Living Room Live Rebroadcasts
Relive this summer’s concerts from Living Room Live! Viewers can stream past performances by a wide variety of artists including harpsichordist Bridget Cunningham, violinist Rachel Podger, cellist Colin Alexander, pianist George X. Fu, and many more. Watch these programs anytime you want from home!

Create, share, and discover with Buncombe County Public Library’s newest resource, Biblioboard.

BiblioBoard Library is an easy-to-use platform of high-quality digital content. Biblioboard offers books, articles, documents, images, audios, and videos. BiblioBoard Library is host to content from traditional publishers, indie authors, cultural institutions, and local thought leaders. Users can access BiblioBoard Library through the library’s website or on the device of their choice.

Some features of Biblioboard:

• No waitlists or holds
• Streaming audio and video are available on a wide variety of topics
• Check out curated collections of the best indie authors.
• Available for desktop, iOS, and Android devices

Local authors can submit their work for inclusion in the library catalog or publish books with Press Books. You can submit and share your work locally or nationally.

Vulnerable North Carolinians can request free PPE as they head to the polls.

We are all in this together.

In response to the unique economic challenges of COVID-19, a consortium of public, private, and nonprofit partners have come together and launched an innovative recovery-lending program to help support entrepreneurs like you and stabilize North Carolina’s small business sector.

As part of the EmPOWERing Mountain Food Systems Project in the seven western counties of North Carolina, including the Qualla Boundary of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, the Mountain Food & Farm Apprenticeship Program brings education and workforce development opportunities to the region in partnership with Western Carolina University, Haywood Community College, Southwestern Community College, and Tri-County Community College.

Pandemic Arts is a series “where performing artists from various genres discuss how the global pandemic is affecting their careers, their creativity, their finances, and their plans for the future.” The FRP episode is live and features a candid interview with Lisa K. Bryant about the history of the Playhouse and the challenges of running a theatre during the COVID-19 pandemic. You’ll also see performances by beloved Vagabonds Matthew Glover, Bill Muñoz, and Scott Treadway. Click here to watch the video!

The Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning documentary RBG, directed by award-winning filmmakers Betsy West and Julie Cohen, chronicles the inspiring and personal story of Ginsburg’s rise to the nation’s highest court while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon. “From her Supreme Court chambers to her exercise room, what a privilege and a joy it was for us to train our cameras on RBG, and capture the story of this feisty, determined, brilliant woman who used her talents to make our world a better place,” said West and Cohen.

“What makes it memorable is its portrait of a woman with an exceptional intellect, to be sure, but also a lifelong capacity for staggering amounts of minutely detailed, unswervingly purposeful work.” – Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal

“The movie’s touch is light and its spirit buoyant, but there is no mistaking its seriousness or its passion. Those qualities resonate powerfully in the dissents that may prove to be Justice Ginsburg’s most enduring legacy, and RBG is, above all, a tribute to her voice.” – A.O. Scott, The New York Times

In addition to owning the film, you’ll also have access to a long-form Q&A with the directors from earlier this summer.

BMC saxophone faculty members Joseph Lulloff and Henning Schröder share a new work, Saxology, by Marc Mellits. The piece was commissioned and recently premiered by the Arizona State University Saxophone Choir, including the Capitol Quartet, helíos_, and the Seyon Quartet.

Brevard Music Center: Staff Picks From Around the Web

Singing On The Land:
Music Across NC
New works every week! Celebrate stories of historic sites across North Carolina through music.

Vote AVL is a nonpartisan movement to increase voter turnout in the Asheville Area. The site features voter resources including registration info, a calendar of important dates, and information on candidates at the local, state and national levels. Businesses can take the pledge to provide information and resources to their employees, so that they can use their voice to make their vote count. Learn more at voteavl.org.

Important Dates:

Friday, October 9th – Voter Registration deadline (online or postmarked by)

Thursday, October 15th – Early Voting begins, including same-day registration

Tuesday, October 27th – Deadline to request an Absentee Ballot (received by)

Saturday, October 31st – Early Voting Ends

Tuesday, November 3rd – Election Day and Absentee Ballot deadline (received by)

Brevard Music Center: Staff Picks From Around the Web

The Origins of Music:
The Story of Guido
Explore the origins of music with the story of Guido d’Arezzo, brought to you by the Odd Quartet.

UNCA student Jasmine Washington, President of the Black Student Association, shares how to register to vote for the 2020 election. The voter registration period ends in 10 days.

Wigmore Hall: Fall Series Continues
Don’t miss this fall’s series of concerts from Wigmore Hall in London! You can stream free concerts several times a week throughout October and November, with artists including the Schumann Quartet, cellist Steven Isserlis, Fretwork, soprano Golda Schultz, violinist Jennifer Pike, violist Lawrence Power, and more! Note: all performance times are in British Summer Time (BST).

Cover Crops: Try Winter Rye!
Have you considered fall cover crops and been overwhelmed by the possibilities? Does it seem just too complicated, too many choices? My choice is winter rye—the grain, not annual rye grass—which has been my fall/winter cover crop for 40 years in different types of gardens and soils.

Why Winter Rye?
Here are my top reasons:

• I can plant it any time after I clear my summer garden beds through mid-November.
• It grows all winter—it may not show much top growth, but any time the ground isn’t frozen, roots are growing.
• It has a deep, fibrous root system to pull up nutrients from the lower soil profile, preserve nitrogen in the topsoil layer, and improve tilth of heavy clay soils.
• It’s a beautiful green carpet during the browns of winter, but it is an annual that dies after setting seed in spring, facilitating management in no-till gardens.
• Rye is somewhat allelopathic—it produces chemicals that interfere with other plant seeds  germinating and growing—which helps with early spring weed control.
• For more information:

  NCSU – Winter Annual Cover Crops
  UVM Fact Sheet – Winter Rye: A Reliable Cover Crop
  MSU – Use Rye This Fall to Put Your Garden to Bed for Winter
  UMass – Cover Crop Growing Tips
  UFL – Allelopathy: How Plants Suppress Other Plants