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– LIMITED PATIO SEATING IS FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED

WE HAVE IGNITION

We Have Ignition hails from Asheville. Playing high energy Surf/Punk originals. The band consists of:

Robert Lloyd Martin on guitar (Puddles Pity Party, Crooked Fingers)

Nick Harvey on drums (Marblehead)

Jeff Manson on bass (Rich Nelson band)

Enjoy a live performance with Holly Near accompanied by John Bucchino on piano.

Holly Near has been singing for a more equitable world for well over 40 creative years. She is an insightful storyteller through her music, committed to keeping the work rooted in contemporary activism.

Holly’s joy and passion continue to inspire people to join in her celebration of the human spirit. Equally compelling at her shows and through recordings, Holly’s music fully engages listeners in the world around them, speaking to anyone who believes in peace, justice, and feminism; a wonderful spectrum of humanity.

DOC AT 100  is a concert program celebrating the life and legacy of Doc Watson by artists who performed with Doc, were profoundly influenced by his music and called him a friend. This includes T. Michael Coleman and Jack Lawrence who performed, recorded, and toured with Doc.

Joining T. Michael and Jack are fellow guitarists Wayne Henderson and Jack Hinshelwood, both having been greatly impacted by Doc’s music and were also considered close friends.

Dinner starts before the show at 5:30 p.m.

The brilliant colors of traditional costumes and the songs and folkloric dance of Mexico by local, talented youth will fill The White Horse Black Mountain on Friday, September 8. Ballet Folklórico Raíces, a program of Raíces Emma-Erwin, a local Latine cultural arts organization, will share the stage with musician David LaMotte and the Indigenous Mä hñäkihu musical group.

Ballet Folklórico Raíces was organized just last fall by Latine teens, some of whom had been dancing with Raíces Emma Erwin programs for almost 10 years. They applied for and received grant funding to hire professional folklorico dancer, Daniel Vega Vazquez, as their instructor and creative director. He is the founder of Ballet Folklorico Asheville. Verner Learning Center in Emma provides space for their weekly and intensive rehearsals and they have performed six times in the last year including at the Hola Carolina festival in downtown Asheville.

“I think it’s something beautiful,” Yoltzin Alviter Hernandez, 16, says. She started folklorico dancing in the first grade and loves how it allows her to embrace her culture and share it with other people. “All the colors and each dance has a meaning behind it.”

David LaMotte is a big fan of Ballet Folklórico Raíces and traditional cultural art, dance and music. He proposed the event to create awareness about the youth dance group, to support their funding needs, and to have fun. He is contributing his talent to the evening–including a song in Spanish– and a portion of ticket proceeds will benefit the program. Mä hñäkihu, the namesake of a language and cultural preservation project based in Emma, is composed mostly of Hñähñu musicians who are Indigenous to the Mezquital Valley in Mexico. 

Join us for a fun evening on the mountain as The Tams return to Point Lookout Vineyards!
For more information on The Tams, visit: https://thetams.com/
NO COOLERS
NO OUTSIDE ALCOHOL
SEATING IS AVAILABLE, BUT YOU MAY BRING YOUR OWN CHAIR. SPACE FOR PERSONAL CHAIRS IS FIRST COME FIRST SERVE.
GATES OPEN AT 6:00PM

Ages 18+ PARTIALLY SEATED SHOW

This show was originally scheduled for Feb 25, 2023.

Restored and restorable vintage radios, parts, accessories, books. Tour Asheville Radio Museum . Free admission. Visit.

Asheville Outlets will team with Yoga Nut to host a Wellness Expo on Saturday, September 9, 2023, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. with booth proceeds benefitting Babies Need Bottoms. The complimentary Expo will provide attendees with a wide array of fitness, health, and wellness tools, including a complimentary yoga session and a movement workshop focusing on spine and hip mobility for pain prevention. Additional activities will include an antigravity chair, mini acupuncture sessions, health & wellness coaching sessions, brain assessments, information on Medicaid and Medicare, blood pressure screenings, and more. For more information on the Wellness Expo, visit ShopAshevilleOutlets.com.

In this beginner’s workshop, expert Appalachian musician Wayne Erbsen will show you just how easy and fun it is to learn how to play the banjo by learning songs such as “I’ll Fly Away” and “The Ballad of Jed Clampet.” This workshop is for absolute beginners with zero experience! Banjos will be available for a rental fee of $10 per banjo. If you need to rent a banjo, please reserve a banjo on your booking for a $0 deposit, but bring $10 cash with you to the workshop. This workshop will be a very small group setting of 15 participants. SPACE IS LIMITED, so reserve your spot now!

After the workshop, there will be a concert put on by Wayne and any students of the workshop who would like to perform from 4:00 – 5:30pm at the Black Mountain Public Library. If you would like to attend just the concert without the workshop, that is also an option when purchasing tickets

Featured Performers

Lura Johnson, Piano

Dr. Daniel Weiser , Concert Pianist and Founding Director of AmiciMusic

“FANTASIES and RHAPSODIES”

GREAT FOUR-HAND WORKS BY SCHUBERT, BIZET, LISZT, AND GERSHWIN

Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring

• the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert,
• a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”,
• Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and
• an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. 

Pianist Lura Johnson makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!

Steinway Artist Lura Johnson is celebrated by critics and audiences for her insightful, emotionally impactful performances. The Washington Post describes hearing her play as “one of life’s great pleasures.” The Baltimore Sun praises her “surging expressive force… impressive bravura…” and “exceptional vitality, color, and impact.” Performing more than one hundred concerts annually as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral pianist, Lura captures, distills, and powerfully communicates the spirit and personality of the music she performs. She describes her mission this way: “My goal is to vividly and thoroughly bring to life the essence and true character of the music, the way an actor embodies a role with full commitment.” Lura is Resident Pianist of the Baltimore Symphony and Principal Pianist of the Delaware Symphony, positions which synthesize her finely honed ensemble skills, soloistic virtuosity, and versatility. She has played principal keyboard for seven albums recorded by the Baltimore Symphony, including Bernstein’s Mass, which received a Grammy nomination in 2010. The Washington Classical Review wrote of a BSO performance of Bernstein’s Age of Anxiety, “[Soloist] Jean-Yves Thibaudet was shadowed brilliantly by the BSO’s outstanding keyboard player, Lura Johnson, on the daunting celesta part.” This collaboration was immortalized in a 2017 album released by the BSO on the Naxos label, and was also part of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s tour of the United Kingdom in 2018, with performances and telecasts at the renowned BBC Proms and the prestigious Edinburgh Festival in Scotland. Lura has been featured as a soloist with the Baltimore and Delaware Symphonies, performing Rachmaninoff’s First Piano Concerto, Grieg Concerto, Mozart’s K. 466, Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, and Saint-Saens Wedding Cake Waltz. She is one of few keyboardists with the versatility to perform the complete Bach Brandenburg Concerti, moving seamlessly from the continuo harpsichord role in Concertos No.1 through 4 and No. 6 to the solo role in the magnificent Concerto No. 5. Similarly, in the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s 2020 production of Amadeus Live, Lura navigated the solo role in several Mozart Concerti, as well as performing the supporting role of organ continuo, eliciting the praise “meticulous and brilliant” from the Montgomery County Sentinel. Esteemed for her uncommon sensitivity and skill as a chamber music partner, Lura moves flexibly inside an ensemble as leader or supporter, as needed.

Daniel Weiser, piano, has a Doctorate in Piano/Chamber Music from the Peabody Conservatory, where he studied with Samuel Sanders and Robert MacDonald and won the Richard Franko Goldman prize for outstanding contribution to musical and education life. He has performed on many great stages, including the Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall, the National Gallery of Art in D.C., and on the Dame Myra Hess Concert Series in Chicago.

He has also concertized around the world, including Israel, Thailand, Holland, and France and was the 1996 U.S. Artistic Ambassador Abroad, for which he performed on an eleven-country tour of the Middle East and Asia. He has been on the music faculty of Dartmouth College and the prestigious St. Paul’s School in Concord, NH.

Besides founding AmiciMusic, he co-founded and still serves as Artistic Director for Classicopia, a similar type of chamber music organization based in New Hampshire. He was also a founding member of the Adirondack Ensemble, which won a Chamber Music America award for inventive programming and outreach. He has participated in the New Hampshire Music Festival, Musicorda, and the Apple Hill Chamber Music Festival and has been the Music Director of the Da Corneta Opera Ensemble, the Opera North Young Artist program, and Opera New England.

A phi beta kappa graduate of Columbia University with a degree in American History, he also spent a year at Harvard Law School and was a classmate of President Obama. A native of Buffalo, NY, he currently lives in Baltimore, MD with his wife, Dr. Kisha Weiser and their fifteen-year old twin daughters, Rose and Sophie.

AmiciMusic is a chamber music organization based in Asheville, NC and Baltimore, MD, dedicated to performing the highest quality chamber music in intimate venues and non-traditional spaces. We are committed to breaking down barriers between performers and audiences by setting up a more relaxed and informal atmosphere at concerts and through informative talks about each composer’s life before each piece is played.

“Nobody puts Baby in a corner.” Get ready for the time of your life with The Music of Dirty Dancing! This musical tribute to the film shot, in part, at Henderson County’s own Lake Lure is sure to feature all the hip-shaking guilty pleasure the world came to love in the 1987 blockbuster. The sizzling soundtrack comes to life on ‘The Rock’ with vocals and dancing that will dazzle you.  Feel free to sing and dance along to tunes like “Be My Baby,” “Hungry Eyes,” “She’s Like the Wind,”  the Academy Award winning “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life,” and so many more!

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First Aid Kit – Palomino Tour with Special Guest Courtney Marie Andrews Tickets | Asheville, NC | Rabbit Rabbit (etix.com) for tickets

First Aid Kit – Palomino Tour with Special Guest Courtney Marie Andrews

Gates open at 5:30pm
All Ages – under 12 requires venue approval
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Geoffrey Robson, conductor
Andrius Žlabys, piano
Richard Strauss: Don Juan
Florence Price: Ethiopia’s Shadow in America
Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2

Join the notorious Spanish rake on his legendary quest to find the perfect woman with Richard Strauss’ Don Juan. Written in 1888, Don Juan has been keeping musicians up at night ever since. The technical challenges of this piece are legendary, and you’ll be right there as the artists of the Greenville Symphony bring their years of training and incredible skill to bear for the realization of this work.

Prolific Arkansan composer Florence Price wrote Ethiopia’s Shadow in America in 1932, but it was lost along with many of her other compositions until rediscovered in an abandoned home in Illinois in 2009.  While her music is neo-romantic in style, it is thoroughly American and unmistakably Southern. Price is the first African-American woman composer to have a work performed by a major American orchestra.

Brahms jokingly called Piano Concerto No. 2 “a tiny concerto,” and when you hear it, you’ll laugh too, because the last thing anyone would call this intensely dramatic and passionate piece is tiny. The composer premiered the concerto himself in Budapest in 1881, and dedicated it to his childhood piano teacher. We were fortunate to get GRAMMY-nominated pianist Andrius Žlabys as our soloist for this experience and can’t wait to hear him fill Peace Center Concert Hall with Brahms’ “tiny” tribute to his mentor.

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If you love listening to Rick Dilling play drums with the Asheville Jazz Orchestra, then you are gonna be knocked out at this one-night only event.

Drummer Rick Dilling and his 14-piece big band TIME CHECK are bringing the music of the world’s greatest drummer, Buddy Rich, to White Horse Black Mountain.

The music will span a period of 20 years when Mr. Rich lead his own band and started a resurgence in big band jazz. Despite the years. his music still sounds remarkably fresh today. Rick has selected some of his favorite Buddy Rich charts such as Groovin’ Hard, Nutville, and West Side Story Medley, to name just a few, and these dynamic arrangements will be played by some of the region’s top jazz artists. Come experience the power and brilliance of Buddy’s music!

“Bring Out Yer Dead” is a North Carolina-based tribute band recreating the Grateful Dead’s iconic live concerts with unparalleled authenticity. Formed in 2019 in the state capitol of Raleigh, the band comprises some of the area’s most talented musicians dedicated to channeling the spirit of the Dead’s live performances.

One key element that sets Bring Out Yer Dead apart from other tribute bands is their attention to detail. The band not only replicates the Dead’s music with precision but also goes to great lengths to recreate the concert experience, using similar equipment and stage setup as the original band. Every aspect of the band’s live shows, from the instruments to the stage lighting, is designed to recreate the Grateful Dead live experience.

Leading the band’s vocal duties are Kirk Farmer and Brant Kay. Kirk’s vocals and guitar playing channel Jerry Garcia, while Brant adds his stunning keyboard skills to the mix and delivers incredible vocal performances. Jonas Mac expertly handles the rhythm guitar in the style of Bob Weir and adds an extra layer of authenticity to the band’s performances. The rhythm section is composed of Sean Geist on bass, Seth Blanchard and Logan Wilkins on drums. They provide the driving beat and energy that was the hallmark of the Grateful Dead’s music and make the concert experience even more immersive. Their musicianship is impeccable, and they play with the same passion and energy that the Dead brought to the stage.

With a setlist that spans the Grateful Dead’s extensive catalog, Bring Out Yer Dead’s live shows are an experience not to be missed. Whether you’re a die-hard Deadhead or a newcomer to their music, the band’s performances will transport you back in time, leaving you dancing in the streets and singing along to every song. This is a band that truly captures the essence of the Grateful Dead, and their live shows are unforgettable experiences.