Calendar of Events
Upcoming events and things to do in Asheville, NC. Below is a list of events for festivals, concerts, art exhibitions, group meetups and more.
Interested in adding an event to our calendar? Please click the green “Post Your Event” button below.
Streaming thanks to Iamavl.
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Great professionals who teach at the Swannanoa Gathering come together for a wonderful concert in benefit for Julee Glaub Weems, long time coordinator of the Traditional Song Week. Should be spectacular. More info to come.
The Lazybirds have been musical stalwarts of blues, jazz, country and ragtime in western North Carolina and beyond for over 20 years. A roots band who specializes in good time music, the Birds also exhibit a depth treasured by their many fans. It’s hard to stay still when they play. Jay Brown is on guitar, cajòn, resonator guitar, harmonica, piano, foot taps, and goodness knows what else. Jonathan Brown, co-founder of the band with Jay, is on drums. Asher Hill plays bass and shouts. Brad Pope is on tenor guitar. This is great music for fending off the COVID-19 blues.
Wow! Thanks to all those who have submitted tunes for the Dig Local Spotify playlist. If you’d like to be considered as an addition to our music compilation, we are still accepting submissions for our Spotify playlist now (check out the playlist here).
There are only three requirements to be considered:
- You or your group must be regionally based in the Asheville area
- Your song submissions must be all original compositions
- The songs must be “family-friendly” (no profanity or obscenity or violence)
If selected, one or two of your songs will be featured in our Spotify playlist. There may also be opportunities to be featured in our Weekly Scoop email and on our social media platforms!
Submit your music by filling out the following info at the link below.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf5LCQovN51Y56SLuo7kB_hmeer33DsNhITEvz7TkF8O9ATqA/viewform?mc_cid=8ce4073971&mc_eid=258ba8532a
Opening Night 2016: An American in Paris
Posted July 2, 2020; originally aired in the 2016 season
https://www.brevardmusic.org/online/digital-bmc/?utm_source=Brevard+Music+Center&utm_campaign=a4740e663a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_1_31_2018_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b154873bc5-a4740e663a-131688489
Selected past performances by BMC orchestras, faculty, and guest artists on YouTube, SoundCloud, and Open Air Brevard.
Explore a series of posts to learn how the roots of American music run deep in North Carolina.
The Violin Channel recently caught up with violinists and www.intermissionsessions.com wellness coaches Elena Urioste and Melissa White to get their advice on some simple physical exercises that every string player should be doing to stay physically and mentally healthy – during quarantine and beyond …
Violinists Elena Urioste & Melissa White share 10 essential, daily stretches for musicians.
Keith discusses Strauss’s tone poem Don Quixote and the experience of preparing and performing it with the Brevard Music Center Orchestra and internationally renowned cellist Johannes Moser. The featured recording is from that performance in 2015.
https://www.brevardmusic.org/online/keiths-corner/?utm_source=Brevard+Music+Center&utm_campaign=a4740e663a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_1_31_2018_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b154873bc5-a4740e663a-131688489
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Hailed as a “masterpiece” by the Chicago Sun-Times, Ballet Hispánico presents choreographer Gustavo Ramírez Sansano’s CARMEN.maquia – a Picasso-inspired, contemporary take on Bizet’s classic opera. Recorded at Lincoln Center, this riveting, imaginative and theatrical performance will be available online until Tuesday, July 14.
BMC@Home
From our home to yours: students and faculty share new concerts, living room recitals, and masterclasses.
Enjoy our inaugural Virtual Living Room Concert. BMC violin faculty member Benjamin Sung discusses and performs Eugène Ysaÿe’s Sonata No. 2, I. Obsession, Prelude. This movement includes quotes from Bach’s E Major Partita infused with the recognizable melody of the “Dies Irae”.
BMC trombone faculty member David Jackson joins Michael Dease, the Director of the Jazz Institute @ Brevard, who wrote this special arrangement of “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” Originally for a vocal chorus, this arrangement features eight trombone parts supported by string bass, organ, and drums.
BMC alums and 2020 students RJ McDowell and Wesley Hamilton share this special at-home performance. Written by Italian composer Alessandro Rolla, this viola duet lets both parts shine. This is the first movement, Allegro Maestoso, from the Duo in G Major. RJ holds degrees from Furman University and Belmont University, and Wesley recently graduated with her undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia.
National touring musicians and veteran Ron Capps will lead the Virtual North Carolina Veterans Songwriting Workshop via Zoom the weekends of July 11-12 and July 18-19.
The workshop is designed for songwriters of all levels and will include programming in writing lyrics, song structure, and basic music theory.
Instructor and mentors include Tony Rosario, Jana Pochop, Shawnee Kilgore, Mike Lille, Karl Werne, and Ron Capps. The workshop is free and is open to veterans, active duty or reserve military and their family members.
Bluegrass Brunch
hosted by Aaron Woody Wood & The Sufi Brothers
Pickin’ on the Porch w/ Chicken Coop Willaye 1030AM
Bald Mountain Boys 11AM – 12:30PM
Sufi Brothers 12:45PM – 3PM
Be sure to check out our Bloody Mary Bar, the BEST selection of pickled products and other additions in Asheville. The MOJO Kitchen will be serving a special Brunch menu until 3PM as well.
Food & music start at 10:30am
ADULT beverages at Noon.
With an international reputation as one of the most popular brass ensembles today, Canadian Brass has truly earned the distinction of “the world’s most famous brass group.” Masters of concert presentations, Canadian Brass has developed a uniquely engaging stage presence and rapport with audiences. Each of their concerts ranges from trademark Baroque and Dixieland tunes to new compositions and arrangements created especially for them – from formal classical presentation to music served up with lively dialogue and theatrical effects. The hallmark of any Canadian Brass performance is entertainment, spontaneity, virtuosity and, most of all, fun – but never at the expense of the music. Whatever the style, the music is central and performed with utmost dedication, skill and excellence.
This special preview is scheduled in conjunction with the planned appearance by the Canadian Brass as part of An Appalachian Summer Festival’s 2021 season.
To learn more about Canadian Brass: http://www.canadianbrass.com/
Available via YouTube, Facebook, appsummer.org
Acoustic Dead with members of Dirty Dead
Jack of the Wood : Sunday-Irish Session
Sundays
1 till who knows when?
Traditional Irish music is kept alive at Jack of the Wood with our unplugged Sunday session.
Jack of the Wood
95 Patton ave
Asheville, NC 28801
(828) 252.5445
Every Sunday Except First of Month.
Music by the Lake is a free, monthly summer music concert series hosted by the lake at Blue Ridge Community College that is open to all people. This month’s performance features Apple Country String Band, who plays Acoustic Americana Music.
In case of inclement weather, the performance will be moved indoors to the Technology Education Development Center.
Future performances include:
– July 26 – Tom Fisch (Folk & Country Music)
– August 16 – Pretty Little Goats (Grassroots Old Time Music)
– August 30 – Nick Chandler & Delivered (Traditional Bluegrass Music)
Irish virtuoso guitarist Shane Hennessy has established himself as one of the leading guitarists on the world stage, known widely for his fingerstyle, flatpicking, and percussive style.
Shane Hennessy is billed as “one of the most exciting live performers of his generation, with an ability to move between styles and genres with ease” by Irish Music Magazine, audiences can never be too sure what will come next during the exciting mix of jazz, blues, country, soul, traditional Irish music, and world music he offers. With the addition of some smooth vocals, genre-hopping improvisations, and well-arranged covers, it makes sense why music legend super-producer Nile Rodgers (CHIC) thinks that “his style is killer, it’s really cool stuff”, and why guitar legend Tommy Emmanuel says that Shane “is one of the most transcendent musicians in the world today”.
Shane Hennessy’s Website: https://www.shanehennessy.ie/
This show is by donation- please support the artist and share the event.
Opening Night 2016: An American in Paris
Posted July 2, 2020; originally aired in the 2016 season
https://www.brevardmusic.org/online/digital-bmc/?utm_source=Brevard+Music+Center&utm_campaign=a4740e663a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_1_31_2018_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b154873bc5-a4740e663a-131688489
Selected past performances by BMC orchestras, faculty, and guest artists on YouTube, SoundCloud, and Open Air Brevard.
Explore a series of posts to learn how the roots of American music run deep in North Carolina.
Keith discusses Strauss’s tone poem Don Quixote and the experience of preparing and performing it with the Brevard Music Center Orchestra and internationally renowned cellist Johannes Moser. The featured recording is from that performance in 2015.
https://www.brevardmusic.org/online/keiths-corner/?utm_source=Brevard+Music+Center&utm_campaign=a4740e663a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_1_31_2018_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b154873bc5-a4740e663a-131688489
Hailed as a “masterpiece” by the Chicago Sun-Times, Ballet Hispánico presents choreographer Gustavo Ramírez Sansano’s CARMEN.maquia – a Picasso-inspired, contemporary take on Bizet’s classic opera. Recorded at Lincoln Center, this riveting, imaginative and theatrical performance will be available online until Tuesday, July 14.
BMC@Home
From our home to yours: students and faculty share new concerts, living room recitals, and masterclasses.
Enjoy our inaugural Virtual Living Room Concert. BMC violin faculty member Benjamin Sung discusses and performs Eugène Ysaÿe’s Sonata No. 2, I. Obsession, Prelude. This movement includes quotes from Bach’s E Major Partita infused with the recognizable melody of the “Dies Irae”.
BMC trombone faculty member David Jackson joins Michael Dease, the Director of the Jazz Institute @ Brevard, who wrote this special arrangement of “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” Originally for a vocal chorus, this arrangement features eight trombone parts supported by string bass, organ, and drums.
BMC alums and 2020 students RJ McDowell and Wesley Hamilton share this special at-home performance. Written by Italian composer Alessandro Rolla, this viola duet lets both parts shine. This is the first movement, Allegro Maestoso, from the Duo in G Major. RJ holds degrees from Furman University and Belmont University, and Wesley recently graduated with her undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia.
Ballads and unaccompanied traditional songs of Appalachia are timeless, soulful and evoke a deep sense of connection. For generations, people have kept these songs alive by teaching them to each other on porches, at gatherings and at work. In this presentation, musician Susan Pepper will sing some of her favorite ballads from the region while sharing stories and showing photos of the people and places from which she learned her songs. Pepper has spent many years collecting songs and stories from traditional singers in Western North Carolina. She has performed at the Library of Congress and teaches ballad workshops online as well as at regional and national venues such as Banjo-Fiddle Frolic, John C. Campbell Folk School and Traditional Youth Song Weekend. She has a Master of Arts in Appalachian Studies with a focus in music, and created an album of her field recordings with a grant from the North Carolina Arts Council. She is also the co-producer of the recent Appalachian music film, The Mountain Minor.
This event will take place as a webinar.
Join us for unforgettable evenings of Celtic music and more on the second Monday of every month, hosted by lndie Award-winning guitarist Robin Bullock and four-time National Scottish Harp Champion Sue Richards.
Each month they are joined by a special guest.
This month: EJ “Piper” Jones and band
Opening Night 2016: An American in Paris
Posted July 2, 2020; originally aired in the 2016 season
https://www.brevardmusic.org/online/digital-bmc/?utm_source=Brevard+Music+Center&utm_campaign=a4740e663a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_1_31_2018_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b154873bc5-a4740e663a-131688489
Selected past performances by BMC orchestras, faculty, and guest artists on YouTube, SoundCloud, and Open Air Brevard.
Explore a series of posts to learn how the roots of American music run deep in North Carolina.
Keith discusses Strauss’s tone poem Don Quixote and the experience of preparing and performing it with the Brevard Music Center Orchestra and internationally renowned cellist Johannes Moser. The featured recording is from that performance in 2015.
https://www.brevardmusic.org/online/keiths-corner/?utm_source=Brevard+Music+Center&utm_campaign=a4740e663a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_1_31_2018_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b154873bc5-a4740e663a-131688489
Hailed as a “masterpiece” by the Chicago Sun-Times, Ballet Hispánico presents choreographer Gustavo Ramírez Sansano’s CARMEN.maquia – a Picasso-inspired, contemporary take on Bizet’s classic opera. Recorded at Lincoln Center, this riveting, imaginative and theatrical performance will be available online until Tuesday, July 14.