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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Brevard Music Center Staff Picks From Around the Web
Does it Swing?:
An Animated Jazz History
Enjoy this brief animation on the various musical influences that made jazz music what it is today.
Brevard Music Center Staff Picks From Around the Web
Ginger Smock:
First Lady of Jazz Violin
100 years after her birth, learn more of the incredible hidden contributions of jazz violinist Ginger Smock.
Around The Web Brevard Music Center
Live-streamed performances, resources, and activities we love from around the web, updated regularly.
Live from Music Hall: Cincinnati Symphony and Pops
Don’t miss this incredible series of live-streamed Cincinnati Symphony concerts from Music Hall! These engaging free concerts include performances by Augustin Hadelich, Awadagin Pratt, Anthony McGill and everyone’s favorite Holiday Pops. These concerts will be available for archived viewing through December 12.
Digital BMC
Selected past performances by BMC orchestras, faculty, and guest artists on YouTube, SoundCloud, and Open Air Brevard.
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor, K. 466
II. Romanze
Brevard Music Center Orchestra • Christian Zacharias, conductor/piano
Recorded on July 26, 2019,
at the Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium at the Brevard Music Center.
BMC@Home
From our home to yours: students and faculty share new concerts, living room recitals, and masterclasses.
BMC 2020 guest conductor Teddy Abrams and violinist Gabriel Lefkowitz perform the spirited and exciting Perpetuum mobile Op. 34, No. 5 by Franz Ries. Mr. Abrams is Music Director of the Louisville Orchestra and shares this performance through the orchestra’s online DUET series.
| Experience Global Music w/ Putumayo’s Video of the Week |
From Putumayo Presents Brazil: Samba, Bossa and Beyond
These seductive songs reflect the musical heartbreak of Brazil from the romance of Rio to the Soul of Salvador!
Learn more at:
putumayo.com
facebook.com/putumayo
Thank you for always being such a great friend of The Orange Peel. Your continued support means so much to us!
But, we still need your help!
Thanks to you, the Save Our Stages Act passed in the House of Representatives — but as you may know, it’s not law yet. We’re pushing to get it included in the next COVID-19 Relief package, which is being negotiated now – and we need your voice (again) ASAP.
The situation gets more dire with each passing day. With no emergency relief, hundreds of venues have already shuttered forever, through no fault of their own.
Even if you’ve done it before, can you please take 30 seconds to remind your Congressional representatives that you want them to pass the next COVID-19 Relief Act now and include crucial assistance for independent venues and promoters. Just click here to Save Our Stages.
When legislators hear from you it makes all the difference – and can help us get this across the finish line. On behalf of the nearly 3,000 members of the National Independent Venue Association, thank you for your continued support.
You don’t know what you’ve got ‘till it’s gone…
You can also donate directly to The Orange Peel to help us get through this difficult time. Just click here!
Digital BMC
Selected past performances by BMC orchestras, faculty, and guest artists on YouTube, SoundCloud, and Open Air Brevard.
TCHAIKOVSKY Swan Lake Suite
II. Mazurka
Brevard Concert Orchestra • Ken Lam, conductor
Recorded live on July 13, 2014,
at the Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium at the Brevard Music Center.
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.”
Del Rey and Steve James, two incredible guitar players, make music testament to the hillbilly/smarty-pants/country blues aesthetic. Their duets are smart, funny and full of instrumental virtuosity.
Their friendship developed over many years in different places around the world, as they exchanged stories and hot tips in various hotel bars. They kept running into one another, sharing double-bills in Belgium, at the Gloucester Blues Festival in England, until 2001, at the Port Townsend Country Blues Workshop they got serious about playing and recording together. Audiences and critics have responded so favorably that they often play as a duet. They have twelve solo albums between them, plus they have recorded a two cds together, Tonight and Twins. Steve appears on Del Rey’s Blue Uke CD and Del is on Steve’s Short Blue Stories.
Music, poetry, comedy – we’d love for you to share or just come be entertained, sip some great brews, and eat some hot boiled peanuts while supporting your local scene. See you at 7 pm tonight! Sign up starts at 6:30 pm
- ALL AGES
- 8PM SHOW, 7PM DOORS
- STANDING ROOM ONLY
Few artists are storytellers as deft and disarmingly observational as Andy Shauf. The Toronto-based, Saskatchewan-raised musician’s songs unfold like short fiction: they’re densely layered with colorful characters and a rich emotional depth. On his new album The Neon Skyline (out January 24 via ANTI-), he sets a familiar scene of inviting a friend for beers on the opening title track: “I said, ‘Come to the Skyline, I’ll be washing my sins away.’ He just laughed, said ‘I’ll be late, you know how I can be.'” The LP’s 11 interconnected tracks follow a simple plot: the narrator goes to his neighborhood dive, finds out his ex is back in town, and she eventually shows up. While its overarching narrative is riveting, the real thrill of the album comes from how Shauf finds the humanity and humor in a typical night out and the ashes of a past relationship.
BRO: Beyond the Concert Hall explores the ways the members of the Blue Ridge Orchestra are playing, practicing, and enjoying music during the 2020 pandemic. New videos will be added weekly so check back to see more musicians!
BMC@Home
From our home to yours: students and faculty share new concerts, living room recitals, and masterclasses.
BMC faculty member Jonathan Spitz, BMC 2018 concertmaster Eric Wyrick and 2018 guest artist Daniel Bernard Roumain are featured in the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra’s recent Concert Film. Included in this performance are music of Mahler, Mozart, a world premiere commission of Daniel Bernard Roumain and Delights & Dances by Michael Abels, featuring soloists from the Sphinx Organization. Definitely one not to be missed!
Brevard Music Center Staff Picks From Around the Web
BrainPOP:
Arts & Music
Family friendly exploration of how Art & Music go hand-in-hand through movies, crafts, and activities!
Brevard Music Center Staff Picks From Around the Web
Does it Swing?:
An Animated Jazz History
Enjoy this brief animation on the various musical influences that made jazz music what it is today.
Brevard Music Center Staff Picks From Around the Web
Ginger Smock:
First Lady of Jazz Violin
100 years after her birth, learn more of the incredible hidden contributions of jazz violinist Ginger Smock.
Around The Web Brevard Music Center
Live-streamed performances, resources, and activities we love from around the web, updated regularly.
Live from Music Hall: Cincinnati Symphony and Pops
Don’t miss this incredible series of live-streamed Cincinnati Symphony concerts from Music Hall! These engaging free concerts include performances by Augustin Hadelich, Awadagin Pratt, Anthony McGill and everyone’s favorite Holiday Pops. These concerts will be available for archived viewing through December 12.
Digital BMC
Selected past performances by BMC orchestras, faculty, and guest artists on YouTube, SoundCloud, and Open Air Brevard.
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor, K. 466
II. Romanze
Brevard Music Center Orchestra • Christian Zacharias, conductor/piano
Recorded on July 26, 2019,
at the Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium at the Brevard Music Center.
BMC@Home
From our home to yours: students and faculty share new concerts, living room recitals, and masterclasses.
BMC 2020 guest conductor Teddy Abrams and violinist Gabriel Lefkowitz perform the spirited and exciting Perpetuum mobile Op. 34, No. 5 by Franz Ries. Mr. Abrams is Music Director of the Louisville Orchestra and shares this performance through the orchestra’s online DUET series.
| Experience Global Music w/ Putumayo’s Video of the Week |
From Putumayo Presents Brazil: Samba, Bossa and Beyond
These seductive songs reflect the musical heartbreak of Brazil from the romance of Rio to the Soul of Salvador!
Learn more at:
putumayo.com
facebook.com/putumayo
Thank you for always being such a great friend of The Orange Peel. Your continued support means so much to us!
But, we still need your help!
Thanks to you, the Save Our Stages Act passed in the House of Representatives — but as you may know, it’s not law yet. We’re pushing to get it included in the next COVID-19 Relief package, which is being negotiated now – and we need your voice (again) ASAP.
The situation gets more dire with each passing day. With no emergency relief, hundreds of venues have already shuttered forever, through no fault of their own.
Even if you’ve done it before, can you please take 30 seconds to remind your Congressional representatives that you want them to pass the next COVID-19 Relief Act now and include crucial assistance for independent venues and promoters. Just click here to Save Our Stages.
When legislators hear from you it makes all the difference – and can help us get this across the finish line. On behalf of the nearly 3,000 members of the National Independent Venue Association, thank you for your continued support.
You don’t know what you’ve got ‘till it’s gone…
You can also donate directly to The Orange Peel to help us get through this difficult time. Just click here!
Digital BMC
Selected past performances by BMC orchestras, faculty, and guest artists on YouTube, SoundCloud, and Open Air Brevard.
TCHAIKOVSKY Swan Lake Suite
II. Mazurka
Brevard Concert Orchestra • Ken Lam, conductor
Recorded live on July 13, 2014,
at the Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium at the Brevard Music Center.
Brought together by family ties and a shared appreciation for folk, pop-rock, and roots music, The Currys are an Americana trio featuring Jimmy, Tommy, and Galen Curry. They’re relatives — two brothers and one cousin, to be exact — and like many family groups, their songs are anchored by the sort of elastic, entwined harmonies that only seem to exist among kin.
For their third album, This Side of the Glass (2019), The Currys teamed up with producer/guitarist Sam Whedon and engineer Stewart Myers (Jason Mraz, Parachute) to map new terrain. As ever, the band’s three-part family harmonies provide the organic, lived-in feel of roots music, but the album aspires to a greater variety of tone, form, and orchestration than earlier releases.
This will be there 4th show on our stage in a celebration of the Christmas season.
Seated Concert with Dinner – reservations highly recommended. Please call the venue for tickets and reservations. 828-575-2737
In a life where only uncertainty is certain, Nashville based singer-songwriter Shannon LaBrie is committed to bringing her “spirited statement to keep soldiering on” (NPR) to audiences.
Joining forces with Tia Sillers, the duo’s single “Firewalker” was named as one of NPR’s “Favorite Songs of 2020.” Her latest project, “Building,” is inspired by the disastrous Nashville tornado in March 2020. The title track brings her unique blend of americana and soul to a story of self-discovery, reflection and finding strength in pain.
LaBrie achieved over 12M streams and received rave reviews from Rolling Stone, CMT, NPR and more for her powerful 2016 album “War & Peace,” as well as for her recent single “Firewalker.” As a songwriter, her songs have been recorded by a diverse group of artists including Robert Randolph, Gabe Dixon, and Lily & Madeleine.
We are committed to a safe and comfortable return to live music. These concerts provide a listening room feeling while adhering to COVID-19 CDC recommendations. Please note the following:
- Face masks are required except when seated at your table.
- Only 25 tables of four are available, allowing you to enjoy a socially distanced performance with your close family and friends.
- This concert will not have an intermission.
- All ticketing, ordering, and payment is touchless.
BRO REVELS! 2020
A socially-distanced, pre-recorded holiday concert sponsored by Mosaic Community Lifestyle Realty.
The holidays are a precious time of connection: a time to share joy among friends, family, and community. Where the coronavirus pandemic imposes barriers to physical reunion, music allows us to gather in spirit wherever we are. In October 2020, a small subset of musicians from the Blue Ridge Orchestra spaced out their stands, put on their masks, and gathered at the Wortham Center for the Performing Arts to record holiday favorites for a concert that can unite loved ones near and far.
Programmed by John Gordon Ross, this unique concert will feature secular and sacred favorites performed by a variety of musical ensembles: a woodwind quintet, a brass octet, a 13-piece string orchestra, a solo soprano with piano, and a string quartet.
The final recording will be available here from December 11-31!
BRO: Beyond the Concert Hall explores the ways the members of the Blue Ridge Orchestra are playing, practicing, and enjoying music during the 2020 pandemic. New videos will be added weekly so check back to see more musicians!
BMC@Home
From our home to yours: students and faculty share new concerts, living room recitals, and masterclasses.
BMC faculty member Jonathan Spitz, BMC 2018 concertmaster Eric Wyrick and 2018 guest artist Daniel Bernard Roumain are featured in the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra’s recent Concert Film. Included in this performance are music of Mahler, Mozart, a world premiere commission of Daniel Bernard Roumain and Delights & Dances by Michael Abels, featuring soloists from the Sphinx Organization. Definitely one not to be missed!
Brevard Music Center Staff Picks From Around the Web
BrainPOP:
Arts & Music
Family friendly exploration of how Art & Music go hand-in-hand through movies, crafts, and activities!