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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Sunday, October 11, 2020
Sunday Bluegrass Brunch
Oct 11 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Jack of the Wood

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Enjoy our Bluegrass Brunch every Sunday from 12:30-2:30pm! The Supper Break band out of Asheville will bring you lively Bluegrass tunes while you enjoy our Brunch Food Specials and Artisanal Sandwich menu. $5 Bloody Marys, $6 Mimosas, and $15 Bottles of Bubbly – only at Jack of the Wood!
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Categories: Food & Drink Music
Yin Movement and Breathwork Workshop
Oct 11 @ 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Mountain Light Sanctuary

Instructor: Cea Rubin

Mountain Light Sanctuary is a magical secret garden retreat with a mountain stream, paths through bamboo forests, and beautiful meadows. We will meet at the entrance and find the perfect spot for a guided movement and breathwork workshop to cultivate Yin energy.

Mountain Light Sanctuary is a private retreat center so all participants will meet Cea at the entrance parking lot. We ask that you stay with Cea for the entirety of the visit. A guided tour of the grounds is possible after the meditation. Directions and address will be emailed to you after you register.

Cea Rubin (MSW, LMBT (NC #16448), RYT-500) listens to, supports, and empowers people in their process of uncovering their true nature and learning to live sustainably. Through therapeutic yoga practice, bodywork, breathwork, and talk therapy, Cea offers tools that increase a sense of stability, unveil personal insights, and unlock obstructions to living meaningfully and harmoniously. Cea’s teaching style is inviting, authentic, present, and empowering. She feels honored to get to serve you on your journey!

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Categories: Health & Wellness
Catch Me If You Can CANCELLED
Oct 11 @ 2:00 pm
Flat Rock Playhouse

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Categories: Theatre
The Fall Color Ramble
Oct 11 @ 2:00 pm – 2:20 pm
Grandfather Mountain

From Oct. 3-11, guests can enjoy 20-minute guided walks that highlight Grandfather Mountain’s fall colors.

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Categories: Outdoors Parks & Recreation
CiderFest Tours 2020
Oct 11 @ 3:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Various Cider Houses

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The eighth annual CiderFest NC fundraiser will be held in a brand-new format this fall that offers loyal guests the chance to celebrate, sample and savor cider safely and responsibly.

While the large annual festival will not be offered this fall in light of current health concerns, the event will continue this year through CiderFest Tours: small-group curated tours of three Asheville cideries that are being offered in partnership with local business Leap Frog Tours.

The tours will allow participants to visit three of Asheville’s cideries — Noble Cider, Urban Orchard Cider Company – West and TreeRock Social Cider House & Mead Bar — for intimate, small-group tasting sessions to sample unique takes on the craft beverage on each of the locations. Proceeds will be shared between Leap Frog Tours, the three participating cideries and Green Built Alliance.

To offer the largest number of people the opportunity to participate, the four-hour tours will be offered from 3 to 7 p.m. on every Thursday, Saturday and Sunday in October.

Tours can be reserved for groups of 2 to 14 individuals, and bookings open up today. To prioritize safety in light of COVID-19, all tours will be private without combining reservations from separate parties. (Visit our website or Leap Frog’s booking page for a full list of COVID-19 precautions being taken for the tours.)

The cost is $85 per person. The price includes a tasting at each cidery, a souvenir CiderFest tasting glass, and transportation by Leap Frog Tours from Aloft Hotel in downtown Asheville.

Since the event has sold out in recent years, people are encouraged to book their tours early. For more information and to book a tour, visit www.ciderfestnc.com.

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Categories: Food & Drink Tours
Jack of the Wood : Sunday-Irish Session
Oct 11 @ 3:00 pm
Jack of the Wood

 

Jack of the Wood : Sunday-Irish Session 

Sundays

1 till who knows when?

Traditional Irish music is kept alive at Jack of the Wood with our unplugged Sunday session.

Jack of the Wood

95 Patton ave

Asheville, NC 28801

(828) 252.5445

http://www.jackofthewood.com/

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Categories: Music
Downtown Asheville: Pack Park Meet Up
Oct 11 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Pack Square Park

Come hangout, enjoy the sunshine, air and each other’s knowledge and company. From there, we can walk or meet at a local restaurant. Open to ideas.

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Categories: Community Food & Drink
Live Music Outdoors: Kind, Clean Gentlemen
Oct 11 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
French Broad Outfitters

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Keith Harry and Andrew Scotchie bring their eclectic power duo “Kind, Clean Gentlemen” to the outdoor stage at French Broad Outfitters. Outdoor socially distant show with Covid safety guidelines in place to ensure a comfortable concert experience for all. Masks required when guests are not at their tables. Socially distancing must be practiced.

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Categories: Food & Drink Music Outdoors
Shakedown Sundays
Oct 11 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
The One Stop at Asheville Music Hall

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Every Sunday Except First of Month.

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Categories: Food & Drink Music
Frozen – Family Outdoor Movie
Oct 11 @ 5:00 pm
Rabbit Rabbit

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Categories: Family Fun Film Food & Drink Outdoors
Spiro + Falling Trees Outdoor Stage Salvage Station
Oct 11 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Salvage Station

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Presenting live music by Spiro & Falling Trees on our Outdoor Stage on the French Broad River from 5:00-8pm. Full bar, amazing menu by Root Down Kitchen, and plenty of space to social distance in style with your pod of 6 or fewer friends. Check out our website for more info on our new safety measures so you know what to expect when you arrive. 21+ only. Rain or Shine. No reservations. Masks required unless at your table. Social distancing required while standing in line for drinks/food.
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Categories: Food & Drink Music Outdoors
Lawn Concert: Hot Club of Asheville
Oct 11 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Isis Music Hall

An evening of Gypsy Jazz: The Hot Club of Asheville – a gypsy jazz collective- is returning to the Isis Lawn concert series with a different line up and fresh repertoire. The evening will feature the music of Django Reinhardt along with a focus on more modern compositions in the Gypsy Jazz genre. The core band will feature Steve Karla and Phil Alley on guitars with Connor Law on bass and special guests. Come enjoy an evening of live music, food and drinks at the Isis patio and lawn. Reservations are highly recommended.

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Categories: Food & Drink Music Outdoors
An Evening with Buffalo Rose Live Stream
Oct 11 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Online

Live stream to be broadcast on the ​Mountain Spirit Acoustic Facebook Page

Formed in Pittsburgh, PA in 2016, Buffalo Rose blends folk, soul, and bluegrass into something amorphously Americana, but decidedly their own. Three prominent singers (Shane McLaughlin, Lucy Clabby, and Rosanna Spindler) provide stunning vocal harmonies over dynamic, engrossing layers of stringed instruments. Specifically, acoustic guitar (McLaughlin), upright bass (Jason Rafalak), mandolin (Bryce Rabideau), and dobro (Malcolm Inglis.) Their sharp sense of rhythmic experimentation and evocative, storytelling lyricism come together for a sound with both shimmer and punch; it’s foot-tapping and breathtaking in turn. Buffalo Rose offers a warm, passionate homage to America’s classic musical traditions, with modern twists that keep things interesting—and damn fun.

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Ghosted: Comedy Walking Tour w/ LaZoom
Oct 11 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
LaZoom Room

GHOSTED: COMEDY WALKING TOUR

COVID has postponed our bus tours, but it won’t stop us from laughing! Our brand new experience is an up tempo theatrical walking tour of haunted Asheville. You and 13 others will depart from the LaZoom Room and follow an undead guide through Asheville’s creepy streets in search of window into the past. Along the way, we’ll encounter real ghosts that will have you jumping out of your skin. Not really! Or really? Take the tour and find out!

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Categories: Comedy Outdoors Tours
Mary Fahl
Oct 11 @ 7:00 pm
The Grey Eagle

With “a voice for the gods that can transport listeners to other realms” (Boston Globe), Mary Fahl is an expressive, emotional singer/songwriter who first achieved fame as lead singer and co-founder of the mid-1990s NYC- based chamber-pop group October Project. As a solo artist, she’s had more freedom to pursue her own muse, whether that means writing and recording songs for movies (including the theme for the Civil War epic “Gods and Generals”), singing arias and medieval Spanish songs for Sony Classical or releasing unique album-length take on Dark Side of the Moon. As befits a former Catholic schoolgirl who went on to major in medieval studies and develop a lifelong interest in Hermeticism, Mary Fahl makes music that feels timeless, esoteric and ecumenical. Her elegant, cinematic songs draw on classical and world music sources, American art song, as well as thinking man’s folk-pop which she performs with an earthy, viscerally powerful contralto that bridges the generational gap between Fairport Convention’s Sandy Denny and London Grammar’s Hanna Reid. Like her music, her voice is eerily self-assured, with a hauntingly gothic romanticism that inspired Anne Rice to portray it emanating from a dead woman’s room in her 2013 novel The Wolves of Midwinter. Her most recent album “Live at the Mauch Chunk Opera House”, winner of the Indie Acoustic “Album of the Year” award, is a collection of twenty-four tracks recorded live at one of America’s oldest vaudeville theaters that captures the soaring vocals and musical breadth that makes the Mary Fahl concert experience what the Portland Press called “soul-permeating”. The show was filmed for PBS and is currently airing on PBS affiliates around the country.

 

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UniHorn (funk)
Oct 11 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Iconic Kitchen and Drinks

UNIHORN SUNDAY NIGHTS @ ICONIC!!
Comprised of some of Asheville’s funkiest musicians UniHorn features explosive brass, sweeping keyboard runs, and high energy tasty beats! Mixing in both original compositions and covers UniHorn knows how to keep the crowd moving and the party raging!!

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Categories: Food & Drink Music Outdoors
Ghosted: Comedy Walking Tour w/ LaZoom
Oct 11 @ 8:30 pm – 9:30 pm
LaZoom Room

GHOSTED: COMEDY WALKING TOUR

COVID has postponed our bus tours, but it won’t stop us from laughing! Our brand new experience is an up tempo theatrical walking tour of haunted Asheville. You and 13 others will depart from the LaZoom Room and follow an undead guide through Asheville’s creepy streets in search of window into the past. Along the way, we’ll encounter real ghosts that will have you jumping out of your skin. Not really! Or really? Take the tour and find out!

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Categories: Comedy Outdoors Tours
Monday, October 12, 2020
$40 million Small Business Relief Program NC Dept. of Commerce
Oct 12 all-day
Online
Tuesday, September 22nd Governor Roy Cooper announced that some NC small businesses experiencing disruptions to their operations due to the COVID-19 pandemic may be eligible and benefit from a $40 million relief program to help offset fixed costs like rent, mortgage interests, and utility bills.
The NC Mortgage, Utility, and Rent Relief (MURR) is administered by the NC Department of Commerce and can provide up to $20,000 in relief funds per qualifying business location. Business applicants from certain industry sectors that have not been able to operate during COVID-19 may apply for up to two of their businesses.
Applicants can apply for up to four months of mortgage interest or rent expenses, and utility expenses. The help offers relief for some of the fixed costs a business cannot easily control on its own. Applications to the program should open next week and will be addressed on a first-come, first-served basis. Applicants must certify that they were closed during the period of April 1 to July 31, 2020; they expect to be able to operate after the COVID crisis has passed; and they have not been reimbursed by any other federal source for the expenses they seek to reimburse through this program.
Eligible applicants include:
  • Amusement Parks
  • Banquet Halls (with catering staff)
  • Bars, taverns, night clubs, cocktail lounges
  • Bingo parlors
  • Bowling alleys/centers
  • Dance halls
  • Indoor fitness and recreation centers
  • Motion picture/movie theaters (except drive-ins)
  • Museums
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8th Annual (Virtual) Root Ball
Oct 12 all-day
Online
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Covid-19 hasn’t stopped us from making an impact on local rivers and communities throughout WNC — so we’re adapting our 8th Annual Root Ball End of Season Party to celebrate quarantine-style… Save the dates for three awesome ways to participate!

Online silent auction (Oct 2nd-18th). We’ll have an incredible collection of items and experiences focused on outdoor recreation, arts + culture, food + beverage, and other offerings that are uniquely Asheville.

Online native tree and plant sale (Oct 2nd-18th). Individuals will be able to purchase from a wide variety of plants and trees provided by participating partner nurseries (with all proceeds going to GreenWorks programs).

Virtual Dance Party on October 16th: Gather up your pod and safely dance the evening away in your own living room. The event will be kid-friendly and have lots of opportunities for audience participation.

Stay tuned for more information on how to join in these exciting events!

If you’d like to offer support by donating an item or service to our silent auction, please contact [email protected].

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Categories: Community Family Fun Fundraisers Garden Events
A Rheumatoid Arthritis Research Study Seeks Participants
Oct 12 all-day
Online
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Categories: Community Health & Wellness
Asheville City Council: Plan for the Haywood and Page Properties
Oct 12 all-day
Online

The master plan for the Haywood and Page properties located near the Harrah’s Cherokee Center and Basilica of St. Lawrence will go before Asheville City Council on Oct. 27. The plan is the result of community engagement and public input sessions earlier in the year.

The plan includes both a future development site and public space (a civic plaza, planted and garden areas, ADA-accessible paths).
The public can view the materials online at www.ashevillenc.gov/haywoodpagedesignplan, including a narrated slideshow.

The community can learn more about the conceptual plan at several upcoming board and commission meetings this month, including:

  • Oct. 7 at 5 p.m., Planning & Zoning Commission
  • Oct. 9 at 9 a.m., Downtown Commission
  • Oct. 12 at 4 p.m., Planning & Economic Development Committee

Public comment can be provided via email and phone for each of the meetings. Details about how to view and participate in these virtual meetings is available  on the project page.

 
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BOOsters and Pumpkins
Oct 12 all-day
Businesses throughout Buncombe County

The BOOsters are happy little friendly ghosts sold throughout the month of October in area banks, restaurants, cleaners, convenience stores, and many other businesses. For only $1.00, anyone can purchase a BOOster, place his or her name or business card on it and have it displayed. This is a great way to decorate area businesses for the holiday while providing fun, friendly competition, and funds to help continue the outreach of the Eblen Charities.

Eblen Charitable Group Pumpkin Sales: Much like the BOOster sales, these bright paper pumpkins are sold for $1.00 during the month of October in area schools and Ingles Markets. This program sponsored by Outback Steakhouse, Ingle’s Markets, Pepsi, and Clear Channel radio stations benefits the programs of the Eblen Charities  and helps provide a community program to the area schools with the premise of children helping children. Schools also have the opportunity to win prizes and equipment for their school. The school with the most over all sales is awarded the Frank Lewis Memorial Award, named in memory of our long time friend and Buncombe County educator, Frank Lewis.

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Brevard Music Center Virtual Music
Oct 12 all-day
Online

BMC@Home

From our home to yours: students and faculty share new concerts, living room recitals, and masterclasses.

BMC saxophone faculty members Joseph Lulloff and Henning Schröder share a new work, Saxology, by Marc Mellits. The piece was commissioned and recently premiered by the Arizona State University Saxophone Choir, including the Capitol Quartet, helíos_, and the Seyon Quartet.

BMC favorite Kelly Hall-Tompkins, violin, joins Donna Weng Friedman, piano, for a stunning performance of Nocturne by Lili Boulanger. The French composer lived from 1893-1918 and was the first female winner of the Prix de Rome prize in composition.

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CAR RAFFLE: Support Student Scholarships at Brevard Music Center
Oct 12 all-day
Online

This year’s winner will be drawn on Tuesday, December 1st, and can choose any 2020 Volvo or Subaru from Hunter Automotive Group in Fletcher, North Carolina with an MSRP up to $50,000!

Though we were unable to have students on campus and present live performances this summer, we continued to support their education needs during the pandemic, providing masterclasses, lectures, streaming performances and more, available at no charge.

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Categories: Raffle
Coffee for Champions Supports Special Olympics
Oct 12 all-day
Buncombe County

Coffee for Champions Supports Special Olympics

Do you need a cup of ambition before you start the day (or a few throughout the day)? During the month of October, popular coffee shops and cafés throughout Buncombe County donate up to five cents of each cup of coffee purchased to support local sports programs for community members with intellectual disabilities.

Coffee for Champions is the largest annual fundraiser for Special Olympics Buncombe County, a completely donation-funded, volunteer-driven program that provides year-round training and competitive programs in 11 sports for more than 480 youth and adults. Funds raised help build equitable opportunities for everyone who lives here, create a connection between athletes and the greater community, and celebrate changing attitudes about the talents of people with intellectual disabilities.

“We started Coffee for Champions five years ago,” says Karla Furnari, Local Coordinator for Special Olympics Buncombe County. “Each year, it continues to grow and helps expand programs and fund critical needs such as equipment, uniforms, and transporting athletes. Even though in-person training was put on hold because of COVID-19, volunteer coaches continued to engage with athletes on a regular basis to keep them mentally and physically healthy during a time that has been particularly taxing on individuals with intellectual disabilities. We have safely resumed some programs in which social distancing is possible and face coverings can be worn such as tennis and bocce.”

Donating Five Cents Per Cup

  • Ivory Road Café & Kitchen (1854 Brevard Road in Arden)
  • Mosaic Café & Coffee House (1 Town Square Boulevard in Biltmore Park)
  • PennyCup Coffee Company at the YMI (39 South Market Street in Downtown Asheville)
  • Round Earth Roasters (518 Hendersonville Road in Asheville)
  • Trout Lily Market (1297 Charlotte Highway in Fairview)

Donating One Cent Per Cup

  • PennyCup Coffee Company West (362 Depot Street in Asheville’s River Arts District)
  • PennyCup Coffee Company Haw Creek (6 Beverly Road in Asheville’s Haw Creek)
  • PennyCup Coffee Company North (857 Merrimon Avenue in North Asheville)

Buncombe County Special Olympics is made possible through funding from donors and support from Buncombe County Government. To donate or volunteer, visit the organization’s website.

Special Olympics was founded by Eunice Kennedy in 1968 to celebrate changing attitudes about the talents of people with intellectual disabilities. Special Olympics Buncombe County provides year-round sports training and athletic competition for adults and children above the age of seven. Sports include alpine skiing and snowboarding, aquatics, athletics, basketball, bocce, bowling, cheerleading, gymnastics, powerlifting, soccer, and tennis, as well as a young athletes program. The organization also offers the Adaptive Athlete Program in a partnership with Buncombe County Recreation Services.

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Community Recreation Grant Applications Now Open
Oct 12 all-day
Online

Buncombe County has opened the 2020-2021 application cycle of the Community Recreation Grants program. The grants are part of other countywide initiatives that help make Buncombe County a place everyone from infants to retirees has the opportunity to be strong, healthy, and successful. The program is intended to help community nonprofits make immediate improvements and jump-start long-term progress that align with the Buncombe 2025 plan. Grants range in amounts from $500-$6,000, depending on the number of qualifying applicants.

Eligibility

Eligible entities include Buncombe County nonprofits focused on providing equitable access to recreational, fitness, cultural, and wellness activities to the public at no- or low-cost. These funds are intended to be a leveraging tool that promote partnerships between the County and area nonprofits and are not a donation, funding stream, or sponsorship opportunity. Programs applying for funding should align with the Buncombe 2025 plan’s focus areas, as well as embody the spirt of Buncombe County Recreation Services’ mission: Connect Communities. Preserve Culture. Change Lives.

Projects funded in the past have included creative placemaking, increasing safe connections to a wider range of play and wellness activities for underserved residents, supporting access to experiences that preserve regional and international cultures, improvements to public athletic fields and fitness courses, expanding environmental education, building food security through community gardens, and establishing multigenerational outdoor spaces for neighbors to connect with each other and foster community pride.

Want to apply?

Application, guidelines, and a list of 2019-2020 recipients are available online. Questions should be directed to [email protected].

The grant application deadline is 5 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 16, 2020. Late applications will not be accepted. The Community Recreation Grant Committee will notify all applicants via email no later than Friday, Nov. 15, 2020.

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Categories: Community
Discover Alvin Ailey Through “Revelations”
Oct 12 all-day
Online

Brevard Music Center: Staff Picks From Around the Web

Discover Alvin Ailey
Through “Revelations”
Join the Kennedy Center for a behind-the-scenes look at Revelations, Alvin Ailey’s dance masterwork.

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Categories: Dance Education
DVOŘÁK Cello Concerto, BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9 w/Brevard Music Center
Oct 12 all-day
Online

Digital BMC

Selected past performances by BMC orchestras, faculty, and guest artists on YouTube, SoundCloud, and Open Air Brevard.

BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9
III. Adagio molto e cantabile
Brevard Music Center Orchestra
Keith Lockhart, conductor
Recorded live on August 7, 2016,
at the Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium at the Brevard Music Center.

DVOŘÁK Cello Concerto
III. Finale. Allegro Moderato
Johannes Moser, cello
Brevard Music Center Orchestra • Keith Lockhart, conductor
Recorded on July 28, 2017,
at the Porter Center at Brevard College.

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Explore The Stars With The October Night Sky
Oct 12 all-day
Online

Brevard Music Center:

Staff Picks From Around the Web

Explore The Stars With
The October Night Sky
The Space Tourism Guide shares a list of must-sees this month, including a stunning meteor shower.

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Categories: Education Family Fun
FAQ: Reappraisal 2021 Buncombe County
Oct 12 all-day
Online

Reappraisal 2021

Through our efforts of informing Buncombe County about Reappraisal 2021 so far, we have received many questions from community members. So, we decided to compile them into this FAQ. Do you have more questions that aren’t covered here? You can email them to [email protected]. Otherwise, visit buncombecounty.org/MyValue2021 for everything you need to know about the reappraisal process.

WHY IS BUNCOMBE COUNTY REAPPRAISING PROPERTY?

North Carolina law requires counties to reappraise all real property once every eight years but also allows Counties to advance the reappraisal to less than eight years. Buncombe County Commissioners voted to conduct reappraisals every four years. The county must assess 127,000 parcels. The effective date of the reappraisal is Jan. 1, 2021.

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