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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Staff Picks From Around the Web
Birdland:
Dream a Little Dream of Me
Discover a brief animated history of jazz performed by the incomparable Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong.
BMC@Home
From our home to yours: students and faculty share new concerts, living room recitals, and masterclasses.
BMC alum Shawn Head (Composition 2014) performs his own arrangement of A Chorus of Rain Drops from the newly released video game, Ghost of Tsushima. Blending old and new, Shawn performs this beautiful piece on his 300 year old Shakuhachi.
BMC@Home
From our home to yours: students and faculty share new concerts, living room recitals, and masterclasses.
BMC Guest Artist and Brevard native Sidney Outlaw performs with pianist Warren Jones in this stirring performance of the spiritual Witness, recorded from The Riverside Church in New York City.
I’ve been involved with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution for the last five years. My wife, Emiley, followed her passion for the sea and originally joined the organization as a volunteer, and followed that by accepting a position in WHOI’s administration. She is currently the Deputy General Counsel, and participates in policy and planning for all facets of the organization, which is involved in cutting-edge ocean research all over the world.
When they asked me to perform at their virtual gala in October. I chose Debussy’s piano prelude “La Cathédrale Engloutie,” a piece I have always loved but never gotten around to learning. Debussy’s gorgeous work, which dates from 1910, is a quintessential example of his impressionist style. Its veiled musical imagery paints the subtle play of wind, water, and light. Its program tells of an old Breton legend, about a magical cathedral that rises, on certain crystal-clear mornings, from the watery depths. One hears music that depicts dawn on the ocean, muted sounds of monk’s chanting, bells pealing and the cathedral organ in its full glory as the edifice breaks the surface of the water, and then the long, slow diminuendo as the mystical cathedral returns to the depths.
I chose this piece for them because, at its core, the story it tells is one of humanity’s age-old fascination with what lies below the surface of our oceans. Woods Hole is dedicated to just that knowledge. For more information on this extraordinary institution, please visit whoi.edu.
Digital BMC
Selected past performances by BMC orchestras, faculty, and guest artists on YouTube, SoundCloud, and Open Air Brevard.
LISZT Piano Concerto No. 1
IV. Allegro marziale animato
Brevard Music Center Orchestra
Norman Krieger, piano • Marcelo Lehninger, conductor
Recorded on July 1, 2017,
at the Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium at the Brevard Music Center.
Living Room Live Rebroadcasts
Relive this spring and summer’s concerts from Living Room Live! Viewers can stream past performances by a wide variety of artists including Joby Burgess, percussion, Misha Mullov-Abbado, double bass, Anne Denholm, harp, and even a suite for toy piano! Something for everyone here and you can watch these programs anytime you want from home!
Staff Picks From Around the Web
PBS: American Masters
Michael Tilson Thomas
Learn more on the extraordinary life and career of the renowned conductor and pedagogue, Michael Tilson Thomas.
Digital BMC
Selected past performances by BMC orchestras, faculty, and guest artists on YouTube, SoundCloud, and Open Air Brevard.
RACHMANINOFF How Fair this Spot!
Brevard First Mondays • Craig Nies, piano
Recorded live on November 5, 2012,
at the Scott Concert Hall at Brevard College.
Brevard Music Center Staff Picks From Around the Web
Rising Tide:The Crossroads Project
Stirring music by the Fry Street Quartet, blended with stunning visuals, marveling at the beauty of what makes life possible.
Staff Picks From Around the Web
The Royal Ballet:Alice in Wonderland
Enjoy a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the rehearsal of the Royal Ballet’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
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 November, including Apartment House, Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, Tai Murray (violin), Elizabeth Llewellyn (soprano), Fatma Said (soprano), Roderick Williams (baritone), Arditti Quartet, Elena Urioste (violin), Kit Armstrong (piano), Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord), Claron McFadden (soprano) and Matthew Wadsworth (lute) and Chineke! Note: all performance times are in British Summer Time (BST).
- Sandburg Home Free Tour Days and National Park Fee Free Days (when noted)
Visitors can enjoy free tours of the Sandburg Home on 10 days in 2020. Five days are also fee free days at all national parks. - April 11, 2020 (first Saturday of local school spring break)
- April 18, 2020 – First Day of National Park Week (national fee free day)
- June 13, 2020 (Sandburgs’ wedding anniversary)
- August 25, 2020 – National Park Service Birthday (national fee free day)
- September 26, 2020 – National Public Lands Day (national fee free day)
- October 17, 2020 (Park Anniversary)
- November 11, 2020 – Veterans Day
- December 26, 2020 (Saturday after Christmas)
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| VISIT US! To ensure the safety of our visitors, staff, and volunteers, we will reopen for timed, private, self-guided, pre-booked tours of the historic Smith-McDowell House and Western North Carolina exhibit rooms.
Tours are reserved on a first-come, first-served basis: Wednesday – Saturday Tour reservations last for 1 hour to allow time for cleaning between groups. All visitors, staff, and volunteers are required to wear masks while inside the building. |
Join us for a relaxing ride through quiet countryside on your way to small town life in western North Carolina on the Tuckasegee River Excursion. Departing from Bryson City, this 4 hour excursion travels 32 miles round-trip to Dillsboro and back to the Bryson City Depot. Pass by the famous movie set of The Fugitive starring Harrison Ford!
The Tuckasegee (tuck-uh-SEE-jee) River Excursion includes an 1½ hour layover in the historic town of Dillsboro, where you’ll find more than 50 shops, restaurants, bed and breakfasts and country inns. There is time to shop, snack, and visit the many unique shops before returning to Bryson City.
Virtual Visits for Students
Groups of pre-K–12 students are invited to schedule an interactive Virtual Visit to the Museum! Led by volunteer docents with Museum staff, our inquiry-based, conversational Virtual Visits introduce the Museum’s galleries with a 3D tour and challenge students to hone their observation skills. All pre-K–12 Virtual Visits make connections to the NC Standard Course of Study.
Virtual Visits for pre-K–12 groups are $50 for 5–25 participants from one or multiple devices through Zoom or Google Meet. Virtual Visits are available Monday through Friday from 9am to 4pm, and last 30–45 minutes. At least two weeks’ advanced notice is required.
For more information about Virtual Visits for adults, college, and university students, click here. For Virtual Visits for family and friend groups with children, click here.
A Wednesday tradition at Oklawaha Brewing Company
The French Broad Valley Music Association: FBVMA jam session is focused on regional fiddle tunes and songs. Carol Rifkin and John Mitchell cohost weekly, bring an instrument to play or just enjoy the music, its free, kid friendly, donations encouraged.
Key Players are intermediate to advanced but beginners are most welcome and encouraged to attend to listen, learn/quietly play along. More experienced players sit in the inner circle and take turns choosing fiddle tunes or songs. Guests, families and kids are invited to listen and often sing along. This style of community play has been used to entertain and pass down music to kids for generations.
The French Broad Valley Music Association is a 501c3 non-profit organization formed to celebrate local musical heritage. “Our community. Our music. Our sense of place.”
Staff Picks From Around the Web
Birdland:
Dream a Little Dream of Me
Discover a brief animated history of jazz performed by the incomparable Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong.
BMC@Home
From our home to yours: students and faculty share new concerts, living room recitals, and masterclasses.
BMC alum Shawn Head (Composition 2014) performs his own arrangement of A Chorus of Rain Drops from the newly released video game, Ghost of Tsushima. Blending old and new, Shawn performs this beautiful piece on his 300 year old Shakuhachi.
BMC@Home
From our home to yours: students and faculty share new concerts, living room recitals, and masterclasses.
BMC Guest Artist and Brevard native Sidney Outlaw performs with pianist Warren Jones in this stirring performance of the spiritual Witness, recorded from The Riverside Church in New York City.
I’ve been involved with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution for the last five years. My wife, Emiley, followed her passion for the sea and originally joined the organization as a volunteer, and followed that by accepting a position in WHOI’s administration. She is currently the Deputy General Counsel, and participates in policy and planning for all facets of the organization, which is involved in cutting-edge ocean research all over the world.
When they asked me to perform at their virtual gala in October. I chose Debussy’s piano prelude “La Cathédrale Engloutie,” a piece I have always loved but never gotten around to learning. Debussy’s gorgeous work, which dates from 1910, is a quintessential example of his impressionist style. Its veiled musical imagery paints the subtle play of wind, water, and light. Its program tells of an old Breton legend, about a magical cathedral that rises, on certain crystal-clear mornings, from the watery depths. One hears music that depicts dawn on the ocean, muted sounds of monk’s chanting, bells pealing and the cathedral organ in its full glory as the edifice breaks the surface of the water, and then the long, slow diminuendo as the mystical cathedral returns to the depths.
I chose this piece for them because, at its core, the story it tells is one of humanity’s age-old fascination with what lies below the surface of our oceans. Woods Hole is dedicated to just that knowledge. For more information on this extraordinary institution, please visit whoi.edu.
Digital BMC
Selected past performances by BMC orchestras, faculty, and guest artists on YouTube, SoundCloud, and Open Air Brevard.
LISZT Piano Concerto No. 1
IV. Allegro marziale animato
Brevard Music Center Orchestra
Norman Krieger, piano • Marcelo Lehninger, conductor
Recorded on July 1, 2017,
at the Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium at the Brevard Music Center.
Living Room Live Rebroadcasts
Relive this spring and summer’s concerts from Living Room Live! Viewers can stream past performances by a wide variety of artists including Joby Burgess, percussion, Misha Mullov-Abbado, double bass, Anne Denholm, harp, and even a suite for toy piano! Something for everyone here and you can watch these programs anytime you want from home!
Staff Picks From Around the Web
PBS: American Masters
Michael Tilson Thomas
Learn more on the extraordinary life and career of the renowned conductor and pedagogue, Michael Tilson Thomas.
Digital BMC
Selected past performances by BMC orchestras, faculty, and guest artists on YouTube, SoundCloud, and Open Air Brevard.
RACHMANINOFF How Fair this Spot!
Brevard First Mondays • Craig Nies, piano
Recorded live on November 5, 2012,
at the Scott Concert Hall at Brevard College.
Brevard Music Center Staff Picks From Around the Web
Rising Tide:The Crossroads Project
Stirring music by the Fry Street Quartet, blended with stunning visuals, marveling at the beauty of what makes life possible.
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| Western North Carolina is defined as much by the various chains and valleys within the Appalachian Mountains as it is by the various people here. The region contains large swaths of national forest lands and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It contains old rivers and old folkways, along with an increasingly large stream of transplants and temporary visitors. This virtual tour gives a broad overview of our region. |
The Asheville Home Builders Association is a trade organization for the building industry in Western North Carolina, focused on being an advocate for the builders in our community. Associated with the North Carolina Home Builders Association and the National Association of Home Builders, the Asheville Home Builders Association represents over 850 members consisting of builders, contractors, real estate agents, suppliers, insurance agents, sub-contractors, and more.
Staff Picks From Around the Web
The Royal Ballet:Alice in Wonderland
Enjoy a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the rehearsal of the Royal Ballet’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
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 November, including Apartment House, Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, Tai Murray (violin), Elizabeth Llewellyn (soprano), Fatma Said (soprano), Roderick Williams (baritone), Arditti Quartet, Elena Urioste (violin), Kit Armstrong (piano), Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord), Claron McFadden (soprano) and Matthew Wadsworth (lute) and Chineke! Note: all performance times are in British Summer Time (BST).
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| VISIT US! To ensure the safety of our visitors, staff, and volunteers, we will reopen for timed, private, self-guided, pre-booked tours of the historic Smith-McDowell House and Western North Carolina exhibit rooms.
Tours are reserved on a first-come, first-served basis: Wednesday – Saturday Tour reservations last for 1 hour to allow time for cleaning between groups. All visitors, staff, and volunteers are required to wear masks while inside the building. |