special pop-up Comedy Show with the very talented Jennifer Schemke. Jennifer arrives in Asheville, NC from New York, NY to perform a pop-up Comedy Show on the Rooftop at Social Lounge on Tuesday, July 23rd.

One of your local favorites, Ryan Cox will open at 8pm.

Jennifer performs stand-up in New York, Los Angeles, and the San Francisco Bay Area- anywhere that will have her, really. (Follow her on Instagram @theschempire) She opened for comedian Jeff Applebaum last February at a sold out show at the 300-seat Downtown Theatre in Fairfield, CA,. She wrote for, and hosted the 2017 Arty Awards (honoring theatre in Napa and Solano Counties) on the very same night as the Emmys. In other words, she’s basically Stephen Colbert. She also recently performed at The Lady Laughs Comedy Festival in Wichita, KS, and has performed her standup at The Belly Room @ The World Famous Comedy Store, Dangerfield’s, The Broadway Comedy Club, and other fabulous spots like Kiabacca Bar, The Village Lantern, Barney’s Beanery and a good handful of demoralizing open mics.

More information about Jennifer is available at: https://www.jenniferschemke.com/about-our-girl.

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Prince Daddy & The Hyena
w/ Retirement Party, The Obsessives, Diva Sweetly
at The Mothlight
Tuesday July 23rd
Doors 7pm, Show 7:30
Tickets: $12adv, https://www.eventbrite.com/e/prince-daddy-the-hyena-tickets-61330190250

Cosmic Thrill Seekers, the new record from Albany punk rock band Prince Daddy & the Hyena, is many things. It is an odyssey of epic, The Monitor-esque proportions, a great, galloping sonic roadtrip across space and time and Albany, boomeranging around a horn of punk, pop, indie, garage rock, and orchestral, Queen-style arrangements and theatrics; it is an exploration of the fall-out after an acid trip, manic self-destruction, bottoming-out and recovering, and then slipping again; it is a candid, acute documentation of frontperson Kory Gregory’s cyclical mental health states as told through three acts and 14 songs/chapters; it is an existential presentation of eternal return theory, a victory via surrender to impermanence; and perhaps most of all, it is about Dorothy Gale and The Wizard Of Oz.

“Dorothy was the OG cosmic thrill seeker,” Gregory says. “Dorothy kind of encompasses everything I was trying to get at.”

There are three acts in Cosmic Thrill Seekers. Gregory explains, “Act One is The Heart, which is the Tin Man. Act Two is The Brain, which is the Scarecrow, and Act Three is The Roar, which is the Lion.” Each act explores a stage in Gregory’s mental health. “I remember watching the Wizard of Oz one time, and noticing some weird kind of parallels between the cyclical nature of my mental health and that movie,” he says. “My mental health rotates and jumps from one stage to the next, and then repeats itself.” The closing moments of Cosmic Thrill Seekers reflect this, as the outro to the last track, “The Wacky Misadventures of the Passenger,” morphs into the first muted notes of opener “I Lost My Life.”

Gregory’s assessment of his mental health is a process that’s coded into CTS’ DNA. “Observing my mental health for four years kind of gave me enough to work with to write this album,” Gregory continues. He wrote the entire record—music and lyrics—in solitude over a four year period in a closet in his bedroom. No one heard any of it until it was finished and ready to record—not even bandmates Cam, Zak, and Daniel. “When you have OCD like me, you want it to be perfect,” Gregory says of the process. During recording at PonderRosa Studios in Lafayette, New Jersey with producer Nick Dardaris (AKA beloved pal and Albany scene comrade Scoops), Gregory would ask his bandmates to leave before his vocal takes. Even pre-studio practices were held without a PA system, meaning no one else knew any of the words or melodies.

The process and finished product are tributes to the sort of friendship and community supports that define Prince Daddy. Gregory’s bandmates are his best friends, and they encouraged him to pursue the record he needed to make. “It’s very, very, very much a selfish record,” he says. “It wasn’t just the record I wanted to write, but this is for me, this is to help me, and hopefully to look back on when I’m in the more destructive phases of the cycle and realize that it’s not permanent, and that I’ve confronted it before. I’ve put some math to it.”

But the calculus of reckoning with mental illness isn’t linear, and neither is Cosmic Thrill Seekers. “I Lost My Life” opens the record with muted acoustic guitar and plinking keys as Gregory wrestles with the catalyzing acid trip. “I hit it one too many times and I lost my life,” he sings before a crescendo that crashes into “Lauren,” a triumphant pop punk gem with scorching leads. “I’m trying to move past this but no such luck/But you drag me the furthest from giving up!” Gregory shouts. “Fuckin’ A” follows suit, a similarly bright, guitar-forward headbanger that sees him in a state of recovery. There are many dialogues and characters on the record; each represent a different piece of Gregory’s mental composition.

But none of this first suite of songs is linear; each deviates from its own schematic, swerving gleefully between style and sound as the song sprints onward. “Cosmic Thrill Seeking Forever” is a falsetto-driven Blue Album-waltz that climaxes in duelling Thin Lizzy harmonies underscored with thrilling Brian May-style lines. It’s a bit of Worry., and a bit of escapism (“Dear heart, my vehicle, I will teach you how to fly, and if not, I’ll sit by while you rot”). “Slip” is all Nirvana guitar tones and grunge riffing while “Breather” borrows from the brisk mid-2000s guitar and hyper high hats of Franz Ferdinand and Interpol. The journey ends with “The Wacky Misadventures of the Passenger,” a brilliant, 5-minute+ punk rock ballad that switches time signatures midway through before ending, alongside a brass section, where it began—with Gregory at his lowest point. “I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again/I’m bored and need support,” he roars.

Cosmic Thrill Seekers is a constant replaying of this cycle, equal parts joyous and challenging; it’s a punk rock, mental health-oriented declaration of, ‘time is a flat circle.’ “The record title is very ambitious and big and grand, but as the first and last song kind of display, the message of the story is almost like, ‘There’s no place like home,’ even though Cosmic Thrill Seekers is the direct opposite of that,” Gregory says. “But it takes a journey to realize that, as it did for me, and as it did for Dorothy.”

To summarize in Gregory’s words: “This has the potential to get semi-dark, if you’re down with that.”

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Summer is here! Time to start up our trivia league again, more fun more prizes. Season 3 starts May 21st and ends July 30th.

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Big Dawg Slingshots will be getting the Block hopping tonight! There will be swingin’ music and a great class for beginners! Stay late for our post-band blues DJ! Plus the venue is not only gorgeous, but they have a fabulous bar!

~~~NEW Schedule (short version- see below for details)~~~
PLEASE NOTE that we are offering Beginning classes only, starting at 8pm, this summer!
8pm (Beginning): Beginning 6-Count w/Deb & Kit
8:30pm (All Welcome): Open Practice, teachers available
9-11pm: Swing Dance w/Big Dawg Slingshots
11pm – close: Blues Dance w/ DJ
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PRICING: Dance/Band is $5 (includes blues) and classes are $10/$8 for Swing Asheville members. 8:30pm Practice is $5 and includes the 9pm dance. Blues Dance is $2 suggested donation for those who didn’t pay for Band admission.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
Interested in free dances or half priced lessons? Want to help promote the swing scene? Consider volunteering for Swing Asheville! To see what sort of opportunities are available and to sign up, please head over to http://signup.com/go/LMqYCSz

MUSIC
Big Dawg Slingshots is a Western Swing Band based out of Asheville, North Carolina. The group is led by the guitar and fiddle duo Davin and Marina Sneeblii, who mix up a delightful concoction of dixieland, down home fiddle melodies and jazz tap dancing. The acoustic swing outfit is gaining notoriety for their fiery improvisations and rhythmic tap dancing fiddler. Big Dawg Slingshots has recorded three live albums with a revolving collective of virtuoso musicians from all over the globe. Their vintage sound incorporates elements of early jazz, ragtime, country blues and western swing. Tireless and energetic performers who are known for their celebratory live shows, the group draws a loyal following, packing pubs, speakeasys and street corners wherever they go.

BLUES
Band finished and you’re not done dancing? You’re in luck… stick around for our blues after party! Continue dancing to DJ’d music until the bar kicks us out. $2 suggested donation for those coming just in time for the blues.

FOOD: Feeling peckish? The bar has a small selection of vegan goodies to help keep your stamina up! Ask a bartender for more details.

CLASSES
7pm: No Intermediate Classes this summer — join us at 8:30 for practice open to all levels!

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8 pm: Beginning 6-Count w/ Deb & Kit

In this class, we’ll focus on rhythm and lead-follow technique while learning a basic “vocabulary” of steps to build your swing dance repertoire. In just a short time, you’ll be able to get out on the dance floor with a partner and have fun dancing! For brand new dancers and those who would like to review and improve their basic steps and technique. No partner or experience necessary.

“Core” lessons stress the fundamentals of swing dancing for beginning dancers. Lessons rotate monthly to focus on a different kind of swing dance (6 Count Lindy, 8 Count Lindy, Charleston, Balboa, etc.). Because good fundamentals are hard to develop in one month, we recommend repeating Core lessons (on the same topic) to help develop the solid foundation you’ll need in continuing classes. Core lessons are also great for intermediate and advanced dancers who want to “get back to basics” or learn a different dancing role (lead vs. follow).
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GIFT CERTIFICATES
Do you want to buy a gift certificate for our classes as a gift, or to pre-pay for a block of classes for yourself? You can purchase gift certificates at the door at our weekly dance! They are $40 for a block of 4, and a great way to dive into the fun world of dance.

UPCOMING SCHEDULE
July 30: Posey Quintet
Aug 6: Community Jazz Jam w/Andrew Fletcher
Aug 13: TBD
Aug 20: Sparrow and Her Wingmen
Aug 27: Hot Jazz Jumpers w/ members of Banjo Nickaru

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Open Mic – Every Tuesday
Bring your instrument, vocal cords and friends.
Everyone is welcome!
Always free

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Dance your heart out, practice your moves, or sing along with your friends. Every Tuesday night after the live band. Only a $2 suggested donation that goes towards Swing Asheville.

Live music from 9-11pm. Bands typically play vintage jazz leaning towards Lindy Hop, Balboa, and Blues dancing. Please see the Swing Asheville group for the schedule: https://www.facebook.com/pg/swingasheville/events

Just $5 for the entire evening, including the blues dance. Blues dance is just $2 from 11pm until closing. We will dance until the bar closes!!!

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