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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Friday, July
24, 2020
Stay Active with Your Library Card
UNC Weight Research Program: Free 8-week program Health-E From Home
Your Voice Matters: Advocate for those experiencing poverty
Voices in the Laurel SummerVoice Music Camp: Be the Change
Open Air Brevard 2020 Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto, with Olga Kern
Free Dead Fridays
Bless Your Heart + Lo Wolf – Live from The Orange Peel
Music on Main: The Business
Top Deck Concerts: Pack Square Parking Deck w/ Lyndsay Pruett, Drew Matulich + Matt Purinton
Lincoln Center: 50 Years of Mostly Mozart
Tryon Fine Arts Center: Arabic and Appalachian Fusion Heritage
Live Stream: Joshua Messick
You don’t need to give up your fitness or workout routine just because COVID-19 has you spending more time at home. If you’ve got a library card and access to WiFi, it’s easy to stay active with digital resources. (If you need a new library card or renewal, call Ask a Librarian at (828) 250-4700 or follow these steps.)
North Carolina Digital Library
Health-e from Home is a free 8-week program designed to help you make a few small changes to your everyday health habits – and it can be done at home, or anywhere. Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are evaluating the acceptability and usage of this free online program that is designed to help people who are spending more time at home due to COVID-19 build healthier habits. Those who join the study will receive access to weekly lessons and tailored feedback from the study team that will encourage small changes to their eating, small increases in activity, and simple activities to promote well-being. Participants will complete a brief, 20-minute survey at the beginning and end of the program, as well as weekly check-in questions to help the study team provide personalized feedback to help individuals meet their health goals. Those who are interested in focusing on maintaining or losing weight will also be invited to a private Facebook group to join other study members working to meet weight goals during the study. To learn more and find out if you are eligible to participate, please visit http://healthefromhome.org.
Voices in the Laurel Youth Choirs is accepting registration for their annual music camp. This
year’s theme is “Be the Change,” with many changes in the format of the activities. Covid 19
has forced many changes in the way things are done all over the world. Recent racial tensions
have inspired a call for change in human relations. In response to these changes in the world,
Rising 6th– 12th graders will have camp July 20 – 24, from 10 am – Noon on Zoom.
Then, Be the Change Camp for rising 1st
– 5th graders will be July 27 – 31 from 10 am – Noon on Zoom.
Brevard Music Center Orchestra
Keith Lockhart, conductor; Olga Kern, piano
Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2
Caarolyn Huebl and Byron Tauchi, violins; Erika Eckert, viola; Benjamin Karp, cello; Craig Nies, piano
Schumann: Piano Quintet in E-Flat
Join us at The One Stop at Asheville Music Hall every Friday at 5:30PM for our FREE Acoustic Grateful Dead series Featuring members of Phuncle Sam and great drink and food specials.
Streaming thanks to Iamavl.
Donations can be made direct to the artist.
Streaming options:
Website
www.iamavl.com
Facebook page
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YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/user/iamavl
The season opener of Music on Main concert series on July 24th will feature The Business.
Bring a chair and enjoy an evening of live music from 7pm-9pm. The audience seating area opens after 5:30pm, early admission is prohibited. Admission is free. Alcoholic beverages, backpacks, or coolers are prohibited. 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.
The concert series is held every Friday evening from July 24 through September 18 at the Visitor Center, located at 201 South Main Street in Downtown Hendersonville, NC.
In case of inclement weather the concert will be postponed until 8pm. If the weather does not improve by 8pm the performance will be cancelled.
Summer Concert Series Sponsors – Burger King, Firehouse Subs, Kathy Watkins Preferred Realty and Mast General Store, and are organized by the Henderson County Tourism Development Authority.
Lyndsay Pruett, Drew Matulich & Matt Purinton
Lyndsay Pruett’s daily life is a constant toss up of genres. As a member of the Jon Stickley trio, she gets to employ just about all of them, including bluegrass, swing, classical, Latin styles, country, and hip hop. Stylistically, she manages to compliment others’ music and add striking color to it through her improvisations and textural playing. Multi-instrumentalist Drew Matulich has toured the country playing music professionally with Billy Strings for two years and was fortunate to have shared the stage with the likes of David Grisman, Bryan Sutton, Sam Bush, Cody Kilby, Sierra Hull and some of best in bluegrass. Matt Purinton has been a member of Greenville, SC based West End String Band for more than a decade. Heavily influenced by Sam Bush, Matt’s dynamic mandolin style is sure to get your attention.
Around The Web with Brevard Music Center
Live-streamed performances, resources, and activities we love from around the web, updated weekly.
Lincoln Center: 50 Years of Mostly Mozart
Join in a special Live From Lincoln Center rebroadcast this Friday, July 24 at 7:30pm ET, featuring the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra led by Music Director Louis Langrée. Filmed in 2016, this program showcases the composer’s first and last symphonies, a piano concert, and a festival tribute segment and is available for archived viewing.
Tryon Fine Arts Center (TFAC) proudly presents a series of free, live-streamed music and virtual exhibition events. Because Tryon Fine Arts Center is currently closed to live audiences, Illuminations is a first-ever, virtual-only series of events.
Illuminations Through Music and Heritage
This very special artistic and cultural series celebrates the international exploration of music and heritage between students of Tryon Fine Arts Center’s Pacolet Junior Appalachian Musicians and students with the Petra National Trust in Jordan (PNT).
Please join us for Arabic & Appalachian Fusion, an extraordinary free musical event on July 24
There are two ways to watch the performance: revisit this page to watch the live-stream or join us live on Facebook.
Joshua Messick is a national hammered dulcimer champion. Nobody is more fluid on the instrument. Nobody asks more of the hammered dulcimer and certainly nobody else gets such a response. Joshua introduces the instrument to places it didn’t know it belonged and makes both the dulcimer and the music sound like they’ve known each other forever. The live stream Josh will present for White Horse Live on Fri. July 24 will be especially important. Josh will premiere material from his new solo LP, Pure Hammered Dulcimer. A combination of original compositions and timeless songs, the LP is yet another step in Joshua’s journey. The first track, “DulciForte” in and of itself is a dazzling piece of music, taking the instrument and Josh even a big step further.
Saturday, July
25, 2020
Brevard Music School Keith’s Corner
Brevard Music School Video of the Week
Citizen Vinyl Record Pressing Plant Opens September
Digital Brevard Music Center: Debussy and Schubert
SCHUBERT Schlachtlied, Op. 151, arr. Glenn P. Smith
LEAF Global Arts Open Downtown Asheville
Staff Picks of the Week BMC: How to Understand The Circle of Fifths
Staff Picks of the Week Brevard Music Center Beethoven Rocks! Multimedia Experience
Stay Active with Your Library Card
UNC Weight Research Program: Free 8-week program Health-E From Home
Your Voice Matters: Advocate for those experiencing poverty
Brushfire Stankgrass
Live Music The Get Right Band
Asheville Chamber Music Ensemble
Jeff Santiago+ Los Gatos – Live from The Orange Peel stage!
Live Stream Toots + The Maytals ❘ 𝘈𝘵 Hi-Wire Brewing
PATIO SHOW: Drunken Prayer
Top Deck Concerts: Pack Square Parking Deck w/ Zoe + Cloyd
Live Stream: Bach to Beethoven: Great Piano Solos from 1725-1825
Keith talks about his fondness for the music of Antonín Dvořák and about his relationship with the Czech Philharmonic. As he notes, Dvořák is as important and symbolic to the Czech Republic as Gershwin is to the United States. The central piece for discussion is Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9, “From the New World,” and the featured recording is of Václav Neumann conducting the Czech Philharmonic in a live performance from 1993.
Video of the Week
SCHUBERT Schlachtlied, Op. 151
STEPHENSON Taps for Bill
Performed by the BMC Alumni Trombone Choir
Recorded live on July 26, 2016,
at the Porter Center in Brevard, NC.
CITIZEN VINYL RECORD PRESSING PLANT TO OPEN IN ASHEVILLE, NC THIS SEPTEMBER
NORTH CAROLINA’S FIRST VINYL MANUFACTURER WILL TAKE UP RESIDENCE IN HISTORIC CITIZEN-TIMES BUILDING
RECORD STORE, MUSIC STUDIO, BAR/CAFE AMONG PLANS FOR NEW CONSTRUCTION
A full circle revival is underway for Asheville, NC’s Citizen-Times building. Once home to the daily paper’s printing facility and offices, the historic site will soon be unveiled with a new identity as a boutique vinyl pressing plant, record store and bar/cafe (and a new name): Citizen Vinyl. Founded by veteran music producer Gar Ragland and supported by a dream team of industry professionals and craftsmen, Citizen Vinyl is slated to become North Carolina’s first on site pressing plant, though its mission goes beyond just manufacturing great quality records.
SCHUBERT Schlachtlied, Op. 151, arr. Glenn P. Smith
STEPHENSON Taps for Bill
BMC Alumni Trombone Choir
Recorded live on July 26, 2016,
at the Porter Center in Brevard, NC.
DEBUSSY Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp III. Finale
Dilshad Posnock, flute • Jenny Snyder Kozoroz, viola
Allegra Lilly, harp
Recorded live on July 18, 2018,
at the Porter Center in Brevard, NC.
Selected past performances by BMC orchestras, faculty, and guest artists on YouTube, SoundCloud, and Open Air Brevard.
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How to Understand
The Circle of Fifths
How is the Circle of Fifths used in music composition? Mark Newman uses visuals to help explain!
Around The Web w/ BMC
Live-streamed performances, resources, and activities we love from around the web, updated weekly.
Beethoven Rocks!
Multimedia Experience
Join the Kennedy Center in a fun exploration of the life and work of Ludwig van Beethoven.
You don’t need to give up your fitness or workout routine just because COVID-19 has you spending more time at home. If you’ve got a library card and access to WiFi, it’s easy to stay active with digital resources. (If you need a new library card or renewal, call Ask a Librarian at (828) 250-4700 or follow these steps.)
North Carolina Digital Library
Health-e from Home is a free 8-week program designed to help you make a few small changes to your everyday health habits – and it can be done at home, or anywhere. Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are evaluating the acceptability and usage of this free online program that is designed to help people who are spending more time at home due to COVID-19 build healthier habits. Those who join the study will receive access to weekly lessons and tailored feedback from the study team that will encourage small changes to their eating, small increases in activity, and simple activities to promote well-being. Participants will complete a brief, 20-minute survey at the beginning and end of the program, as well as weekly check-in questions to help the study team provide personalized feedback to help individuals meet their health goals. Those who are interested in focusing on maintaining or losing weight will also be invited to a private Facebook group to join other study members working to meet weight goals during the study. To learn more and find out if you are eligible to participate, please visit http://healthefromhome.org.
Come join us for a free outdoor and socially distanced afternoon show at French Broad Outfitters!
*please wear a mask
One of Relix Magazine’s “On The Verge” picks, THE GET RIGHT BAND is “hip-shaking, earthquaking pure funk fun” (The Alternate Root). Combining catchy, clever songwriting with musical expertise and fearless improvisation, the live show promises to make you shake everything you’ve got. From funk to rock n’ roll to reggae, this is a dance party.
Check them out on Facebook or visit their website: thegetrightband.com
Donations can be made direct to the artist.
Streaming options:
Website
www.iamavl.com
Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/Iamavl/
YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/user/iamavl
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Line-up: Toots & The Maytals
Date : Saturday 25 July 2020
Venue : Hi-Wire Brewing, Asheville, NC, US
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- ALL AGES
- 7PM SHOW / 6PM DOORS
- OUTDOOR PATIO SHOW (LIMITED CAPACITY, WITH SOCIAL DISTANCING GUIDELINES IN PLACE. ADVANCE TICKETS ARE ENCOURAGED.)
Morgan Geer, the songwriter behind Drunken Prayer, is the current guitar player for iconic alt-country goths, Freakwater. He’s recently been touring internationally solo with The Handsome Family.
Morgan was born in San Francisco and grew up traveling around the US, following his folk-singing mother. Today he splits time between Portland, OR and Asheville, NC. He’s lived in nearly every region of the country and sounds like it. His is American music – straight, no irony chaser.
Drunken Prayer will likely bring to mind The Band for a lot of listeners, with the sense of place and history. But Morgan Geer’s songs and his singing often suggest a kinship with artists like Bobby Charles or Doug Sahm, musicians with Southern roots, with a yip and break to their voices, and notes of sadness offset by a wicked sense of humor.
Zoe & Cloyd
Hailing from opposite ends of the Appalachian mountains, Zoe & Cloyd is renowned fiddler and vocalist Natalya Zoe Weinstein and award-winning songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and vocalist John Cloyd Miller. Their show is as diverse as their upbringing: coming from a lineage of klezmer and jazz musicians, Natalya trained classically in her home state of Massachusetts before moving south in 2004. John, a twelfth generation North Carolinian and grandson of pioneering bluegrass fiddler, Jim Shumate, is a 1st place winner of the prestigious Chris Austin Songwriting Contest as well as an Artist Fellowship recipient for songwriting from the North Carolina Arts Council. Both Natalya and John are instructors in the Traditional Music Program at Warren Wilson College.
Dr. Weiser has his Doctorate in Piano/Chamber Music from the prestigious Peabody Conservatory. He has played, among many others, at Carnegie Hall and The National Gallery in Washington, DC. He’s played concerts in Israel, Thailand, Holland, and France. Dr. Weiser was a US Artistic Ambassador, touring 11 countries in the Middle East and Asia. He has been on the faculty at Dartmouth College. AmiciMusic was founded by Daniel as a means of bringing great chamber music to venues that wouldn’t normally present it (like White Horse Black Mountain). He has similar concert seasons under way not only in Asheville, but also Baltimore (where he lives), New Hampshire, Florida, and New Mexico. The great success of these musical endeavors is well deserved. Having said all that, however, the proof is in the playing, and Daniel won’t disappoint.