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.
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Triskelion Open Mic Night!
Second and Fourth Thursdays of Every Month
Stage Opens at 7pm…
Come on out and play a song or two… strut your stuff… Have a band? Bring them along too…
Contact Chris for more info…
https://www.facebook.com/events/282524772696058/?event_time_id=282524796029389
The Rewind Band will bring their unique music style to the Park Rhythms series on July 25. This concert will take place in Downtown Black Mountain at the intersection of Sutton Ave and Cherry St. Click the link below to see more about the Rewind Band.
https://www.facebook.com/therewindhouseband/
https://www.facebook.com/events/2605574052846650/
$10 Advance / $10 Day of Show
It’s amazing they found each other: Imagine a child of the 80s/90s falling in with a 70s prog, classically-trained cellist. What do ya get? A refreshing and unexpected sound.
Seated Lounge Show:: Limited Tables Available with a Dinner Reservation :: All Other Seating is First Come First Serve General Admission :: Please Call Venue for Dinner (Table) Reservations
https://www.facebook.com/events/460351811170832/
Beginner’s workshop lesson at 7:30 P.M., then 8-11 P.M. Contra Dance with Country Waltzing at the break and the final dance. This is a partner dance but it’s not necessary to come with a partner. We have different live bands and callers.
PERFORMANCE & ARTIST DETAILS
Janiec Opera Company of the Brevard Music Center
Brevard Festival Orchestra
Dean Anthony, stage director
Michael Sakir, conductor
Eileen Downey, chorus master
STRAUSS, JR. Die Fledermaus
Sung in English with English supertitles
Lead Sponsor: Nancy Trentini
Please note: All seating is reserved.
Ticket holders may attend a free Pre-Opera Talk in Scott Commons beginning one hour before the performance.
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There are some stories that are just so good they need to be shared with an audience! Local actor/comedian Tom Chalmers invites you to take part in one of Asheville’s most popular series, Listen to This. A storytelling format in the vein of “This American Life,” Listen to This is an evening hosted by Chalmers with stories and songs from some of Asheville’s most interesting writers, performers, and citizens.
Album Release for Tyler Ladd
Also appearing:
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Voice of The Sidhe
Elpee
Mike AnDErsEn
Jimmy McGuirl
Lady Yssa
Lauren Bacchus
https://www.facebook.com/events/459112328243031/
Give us 2-4 hours. Enjoy a day of music and memories — and the knowledge that you helped to bring a community together! You’ll also get a little swag: a 11th Annual Festival Tee Shirt, snacks, a drink ticket, and our new Blue Ridge Pride Center buttons and stickers. Volunteer roles include: setup and breakdown, selling wristbands, beverages or merchandise, and assisting with volunteer check-in or VIP. Learn more and sign up here.
Participate in the first “Sip and Strolll” in downtown Tryon for our July 4th Friday! Ticket sales benefit TDDA so we can continue to produce great events downtown and support our local businesses.
THE WINETASTING ONLY IS A TICKETED EVENT! Please come enjoy downtown without a ticket, but can only enjoy the wine and cheese samples with your $35 ticket. A limited number of tickets will be available at the door for $40.
Purchase a ticket for $35 at participating stores and come downtown to “stroll” through our stores sampling amazing regional wines. Your $35 ticket will get you a sample from each downtown location (to be added soon!)
Tickets may also be purchased by cash or check at Carolina Confections, The Book Shelf, The Nest, A Taste of Olives and Grapes, and at the TDDA office at the Tryon Historical Museum starting June 1.
Check in for the event is at the Tryon Historical Museum starting at 3:45pm on Friday, July 26. At this time, you will receive your commemorative wine glass, wristband and map of locations.
The BMC Audi Raffle is our single largest fundraiser for Student Scholarships, and makes it possible for hundreds of students to attend who otherwise could not!
Because of your patronage and the support of many, BMC can provide $1.4 million in financial assistance every year so our talented high school and college musicians can experience a life-transforming summer at Brevard Music Center!
Buy YOUR Audi Raffle Ticket online or at one of our upcoming concerts!
The winner will have ultimate flexibility in choice of model:
Any 2019 Audi from Audi Asheville with an MSRP up to $50,000!
The winner will be announced during BMC’s Season Finale concert on Sunday, August 4th. You do not have to be present to win!
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Farm Beginnings® Farmer Training is entering its fifth year offering a year long farmer training.
Organic Growers School has graduated 43 farmers in the last 4 years and will graduate 55 by
September 2019. Organic Growers School will begin this year’s program in October 2019 at
Creekside Farm & Education Center at Walnut Cove in Arden, NC and is currently accepting
applications. The 2019-2020 program will continue a partnership with Living Web Farm who
offers a diversity of farm and organic living workshops that students will have full access to, in
addition to on-farm workshops at the The Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy’s
Community Farm in Alexander, NC . Applications will be accepted for the program on a rolling
basis until September 15th, 2019. Early bird discount of $100 off for applications received by
August 1st.
Summer Reading Programs continue and July’s library events are full of fun, interesting, and educational opportunities. Check out one of the many book clubs or reading times with our therapy dog. Also, the Early Bird Special: Classics & Casseroles will have you watching classic movies while noshing on potluck items. As for Summer Reading Programs, you can get down with Groovin’ on Grovemont and launch fireworks with the Bottle Rockets! program.
There’s so much going on in July, check out the Summer Reading Programs and July Library Events lists below.
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Come experience the love of clay with our talented artists at Odyssey ClayWorks! Learn to sculpt, coil, and even get to try your hand at throwing on the potter’s wheel in a fun and upbeat atmosphere. All skill levels welcome.
Momentum Gallery in downtown Asheville hosts new summer exhibitions – Mariella Bisson, Setting Shapes; Oil paintings by two new painters: Samantha Keely Smith and Paul Sattler; and a group invitational called Give Me Wood. These exhibitions continue at 24 N Lexington Avenue through the end of August.
Mariella Bisson deftly delineates the sculptural planes of regional waterfalls and sylvan scenes creating refreshingly contemporary landscape paintings. Her oil-over-collage paintings feature built-up texture, suggesting the complex surface of stone and tree bark, lichen, and moss. Bisson’s paintings demonstrate a strong understanding of formal composition and reflect a sensibility honed from time she’s spent immersed in the outdoors. Of note, Bisson is a two-time recipient of the Pollock-Krasner grant and was awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in painting.
Samantha Keely Smith creates inspired and stirring abstract paintings in oil. The Brooklyn-based artist sees her paintings “as an expression of our internal turbulence. They reflect the overwhelming reality of being constantly aware of what is happening in the wider world – Change is the only constant.” Smith’s nebulous compositions are evocative of luminous cloudscapes and primordial oceans. Brilliant areas of stained pigment collide with waves of painterly brush strokes ultimately conjuring imagined environments with a timeless quality. “These paintings are about the essence of who we all are, as human beings… We all want love and connection.” Smith’s works give form to fluctuations between turbulence and calm present in everything from our emotions to the temporal world. Overall, Smith’s focus is on the underlying psychological impact of the dawning awareness of our shifting reality.
An accomplished oil painter, Paul Sattler was the recipient of the John R. Solomon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. In 2004, he was selected to exhibit at the 179th Annual Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Art at the National Academy of Design in New York, where he received the Wallace Truman Prize. Dramatic narratives unfold in his charged and enigmatic oil paintings which reference historic and literary sources. Sattler comments, “A diverse population of animals are enmeshed in my works’ human-inhabited environments, theatrical locales, and domestic dramas.”
Give Me Wood is an imaginative and evocative collection of contemporary painting and wood sculpture. Central to the identity and creation of all the extraordinary two- and three-dimensional works in the exhibition is the common material of wood. The participating artists defy logic, explore space (both real and imagined), carve, bend, turn, and otherwise construct some truly amazing and innovative work! Featuring Michael Alm, Garry Knox Bennett, Gil Bruvel, Christian Burchard, Tom Eckert, David Ellsworth, Ron Layport, Wendy Maruyama, and Sylvie Rosenthal.
We proudly introduce Cider Cinema! A unique cinematic experience featuring: Bold Rock Hard Cider, Bold Bites Food Truck, and a movie screening on our jumbo screen!
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This special edition of Cider Cinema will include a 70’s dance party with live music, from 5:30 to 8:30pm. Saturday Night Fever will play on the jumbo screen shortly after! Break out your boogie shoes and we will see you in Mills River on Thursday, July 18th!
https://www.facebook.com/events/1941782389277458/
Katherine Jessup hopes you like her comedy, but it’s cool if you don’t. (You probably will though.) Commanding stages with the winsome charm of your slightly too honest best friend, her comedy’s been described as sublime, profoundly relatable, and also available for birthday parties. She’s performed at festivals across the country, including Bentzen Ball, Women in Comedy, Blue Whale, Seattle International Comedy Competition, and Asheville’s own Laugh Your Asheville Off. She is a regular at clubs and theaters like the DC Improv and Kennedy Center, and is most proud of encouraging friends and colleagues to wear truly ridiculous sneakers.
Featuring Jake Koll
Hosted by Justin Blackburn
ages 18+
Tickets $7 advance, $10 day of
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/comedy-at-fleetwoods-katherine-jessup-tickets-64764429151
https://www.facebook.com/events/347384992592360/
Jared & The Mill at The Grey Eagle
https://www.facebook.com/events/412771752895488/
Sing your lil heart out all night long!
Ask about our Karaoke Krasher events (last Thursday of every month)
Zack Neel is going to be cooking every thursday. Come hungry bc his shit is fiiiii-yaaaaaa??? Burgers, dogs, wings, kabobs…who knows?!? Stay tuned for the menu! #theboyisbackintown #puttheburgerintheburgerbar #yum
https://www.facebook.com/events/2238333363096870/?event_time_id=2238333423096864
Genre: Rock
Cover: $5 Suggested Donation @ Door
Show: 10PM
Ages: 21+
Fux
Fux is like an Electric Storm, bringing back the Raw to Rock-n-Roll. The name derives from composer Johann Joseph Fux, who helped modernize Western Music and played an integral part in the development of the Counterpoint Theory. Blending their love for Phish, Umphrey’s McGee, TAUK, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Steely Dan and many classic rock bands, Sultan set out to find the final puzzle pieces to this mystical musical monster, which lead to the discovery of Daniel Hodsdon, Dylan Porper and Eric Johnson. Thus in an erotic crossfire hurricane Fux was born.
Fux decided it was time to take their knowledge and mend it with their soul to work towards getting the masses dancing, laid, and spreading Love. After receiving knowledge from idols Jacob Alan Cinninger, Brendan Bayliss (Umphrey’s McGee) and Gabriel Marin (Consider the Source) they were finally ready to show the world what was brewing in their mind to create music that makes sense.
Fux combines their goofy and laid back personalities on and off stage to help spread cheerfulness and positivity to the world. Don’t let their silly attitudes fool you, these boys show up to play. With the machine like transcendental rhythmic varieties from Eric , smooth melodic phrases from Dylan, thunderous bass love bombs from Daniel and sporadic ignition from Sultan, Fux will keep you dancing all night long.
“I wish I named my band something good” – Brendan Bayliss Umphrey’s McGee
web: http://facebook.com/doyoufux
vid: https://youtu.be/AnTM2Njg2Jg
Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/doyoufux
https://www.facebook.com/events/300794297503555/
Catch Lil Meow Meow Plays your favorite R&B and Rap jams every Thursday night! No cover. Party at Aux from 10pm-2am.
https://www.facebook.com/events/503021823559298/?event_time_id=503021913559289
I play old school music, YOU sing what you want!
***Don’t forget to check out our Monthly theme nights and start planning your costumes. If you don’t want to dress up you can wear a shirt to match the theme. (Dressing up is not mandatory)
July 18-Stranger Things *new season (Dress 80’s era)
Augaust 29-Grease Lightning (T Bird, Pink Ladies, 50/60’s era)
September 26-Hotel Transylvania (Monster on Vacation)
October 31-HALLOWEEN (Wear what you want)
Novermber 21-Pajama Party (Onesies, Flannel’s, NO Lingerie)
December 19-9th Annual Get Vocal Formal (Dress to the 9)
All dates are subject to change.
https://www.facebook.com/events/631322933995027/?event_time_id=631323007328353
Join us opening day for HOT donuts, peaches, apples and great views!
Use the hashtag #GrandadsOpening2019 and and tag us in your posts and photos on Facebook and Instagram!
https://www.facebook.com/events/642785746198643/
Summer is all about outdoor fun, spending quality time together as a family and taking in the wonderful sights of nature. Submit your photos of your family hiking, sunlight making its way through the trees or of the fantastic views that make Chimney Rock so special. We’ll use the winning entries on our website and Facebook album, and you’ll win some fun prizes. Photos must be taken within the Chimney Rock section of the Park.
Cost: No cost to enter contest.
https://www.facebook.com/events/540542089755630/?event_time_id=540542206422285
Join us for Fired Up Art Camp!
Campers will have the opportunity to explore new areas of art in a fun and creative way. Projects will include Pottery Wheel, Clay Hand Building, Glass Fusing, Canvas Painting, Mosaics and much more! 10% OFF if registered by 5/15/19 (Discount applies to full week only. Not valid with other discounts or offers.)
Sign up on our website! Questions? Message or call (828) 253-8181
5-Day Camp $130/week, 9:00 am – Noon. Individual days $35.00 per day, Ages 5-12 years old.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2219285648322773/?event_time_id=2219285664989438
Join us for Fired Up Art Camp!
Campers will have the opportunity to explore new areas of art in a fun and creative way. Projects will include Pottery Wheel, Clay Hand Building, Glass Fusing, Canvas Painting, Mosaics and much more! 10% OFF if registered by 5/15/19 (Discount applies to full week only. Not valid with other discounts or offers.)
Sign up on our website! Questions? Message or call (828) 253-8181
5-Day Camp $130/week, 9:00 am – Noon. Individual days $35.00 per day, Ages 5-12 years old.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2219285648322773/
The 10th Annual Hillbilly Jam Festival 2019′ is a FUN filled weekend complete with Tons of Good Live Music, Food, TV Celebrities , Crafts,and yes…. some real live Moonshiners , plus More !
Now add the 6th Annual Hillbilly Show & Shine Car and Bike Show….. adding, Hot Rods, Bikes, 4×4’s, Automotive / Motorcycle type vendors, small swapmeet, pinstriping, diecast toys, pin-ups and more ! Together making a over the top event that will be fun for the whole Family !! So come join us !!
MAGGIE VALLEY FESTIVAL GROUNDS
3374 Soco Road, Maggie Valley, North Carolina 28751
FESTIVAL Hours:10:00am-10:00pm
FRI.- SAT. / JULY 26th- 27th
SPECTATORS : $10.00 per Person / per Day
KIDS: 10yrs & Under : FREE !!
FREE PARKING
CAR / BIKE SHOW Hours: FRI. JULY 26th. 10:00am-5:00pm
SAT. JULY 27th. 9:00am-5:00pm ( Registration ends @ 1:00pm )
(Door Prizes on Saturday with Awards @ 5:00pm @ Main Stage)
CAR / BIKE SHOW PARTICIPANTS :$20.00 per Entry
** (includes 2 Weekend passes)
PEDAL CAR / WAGON PARTICIPANTS : $10.00 per Entry
**( with Paid Spectator Admission or with Paid Car/Bike Entry )
PIN-UP CONTEST: FREE ! ** (with Paid Spectator Admission)
HILLBILLIES & VETERAN BIKERS: Motorcycle Ride,
( Arrives to Festival on Saturday – time to be announced )
**** CONTACT INFO ****
CAR & BIKE SHOW INFO and CAR & BIKE VENDORS :
call Rob Honeycutt @ 423-483-4295
HILLBILLY JAM FESTIVAL & ENTERTAINMENT INFO:
call Terry Frady @ 828-450-9795
HILLBILLY JAM FESTIVAL FOOD & CRAFT VENDORS :
call Becky Ramey @ 828-734-4317
MOTORCYCLE RIDE SPONSORSHIP and INFO:
call Martin Garst @ 423-948-8670
https://www.facebook.com/events/524734031371032/
There’s more than Chunky Monkey and New York Super Fudge Chunk in downtown Asheville’s Ben & Jerry’s this summer.
Art created by Vance Elementary School fifth grade students of art educator Robbie Lipe is now on display on the brick walls opposite the Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. The exhibit depicts the students’ interpretation of the artist Kehinde Wiley and the contemporary portraits he creates inspired by traditional Baroque paintings. It will be featured through the end of the summer.
“Ben & Jerry’s is excited about showcasing art from the community inside our scoop shop,” said general manager Chris Carter. “Making use of our walls to show what local artists are creating complements our social mission — to be actively involved in the places we live and do business. I hope this is the first of many art exhibits on our walls.”
Carter gave all the credit for the exhibit to Ms. Lipe, who teaches kindergarten through 5th-grade students at Vance Elementary. She was named the North Carolina Arts Educators Association “Art Educator of the Year” in 2017-2018.
Ben & Jerry’s is located at 19 Haywood Street. Current hours are Monday-Thursday 12 pm to 10 pm; Friday 12 pm – 11 pm; Saturday 11:30 am – 11 pm; Sunday 11:30 am – 10 pm.
For more information, call Carter at 310-601-6247.
The City of Asheville, in partnership with Art Ecologie abd adé PROJECT, will host four community workshops to help in the completion of a mural and two installations representing the legacy and memories of THE BLOCK. Residents are invited to become part of the artistic process. The final piece will be unveiled in September during the Goombay Festival.
The City’s Visiting Artist Project has been rebranded as Celebrating African Americans Through Public Art (CAAPA). The inaugural public artwork will be a community-informed project that will honor THE BLOCK.
Here is the community workshop schedule:
Session One: Thursday, July 25
YMI Cultural Center, 39 S. Eagle St, Asheville, NC 28801
11 a.m.-1 p.m. (Session 1)
2-6 p.m. (Session 2)
For adults, 18 and older
Childcare and Spanish language interpretation will be provided.
Session Two: Friday, July 26
YMI Cultural Center, 39 S. Eagle St, Asheville, NC 28801
11 a.m.-1 p.m. (Session 3)
2-6 p.m. (Session 4)
For youths, ages 10-17.
Spanish language interpretation will be provided.
A celebration of summer watermelon at the Market! Family fun with watermelon games and competitions, the Watermelon Queen, and lots of tastes of fresh, cold watermelon!
https://www.facebook.com/events/367873813867653/