Calendar of Events

RiverLink is honored to be the beneficiary of the community giving program at High Five Coffee in June and July! Stop by for a beverage and add a $5 donation at the register—100% of your gift goes to RiverLink! In addition, 10% of branded merchandise sales will support our efforts to restore the French Broad. Three locations to serve you: 13 Rankin Ave., 190 Broadway St., or (our favorite) the 2000 Riverside Drive location in Woodfin, offering coffee drinks, pastries and smoothies plus outdoor seating and walking trails on the bank of the river. Now that’s a coffee stop!

Of course, you can always donate directly from this newsletter. Thank you for considering a gift today!

4th annual beer release Honig Gottin to raise funds for Pink Boots Society and women in beer.

Asheville’s newest downtown restaurant offers 1/2 off all drafts for the entire Asheville Beer Week! 10 local taps to choose from, all 1/2 off with purchase. Come cheers with us!

Mon: 11:00 AM – 10:00 PM

Tue: 11:00 AM – 10:00 PM

Wed: 11:00 AM – 10:00 PM

Thu: 11:00 AM – 10:00 PM

Fri: 11:00 AM – 12:00 AM

Sat: 10:30 AM – 12:00 AM

Sun: 10:30 AM – 10:00 PM

John Kirby and the New Seniors were born from fire under a full moon in the winter of 2019. Bonding over a mutual love of Van Halen and The Replacements, the three instantly connected and vowed their allegiance to rock and roll in both form and spirit. “We get to the chorus quick.. while also sticking it to the man…”.

Fueled by the guitar playing, singing and songwriting of John Kirby and anchored by the rhythm section of old school rockers John Hawkins (drums/vocals) and Chad Nance (bass/vocals), John Kirby and The New Seniors play guitar driven original rock with a little bit of power pop sprinkled on top.

Their music has also been described as “Punk/metal with a bouquet of guitar based pop”, “A cross between Westerberg and Petty” and “Nicely crafted power punk”.

Always looking to forge ahead, the band released their first EP “Don’t Kill the Magic” in September of 2019 and have followed that up with 9 singles and 1 live album release. The band will release their first full length album in early spring. JKandTNS also continues to be involved in the Black Mountain based Holy Crap Records music community.

 Fireworks Night

Post-Game Fireworks Show Presented By Ingles

 Dollar Dog Friday

$1 hotdogs served every Friday, thanks to Blossman Gas!

Clarinetist Steve Loew and pianist/Artistic Director Daniel Weiser return to Isis for another exciting “JEWISH JAZZ” program, an exploration into the intersection of Klezmer-style music and the birth of American Jazz.   As Jewish immigrants and Klezmer musicians flowed into New York during the first decades of the 20th century, they combined with African-American migrants and Blues performers moving from the South and an exciting new American music was born.  This concert includes music by Gershwin, Goodman, and Joplin as well as Blues, Ragtime, Dixieland, and some Jewish Suites that reveal the close relationship between the Jewish and Jazz musical idioms.  They will finish the program with a rousing rendition of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue.”

The JackTown Ramblers bring a high level of musicianship and an entertaining stage show that you will not easily forget. Hailing from North Carolina, the Ramblers blend mountain string band, bluegrass, swing and gypsy jazz into a audio experience like no other. Don’t miss a chance to hear for yourself and pat your foot to the grooves while you laugh out loud at the shenanigans of the JackTown Ramblers.

Reserved Seat Tickets are available with Dinner reservations – You must call the venue at 828-575-2737 to make dinner reservations and secure those tickets.

General Admission Tickets are available for the main stage balcony only. Seating in the balcony is first come, first serve. Dinner service is NOT currently being offered for general admission tickets.; drink service is available at the downstairs bar on the main floor.

Currently, only General Admission tickets are available on line

You must call the venue at 828-575-2737 for Reserve Seat Tickets and to make dinner reservations.

Come enjoy an evening of live music, food and drinks at Isis Music Hall. Advanced Reservations are highly recommended.

The Henderson County Curb Market hosts its June Jubilee along with its
98th Anniversary Celebration, this is sure to be a fun filled event for the whole family, there will be a hot dog plate lunch available
to purchase, live music by Two Fer with David Emmons and Glenn Case, and balloons, treats and activities for the children,
including a “plant a flower” project at the children’s activity table, Visitors will want to take time to shop with vendors for produce,
unique and beautiful items made by our local crafters, fresh baked goods, free range eggs, preserves and more, With each
purchase a raffle ticket will be given for a chance to win a lovely basket filled with Curb Market items, along with a free packet of
seeds,

RiverLink is honored to be the beneficiary of the community giving program at High Five Coffee in June and July! Stop by for a beverage and add a $5 donation at the register—100% of your gift goes to RiverLink! In addition, 10% of branded merchandise sales will support our efforts to restore the French Broad. Three locations to serve you: 13 Rankin Ave., 190 Broadway St., or (our favorite) the 2000 Riverside Drive location in Woodfin, offering coffee drinks, pastries and smoothies plus outdoor seating and walking trails on the bank of the river. Now that’s a coffee stop!

Of course, you can always donate directly from this newsletter. Thank you for considering a gift today!

JOIN US FOR UNCORKED! THIS UNIQUE RAIL LINE AND WINE EXPERIENCE WILL FUSE THE ADVENTURE OF RAILROADING WITH THE LOVE OF GOOD WINE AND GOOD COMPANY.

• About This Trip
• Meal
• How To Purchase
• Where To Go
• Schedule

About This Trip

Passengers will enjoy a full service All-Adult First Class ride in our First Class cars with a private attendant and plush, well-appointed dining seating. A narrator will accompany the ride to present each pour to guests and share knowledge and history of the wines selected. Passengers on this specialty car will enjoy an exclusive sampling of cheeses and a surf and turf meal prepared fresh.

We have carefully selected our wine samples to accompany the meal. All passengers will receive a GSMR souvenir stemless wine glass, four samples of selected wine, and a dessert that’s perfect
for the season!

Uncorked is offered on the Nantahala Gorge Excursion departing on April 23, May 7, June 4, July 30, Aug 6 & Sept 3.

Tickets for this specialty experience is $139 per person (Adults 21+ only). Due to the exclusivity of this specialty car, tickets will be selling fast so make sure to reserve your seat today!

On Your Plate

Starters –

Enjoy a sampling of  cheeses.

Soup –

Fresh Soup or Salad (Seasonal) served with a Warm Dinner Roll.

Main Course

Fresh fish seasonally prepared at Chefs’ discretion.  Accompanied by Tender Beef slices topped with a Port Wine Reduction and Carrot Soufflé.

Dessert

Chef choice

4th annual beer release Honig Gottin to raise funds for Pink Boots Society and women in beer.

Asheville’s newest downtown restaurant offers 1/2 off all drafts for the entire Asheville Beer Week! 10 local taps to choose from, all 1/2 off with purchase. Come cheers with us!

Mon: 11:00 AM – 10:00 PM

Tue: 11:00 AM – 10:00 PM

Wed: 11:00 AM – 10:00 PM

Thu: 11:00 AM – 10:00 PM

Fri: 11:00 AM – 12:00 AM

Sat: 10:30 AM – 12:00 AM

Sun: 10:30 AM – 10:00 PM

The Village Ice Cream Social returns after two years of COVID cancellations, This annual
event is a celebration of Flat Rock, with free ice cream, a band and an opportunity to meet and possibly name a baby goat from
the Sandburg barn, The K-9 Unit of the Henderson County Sheriff’s Office will once again give a demonstration, No pets allowed,
bring a chair, parking is limited so carpooling is recommended, Free,

Thomas Kozak is a singer-songwriter based in Asheville, NC. His songs string together themes of despair, denial, faith, and hope amidst the broken darkness of the South. With a focus on lyricism and structure that stretches convention, he looks to bend an ear beyond the conventions of folk. Kozak’s most recent album, “The Rubicon,” was produced by Americana staple Jim White and engineered by John Keane (Indigo Girls, REM). More can be found at www.kozakandthepoets.com.

Nashville-based artist/songwriter with americana and rock vibes.

A Michigan-born Nashvillian, Sarah Faith is a singer-songwriter that has built her musical catalog and sound as a testament to her life’s struggles, including the loss of a family member to addiction, abusive situations she has overcome, and her own journey toward positive mental health. As an independent Americana artist, Sarah has been strongly influenced by a diverse musical background. The result is a healthy mix of blues and roots rock, folk, alt-country, and indie rock. Her warm, soulful voice brings her close-to-the-heart stories to her fans with a distinct vulnerability and realness that keeps them coming back for more.

For over two decades The Walker Family Band has delighted audiences throughout the Southeast with a distinctive take on traditional styles, performing Irish dance music and American old time music with a forward reaching attitude. We especially enjoy sharing original tunes, which grow naturally from these basic roots and from our thorough training and experience in classical music and jazz. The Walker Family Band creates a confluence of sound with an end game plan; a fresh connection with each audience! Now living in the Asheville area, we are looking forward to performing for our new, and old friends here in these beautiful mountains! True to Irish and American tradition, we share our experience and knowledge by conducting multi-instrumental workshops and by hosting an annual summer camp. The Walker Family Band Music Camp is attended by families and students from coast to coast.

Visit here to learn more: https://thewalkerfamilyband.com/

Masks for this event are optional but encouraged.

Come enjoy an evening of live music, food and drinks in the Isis Music Hall Lounge. Reservations are highly recommended.

This show was originally scheduled for August 20, 2021. Previously purchased tickets will be honored at the rescheduled date. Please email [email protected] if you have any questions.

Ages 18+

Fade to Black is a Metallica Tribute band from Baltimore, Maryland.

We formed this band with mutual goals of paying tribute to and delivering the musical intensity created by the Heavy Metal Gods themselves. Breathing and living all things Metallica, Fade To Black is endlessly devoted to recreating the sounds

Growing up in Virginia, Matt Maeson got his start performing for inmates at maximum-security prisons across America at age 17. “I’d get up and do these acoustic songs on my guitar, and they’re still the best shows I’ve ever done,” says the Austin-based singer/songwriter. “You’re playing for all these people who are treated like they’re monsters, and it feels like spreading some light into a really dark place.”

On his debut album Bank on the Funeral, Maeson uses his deeply incisive songwriting to explore the tension between light and dark in his own life. The album redefines the limits of the classic singer/songwriter’s sensibility and shapes a sound that’s richly textured and gracefully experimental. And with his soulful vocal presence, Maeson again reveals the raw-nerve vulnerability that prompted TIME to praise him as “never afraid to investigate his past and his demons, resulting in songs that are clear-eyed in their honesty and raw around the edges.”

Centered on Maeson’s candid storytelling and gritty poetry, Bank on the Funeral takes its title from its closing track: a quietly hypnotic number written for a beloved uncle, who was murdered when Maeson was six-years-old. “He was a criminal when he was younger, but once he got himself together he’d go out and minister to the people he used to hang around with — the people the church would never try to reach — and then one of those guys ended up going crazy and killing him,” says Maeson. “What inspires me about him is how he’d go to the places no one else would go and talk about the things no one else would talk about.”

Throughout Bank on the Funeral, Maeson brings a similar courage to his songwriting, imbuing every track with an often-brutal self-awareness. On the album-opening “I Just Don’t Care That Much,” he fires off a litany of confessions (“Maybe life was just a bet/That I lost to drugs and cigarettes”), brilliantly offsetting all that heavy-hearted deliberation with his bright melodies and upbeat rhythms. Later, on the fast-paced and horn-laced “Legacy,” Maeson’s spirited and sometimes-howled vocals relay some borrowed wisdom about self-salvation. “That song’s about a night in Virginia Beach when I was drunk on the street with my friends, and an old man came up to us and started talking about life,” Maeson explains. “The lyrics are basically me writing out everything I remember him saying.” But for songs like “The Mask,” the album shifts into moodier and more darkly ethereal terrain, a potent backdrop to his gently urgent vocal performance. “‘The Mask’ is about how everybody has a mask they wear and how that always roots back to something — some point in your life where you started pretending, and then eventually started believing that’s who you really are,” Maeson says.

One of the most arresting tracks on Bank on the Funeral, “Beggar’s Song” begins in hushed guitar tones and softly pleading vocals, then unfolds into a stubbornly hopeful epic with gospel-like intensity. “I wrote ‘Beggar’s Song’ when I was broke and hungover at SXSW, and everybody was partying and I was just over it,” Maeson remembers. “It’s about spending the last two years on the road and what that’s felt like — that line ‘I’m a beat-down, washed-up son of a bitch’ has definitely been true on multiple occasions.”

In the making of Bank on the Funeral, Maeson drew equally from his instinct-driven songwriting process and from the natural musicality he’s honed since he was a little kid. Originally from Norfolk, Virginia, he was born into a music-loving family, including parents who played in heavy metal bands throughout his early childhood. The same uncle who inspired “Bank on the Funeral” gave Maeson a drum set when he was a toddler, then left his nephew his own drums after he died. At 15, Maeson learned a few guitar chords from his father and soon began writing songs, playing his first live gig at a Chick-fil-A open-mic night and then moving on to the penitentiaries. “My dad was a criminal growing up, but he ended up turning his life around and becoming a youth pastor,” Maeson says. “Later on my parents started a prison ministry, and I went along with them to play my songs in the prisons.”

As he built up his body of work, Maeson increasingly relied on songwriting as an emotional outlet. “I started getting into a lot of trouble, doing a lot of drugs, getting arrested,” he says. “Music became a way of getting things off my chest, and I started writing with more honesty.” In addition to working construction 12 hours a day and doing community service on his time off, he began traveling the country with a notebook and a guitar, often going back to play in the prisons where he got his start. In 2015 he began posting his songs online and quickly drew attention for “Grave Digger,” a starkly powerful track about “trying to figure out how to navigate life after realizing that everything you were told growing up isn’t necessarily true,” according to Maeson. He soon signed a joint deal with Neon Gold/Atlantic Records, then made his debut with Who Killed Matt Maeson — a 2017 EP featuring his breakthrough single “Cringe,” which hit #12 on Spotify’s US Viral 50. With his sophomore EP The Hearse arriving in spring 2018, Maeson next headed out on tour with Bishop Briggs and took the stage at major summer festivals like Lollapalooza and Bonnaroo.

In bringing Bank on the Funeral to life, Maeson continued to tap into the cathartic power of making music. “Songwriting’s always been very therapeutic for me,” he says. “Wherever I’ve lived, there’s always been a secluded closet or bathroom where I could sing really loud and not bother anybody.” And though he regards his songs as “conversations with myself,” Maeson’s underlying mission is to include others in that catharsis. “What I try to do is help people know that, even if their problems feel so specific to their lives, everyone’s going through something that feels just as specific,” he says. “If I can write about what’s upset me or what I’ve learned from, and somehow help other people feel recognized and understood, that’s always the ultimate goal.”

RiverLink is honored to be the beneficiary of the community giving program at High Five Coffee in June and July! Stop by for a beverage and add a $5 donation at the register—100% of your gift goes to RiverLink! In addition, 10% of branded merchandise sales will support our efforts to restore the French Broad. Three locations to serve you: 13 Rankin Ave., 190 Broadway St., or (our favorite) the 2000 Riverside Drive location in Woodfin, offering coffee drinks, pastries and smoothies plus outdoor seating and walking trails on the bank of the river. Now that’s a coffee stop!

Of course, you can always donate directly from this newsletter. Thank you for considering a gift today!

4th annual beer release Honig Gottin to raise funds for Pink Boots Society and women in beer.

Asheville’s newest downtown restaurant offers 1/2 off all drafts for the entire Asheville Beer Week! 10 local taps to choose from, all 1/2 off with purchase. Come cheers with us!

Mon: 11:00 AM – 10:00 PM

Tue: 11:00 AM – 10:00 PM

Wed: 11:00 AM – 10:00 PM

Thu: 11:00 AM – 10:00 PM

Fri: 11:00 AM – 12:00 AM

Sat: 10:30 AM – 12:00 AM

Sun: 10:30 AM – 10:00 PM

Join Asheville Tea Company and Sugar & Snow Gelato to kick off the summer with a very special Iced Tea & Gelato Summer Pop-Up Party Sunday, June 5 from 1pm – 4pm at Sugar & Snow Gelato. Sip & sample new iced teas of the season and shop the Asheville Tea Company Pop-Up shop; plus cool off with gelato crafted in-house by the talented team at Sugar & Snow.

Insider tip:: They’re making Gelato Iced Tea Floats. OMG. YUM!! This is a family friendly event, so bring the kiddos and come enjoy those summer vibes in the River Arts District.

Jazz Sunday at One World Brewing West is a modern jazz jam held every Sunday afternoon from 1-4pm. Previously known as Jazz Monday, the jam has been running non stop since July, 2018 at the West Asheville brewery and is hosted weekly by The Fully Vaccinated Jazz Trio, consisting of Ray Ring on guitar, Jason DeCristofaro on drums, piano and vibraphone, and Connor Law on bass. Jazz Sunday typically features a guest artist for a short set and then welcomes jazz musicians of all levels to sit in for the remainder of the afternoon on One World’s spacious outdoor stage.