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.
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
Selected past performances by BMC orchestras, faculty, and guest artists on YouTube, SoundCloud, and Open Air Brevard.
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9
II. Scherzo. Molto vivace. Presto
Brevard Music Center Orchestra • Keith Lockhart, conductor
Recorded live on August 7, 2016,
at the Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium at the Brevard Music Center.
LIADOV From the Apocalypse, Op. 66
Brevard Sinfonia
Ken Lam, conductor
Recorded on August 3, 2019,
at the Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium in Brevard, NC.
Keith shares the music of American composer Gabriela Lena Frank. Her Three Latin American Dances for Orchestra include the “Jungle Jaunt,” “Highland Harawi,” and “The Mestizo Waltz.” The featured recording is of Keith Lockhart conducting the Utah Symphony in 2004.
One of my great joys at Brevard is being able to share with you symphonic music that is special to me. Keith’s Corner will allow me, albeit virtually, to continue to do that. Join me here as I share stories with you about the music that I love…some of the music that made me fall in love with orchestras, some works that have produced memorable moments during my years at Brevard, and some of the music that touches me most profoundly. It will also be an opportunity to, on occasion, introduce you to a gem you may not have yet discovered. Join me for a completely personal, somewhat subjective and, I hope, entertaining listening experience! – Keith Lockhart
Relive this summer’s concerts from Live with Carnegie Hall! Viewers can stream past performances by a wide variety of artists, including pianist Emanuel Ax, violinist Joshua Bell, singers Renée Fleming and Audra McDonald, and more.
Nightly Metropolitan Opera Streams
The Metropolitan Opera in New York continues its free nightly streams, allowing viewers across the globe the chance to see special rebroadcast performances for free. The list of upcoming performances is updated weekly, with each title streaming from 7:30pm to 6:30pm ET the next evening.
Thanks to a generous donation from our friends at fellow local business, Image 420 Screenprinting, we are proud to introduce a special, super limited edition t-shirt and sticker merch bundle ready for purchase today!
These awesome shirts, which come in unisex sizes S through XXL, plus the matching sticker, are available for a $50 bundle price which will include one of each. The full price of your purchase will benefit our campaign to keep the Orange Peel alive and well until it is safe for us to all be together enjoying shows again in person.
There are only 100 of these bundles available, and the designer, Brent Baldwin, did an amazing job with the art, so you are going to want to show off your proud support of keeping the music alive when you wear your shirt or display your new sticker. Every penny will bring us closer to hosting your favorite artist on our stage in the coming months when we can gather safely, and we will be SO thankful to all those who choose to demonstrate their support this way. We can’t wait to see you around town in your gear that helped save the music.
Thank you all for your love and support. Don’t forget, another amazing way to help us that costs nothing is to contact our elected representatives and let them know that you want congress to act and sign aid legislation now, including support for the SOS Act. This bipartisan act will help independent music businesses recover from our devastating losses of nearly 100% of revenue this year. Click here to send a letter to your rep. Even if you don’t have financial means to support us right now, sending a letter is a MAJOR contribution that we appreciate just as much.
We wouldn’t have become the club we are without all of you, and with your help, we will be around for decades to come.
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Join us a for a fun, socially distanced story time! A brand new story time video will be posted every day. Keep checking back! |
Experience an array of talented music artists on a pleasant summer night at the Monday Night Live! concert series. The concert series features a diverse line-up of folk, country and blues. The eclectic line-up of free live performances happen every other Monday evening from July 20, August 3, 17 & 31 at the Visitor Center, 201 South Main Street, from 7pm-9pm. Enjoy the fresh air, bring a chair and delight in the one-of-a-kind experience you’ll get from this unique outdoor music venue.
Bring a chair and sit back, relax and enjoy mountain heritage music and dancing from 7:00-9:00pm. Seating area opens after 5:30pm, early admission is prohibited. Admission is free. No alcoholic beverages, backpacks/tote bags or coolers allowed.
Please leave your pets comfortably at home. A Hendersonville City ordinance allows event organizers to exclude animals from the event space for the health, safety and welfare of the community, dogs, patrons, and vendors and their products.
In case of inclement weather the dance will be postponed until 8pm; if the weather does not cooperate by 8pm the performance will be cancelled.
For additional information call the Henderson County Tourism Development Authority at 828-693-9708. The Monday Night Live concert series is coordinated, produced, and sponsored by Henderson County Tourism Development Authority.
From our home to yours: students and faculty share new concerts, living room recitals, and masterclasses.
BMC cello faculty member Jonathan Spitz joins with fellow Orpheus Chamber Orchestra cellists Eric Bartlett, James Wilson, and Melissa Meell for this special arrangement of the Sarabande from Bach’s Suite for Solo Cello No. 6 in D Major. Orpheus shared this at-home performance in honor of World Health Day on April 7.
BMC favorite Gil Shaham shares this special episode of “Gilharmonic,” featuring past BMC guest artist Kelly Hall-Tompkins. Sponsored by Violinist.com, this one-hour violin chat includes performances by Kelly as well as student guests Jasmine Li, 13, and Samantha Washecka, 15.
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
Selected past performances by BMC orchestras, faculty, and guest artists on YouTube, SoundCloud, and Open Air Brevard.
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9
II. Scherzo. Molto vivace. Presto
Brevard Music Center Orchestra • Keith Lockhart, conductor
Recorded live on August 7, 2016,
at the Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium at the Brevard Music Center.
LIADOV From the Apocalypse, Op. 66
Brevard Sinfonia
Ken Lam, conductor
Recorded on August 3, 2019,
at the Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium in Brevard, NC.
Keith shares the music of American composer Gabriela Lena Frank. Her Three Latin American Dances for Orchestra include the “Jungle Jaunt,” “Highland Harawi,” and “The Mestizo Waltz.” The featured recording is of Keith Lockhart conducting the Utah Symphony in 2004.
One of my great joys at Brevard is being able to share with you symphonic music that is special to me. Keith’s Corner will allow me, albeit virtually, to continue to do that. Join me here as I share stories with you about the music that I love…some of the music that made me fall in love with orchestras, some works that have produced memorable moments during my years at Brevard, and some of the music that touches me most profoundly. It will also be an opportunity to, on occasion, introduce you to a gem you may not have yet discovered. Join me for a completely personal, somewhat subjective and, I hope, entertaining listening experience! – Keith Lockhart
Relive this summer’s concerts from Live with Carnegie Hall! Viewers can stream past performances by a wide variety of artists, including pianist Emanuel Ax, violinist Joshua Bell, singers Renée Fleming and Audra McDonald, and more.
Nightly Metropolitan Opera Streams
The Metropolitan Opera in New York continues its free nightly streams, allowing viewers across the globe the chance to see special rebroadcast performances for free. The list of upcoming performances is updated weekly, with each title streaming from 7:30pm to 6:30pm ET the next evening.
What: Local musicians, singers, callers, and technicians have given us joy as they shared their love of music and dance with us. We now ask our community to return that joy as they struggle financially during this difficult time by donating to our “Spread the Joy” fundraiser.
Who: All donations will be paid directly and equally to local talent. Your contributions will support local callers, musicians, and technicians who participated, a minimum of 4 times, either in the past year (March 2019 – March 2020) or were scheduled in the near future (March – June 2020) for OFB events and who indicated a financial need to the OFB Board.
When: The OFB will distribute donations on a regular basis while dances continue to be cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, so please give early and often. Consider donating the price you would have paid for admission to the dances for you, maybe several friends, and remembering that the dances were cancelled back in early March.
How: Click the link below to donate via Paypal and please add the note: “Spread the Joy fundraiser”. Donate conveniently via your credit card, debit card or your Paypal account.
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=PYS3WHNV76CWA&source=url
Thanks to a generous donation from our friends at fellow local business, Image 420 Screenprinting, we are proud to introduce a special, super limited edition t-shirt and sticker merch bundle ready for purchase today!
These awesome shirts, which come in unisex sizes S through XXL, plus the matching sticker, are available for a $50 bundle price which will include one of each. The full price of your purchase will benefit our campaign to keep the Orange Peel alive and well until it is safe for us to all be together enjoying shows again in person.
There are only 100 of these bundles available, and the designer, Brent Baldwin, did an amazing job with the art, so you are going to want to show off your proud support of keeping the music alive when you wear your shirt or display your new sticker. Every penny will bring us closer to hosting your favorite artist on our stage in the coming months when we can gather safely, and we will be SO thankful to all those who choose to demonstrate their support this way. We can’t wait to see you around town in your gear that helped save the music.
Thank you all for your love and support. Don’t forget, another amazing way to help us that costs nothing is to contact our elected representatives and let them know that you want congress to act and sign aid legislation now, including support for the SOS Act. This bipartisan act will help independent music businesses recover from our devastating losses of nearly 100% of revenue this year. Click here to send a letter to your rep. Even if you don’t have financial means to support us right now, sending a letter is a MAJOR contribution that we appreciate just as much.
We wouldn’t have become the club we are without all of you, and with your help, we will be around for decades to come.
Voices in the Laurel is currently registering young musicians in grades 1 – 12 into one of the
three ensembles, with rehearsals starting on Monday, August 31.
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Join us a for a fun, socially distanced story time! A brand new story time video will be posted every day. Keep checking back! |
Buncombe County Public Libraries will be opening three additional locations for curbside pickup service, the Fairview, Leicester, and Oakley/South Asheville branches. These locations will operate from 1-5 p.m. Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, in addition to our current curbside pickup service locations at the Black Mountain, North Asheville, South Buncombe, and West Asheville locations. For more information about library curbside pickup service or to place an item on hold for pickup, please call your local library or the Ask-A-Librarian line (828-250-4700) or visit buncombecounty.org/library. We hope to see you soon!
We’re thrilled to host the virtual launch event for David Joy’s new novel! This event is free but registration is required. Please click here to register. Registrants will receive an email on the day of the event with the event link required to attend on Zoom.
Order below to get a signed or personalized copy of When These Mountains Burn! Use the oder comments field to make your personalization request and provide the name to which the book should be authographed. Signed copies will be shipped or available for pickup after August 18.
When These Mountains Burn (available 8/18/20)
When his addict son gets in deep with his dealer, it takes everything Raymond Mathis has to bail him out of trouble one last time. Frustrated by the slow pace and limitations of the law, Raymond decides to take matters into his own hands.
After a workplace accident left him out of a job and in pain, Denny Rattler has spent years chasing his next high. He supports his habit through careful theft, following strict rules that keep him under the radar and out of jail. But when faced with opportunities too easy to resist, Denny makes two choices that change everything.
For months, the DEA has been chasing the drug supply in the mountains to no avail, when a lead–just one word–sets one agent on a path to crack the case wide open . . . but he’ll need help from the most unexpected quarter.
As chance brings together these men from different sides of a relentless epidemic, each may come to find that his opportunity for redemption lies with the others.
David Joy is the author of The Line That Held Us (winner of the 2018 SIBA Book Prize), The Weight of This World, and Where All Light Tends to Go (Edgar finalist for Best First Novel). His stories and creative nonfiction have appeared in a number of publications, and he is the author of the memoir Growing Gills: A Fly Fisherman’s Journey and a co-editor for Gather at the River: Twenty-Five Authors on Fishing. Joy lives in Tuckasegee, North Carolina.
If you decide to attend and to purchase the author’s book(s), we ask that you purchase from Malalprop’s. When you do this you are supporting our work and keeping more dollars in our community. Thank you!
In episode seven of this series, host Adam Hamway shares what a few local musicians, comedians, dancers and animators can do from their apartments on Tuesday, August 18 at 7:00pm ET. Don’t miss performances by New York artists! This program streams on the Greene Space website, YouTube, and Facebook, and is available for archived viewing.
Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield, a lyricist who has always let her listeners know exactly where she is at a given moment, spent much of 2018 reckoning with these questions and revisiting her roots to look for answers. The result is Saint Cloud, an intimate journey through the places she’s been, filled with the people she’s loved.
EVERY Tuesday at Asheville Music Hall! Tuesday Night Funk Jam has been a huge part of Asheville’s vibrant music scene since 2008 and is #Asheville’s hottest weekly concert. Tuesday Night Funk Jam is programmed and orchestrated by an evolved Legendary House Band with trombonist Derrick Lee Johnson at the helm. At 10PM sharp, the Legendary House Band kicks off the night
From our home to yours: students and faculty share new concerts, living room recitals, and masterclasses.
BMC cello faculty member Jonathan Spitz joins with fellow Orpheus Chamber Orchestra cellists Eric Bartlett, James Wilson, and Melissa Meell for this special arrangement of the Sarabande from Bach’s Suite for Solo Cello No. 6 in D Major. Orpheus shared this at-home performance in honor of World Health Day on April 7.
BMC favorite Gil Shaham shares this special episode of “Gilharmonic,” featuring past BMC guest artist Kelly Hall-Tompkins. Sponsored by Violinist.com, this one-hour violin chat includes performances by Kelly as well as student guests Jasmine Li, 13, and Samantha Washecka, 15.
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
Selected past performances by BMC orchestras, faculty, and guest artists on YouTube, SoundCloud, and Open Air Brevard.
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9
II. Scherzo. Molto vivace. Presto
Brevard Music Center Orchestra • Keith Lockhart, conductor
Recorded live on August 7, 2016,
at the Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium at the Brevard Music Center.
LIADOV From the Apocalypse, Op. 66
Brevard Sinfonia
Ken Lam, conductor
Recorded on August 3, 2019,
at the Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium in Brevard, NC.
Keith shares the music of American composer Gabriela Lena Frank. Her Three Latin American Dances for Orchestra include the “Jungle Jaunt,” “Highland Harawi,” and “The Mestizo Waltz.” The featured recording is of Keith Lockhart conducting the Utah Symphony in 2004.
One of my great joys at Brevard is being able to share with you symphonic music that is special to me. Keith’s Corner will allow me, albeit virtually, to continue to do that. Join me here as I share stories with you about the music that I love…some of the music that made me fall in love with orchestras, some works that have produced memorable moments during my years at Brevard, and some of the music that touches me most profoundly. It will also be an opportunity to, on occasion, introduce you to a gem you may not have yet discovered. Join me for a completely personal, somewhat subjective and, I hope, entertaining listening experience! – Keith Lockhart
Relive this summer’s concerts from Live with Carnegie Hall! Viewers can stream past performances by a wide variety of artists, including pianist Emanuel Ax, violinist Joshua Bell, singers Renée Fleming and Audra McDonald, and more.